she was born in Washington, DC, in 1870, 5th & last child of Colville & Chlora Ann (Davis) Jamesson. Her father died the year she was born; her widowed mother, according to census records in 1870, went with her 3 oldest children to live in the household of her brother and his family. She married in 1888.
She went by the name "Jennie" for many years. She is not listed in the 1880 census of her mother and step-father (her mother married 2. George Walter DeMent). However, the name "Junnie Jamesson" appears in the 1880 census in what appears to be a children's asylum or home of about 12 girls in DC. The name is handwritten in the census records- it's believed the "u" in "Junnie" is actually an "e"; the record should be "Jennie (not Junnie) Jamesson".
My cousin has her engraved wedding band with the date "1888".
We have no pictures of her - but we have some of her beautiful china, silver, art (she painted), furniture, and jewelry. She and her husband had no children. She doted on her younger half-sister's twin daughters, born in 1921 (Chlora Ann & Mary Ann Shearer, daughters of Maud Evelyn (DeMent) & Langhorne Wister Shearer. One of the twins, Chlora Ann (Shearer) Jaquith was my mother.
Later in life, their aunt told the twins that she didn't want to be called "Jennie" - she preferred "Pen," short for "Penelope," her middle name. I always heard her spoken of as "Aunt Pen". She died several years before I was born. My father described her as a very generous woman.
Bio information provided by Susan Jaquith
She went by the name "Jennie" for many years. She is not listed in the 1880 census of her mother and step-father (her mother married 2. George Walter DeMent). However, the name "Junnie Jamesson" appears in the 1880 census in what appears to be a children's asylum or home of about 12 girls in DC. The name is handwritten in the census records- it's believed the "u" in "Junnie" is actually an "e"; the record should be "Jennie (not Junnie) Jamesson".
My cousin has her engraved wedding band with the date "1888".
We have no pictures of her - but we have some of her beautiful china, silver, art (she painted), furniture, and jewelry. She and her husband had no children. She doted on her younger half-sister's twin daughters, born in 1921 (Chlora Ann & Mary Ann Shearer, daughters of Maud Evelyn (DeMent) & Langhorne Wister Shearer. One of the twins, Chlora Ann (Shearer) Jaquith was my mother.
Later in life, their aunt told the twins that she didn't want to be called "Jennie" - she preferred "Pen," short for "Penelope," her middle name. I always heard her spoken of as "Aunt Pen". She died several years before I was born. My father described her as a very generous woman.
Bio information provided by Susan Jaquith
she was born in Washington, DC, in 1870, 5th & last child of Colville & Chlora Ann (Davis) Jamesson. Her father died the year she was born; her widowed mother, according to census records in 1870, went with her 3 oldest children to live in the household of her brother and his family. She married in 1888.
She went by the name "Jennie" for many years. She is not listed in the 1880 census of her mother and step-father (her mother married 2. George Walter DeMent). However, the name "Junnie Jamesson" appears in the 1880 census in what appears to be a children's asylum or home of about 12 girls in DC. The name is handwritten in the census records- it's believed the "u" in "Junnie" is actually an "e"; the record should be "Jennie (not Junnie) Jamesson".
My cousin has her engraved wedding band with the date "1888".
We have no pictures of her - but we have some of her beautiful china, silver, art (she painted), furniture, and jewelry. She and her husband had no children. She doted on her younger half-sister's twin daughters, born in 1921 (Chlora Ann & Mary Ann Shearer, daughters of Maud Evelyn (DeMent) & Langhorne Wister Shearer. One of the twins, Chlora Ann (Shearer) Jaquith was my mother.
Later in life, their aunt told the twins that she didn't want to be called "Jennie" - she preferred "Pen," short for "Penelope," her middle name. I always heard her spoken of as "Aunt Pen". She died several years before I was born. My father described her as a very generous woman.
Bio information provided by Susan Jaquith
She went by the name "Jennie" for many years. She is not listed in the 1880 census of her mother and step-father (her mother married 2. George Walter DeMent). However, the name "Junnie Jamesson" appears in the 1880 census in what appears to be a children's asylum or home of about 12 girls in DC. The name is handwritten in the census records- it's believed the "u" in "Junnie" is actually an "e"; the record should be "Jennie (not Junnie) Jamesson".
My cousin has her engraved wedding band with the date "1888".
We have no pictures of her - but we have some of her beautiful china, silver, art (she painted), furniture, and jewelry. She and her husband had no children. She doted on her younger half-sister's twin daughters, born in 1921 (Chlora Ann & Mary Ann Shearer, daughters of Maud Evelyn (DeMent) & Langhorne Wister Shearer. One of the twins, Chlora Ann (Shearer) Jaquith was my mother.
Later in life, their aunt told the twins that she didn't want to be called "Jennie" - she preferred "Pen," short for "Penelope," her middle name. I always heard her spoken of as "Aunt Pen". She died several years before I was born. My father described her as a very generous woman.
Bio information provided by Susan Jaquith
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