John Morgan Bennett

Inscription is in cursive and hard to make out in photo. top lines look to read:

Oldest son of Bill? and Julylda? D. Bennett

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May be:

Another transcription of what should be the same stone reads:

' Bennett John Morgan 6/14/1870 Aged 14y, 10m, 19d; "Drowned In Merced River, Yosemite"; S/O: Bennett, R. H. & Matilda D.; S/W: Bennett, Robert Haz '

http://genforum.genealogy.com/bennett/messages/11792.html

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possible match to:

"Bennett, John Morgan ... died in 1870 ... age 14 ... 1870D-95" http://www.jwfgenresearch.com/SFCall/6900-11.htm

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A marker believed to also be for that same James Morgan Bennett is in Yosemite National Park:

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/pioneer_cemetery/

"The identity of “A Boy” has been lost. The Mariposa Free Press carried on June 24, 1870 the story of the drowning of a boy, John Morgan Bennett, son of Captain R. H. Bennett, while attempting to cross a branch of the Merced River in Yosemite Valley on a mule. Jack Leidig says that the boy was the first person to be buried in the cemetery. Why this site was chosen we do not know."

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