From The Mountain Eagle, September 4, 1912
Submitted by Robin Sterling

In Memoriam. Mr. Jesse L. Bennett, an aged Confederate veteran, died near his home in north Walker, on Wednesday, August 28, 1912, as a result of injuries received in a runaway accident. Mr. Bennett was born near Clear Creek Falls, in Winston County, on February 23, 1839; moved to Walker county at the age of twenty-one, where he lived until the time of his death; he had lived at his late home for 46 years. At the outbreak of the civil war, Mr. Bennett went to old Houston, the latter part of July 1861, where he joined a party of volunteers who had gathered there from various parts of Walker and Winston counties. From Houston he and his party went to Moulton and Courtland, Ala., where the 16th Alabama regiment was organized, with Col. W.B. Wood, commander. The deceased was a member of the same company that Col. T.P. Lamkin, of Jasper, was in—Company F, 16th Alabama regiment. From Northern Alabama Mr. Bennett went to Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tenn.; from Knoxville he went to Kentucky, where he took part in the battle of Fishing Creek, which was his first battle. From Fishing Creek he fell back to Murphreesboro, Tenn., and from those he went to Corinth, Miss., where, on April 6th and 7th 1862, he took part in one of the great battles of the war—Shiloh—where he was wounded.

Mr. Bennett served in the Confederate army throughout the civil war and was at all times a brave and fearless soldier. On December 18, 1864, he was married to Josephine Jones, the marriage ceremony being performed by Andy Sides, Esq. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bennett were born nine children, six sons and three daughters, of which five are now living, viz: Messrs. J.M. Bennett, of Falls City; R.M. Bennett, of Jasper; W.H. and H.I. Bennett and Mrs. A.I. sides, of Manchester. Mr. Bennett was the grandfather of thirty-eight grand children, thirty-one of which are living, and the great grandfather of fifteen children, of which twelve are living. He is also survived by his wife. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wallace Owens at residence Thursday, and the body was buried by the Masonic fraternity of which the deceased was a prominent member, as well as a member of Camp Hutto, U.C.V.