Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — DIES LEAVING SON AGED 86 [ARTICLE]

DIES LEAVING SON AGED 86

Sixteen Children Survive Father at Ashland City, Tenn, Who Is Called When Near 107. Ashland City, Tenn. —William Bennett, who died at hia home In the Second district of Cheatham county, was 106 years 8 month and 37 days old. Mr. Bennett was bora in Williamson county in the year 1806. He is survived by sixteen children, the oldest being eighty-six years old. When Mr. Bennett was 100 years old he cut cordwood as fast as his great-grandson could haul it to the Sycamore powder mills, a distance of some seven or eight miles. His father cut the first boards to cover the first frame building that was put up in Nashville'in 1809. William Bennett was then about four years old. About five years ago, when Mr. Bennett was 101 years of age, he cut his foot with an ax while hewing ties. This disabled him for the rest of his life. : y