The Bennet Family Cemetery is located on a small hill on the north side of Walden Avenue just east of Harlem Road. It is surrounded by retail stores and an auto dealership. This is the cemetery of some of the founding families in Cheektowaga.

Elnathan Bennet emigrated from Pawlet Vermont in the company of Jesse Munroe and his new wife Harriet in February 1816. On the way they stopped in Burlington New York where Elnathan married Jesse's cousin Jerusa Munro. Together they all settled in the Town of Buffalo N.Y. and built a double log home on the Buffalo-Batavia Road (now Broadway). In 1818 this property was then located in the new Town of Amherst N.Y. and in 1839 in the new Town of Cheektowaga. In 1823 Jesse bought 130 acres of property where they had lived since 1816. Then in 1829 Jesse and Elnathan split the property each owning 65 acres. Some time later Elnathan Bennet built a new home on his property this time on the Buffalo-Moscow Road (now Walden Avenue). It was there that the first Cheektowaga Town Board meeting was held on the 16th day of April, 1839, when Elnathan Bennet was elected one of the town assessors and path masters. 

Elnathan Bennet and Jerusha would have 10 children in all and many of them and their families are buried in this cemetery along with many of the neighboring families.  

The cemetery is now owned and maintained by the Town of Cheektowaga with volunteer help from the Cheektowaga Historical Association. The following links contain more information on the Bennet family and the cemetery.

Bennet_family_cemetery_-_brochure.pdf

Listing_of_headstone_inscriptions.pdf

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi