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Sarah Frances “Sis” <I>Bowen</I> Jennings

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Sarah Frances “Sis” Bowen Jennings

Birth
Macon County, Georgia, USA
Death
2 Feb 1915 (aged 81)
Houston County, Texas, USA
Burial
Crockett, Houston County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Sarah Frances (Sis) Bowen Jennings was the only daughter of Stephen & Pemelia Killingsworth Bowen, she had 11 brothers, six served in the Civil War, only two returning home, JT & Doc. August 12, 1858 she married William Morgan Jennings and they had eight children all born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Nova Ann Permelia Jennings was born August 1874 and died in November of 1874.

Sarah Frances & Morgan Jennings came to Texas in 1884 with their family, traveling in wagons pulled by oxen. They settled near Nolanville, Bell County, Texas and then moved to Oenaville in Bell County. We do not know what became of the family farm, that was deeded to Sarah Frances, back in Tuscaloosa. The original deed was brought to Texas with them, and is in the possesion of their great-great grandaughter Clara Ivy Rich.

After living in Bell County for about eight years, the family moved to southeastern Leon County, Texas in 1892. After the death of Sarah Frances' husband, in 1896, she lived wtih her children, moving with them to Houston County in about 1900.

They lived near the Alabama Ferry on the Trinity River. The last days of her life were spent with her widowed daughters, Nancy Cornwall, whose husband drowned at the Alabama Crossing, and Mary Story, whose husband died after being kicked by a horse, in the Wesley Chapel Community.

Grandson, Wade Jennings, placed a granite headstone at her grave in 1978.
Sarah Frances (Sis) Bowen Jennings was the only daughter of Stephen & Pemelia Killingsworth Bowen, she had 11 brothers, six served in the Civil War, only two returning home, JT & Doc. August 12, 1858 she married William Morgan Jennings and they had eight children all born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Nova Ann Permelia Jennings was born August 1874 and died in November of 1874.

Sarah Frances & Morgan Jennings came to Texas in 1884 with their family, traveling in wagons pulled by oxen. They settled near Nolanville, Bell County, Texas and then moved to Oenaville in Bell County. We do not know what became of the family farm, that was deeded to Sarah Frances, back in Tuscaloosa. The original deed was brought to Texas with them, and is in the possesion of their great-great grandaughter Clara Ivy Rich.

After living in Bell County for about eight years, the family moved to southeastern Leon County, Texas in 1892. After the death of Sarah Frances' husband, in 1896, she lived wtih her children, moving with them to Houston County in about 1900.

They lived near the Alabama Ferry on the Trinity River. The last days of her life were spent with her widowed daughters, Nancy Cornwall, whose husband drowned at the Alabama Crossing, and Mary Story, whose husband died after being kicked by a horse, in the Wesley Chapel Community.

Grandson, Wade Jennings, placed a granite headstone at her grave in 1978.

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Source: Wadell Jennings Harrison

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