Saturday May 29, 1926 
H.C. Bennett Dead at Home in This City 
Was for 6 Years City Secretary of City of Longview 
 
The death of Henry Clinton Bennett, which occurred at an early hour this 
morning, at his home in this city, following an illness of fourteen months, has 
caused deep sorrow among his host of friends here, who have so lovingly and 
affectionatly ministered to him during the last declining weeks of his illness. 
Henry Clinton Bennett, son of Mr Albert G. Benton and Mrs Alice Melton Bennett, 
was born in Madison Station, Miss, February 15, 1893. He was reared and educated 
in Mississippi and came to Longview when about eighteen years of age to work in 
the office of the Longview Cotton Oil company. For six years he served in the 
city administration, as city secretary and treasurer, and at the time he was 
taken ill, was representative in Longview for Heid Brothers Grain Company at El 
Paso. 

While still a young man, he was united in marriage to Mis Grace Oxley of 
Longview. To this union were born two sons, H.C. Jr, and Garry, who with the 
mother are receiving the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in the loss 
of their kind and loving and devoted husband and father. 

Others surviving are his father and mother, and three sisters, Mrs H. Warren and 
Misses Ruth and Alice Bennett of Madison Station, Miss, and three uncles, K.S. 
Melton, S. C. Melton and J.W. Melton, all of Longview. 

In early childhood, deceased united with the Methodist church and has lived a 
faithful and consistent christian life. He was a member of the Board of Stewards 
of the Kelly Memorial Methodist when illness necessitated his resignation from 
that office in 1925. 

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Kelly 
Memorial Methodist church by Rev. J. Coy williams, pastor of the church, with 
burial in Grace Hill cemetery. Pythian Lodge No. 26 will officiate at the burial 
service. 

Active pallbearers: R. A. McLain, L.D, Kelly, G.A. Bodenheim, John T. Buckley, 
Alton Holloway, Oliver Danield, Lacy Eddins, and E. B. Rembert.