Julia Jennings (died 1864)

JENNINGS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/29/2009 at 23:14:55

Dubuque Democratic Herald, March 2, 1864.

DIED-
In this city on the 1st inst., at half past two o’clock p.m., Julia Jennings, wife of Hon. John D. Jennings, aged 38 years.

This sad event has carried deep grief to many fond heart hearts and shrouded the entire community in gloom. Mrs. Jennings was the daughter of Felix St. Brain, who at an early age was an agent for the Sac and Foxes at Rock Island and was killed in the Black Hawk War near Buffalo Grove, Illinois. When quite young she was adopted into the family of Gen. Jones of this city and was married in August, 1851. She was a woman of fine accomplishments and many and rare virtues, a cherished member of society, an affectionate wife, an attentive and devoted mother and an exemplary and devoted, earnest Christian. On Saturday morning last she was seemingly out of danger, and Mr. Jennings, who had been at home attending upon her illness, upon pressure of public duty and solicitous lest the want of his vote in the Senate should imperil our railroad interests, returned to Des Moines. She was suddenly taken with a relapse and, notwithstanding that every means that medical skill and attentive friends could suggest were used for her recovery, she gradually kept sinking and, having received at the hands of Bishop Smyth the sacraments of the Catholic Church and rejoicing in the sublimity of the Christian faith, passed gently away into the realization of the Christian’s hope. A family of six children, one an infant of a few days old, is left to share the loneliness and sorrow of the husband, whose heart is now crushed and stricken, and whose home is so suddenly made desolate. A dispatch has borne to Mr. Jennings the sad intelligence of his great bereavement, and he is expected this evening or tomorrow morning. A sorrowing community tender to him and his family their heartfelt sympathies.