(Thinking out loud -- I wonder if the name Bennett is a misspelling of Benoit. There were a few Joseph Benoits in Antigonish. I didn't find any Bennetts.) BOSTON DAILY GLOBE May 21, 1923 Bennett killed in car crash H.A. Sherman, Boston City Employe arrested Auto strikes fence nearing bridge at Marshfield MARSHFIELD - May 20, charged with driving while under the influence of liquor and with manslaughter, Henry A. Sherman, a civil engineer in the employ of the City of Boston, whose home is at 12 Chauncey Pl, Jamaica Plain, was arrested by the Marshfield police tonight following the death in an auto accident of Joseph Bennett, 43, of Antigonish, N.S., who was in Marshfield for a few days doing work on some houses being built at Brant Rock. According to the story Sherman told at the Plymouth police station, where he was taken, he came down from Boston today with two friends, Leo A. Russell of Boston and Wilfred A. Pitts of Beachmont, to bring Bennett back with him to do some work in Boston. He says that they started off for Boston with Bennett on the rear seat with Pitts. As they went up the Green Harbor road and approached the railroad bridge, he says another automobile came along at high speed and to avoid it he was forced to turn sharply aside. In so doing, he claims, he went through a hole in a fence by the roadside and a fragment of the fence projected into the car and struck Bennett killing him instantly. According to the medical examination, Bennett's thorax was crushed and his lungs punctured. State Highway Inspector George Park of Plymouth hurried to the scene of the fatality, and he told the police afterward that from what he could ascertain Sherman was driving at a high rate of speed and, in attempting to take the sharp S curve near the bridge, crashed through the fence and that a piece of the fence flew up and killed Bennett.

Actually as my father onece said. Some of the Benoit's came to Boston and "Americanized" the name. It became Bennett Barbara