Bennett Family Reunion Organizers

The Home Place

The first reunion celebrations were held at the home place of the late Preston and Mattie Bennett. According to An Account of Taylors, South Carolina 1817–1994 by Jean Martin Flynn (1995), the Bennett House stood on Stephenson Street and was originally the schoolhouse Black parents built for their children. Other direct descendants hosted family gatherings over the years. The reunion has been held mostly in South Carolina, with a few exceptions.

• 2000Columbia, Maryland
• 2004Nassau, Bahamas (reunion cruise)
• 2007Atlanta, Georgia
• 2010Atlanta, Georgia
• 2018Cozumel, Mexico (reunion cruise)

Kelly Green and Yellow

In the early years, Georgia Bennett wanted uniformity in the family attire, the reunion programs, and the flowers placed in the church in memory of our loved ones. Her vision gave us our family colors: Kelly green and yellow. Not just any green, Kelly green!

Sunday Worship

Worship has always been a major event of the reunion. The family has attended services at St. Matthew Methodist Church in Taylors, South Carolina; New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland; New Birth South Metropolitan Church in Atlanta, Georgia; and our own Bennett worship services held on cruise ships.

The Bennett Choir

Church music was first offered by the Bennett Great Grandchildren’s Choir under its original director, Georgia Bennett. The choir sang as early as 1982 in yellow robes made by Dorothy Kelly. It was later directed by Pamela Bennett, then became known as the Bennett Choir under Spencer Bennett, and it still sings at our church services today.