Family:Isaac Ellsworth and Unknown (1)

There has been considerable discussion regarding the parentage of Hannah (Starnes?), wife of Joseph Bennett. Apparently, there were two early publications ("Elsworth Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Elsworth", a manuscript history by Paul Snider Chance, and "The Henckel Genealogy", by Junkin and Junkin, published in 1964) that published (without listing any sources) that Hannah, wife of Joseph Bennett, was a daughter of an Isaac Ellsworth. Nedra Brill in The Henkel Genealogical Bulletin, Spring 1992, cites family sources dating well into the 1800's, which say that this Joseph Bennett Jr. of Pendleton County actually married Hannah STARNES.

A detailed analysis, "The Bennett-Elsworth Families and Moses Bennett" was written by David Armstrong, which basically states that there seems to be no evidence to prove that Hannah, wife of Joseph Bennett was an Ellsworth. In his words, "It is not founded on any evidences and amounts to an attempt to "force fit" several pieces of information together when they in fact should not be associated".