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James Holmes Jennings (1826-1917)

JENNINGS, THATCHER, BOSWORTH, HANSON, PAUL, DENT, CANNON

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 10/8/2016 at 00:56:28

AGED RESIDENT IS DEAD
JAMES HOLMES JENNINGS PASSED AWAY MONDAY
HAD REACHED ADVANCED AGE OF 90
For Many Years he has Made his Home with Daughter, Mrs. C.C. Cannon

Death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Cannon Monday morning and about nine o'clock and called from amidst the family the beloved and respected grandfather, James Holmes Jennings, father of Mrs. Cannon.

Mr. Jennings had been in his usual good heealth up to the time of his affliction, about midnight Sunday, by a stroke of paralysis. He had enjoyed an auto ride Sunday with some of the members of the family. After the paralysis siezed him, which affected the right side, he lapsed into unconsciousness and remained in this state until his death about nine o'clock Monday morning.

The deceased had spent the past seventeen years of his life here in the home of his daughter, Mrs. C.C. Cannon. During these years he had made by his kindly temperament and congenial ways many friends who will mourn his loss. The funeral serviceds were at the home Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. H.F. Williams of the PResbyterian church officiating. Interment was at Prairie View cemetery.

James Holmes Jennings was born in Dutchess county, N.Y. near Owego on September 13, 1826. He continued to live at this place until the years of his early manhood. In 1856 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Jane Thatcher of Rome, PA. Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings moved to Leraysville, Pa. To this untion eight children were born, one dying in infancy. The other seven survive to mourn the death of the beloved and respected father. The surviving children are, Mrs. Geo. Bosworth of Manly, Ia; Mrs. Charlotte Hanson of Paullina, Ia.; D.S. Jennings, of Redlands, Calif.; Mrs. Sarah Paul of Nashville, Ill.; Mrs. D.S. Dent of Wallace, Ida.; Mrs. C.C. Cannon, of Paullina, and Miss Matilda Jennings, of Lewiston, Ida.

After taking up his residence at Leraysville, the deceased took of the occupation of farming and continued it until he moved to Iowa Falls, Ia. in 1867, where he went back to farming, continuing his residence there on a farm until 1884 when he moved to the state of Washington, taking up his residence near Asotin on a ranch. This remained his home until 1900, when he came to Paullina to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. C.C. Cannon.

The deceased was born of parents who were of the Quaker faith and he continued a member of hat society until the years of manhood when he joined the Methodist church at Leraysville, Pa., of which church he remained a member until his death. His life was clean and exemplary throughout its many years. In his death, the family not only lose a fond and affectionat father but the community loses an honored and highly respected citizen.

Paullina (Iowa) Times, June 28, 1917, p1


 

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