The day before Amanda's brother, General Henry Lewis Benning's wedding, Amanda committed suicide on September 5, 1839, using hydrocyanic acid or Prussic acid used on plants. The wedding was postponed. Amanda was buried in the small Benning Cemetery in Pine Mountain Georgia (Dameron, J. David. General Henry Lewis Benning, 'This was a man.' A Biography of Georgia's Supreme Court Justice and Confederate General." Image 11. Bowie. Heritage Books. © 002. 33).
The day before Amanda's brother, General Henry Lewis Benning's wedding, Amanda committed suicide on September 5, 1839, using hydrocyanic acid or Prussic acid used on plants. The wedding was postponed. Amanda was buried in the small Benning Cemetery in Pine Mountain Georgia (Dameron, J. David. General Henry Lewis Benning, 'This was a man.' A Biography of Georgia's Supreme Court Justice and Confederate General." Image 11. Bowie. Heritage Books. © 002. 33).
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In
Memory of
Sarah Amanda
Daughter of
Pleasant M. and
Malinda L. Benning
Born in Columbia Co. Ga.
Sept. 7, 1822
Died in Muscogee Co. Ga.
Sept. 5, 1839
R.I.P.
[Another marker:]
Pleasant M. Benning
1783-1845
Mary M. White
1763-1840
S. Amanda Benning
1822-1839.
R.I.P.
