Henry Bennetts Leaves Wife and Six Children
From The Butte Daily Post, June 13, 1917 . . .
No Trace is Yet Found of Body of the Man Whose Wife and Little Ones Are Waiting Patiently for Some Word.
The hand of death that reached out from the North Butte mine disaster, casting the city into grief, struck an exceedingly cruel blow at the home of Henry Bennetts, 141 Missoula avenue, Centerville, where a wife and six children are waiting the long hours for word that the body of the husband and father has been taken from the mine.
the scholastic circles and were both given special promotions in their grades this year. Henry started to school but his delicate health precluded his attendance when the cold weather came. Cecil and John are Post newsboys and sell the papers on the streets after school each evening. The children of the missing man, all boys, are: Cecil, 13; John, 12; Raymond, 9; David, 8; Henry, 6, and Paul, 3. The four older boys of the family attend the Blaine school in Centerville and are held in the highest esteem by their teachers and playmates, not only because of industriousness and adaptability to their studies, but because of their manliness among the children who are their playmates. Cecil and John are especially prominent in the scholastic circles and were both given special promotions in their grades this year. Henry started to school but his delicate health precluded his attendance when the cold weather came. Cecil and John are Post newsboys and sell the papers on the streets after school each evening.
The Bennetts family came to Butte in 1913 from Smokerun, Penn., where the father worked in the coal mines. The youngest boy, Paul, was born in this city.
