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GEN Dennis Dent

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GEN Dennis Dent

Birth
Charles County, Maryland, USA
Death
17 Aug 1863 (aged 67)
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
Plot
Unmarked grave
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When Dennis Dent was born on May 22, 1796, at "Clarke's Inheritance", on Mattawoman Creek, Pomonkey Hundred, Charles, Maryland, his father, George Dent, Jr., was 40 and his mother, Anne Magruder Truman Dent, was 43. He married Martha Tennison Beall on 19 January 1815, and they had nine children together. He then married Frances (Fanny) H. Smaw on December 17, 1855, in Greene County, Alabama. He died on August 17, 1863, in Mobile, Alabama, at the age of 67. In his lifetime, he was a planter, a soldier, a politician and a successful Merchant in Mobile, Alabama. He built a home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was listed in the 1850 Census twice, as being in Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1850 U.S. Census
Dennis Dent Age 52
Martha Dent Age 52
Maria Dent Age 17
Fontaine Dent Age 15
Mary Dent Age 11
George Dent Age 9

Dennis Dent's Wife died of Yellow Fever and was buried in the Bealle Cemetery in 1853. No record of Dennis Dent's 1863 burial has been found, but believed to be buried with his first wife, Martha, in the Bealle Cemetery in an unmarked grave. (Many limestone markers now smooth by rain and time.)
"There has been much speculation concerning the place of his burial. He is buried at Fosters, Alabama in Tuscaloosa beside his first wife, Martha Bealle Dent, in the Bealle Dent Cemetery. Apparently their tombstones are too worn to be readable. " - From the research of S. Neilson.
When Dennis Dent was born on May 22, 1796, at "Clarke's Inheritance", on Mattawoman Creek, Pomonkey Hundred, Charles, Maryland, his father, George Dent, Jr., was 40 and his mother, Anne Magruder Truman Dent, was 43. He married Martha Tennison Beall on 19 January 1815, and they had nine children together. He then married Frances (Fanny) H. Smaw on December 17, 1855, in Greene County, Alabama. He died on August 17, 1863, in Mobile, Alabama, at the age of 67. In his lifetime, he was a planter, a soldier, a politician and a successful Merchant in Mobile, Alabama. He built a home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was listed in the 1850 Census twice, as being in Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1850 U.S. Census
Dennis Dent Age 52
Martha Dent Age 52
Maria Dent Age 17
Fontaine Dent Age 15
Mary Dent Age 11
George Dent Age 9

Dennis Dent's Wife died of Yellow Fever and was buried in the Bealle Cemetery in 1853. No record of Dennis Dent's 1863 burial has been found, but believed to be buried with his first wife, Martha, in the Bealle Cemetery in an unmarked grave. (Many limestone markers now smooth by rain and time.)
"There has been much speculation concerning the place of his burial. He is buried at Fosters, Alabama in Tuscaloosa beside his first wife, Martha Bealle Dent, in the Bealle Dent Cemetery. Apparently their tombstones are too worn to be readable. " - From the research of S. Neilson.

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Many limestone markers, worn smooth by rain and time, are stacked in small piles. Few headstones are granite and readable. Graveyard is overgrown with vines, brush and trees. - 2020, K.Brister

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