*While serving for Col. Caudell (Col Caudill), Lafayette was assigned the task of helping one of the most famous Confederate Guerrillas From Missouri to Pound Gap, Virginia in the spring of 1865. It was while escorting Miss Susan Mundey(confederate spy that Lafayette was caught and hung. The escort route took Lafayette very close to his home on Rockhouse Creek so he made a trip home to check on his family. On his way back to the escort, he was caught by Unionists and hung at Shelby Gap, Ky. During his time serving Col. Caudell, Lafayette was said to be riding with Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger, and the most famous of all CSA guerrillas, Quantrill (Quantrells Raiders) November 10, 2004 Commander Sparkman reports: Richard Brown and I set an in memoriam stone this afternoon for Pvt. Lafayette Bentley, 13th KY. Cav., who was killed late in the war and buried in the former old Bentley Cemetery on Main Street in Jenkins (Letcher Co KY). This cemetery was later done away with and a hotel was built on the site that contained at least thirteen graves. Some of the graves were moved, some were not. Eventually the hotel was torn down and a new house was recently constructed at this same location. Pvt. Lafayette Bentleys home place was later the location of the old Jenkins High School (Jenkins, Letcher Co KY). After careful consideration, we placed the in memoriam stone for Pvt. Bentley in the old Potter Cemetery, Forest Hill Drive off Rt. 119, just east of Jenkins (Letcher Co KY). This is a short distance from his original burial site and the family members of Lafayette Bentleys wife, Susan Potter, are buried here, including her brother Levi and sister Patsy.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:33:43 +0000
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