Laura Walker Benet – Military Spouse

The wife of Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benet, the mother of James Walker Benet, and the grandmother of the poet, Stephen Vincent Benet.

She was born on October 27, 1833 and died on January 5, 1900. She is buried with her husband in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery.

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