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Edwana Jackson Bennett

Edwana and Teresa Bennett

Dates: 1951–2005

Family: Colbert (Hemings)

Residence (at time of interview): Charlottesville, VA

Interview Information

16 Apr. 1998, Charlottesville, VA
Interviewees: Edwana Jackson Bennett, Teresa Bennett

20 July 2000, Charlottesville, VA
Interviewee: Ruth Fleming Hunt

Also present: Edwana Jackson Bennett

Ancestry

Elizabeth Hemings 1735–1807
Betty Brown 1759–post 1831
Burwell Colbert 1783–1862
Nancy Colbert Scott 1810–1864
Edwana Jackson Bennett 1951–2005