Joseph Edwin Bennet, ^

1860 - 1947  (87 years)

• Name	Joseph Edwin Bennet  [1]
  Suffix	^
  Birth	1860	Rumson, Monmouth, NJ   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Apr 1947	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 2]
  Burial	Brookhaven (Oaklawn Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I16523	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Samuel Bennet,   b. 6 Jun 1827, Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America d. 6 Mar 1909, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth Allaire,   b. 25 Jun 1826, New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, United States of America d. 31 Jul 1899, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1852	Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
  Family ID	F9178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Kate Wilson, ^,   b. 1860, NY d. 11 Oct 1944, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1884  [1, 4, 5]
  Children	1. Edna W. Bennet, ^,   b. Oct 1886, New York, New York, NY d. 1978 (Age 91 years)   2. Anna Allaire Bennet, ^,   b. Nov 1889, NY d. Apr 1973 (Age 83 years)   3. Richard Wilson Bennet, ^,   b. 25 Jul 1893, NY d. 7 Aug 1989, Ballwin, Saint Louis, MO (Age 96 years)
  Family ID	F7004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Oaklawn Cemetery, Hamlet of Brookhaven, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY (includes gravestones and cemetery association records), Lot 025. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 1 May 1947, p. 2. Joseph Edwin Bennet, aged 86, who moved to Brookhaven permanently last year after having been a summer resident for 30 years, died Monday night at his residence on Yaphank avenue [now known as Old Stump road]. Born in rumson, N.J., he was a former retired postmaster of severaql Brooklyn branches. He was a life member of over 50 years of Commonwealth Lodge No. 409, Free and Accepted Masons, Brooklyn; a member of the Atlantauk Lodge No. 50, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; a member of the Society of All Brooklynites; a member and former treasurer of the Kings county Republican club; former treasurer of the Supervisory Postal Employees, Brooklyn; and a member of the Postoffice Square club of Brooklyn and Long Island. Funeral services will be held at St. James Episcopal church in Brookhaven at 2 p.m. today, with the Rev. Howard Clark officiatting. Interment will take place in the Brookhaven cemetery. He is survived by two daughters, Mis Edna Bennet and Mrs. William D. Walton, both of Brookhaven; a son Richard W. Bennet of St. Louis, Mo., and two grandchildren. His wife, Kate Wilson Bennet , died in October 1944. [S499] Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D, Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: T627_2562; Page: 61A; Enumeration District: 24-637. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 18 May 1944, p. 10. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Bennet of Brooklyn and Railroad avenue, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at their Brookhaven home on Sunday. Their three children, who spent the week-end with them in honor of the anniversary, are Mrs. Anna Smith of Orange, Texas, Richard Bennett (sic) of St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Edna Bennet of Brooklyn. [S31] Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D., Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 21, Kings, New York; Roll: 1058; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0343; FHL microfilm: 1241058.