Greetings and Happy Cinco de Mayo tomorrow!
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| Sarah Dawson Benight's Headstone |
My Bennight line currently ends with William (1795) and
Sarah Bennight (1804), both born in South Carolina. Other than their children’s
names, that is all we know about them. A few years ago my brother found a
marriage record for William D. Bennight and Sarah Jane Dawson, married November 11, 1866, and we were so excited!
In my "on-again-off-again way," I started researching this
family more to see what else I could discover. It didn’t take long to notice
that if this was the marriage record for our William and Sarah, a few
things weren’t lining up quite right. For example, they would have been 71 and
62 years old when they got married. Hmm, this was going to require some more
digging.
