Born the fourth of eight children to Margaret L George Jennings and her husband Wallace David "Wallie" Jennings, Mildred was destined to forgo what most folks call childhood. Instead, she took the title of 'woman of the house' at the tender age of eight years old when her mom passed.
Her mother, "Meg", died relatively young, at age 40, after living enough heart-ache and loss for a long lifetime. She had birthed eight children and buried three of them, Mildred had two older sisters that didn't see their 4th birthday and a little brother who died short after birth. Meg's death left a family poor enough that purchasing a headstone was beyond their means. A family friend of Wallie Jennings gave the family a second hand stone that later (sixty years) saw her daughter purchase and help set a new one.
Mildred was small in stature but more than made-up for that with determination and a steely stubbornness that required some effort to overcome. She was however, a staunch believer in God, baptized by a preacher-man/cousin in 1937 in the Tyronza River at Dyess Colony, Arkansas. Having been brought up by the granddaughter of the founder of the second oldest congregation West of the Mississippi, Mount George Church of Christ in Yell County, she herself contacted her cousin, another Hardin George descendant, Brother Buford Anderson George.
She asked him to come from Yell County to Mississippi County, Arkansas and hold a tent revival which resulted in several friends and family members making the trek down to the nearby Tyronza River for baptism.
***Good Lord Willing, I shall return shortly to add more details***
Her mother, "Meg", died relatively young, at age 40, after living enough heart-ache and loss for a long lifetime. She had birthed eight children and buried three of them, Mildred had two older sisters that didn't see their 4th birthday and a little brother who died short after birth. Meg's death left a family poor enough that purchasing a headstone was beyond their means. A family friend of Wallie Jennings gave the family a second hand stone that later (sixty years) saw her daughter purchase and help set a new one.
Mildred was small in stature but more than made-up for that with determination and a steely stubbornness that required some effort to overcome. She was however, a staunch believer in God, baptized by a preacher-man/cousin in 1937 in the Tyronza River at Dyess Colony, Arkansas. Having been brought up by the granddaughter of the founder of the second oldest congregation West of the Mississippi, Mount George Church of Christ in Yell County, she herself contacted her cousin, another Hardin George descendant, Brother Buford Anderson George.
She asked him to come from Yell County to Mississippi County, Arkansas and hold a tent revival which resulted in several friends and family members making the trek down to the nearby Tyronza River for baptism.
***Good Lord Willing, I shall return shortly to add more details***
Born the fourth of eight children to Margaret L George Jennings and her husband Wallace David "Wallie" Jennings, Mildred was destined to forgo what most folks call childhood. Instead, she took the title of 'woman of the house' at the tender age of eight years old when her mom passed.
Her mother, "Meg", died relatively young, at age 40, after living enough heart-ache and loss for a long lifetime. She had birthed eight children and buried three of them, Mildred had two older sisters that didn't see their 4th birthday and a little brother who died short after birth. Meg's death left a family poor enough that purchasing a headstone was beyond their means. A family friend of Wallie Jennings gave the family a second hand stone that later (sixty years) saw her daughter purchase and help set a new one.
Mildred was small in stature but more than made-up for that with determination and a steely stubbornness that required some effort to overcome. She was however, a staunch believer in God, baptized by a preacher-man/cousin in 1937 in the Tyronza River at Dyess Colony, Arkansas. Having been brought up by the granddaughter of the founder of the second oldest congregation West of the Mississippi, Mount George Church of Christ in Yell County, she herself contacted her cousin, another Hardin George descendant, Brother Buford Anderson George.
She asked him to come from Yell County to Mississippi County, Arkansas and hold a tent revival which resulted in several friends and family members making the trek down to the nearby Tyronza River for baptism.
***Good Lord Willing, I shall return shortly to add more details***
Her mother, "Meg", died relatively young, at age 40, after living enough heart-ache and loss for a long lifetime. She had birthed eight children and buried three of them, Mildred had two older sisters that didn't see their 4th birthday and a little brother who died short after birth. Meg's death left a family poor enough that purchasing a headstone was beyond their means. A family friend of Wallie Jennings gave the family a second hand stone that later (sixty years) saw her daughter purchase and help set a new one.
Mildred was small in stature but more than made-up for that with determination and a steely stubbornness that required some effort to overcome. She was however, a staunch believer in God, baptized by a preacher-man/cousin in 1937 in the Tyronza River at Dyess Colony, Arkansas. Having been brought up by the granddaughter of the founder of the second oldest congregation West of the Mississippi, Mount George Church of Christ in Yell County, she herself contacted her cousin, another Hardin George descendant, Brother Buford Anderson George.
She asked him to come from Yell County to Mississippi County, Arkansas and hold a tent revival which resulted in several friends and family members making the trek down to the nearby Tyronza River for baptism.
***Good Lord Willing, I shall return shortly to add more details***
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Married: 08-21-1926; "Mom"; "To know thee-was to love thee"
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Wife of Harvey, mother of Margaret, Herbert, Violet, James, Bobby and Troy
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