PINE HILL CEMETERY
Route 6 bordering
Middletown, New York
Many years ago I visited my 3rd Great Grandparents Alvah Bennet and Ester Penny at the Pine Hill Cemetery near my home. I was only beginning my genealogy and didn’t know enough to bring a camera with me. How I wish I had taken photographs of their tombstones on that visit!
My
husband/photographer and I went back a few days ago and sadly, time has taken
its toll on the older tombstones.
The monument originally held an obelisk resting on top.
Weather, age or vandals have stolen it from its place.
ALVAH BENNET
Born May 12, 1812
Died Aug. 21, 1891
ESTER
Wife of
Alvah Bennet
Born Jan. 11, 1814
Died May 30, 1884
BENNET
Sometimes
tombstones are wrong and that’s just what’s happened with Alvah’s death date. 3rd
Great Grandfather died August 21, 1890, not 1891. I have his obituary and death
certificate verifying this.
If
you want to read his obituary, click here.
Alvah
was the son of Abraham Bennett and Lydia Shultz born in Wawayanda. David Penny
and Fannie Smith were Ester’s parents.
Alvi
and Ester wed Feb. 15, 1834. Elder Gabriel Conkling’s Book of Marriages
recorded the event.
“Feb. 15, 1834 Mr. Alvi
Bennet of Minisink, Orange Co., New York to Miss Penny of Mount Hope, Orange
Co., New York. Fee $3.”
They
raised their family in the Town of Wawayanda and became the parents of 12
children:
·
Theodore born Nov. 5, 1835,
married Hannah Eudoria Mapes 1866, died June 6, 1919.
·
William H. born June 1837.
·
Fannie Jane born May 15, 1839,
married Albert Doty Dec. 22, 1859, died Nov. 22, 1883. Fanny Jane is my 2nd
Great Grandmother.
·
Esther Almeda born Dec. 10, 1840,
married George W. Horton, died May 8, 1923.
·
Abby Anna born Dec. 28, 1843,
married Seth Blizzard, died Jan. 6, 1939.
·
John F. born Oct.1846
married Mary E. Gray.
·
Harriet Augusta born 1847, married
George W. Carpenter.
·
Sarah Elizabeth born ca 1849,
married Horace J. Doan, died Oct. 8, 1897.
·
Abraham born March 1852,
married Mary A. Van Nort, died Dec. 15, 1926.
·
David
Winfield born June 16, 1854, married Jennie Louise Smith, died June 19,
1917.
·
Christianna
born March 28, 1855, married Charles Doane, died April 16, 1882.
·
Ida L.
born Feb. 4, 1859, unmarried, died Nov. 7, 1938.
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