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Anna Bennet, ^^[1]
1889 - 1972

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  Nickname	Annie
  Birth	Nov 1889	NY   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1900	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [1]
  	Address: 323½ Pulaski street
  	She was living with her parents.
  Census	1910	Brooklyn, NY   [3]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	She was living with her parents. No occupation was recorded.
  Census	1915	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [4]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	She was living with her parents. She was a school teacher.
  Census	1920	Brooklyn, Kings, NY   [5]
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  	She was living with her parents. She was a city librarian.
  Misc	1947	Brookhaven (St. James Episcopal Church), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [6]
  	gifted the church, along with her sister Edna, wine cruets for the communion service in memory of their parents.
  Residence	Daytona Beach, Volusia, Fl   [7]
  	She share her Daytona Beach winter residence with her sister, Edna. The newspaper evidence suggests that the Florida residence was Anna and William's winter residence which she likely acquired on his death.
  Died	1972  [2]
  Buried	Bellport (Woodland Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  Person ID	I17599	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Joseph Edwin Bennet, ^,   b. 1860, Rumson, Monmouth, NJ ,   d. 28 Apr 1947, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Mother	Kate Wilson, ^,   b. 1860, NY ,   d. 11 Oct 1944, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Married	Abt 1884
  Census	1900	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 323½ Pulaski street
  Census	1910	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  Residence	Aft Abt 1911	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  	Address: 183 Old Stump road (Brookhaven Hamlet site ID Br36.183-S)
  Census	1915	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  Census	1920	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  Census	1925	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  Census	1930	Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  Census	1940	Brooklyn, NY
  	Address: 543 Monroe street
  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 Status: Located Plot: 025. Joseph Bennet and family
  		#021.025.Bennet01: Joseph E. and Kate W. Bennet gravestone Status: Located Plot: 025. Joseph Bennet and family
  Family ID	F6457	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	LCDR Benson Clifton Smith, ^,   b. 8 Feb 1893, NY ,   d. 12 Nov 1958, Orange, Orange, TX
  Married	Abt 1922  [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
  	Newspaper accounts and census enumeration indicate that Anna was first married to a Benson Clifton Smith. They were divorced. They had no children.
  Census	1930	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [8]
  	Address: Beaver Dam Rd.
  	Benson was a boat trader at a yacht yard.
  Residence	1935	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [14]
  	Address: Beaver Dam Rd.
  Census	1940	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [14]
  	Address: Beaver Dam Rd.
  	He was a boat builder.
  Divorced	Aft 1940  [15]
  Family ID	F6464	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	William D. Walton, ^,   b. 1890,   d. 30 Sep 1953, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Married	Y  [16, 17]
  	They had no children.
  Residence	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [15, 16, 18]
  	Address: 260 Beaver Dam Road
  	The residence was primarily the family summer residence. Sometime after William Walton's death, Anna joined her sister in the Bennet family Old Stump road residence. About 1960, the residence was sold to the adjacent St. James Episcopal church for use as a parsonage (Brookhaven/South Haven site ID Br28A.1).
  Photos		Bennet, Duryea, Brown, Walton family Standing: William Walton, Leonore Victors Duryea, Helen Victors Bennet, Edna Wilson Bennet, Elmer Sidney Duryea; seated: Gloria Duryea Brown, Robert Millard Brown, Anna Bennet Walton. Photo probably taken by Richard W. Bennet at Bennet home on Old Stump road in the 1950s.
  Documents		Anna Bennet and William Walton summer residence .. 260 Beaver Dam road, Brookhaven, NY. This house, now the St. James Episcopal church parsonage, was Anna Bennet and William Walton's summer residence. Following the death of William in 1953, she joined her sister in the Bennet summer residence on Old Stump road. This document is the Brookhaven/South Haven data sheet on this site.
  Headstones		#028.Walton00: Walton family plot Status: Located Plot: Walton
  		#028.Walton: Anna Bennet & William D. Walton gravestone Status: Located Plot: Walton
  Family ID	F6460	Group Sheet

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S191] 1900 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 21, Kings, New York; Roll: 1058; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0343; FHL microfilm: 1241058.. [S325] Cemetery: Woodland. The Walton family plot is located at the northeast corner of the cemetery. [S104] 1910 Census, Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 23, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_972; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0597; FHL microfilm: 1374985.. [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.. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 25 Sep 1947, p. 7.. Miss Edna Bennet and Mrs. William Walton have given to the St. James Episcopal church silver wine cruets for the communion service in memory of their father and mother, the late James Edward Bennet and Kate Wilson Bennet. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 4 Jun 1959, p. 5; 13 Jun 1963, p. 11; and elsewhere.. [S129] 1930 Census, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: 1650; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 420.0; FHL microfilm: 2341384.. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 24 Dec 1929, p. 12, "Brookhaven" news.. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Smith left Monday for Brooklyn where they will spend Christmas holidays with Mrs. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett (sic). Suggests that Anna may have been first married to B. C. Smith. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 4 Feb 1930, p. 13 "Brookhaven" news. Mrs. Clifton Smith has returned from a week's visit in Brooklyn, where she was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Joseph Smith. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 12 Oct 1944, p. 7. Mrs. Kate Wilson Bennet, aged 84, of 543 Monroe street, Brooklyn, died early yesterday at her summer home on Yaphank avenue, Brookhaven. Born in Brooklyn, Mrs. Bennet had spent the past 35 seasons in Brookhaven. She leaves her husband, Joseph Edwin Bennet, former postmaster of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, postoffice; two daughters, Miss Edna Bennet and Mrs. Benson C. Smith, both of Brooklyn; a son, Richard W. Bennet of St. Louis, Mo., and a sister, Mrs. Thomas T. Dillon of Jamaica. the funeral service will be held at the Bennet home in Brookhaven at 2 p.m. tomorrow, the Rev. Howard Clark, rector of Christ Episcopal church of Bellport, officiating. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 24 Jun 1943, p. 10. Mrs. Benson C. Smith is spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennet of Railroad avenue [now Old Stump road] after spending the winter with her husband, Lieutenant Smith, U.S.N.R., who has been transferred to Orange, Texas, from Algonac, Mich. [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. [S962] 1940 Census, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: T627_2784; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 52-59.. [S1026] Personal Knowledge: Gloria Duryea Brown., Interview: 12 July 2013. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 1 Oct 1953, p. 4. William D. Walton, 63, died yesterday at his home on Beaver Dam road in Brookhaven after a short illness. Mr. Walton, a real estate salesman, was born in New York city and had made his home in this vicinity for the past 50 years. He attended Taft school in Connecticut where he was a classmate of the late Senator Robert A. Taft, and served as a pilot and flight instructor in the Air Force in World War I. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna B. Walton of Brookhaven. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the St. James Episcopal church in Brookhaven with the rector, the Rev. Fredrick. Chapman, officiating, and interment will be in Woodland cemetery in Bellport. [S1026] Personal Knowledge: Gloria Duryea Brown.. [S97] Historic Structure Survey, http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/history/SouthShoreEstuarySurveyForm.aspx?InventoryCode=Br28A.1.