This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett, Rushing, Rutter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4366 Message Board Post: My name is Scott Prieskop. I am trying to track down all the Bennetts from the Kentwood, La. and Osyka, Miss. area for my mother, Alice (Bennett) Prieskop's side of the family tree. Here's what we know so far: Her father is Tyrrell Everett "Buck" Bennett, born in 1895 and died in 1960, buried in Kentwood La. Her mother is Eula Mae Rushing, born in 1910 and died in 1979, buried in Kentwood. (We are also trying to track down the Rushing side of the family, Eula Mae's parents were Newie T. Rushing and Alice Varnado Rushing, from Osyka, Miss.) She has two brothers, Ernest and Terrell Bennett, still living near the Baker, La. area. Buck had many brothers and sisters, the ones Mom can recall are: Maude Isabella, Hiram Leonard, Jenny, Walter Clarence, Richard Kent, Amos, Ellis, and Suzy Bennett. She said there were 13 in all. Their parents are George Washington Bennett (born in 1844 and died in 1911, buried in Kentwood, La.); and his second wife, Emma Catherine Rutter (from Manchester England, born in 1862, and died sometime in the late 1940s, buried in Kentwood.) George Washington Bennett's first wife was Alphonsene Bernard, born in 1844 and died in 1879. She had seven children, William Johnson, John Davis, Sarah Estelle and Laura Emma Bennett. Alphonsene supposedly had triplets which died when they were born, but we're not sure. Here's a family story that Mom wants to know more about: Emma Catherine Rutter's mother (we don't know her name) was supposedly a domestic helper from England. Alphonsene must have been terminally ill, because Mom can recall Buck saying something about Emma wanting to marry George when Alphonsene died. She died in 1879, and George and Emma were soon married. Anyway, George Washington Bennett's father was Darius Johnson Bennett, born in 1822 in St. Tammany Parish, La. and his mother was Mary Rosetta Hayden (or Headen?). George had many brothers and sisters, too, the oldest being William T., then after George was John H., Mary Jane, Emily Elivia, Sarah P., and perhaps more. My aunt (married to my mother's brother Terrell Bennett) has hundreds of old pictures. There are some that we have identified as possibly being George Washington and Alphonsene Bernard Bennett, maybe his brother William T. Bennett, and one picture that just might possibly be Darius Johnson Bennett. There are many, many baby pictures, and pictures of school groups and church congregations, and some military pictures. Unfortunately, the history of most of these pictures has been lost, maybe there are surviving descendants of Darius and George Bennett who could help us identify some of them.