Earnest Archie Bennett was born on May 25, 1895, in Wentworth, North Carolina. Bennett was a clerk for the City Grocery Co. in Madison, North Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was subsequently inducted into the service in July 1918 and served various medical detachments until honorably discharged in November 1919. He was deployed overseas from September 1918 to October 1919. Bennett died in Reidsville (Rockingham County) on October 18, 1979.