Let me tell all of you Jennings Frustrated searchers a story. For 22 years I have been trying to find the parents of one Obadiah Jennings, roadbuilder and farmer of Warren Co. Tenn. My earliest record is Obadiahs signature in 1796 0n the first Marriage bond recorded in Claiborne Co. Tenn. He moved on to Warren Co, married, raised a large family and died in 1830. I have his will--but have never found his birthplace, or parents. Ironically there was another Obadiah Jennings, a Presby, Minister, well educated and prominent in Church affairs in Nashville, Tenn. He is buried in Nashville, and there is a large tombstone marking his grave. If you were to go and look at the marker, you would see a new plaque on the side of the original tombstone placed recently. The Rev. Obadiah also died in 1830--the same year as our Obadiah of Warren Co. A researcher spent 20 years trying to find the line of our Obadiah of Warren Co. Finally, in a state of near mental insanity he decided that the Preacher Obadiah and the farmer Obadiah were one and the same. He theorized that Preacher Obadiah worked the Church in Nashville on the weekend, but during the week he came out to McMinnville and was a consort to Elizabeth Dodson Jennings, wife of Farmer Obadiah.. As a result, he placed a plaque on the tombstone in Nashville reeading, "Obadiah Jennings, Consort of Elizabeth Dodson Jennings" The moral of the story is; "Just because you and I can't find the necessary records to establish our Heritage, we shouldn't make-up or invent a heritage. Someday we'll meet those people and I for one don't want to explain some cockeyed story that I dreamed up just to get in SAR or some other organization. Have faith and patience and keep looking. Regards, Walter, husband of Madge , ggg granddaughter of Obadiah Jennings and his yet to be discovered family.