Captain Jacob C. “Jake” Bennett, a native Kentuckian and noted Confederate partisan ranger buried in Donaldson Cemetery four miles north of here, was among the more daring guerrillas who fought in the sparsely populated Tennessee-Kentucky borderlands, where bushwhackers and guerrillas on both sides raided and Confederate partisans frequently clashed with Federal soldiers and Unionists. Captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862 and imprisoned, he escaped and joined Confederate Colonel Adam R. “Stovepipe” Johnson’s 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers, which became part of General John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry division. Less than two months later, most of this force were captured and imprisoned in Ohio, but on November 28, 1863, Morgan, Bennett, and five other officers tunneled out and escaped. Bennett then formed an independent company based in Overton, now Clay, County, Tennessee, and raided towns in western Kentucky, including Owensboro, where he burned a boatload of Federal supplies guarded by a company of United States Colored Troops. He finally surrendered in Carthage, Tennessee, laying down “everything but his memories,” was elected the second sheriff of the newly formed Clay County, and was working as guard at the Nashville prison when he died in 1904. Other Confederates buried in Donaldson Cemetery include C.E. Dale and W.P. Overstreet of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry and 25th Tennessee Infantry, and W.S. Davis, Robert D. Donaldson, John R. Donaldson, and Samuel Wells of the 28th Tennessee Infantry.