This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennets, Berry Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XY.2ADE/754 Message Board Post: Rocky Mountain News, Denver, 3/22/1901, Pg 2 DEATH OF J. R. BENNETS, WELL-KNOWN MINING-MAN Special to The News. BOULDER, Colo., March 21 -- John R. Bennets, one of the best known mining men of Boulder county, died at Gold Hill last night, aged 66. He was born in England, mined in Lake Superior district, and arrived in Colorado in 1866. He has mined ever since that time in Gilpin, Clear Creek and Boulder counties. Two children survive him - John Bennets, Jr., and Mrs. Anna Berry. Death was due to cancer.