Here is some info below...I re-sent it because it did not come through the first time. Hope it helps, See message below: Caren -----Original Message----- From: Caren Tidwell <[email protected]> To: Walter A. Dreier <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [JENNINGS-L] Frustration of Jennings Researchers; >Here are all of the Obediah/Obadiah's that I know of. Also, have you tried >searching for Ginnings/Gennings or a variation of the Jennings surname in >Census, etc. This tricked me for a while. > >Hope you can find something that you see as familiar. > >Caren >************************* >Marriage Records from Pittsylvania County, Virginia >Obediah Jennings, September 15, 1823 married to Agnes Richardson. >Sarah Jennings, March 14, 1851 married to John Ricketts, Pittsylvania >County, Virginia; daughter of Obediah Jennings. >************************** >Documented Notes on Jennings and Allied Families by Doughtie >Page 906 >Obidiah Jennings, Sr. married Ruth Dodson, a daughter of Jesse Dodson of >Halifax and Pittsylvania County, Virginia to Hawkins County, Tennessee >settling in the part that later became Grainger County. He is buried in the >Matlock Cemetery in McMinn County, Tennessee. Obidiah Jennings, Sr. and >Ruth Dodson had a son Obidiah Jennings who married Minnie McGee. Obidiah >Jennings, Sr. had a sister who married Marion Clendening Drake in Warren >County, Tennessee. >*************************** >Quoting from Volume 1, page 148, Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly: >"Reverand Jacob Jennings was a minister of the Presbyterian Church who >united the character of the clergyman and physician. It is said he served >as surgeon in the Revolutionary War and continued to parctice medicine after >he became an intenerant Presbyterian Minister. Shortly after 1779, Rev. >Jacob Jennings went from New Jersey to Virginia, where he resided for >several years on the Potomac. He later went to Fayette County, >Pennsylvania. Jacob Jennings married Mary Kennedy." >Known Children of Jacob Jennings and Mary Kennedy >2. Dr. Samuel Kennedy Jennings (1771-1854) >3. Reverand Obadiah Jennings (1778 - 1832) >4. Johnathan Jennings (1784 - 1834) > >2. In 1792, one Samuel K. Jennings appears on the Tax List of Henry County, >Virginia with 3 White Tithes, 1 black, 2 horses. He continued to appear on >the Tax List through 1796. > Dr. Samuel Kennedy Jennings (1771-1854) is known to have resided in >Baltimore, Maryland and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He married Hannah Hood, widow. >She died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in June of 1850 - Funeral on Saturday, the >22nd. He died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1854." (Howard A. Kelley: American >Medical Biog.: page 622). >Known Children of Samuel Kennedy Jennings and Hannah Hood: >Dr. Samuel Kennedy Jennings, Jr. (1796-1877) >Samuel, Jr. appears in Marengo County, Alabama July 1, 1820. Sale of land >January 3, 1831, Demopolis Land Office. (State of Alabama: Department of >Archives and History: Mss. Room) > >3. Reverand Obadiah Jennings was born December 13, 1778 near Baskingridge >New Jersey, the fourth son of Reverand Jacob Jennings. "Reverand Samuel K. >Jennings of Baltimore, brother of Obadiah Jennings, wrote to his nephew >regarding Obadiah Jennings as follows: He was no less amiable when a youth >than he was benevolent and deserving of affection when a man. I shall never >forget the cheerfulness with which he was accustomed to divide his little >stores of fruits and nuts with his brothers, when he was at anytime better >furnished than they." > Reverand Obadiah Jennings was sent to Cannonsburg, at the time the seat >of a flourished Academy, which in 1802, was organized into a College and >called Jefferson College. Having acquired the best education the western >country could afford, he commenced the study of law with John Simonson, Esq. >of Washington when he was first admitted to the bar in the Fall of 1800. He >immediately removed to Steubenville (Ohio) where he commenced practice, >where he remained until 1811, when he went to Washington, Pennsylvania; >though he still continued to practice to a considerable extent in the courts >of Ohio until his introduction in the ministry. > Soon after his removal to Steubenville, Ohio, he married Miss Becket, a >daughter of Col. Becket of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. She died >shortly thereafter leaving a daughter (who married a physician). Obadiah >Jennings married second, before December 28, 1810, Ann Wilson, daughter of a >Clergyman of Delware. > In 1810, he connected himself with the Presbyterian Church by a >profession of his faith and soon after removed to Washington, Pennsylvania. >He was elected to the office of Ruling Elder and was once a delegate to the >General Assembly. Having accepted of the call he removed to Steubenville in >1817, and was Ordained and Installed a pastor where he remained for six >years. The congregation for Washington, Pennsylvania, having become vacant >by the resignation of their former pastor, Mr. Jennings was called there in >the Spring of 1823. Here he continued for five years. He received a call >from Nashville, Tennessee, where he removed in April of 1828 and remained in >Nashville until his death. When his son, Thomas, who had been his constant >nurse and physician said "Father you are dying," he replied "Bless the Lord, >O my Soul." > A short time before the death of Obadiah Jennings, the College of New >Jersey conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. (Virginia State >Library: Obadiah Jennings, D.D., Debate on Campbellism, Held at Nashville, >Tennessee: A Memoir of the Author by Reverand D. M. Brown, D.D.) > Obadiah Jennings signed his will on July 3, 1830, Washington, >Pennsylvania, pr. December 3, 1832, Nashville, Tennessee: >My wife Ann, "household furniture and movables of every kind," >My "two sons" (names not mentioned) "to have my Encyclopedia," >My son Thomas Read Jennings, "My oldest son" >Wills to: John T. McKennon of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Thomas McKennon and >T. McKennon of Wasshington and Alexander McDowell of Steubenville, Ohio, >"All my real estate in fee simply in trust for my wife during her widowhood >and for the education of my children until they shall become of age." >Witnesses: Samuel Cunningham, Edward Naret >Codicil: To my Nephew: Samuel C. Jennings: "All of my theological books in >token of great regard and sincere affection." (Davidson County, Tennessee: >Wills and Inventory: 1832-36, Volume 10, page 59). >Tombstone Inscriiptions, City Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee >Reverand Obadiah Jennings >Pastor of >First Presbyterian Church >Born in New Jersey >December 13, 1778 >Died >January 12, 1832 >(Ackle: Tombstone Inscriptions and Historical Mss. page 8) >Children of Reverand Obadiah Jennings by his 1st wife: >Daughter Jennings that married a physician >Known Children of Second Wife: >Thomas Reid Jennings (1805-1874) >Son Jennings >Ann E. Jennings >******************* > James Harvey (if this is you Jennings line, the Harvey's and Jennings >had a big connection in Bermuda which was considered coming from "England" >because it is a British Isle so you might want to look into Bermuda) of >Hebron, Ohio, wrote the Jennings Family Convention in 1850, "he represents >the family of Samuel Jennings, who lived in Sussex Co., New Jersey. I am >informed to that said Samuel came from England, where he had brothers, on >named William (this was for the law suit trying to claim the millions that >was left with no will). He married Sophia Garner in New Jersey and had six >children: >Mary >William >Hannah >Samuel >Charlotte >Elizabeth > Mary Jennings married Samuel Hand whose son, Samuel was the father in >law of James Harvey. There was a Dr. Jennings who once lived in Fait (sic) >County, Pennsylvania whose father was doubtless a brother of Mary and son of >old Samuel Jennings. The children of this Dr. Jennings are: >Reverand Obadia Jennings of Nashville, Tennessee >Johnathan Jennings of Indiana >David Jennings of Belmont County, Ohio >(Also see French Tipton Papers in possession of Dr. J. T. Davis, Richmond, >Kentucky.) >****************************** >Simon P. Jennings was born August 1840, Wayne County, Indiana, a son of Mary >and Obadiah Jennings, natives of Pennsylvania; who in pioneer times left >their state with all of their possessions in a wagon drawn by a single horse >and moved over the mountains into Ohio. Their other son was Levi A. >Jennings. > >Hope you see something that can help you figure them out. And I do note as above that there are more than one Obadiah. I know >frustration, I've been searching along time too. Here is my Mystery >Jennings Line. Let me know if you see anything on them. > >Happy not frustrated Hunting, >Caren