"Bill" Bennett spent the early years of his childhood in his native Washington County, Iowa. When he was eight, he departed Iowa with his parents and traveled overland in a covered wagon to Portland, Oregon. In 1872 he helped his father build a new family home on a homestead near La Center, Clark County, Washington Territory, where numerous other family members had taken up land in previous years.
On May 2, 1875, at La Center, Clark County, Washington Territory, Bill married Alice Nelson, with whom he had ten children. Alice had spent part of her childhood at Argos, Indiana, and as a young girl had settled with her parents in Corydon, Iowa, where her father died. Soon afterward Alice's family had joined relatives in Clark County, Washington Territory, not far from the Bennett homestead.
For several years Bill and Alice farmed near La Center and at Kelso, in Cowlitz County. In 1890 the couple moved to Oregon, living first at Troutdale, where Bill was employed as a well digger, and later in East Portland. They were separated in 1911, and divorced in 1920. Bill spent his later years with several of his children in Los Angeles, California, and died at 76. Alice Bennett remained in Portland for many years, but after 1944 she lived with her daughter, Lillian, at Ocean Park, Pacific County, Washington. She died at 94.
"Bill" Bennett spent the early years of his childhood in his native Washington County, Iowa. When he was eight, he departed Iowa with his parents and traveled overland in a covered wagon to Portland, Oregon. In 1872 he helped his father build a new family home on a homestead near La Center, Clark County, Washington Territory, where numerous other family members had taken up land in previous years.
On May 2, 1875, at La Center, Clark County, Washington Territory, Bill married Alice Nelson, with whom he had ten children. Alice had spent part of her childhood at Argos, Indiana, and as a young girl had settled with her parents in Corydon, Iowa, where her father died. Soon afterward Alice's family had joined relatives in Clark County, Washington Territory, not far from the Bennett homestead.
For several years Bill and Alice farmed near La Center and at Kelso, in Cowlitz County. In 1890 the couple moved to Oregon, living first at Troutdale, where Bill was employed as a well digger, and later in East Portland. They were separated in 1911, and divorced in 1920. Bill spent his later years with several of his children in Los Angeles, California, and died at 76. Alice Bennett remained in Portland for many years, but after 1944 she lived with her daughter, Lillian, at Ocean Park, Pacific County, Washington. She died at 94.
Gravesite Details
Disposition was by cremation; the ashes were scattered in the Erastus and Harriet Bennett family plot in Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.
Family Members
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Harriet Alice "Hattie" Bennett
1876–1890
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Charles William Bennett
1878–1942
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Franklin Louis "Frank" Bennett
1880–1973
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Lillian May Bennett Voight
1884–1969
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Golden Earl Bennett
1886–1962
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Ernest Pearl Bennett
1888–1972
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Harry Aloysius Bennett
1890–1953
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Stella M Bennett
1893–1908
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Melvin John Francis O'Shea
1895–1947
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Frederick Clayton "Freddie" Bennett
1898–1928
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