(DIED)"Bennet, Elnathan, Cheektowaga, NY, March 26, 1863, age 74."
Source:
"Erie County, New York Obituaries as Found in the Files of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society",
compiled by Bill and Martha Reamy, 1992
An index to obituaries published in Buffalo newspapers.

Son of Nathan Bennett and Lydia Hyde. Born at Pawlet, Vermont. His first wife, Jerusha Munro, was the mother of his nine (10?)children.
Founding Father, First Town Assessor & unofficial postmaster of Cheektowaga, NY. Also the first Commissioner of Highways. (As they were then called "path masters", who were overseers of the highways and roads, which were principally dirt paths at this time.) He was an early permanent white settler of the area, emigrating in February 1816 with his new wife Jerusha Munro and her cousin Jesse Monroe and his newlywed wife Harriet Parker. Jesse had previously purchased this land on Feb 1, 1813. (lot #24 sublots B & C)(The town was then called Buffaloe and then later in 1818, Amherst. Cheektowaga annexed from Amherst on March 22. 1839.) They built a double log cabin "on the line" on Batavia Road (now Broadway St.) on the farm that was later purchased by the Christian Ernst Family. (Lot #24-sublot C) Elnathan & Jesse opened their home as a tavern in 1816, that would later be used as a schoolhouse.(School district #4 on Ray Road/School Road) Some years later,Jan 24, 1839 Elnathan purchased sublot C from Jesse and would build another house near the corner of now New Walden Ave. and Harlem Road, which, too, would be open as a tavern and where the Bennet family would continue to live until 1954. The first Cheektowaga town meeting would be held at this second Bennet farmhouse.

Marriages: 3
Jerusha MUNRO(E) 17(or 27) Feb 1816
Roxana HITCHCOCK 30 Jun 1841
Psyche MULLET 24 Jan 1849

Unnamed infant daughter born Nov 1816 living only but a few weeks, d. Dec 1816. cit: "Genealogy of Josiah Monroe". no doubt she is buried here, unknown location, no headstone.

other children buried elsewhere sites:
Elnathan Warren - b. Cheektowaga 14 Oct 1828 d. 31 Oct 1890, Valley View cemetery, NV, married 30 Sept 1857 to Catherine Higgins.
James Hassan - Sacramento City cemetery, CA.
Mary Amelia Davis - Pennsylvania

Elnathan's brother James also immigrated to Amherst/ Cheektowaga and settled in Lancaster, NY. He is buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo NY with this two wives.