BENNETT, WILLIAM A., was born Nov, 5, 1803, near Shepherdstown, Va. His father, Van Bennett, died in Virginia, and his two sons William A. and Thomas L., with their three sisters, Luranah M., Ann Elizabeth and Mary, with their widowed mother, Mrs. Phoebe Bennett, all left Virginia, Oct. 2, 1833, for Illinois, arriving at Paris on the second of November. The two brothers came on to Springfield, bought land three miles east of the city, and returned to Paris just in time to be present at their mother's death, Dec. 12, 1833. The two brothers and three sisters moved to their farms in Sangamon county in March 1834. The youngest sister, Mary, who was born Nov. 12, 1815 in Virginia, died April 17, 1834, near Springfield. William A. Bennett was married August 19, 1843, in Morgan county, to Sarah A. Stevenson. She was born Oct. 2, 1819, in Scott county, Ky., and was taken by her parents in 1839, to that part of Morgan county which is now Cass county. Mr. And Mrs. Bennett had three children, namely -

MARY E., born March 1, 1844, in Sangamon county, married May 26,1 869 to Charles F. Mills, who was born May 29, 1843, at Montrose, Pa. They have two children, MINNIE and WILLIAM HENRY, and reside with Mrs. Mills' parents, three miles east of Springfield. Charles F. Mills was attending Shurtleff College at Alton, Ill., when the rebellion commenced. He enlisted August, 1862 for three years, in Co. C., 114th Ill. Inf. He was soon after appointed by President Lincoln, hospital steward at Camp Butler, and remained there nearly three years, when, at his own request, in the fall of 1864, he was ordered to Nashville, Tenn. Being in the regular service, his term didn't expire with the suppression of the rebellion, but he continued until the fall of 1866, when he resigned, and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn.

WILLIAM A., Jun., and

CHARLES S. died in infancy.

William A. Bennett and his wife reside on the farm where he settled in 1834, three miles east of Springfield.