Joseph M. Jennings is a native
of Warren County, Ill., born Nov. 11, 1843. In 1847 he
came to Iowa, locating in Iowa City, where he remained
several years, then removed to Delaware County. He now
resides in Sperry Township this county, where he owns
eighty acres of valuable land. He enlisted in Company A,
Thirty-eighth Iowa Infantry. During his service he spent
one year in Texas, and participated in many battles,
among them that of Vicksburg. He serve three years and
returned home in 1865. On March 25, 1866, he was married
to Ellen Crane, who was born in Winnebago County, Ill.,
Sept. 18, 1843. They have had five children - Joseph
Henry, born Dec. 29, 1866; James S., Dec. 31, 1868;
Walter E., Feb. 18, 1871; Samuel O., Oct. 12, 1873, and
Hester Ellen, born Aug. 14, 1880. Mr. Jennings has ever
been active in Sabbath-school work, having been
Superintendent of the Deep Creek Sunday-school over six
years. He is a licensed minister in the United Brethren
church, and has been preaching for the past two years. He
is an ernest worker in the temperance cause, as well as
all others which tend to promote the moral welfare and
happines of his fellow beings. source: History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 1098 |