Zachariah Bennett Obelisk - Greene County, TNPosted by: 
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Obelisk for Zachariah Bennett in Bethesda Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, "He was a well-to-do colored man".
Waymark Code: WM12PPN
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2020
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Obelisk and burial site for Zachariah Bennett in the Bethesda Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery stands tall on the hilltop of the cemetery.
Inscription.
Zachariah Bennett
Died Aug. 14, 1910
Aged 63 years
"He was a well-to-do colored man"
From the findagrave website:
Zachariah Bennett
BIRTH 1847
DEATH 14 Aug 1910 (aged 62–63)
BURIAL Bethesda Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 67686403
Bennett had been a slave of the Murrels in Clover Bottoms of Horse Creek. He took up the ways of white men after the [Civil] War and became rich. He remained a bachelor. He owned much land and had the finest of everything. He bred horses and sold horses and made much money. It is said the state got all of his money after he died.
Excerpt from "Pocket Note History of Greene County,Tennessee" by T. Elmer Cox.
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