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In 1856 Creighton and his wife moved to Little Cataloochee to landadjoining Dan Cooks palce. Mr. Crate Bennett was in the low gap of Fork Ridge, betweenCataloochee and Caldwell fork. He came there every morning. Often therewas a light snow on the ground. He came to watch for a buck deer. Alarge log lay across the gap. As he approached, he heard a considerablecommotion in the brush and presently a panther and a bear appeared fromopposite ends of the log and clinched in a fight. The bear gave an awfulroar and ran off through the brush. Mr. Bennett shot the panther fromthe log, and approaching the scene, he found a large bear lying therethat had been killed by the panther. The bear had been savagely cut bythis attacking panther, and on inspection it was found that his belly hadbeen literally ripped open by a stroke of the panther's paw. Evidentlythe panther had killed the buck, and the bear coming upon the scene toshare in the catch was immediately attacked by the panther. Here werethree dead animals-buck killed by panther, bear killed by panther, andpanther killed by Bennett. Creighton fought in the Civil war, 62nd Regiment, and was capturedat Cumberland Gap and sent to Camp Douglas, ILL., where he died and wasburied in the Confederate cemetery near Chicago. according to thegenealogy records of Robert Medford in Canton, NC, Matilda, Creighton'swife, then a widow married the second time to J. Valentine Woody in 1880,when she was forty two. She died at the age of fifty eight and was buriedin the cemetery at the Baptist Church in Little Cataloochee. There weresome of the Bennetts living in Little Cataloochee when the Park Servicetook over. Bartlett, George, and Eldridge and their families moved toFranklin, NC, in the Lotha community. Tyne Bennett moved to Sylva, NC andGeorge Bennett to North Georgia.
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