Joseph Edwin Bennet, ^^[1]

1860 - 1947  (87 years)

• Name	Joseph Edwin Bennet
  Suffix	^
  Born	1860	Rumson, Monmouth, NJ   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Apr 1947	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 3]
  	Address: Old Stump road (then known as Railroad avenue)
  Buried	Brookhaven (Oaklawn Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 3]
  	Address: Lot 025
  Person ID	I17594	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2013

  
  

  Family	Kate Wilson, ^,   b. 1860, NY ,   d. 11 Oct 1944, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY  (Age 84 years)
  Married	Abt 1884  [1, 4, 5]
  Census	1900	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [4]
  	Address: 323½ Pulaski street
  	In their household were children Edna, Annie, and Richard. He was a clerk in the post office.
  Census	1910	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [6]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household was their daughters Edna R. and Anna A., and son Richard W. He was a superintendent in the post office.
  Residence	Aft Abt 1911	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [3, 7]
  	Address: 183 Old Stump road (Brookhaven Hamlet site ID Br36.183-S)
  	Until 1946, it was their summer residence, their primary residence being in Brooklyn. In 1946 it became Joseph's permanent residence.
  Census	1915	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [8]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household were children Edna W., Anna A. and Richard W. He was a superintendent in the post office.
  Census	1920	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [9]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household were children Edna W., Anna A., and Richard W. He was a superintendent in the post office.
  Census	1925	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [10]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household was their daughter Edna W. He was a superintendent in the post office.
  Census	1930	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [11]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household was their daughter Edna and a boarder. He was a superintendent in the Post Office.
  Census	1940	Brooklyn, NY   [2]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	In their household was their daughter Edna W. Bennet, and a tenant. He was a retired PO superintendent.
  Children	1. Edna W. Bennet, ^,   b. Oct 1886, New York, New York, NY ,   d. 1978  (Age ~ 91 years)   2. Anna Bennet, ^,   b. Nov 1889, NY ,   d. 1972  (Age ~ 82 years)   3. Richard Wilson Bennet, ^,   b. 25 Jul 1893, NY ,   d. 7 Aug 1989, Ballwin, Saint Louis, MO  (Age 96 years)
  Photos		Joseph E. and Edna Wilson Bennet Family .. on the occasion of Kate & Joseph Bennet's 60th Wedding Anniversary, with their three "children" Anna Bennet (Smith) Walton, Edna Bennet, Richard Bennet, May 14, 1944 at Brookhaven, NY
  Documents		Bennet Family Summer Home, Brookhaven, NY .. 183 Old Stump road, Brookhaven, NY. For some 67 years after 1911, the Joseph Bennet family resided here, principally as a Summer residence. After Joseph's death in 1947, Edna Bennet moved here from her small adjacent summer cottage. Eventually her sister Anna Bennet joined her, moving from her former summer home on Beaver Dam road. This document is the Site Data Sheet (including pictures) of this house.
  Headstones		#021.025.Bennet00: Bennet family plot Plot: 025. Joseph Bennet and family
  		#021.025.Bennet01: Joseph E. and Kate W. Bennet gravestone Plot: 025. Joseph Bennet and family
  Family ID	F6457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S196] Oaklawn Cemetery, Lot 025. [S962] 1940 Census, Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: T627_2562; Page: 61A; Enumeration District: 24-637. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 1 May 1947, p. 2. Joseph Edwin Bennet, aged 86, who moved to Brookhaven permanently last year after having been a summer resident for 30 years, died Monday night at his residence on Yaphank avenue [now known as Old Stump road]. Born in rumson, N.J., he was a former retired postmaster of severaql Brooklyn branches. He was a life member of over 50 years of Commonwealth Lodge No. 409, Free and Accepted Masons, Brooklyn; a member of the Atlantauk Lodge No. 50, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; a member of the Society of All Brooklynites; a member and former treasurer of the Kings county Republican club; former treasurer of the Supervisory Postal Employees, Brooklyn; and a member of the Postoffice Square club of Brooklyn and Long Island. Funeral services will be held at St. James Episcopal church in Brookhaven at 2 p.m. today, with the Rev. Howard Clark officiatting. Interment will take place in the Brookhaven cemetery. He is survived by two daughters, Mis Edna Bennet and Mrs. William D. Walton, both of Brookhaven; a son Richard W. Bennet of St. Louis, Mo., and two grandchildren. His wife, Kate Wilson Bennet , died in October 1944. [S191] 1900 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 21, Kings, New York; Roll: 1058; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0343; FHL microfilm: 1241058. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 18 May 1944, p. 10. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Bennet of Brooklyn and Railroad avenue, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at their Brookhaven home on Sunday. Their three children, who spent the week-end with them in honor of the anniversary, are Mrs. Anna Smith of Orange, Texas, Richard Bennett (sic) of St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Edna Bennet of Brooklyn. [S104] 1910 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 23, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_972; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0597; FHL microfilm: 1374985. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 23 May 1946, p. 16; and elsewhere. Granddaughter Elizabeth of Laduc, MO was visiting Joseph Bennet. [S993] 1915 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 05; Assembly District: 05; City: New York; County: Kings; Page: 22. [S903] 1920 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 5, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1151; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 251; Image: 109. [S960] 1925 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 02; Assembly District: 05; City: Brooklyn; County: Kings; Page: 24. [S129] 1930 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Roll: 1502; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 278; Image: 357.0; FHL microfilm: 2341237.