He gave away the little babe left by his wife to Mrs.Scott, of Scott's Valley, in Santa Cruz Co.

and sold his farm near the mouth of the Salinas River.

With what money he had accumulated he loaded two 4 mule teams with dry goods, put his four children into his wagon, and went to Cedar City, Utah.
He gave a thrilling account of passing through Mountain Meadows, where he saw, here and there little groups of skeletons of the unhappy victims of the great massacre at that place of men, women and children, by J.D.
Lee, and his Mormon followers and told me the terrible story, which I here omit.
Smarting under the terrible taxation of one tenth of everything, Bennett grew poorer and poorer and at last resolved that he must go away, but his wife could not leave her own people, and so he set off with his children, somewhat afraid he might be shot down, but he reached Los Angeles Co.

in safety.

One daughter married a lawyer in San Bernardino, and died a few years afterwards.