Loring Bennett (1842 - 1915)

Born 10 May 1842 in Orland,Hancock,Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mahalia (Lawrence) Bennett — married 1861 in Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Apr 1915 at age 72 in Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Loring Bennett served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Sep 10, 1862
Mustered out: Oct 14, 1862
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 28th Maine Infantry Company I

Loring was the oldest of five sons born to Thomas J. Bennett and Roxanna Harriman in about 1843. He was living with his parents in the census of 1850. Very oddly, in the census of 1860 Loring and Mahalia were living with his half-aunt (Emeline Sewell, half-sister of his mother Roxanne) and her husband Joseph Grindle.

Loring and two brothers fought in the Civil War . Loring enlisted in Company I, Maine 28th Infantry Regiment on 14 Oct 1862.Mustered out on 31 Aug 1863 at Augusta, ME. ^[1]By 1870 he was living with Mahalia and 3 of his 4 brothers were living with him. There is no further record of his parents after 1860. Brother Thomas Addison Bennett did not return from the Civil War.

All of Loring;s children were born after his return from the Civil War--Roscoe, Frank, Loring C and Ernest Linwood. Only Ernest appeared to have had children, and he had 16. Loring C. died young. Frank and Roscoe left Hancock County. Loring and Mahalia are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Orland, Maine. ^[2]

I sniff a story here, but the only thing my mother recalls about her great-grandfather was his name Loring Bennett. My mother, who was very close to her mother, claims that nothing was ever said about him. In my trampling through Maine cemeteries, I have observed repeatedly how some persons' stones are much taller, heftier and sturdier ( and clearly more expensive) that those of their contemporaries, some of whom did not even appear to have a stone. It is possible that a tombstone may have signified the decedent's wealth and/or social standing. Compared to similar stones in the cemetery where Loring was buried, his stone might indicate relative prosperity. He may have been a difficult person; my grandmother who surely knew her grandfather Loring in her childhood, as they were all living in Orland, was a very loquacious person, yet she never mentioned him. My grandmother would always pretend not to hear the names of persons she found objectionable, almost as in Valdmort, the one whose name cannot be spoken. Loring appeared to have run off with Mahalia to his half-aunt's home in 1870. Then, only one of his three adult children stayed and the area and had children.

Perhaps Loring was adversely affected by his upbringing. Parents Thomas and Roxanne barely left a trace except for a census in Orland in 1850 and a census in Bucksport in 1860. It is odd that Loring, who could clearly afford a solid stone for himself, did not bother to memorialize his parents. His father Thomas Bennett seemed to have had his own misfortunes. He and his three brothers were the sons of the only Bennett in Guilford whose wife's name was unknown, and the three brothers were orphaned early and all left Guilford.

Or perhaps the horrors of the Civil War and the loss of his brother, Thomas Addison Bennett, grieved him. Brother Alpheus also disappeared from the records after the age of 22. His remaining brothers--Chester Delmont and Deforest Loper--also appeared to to have moved around and had multiple wives. It is a sad tale of of this one small branch of the Bennett family, which never would have been discovered had I not found the Civil War records of Loring's uncle Alanson Bennett.

• Fact: Residence (1850) Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1860) Bucksport, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Military Service (10 Sep 1862) Bucksport,
• Fact: Residence (1870) Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1890) , Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1900) Orland & Verona towns, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Pension (22 Apr 1915) Maine, United States
• Fact: Burial (1915) Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States of America
• Fact: Pension (1907-1933) United States

Sources

1. ↑ 1,2
2. ↑ 3

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 December 2018, 05:15), entry for Loring B Bennett(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LL9K-DXG); contributed by various users.

1. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865

2. United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8SF-J83 : 11 March 2018), Loring B Bennett, 1890; citing NARA microfilm publication M123 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 338,166.

3. Maine, J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1999," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKXM-SZ5P : 16 March 2018), Loring B Bennett, ; citing Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States, Cemetery Evergreen, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 2,148,484.

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=D828D081-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~millergonzalez/surnames/harriman/harriman.html