Thanks to everyone who responded. I try to address all the comments here. 1. I also had her name as Mary Ann until I found the obituary. Perhaps her name is Mary Ann Elizabeth. 2. I expected a couple of different answers to who her parents were, but I didn't expect the answers I got. That's what makes this so interesting. Several of you listed her father as Coleman D. Bennett. I think Coleman is too young to be the father of Mary Ann (Elizabeth). I had Coleman listed as her brother. Mary Ann's birthdate is around 1815. 3. I had her parents listed as Richard Bennett and Asenath Dalton. But this came from a WFT file and is not documented. It could easily be incorrect. However, all the information from Mary Ann down (except perhaps her middle name) seems to hold up. Some asked how I am descended from Captain Yeatts. Here is my line. Captain Yeatts had a son named John Richard Yeatts, Jr. who married Mary Frances Reynolds. Among their children was Lucille Yeatts, my grandmother. Lucille married Ernest Linwood Bennett and had 5 children, one of them William (Bill) Jennings Bennett, my father. Both my grandparents died earlier this year in Ringgold. There were two boxes of genealogical information among my grandmothers possesions. That is how I came upon the obituary. There are also some handwritten notes made by Ernest Yeatts, my grandmothers brother. Don Bennett

On #3, to support your theory, Mary Ann Bennett would be named after her grandmother, Mary Ann Flanagan Dalton, wife of John Flanagan Dalton. Cannot document the link, however. On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:28:07 EDT Archidon2@aol.com wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded. I try to address all the comments here. > > 1. I also had her name as Mary Ann until I found the obituary. Perhaps her > name is Mary Ann Elizabeth. > > 2. I expected a couple of different answers to who her parents were, but I > didn't expect the answers I got. That's what makes this so interesting. > Several of you listed her father as Coleman D. Bennett. I think Coleman is > too young to be the father of Mary Ann (Elizabeth). I had Coleman listed as > her brother. Mary Ann's birthdate is around 1815. > > 3. I had her parents listed as Richard Bennett and Asenath Dalton. But this > came from a WFT file and is not documented. It could easily be incorrect. > However, all the information from Mary Ann down (except perhaps her middle > name) seems to hold up. > > Some asked how I am descended from Captain Yeatts. Here is my line. Captain > Yeatts had a son named John Richard Yeatts, Jr. who married Mary Frances > Reynolds. Among their children was Lucille Yeatts, my grandmother. Lucille > married Ernest Linwood Bennett and had 5 children, one of them William (Bill) > Jennings Bennett, my father. Both my grandparents died earlier this year in > Ringgold. There were two boxes of genealogical information among my > grandmothers possesions. That is how I came upon the obituary. There are > also some handwritten notes made by Ernest Yeatts, my grandmothers brother. > > Don Bennett > > > ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== > Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress. > ---------------------- James F. Klumpp jk44@umail.umd.edu Voice: 301-405-6520 FAX: 301-314-9471 HomePage: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~jklumpp/home.htm