Lanier County

John Bennett, born 1778 in Duplin (now Sampson) County, North Carolina, married Sarah (Sallie) Register in 1805 and later settled in what is now Lanier County, Georgia. A veteran of the Indian Wars, John died in May 1850 and was buried at Wayfare Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Together, John and Sallie raised eight children, including Dixon, Felix, and Redding. Sallie died in 1868 and is buried beside him. Their heritage is rooted in Georgia’s early frontier history and honored by descendants at the 1968 Register family reunion, where a new headstone was unveiled in their memory.