Webbie Carden Jennings
Webbie was born to Margarette "Meg" George & Wallace David Jennings the 10th of February 1914 in Mt George, Yell County, Arkansas.
She was named after her father's sister Georgia Webster "Webbie" Jennings and her mother's mother Josephine Victory Carden George.
She was the next to last and fourth daughter of eight children born to her mother. Her mother passed the year after her birth and her father's younger sisters, Maude Alice Jennings Rounsaville took her in due to the poor conditions at her home.
Maude was a widow whose first husband Ambrose Rounsaville had passed in 1911. She had three sons by him named; Joseph Hobert, William Irby and Wiley Hoyt Rounsaville. Ambrose is buried in Shepherd Cemetery Yell County, Arkansas.
The best we can tell she met up with a widower named John A Sullivan who she married the 26th of October 1924 in Yell County. He had five children from his first wife.
The marriage was ill-fated due to the tragedy that occurred 16 of June 1925 near Van Buren in Crawford County, Arkansas. The drowning of her niece and one of the Sullivan daughters, Daisy, probably provided the impetus to the couple's separation and Maude returning the the surname Rounsaville.
Webbie Jennings, 11 yrs old and her new step-cousin, 16 yr old Daisy Sullivan attempted to save a younger Sullivan child, 11 yr old sister Johnnie Belle Sullivan from drowning in the river. In turn the younger Sullivan child was saved by an adult stranger who was never identified as the two would-be rescuers were lost to the river's swift currents.
Searchers were able to locate the bodies of the two girls downstream the next day.
Webbie and Daisy were memorialized at the same service and buried in Dora Cemetery adjacent to one-another. Daisy had a regular stone and at some point recently a good-Samaritan purchased the small marker with simply the name Webbie on it for her.
I have the records for the funeral service and the front page stories from the Fort Smith Southwest American newspaper that covered the story.
Webbie was born to Margarette "Meg" George & Wallace David Jennings the 10th of February 1914 in Mt George, Yell County, Arkansas.
She was named after her father's sister Georgia Webster "Webbie" Jennings and her mother's mother Josephine Victory Carden George.
She was the next to last and fourth daughter of eight children born to her mother. Her mother passed the year after her birth and her father's younger sisters, Maude Alice Jennings Rounsaville took her in due to the poor conditions at her home.
Maude was a widow whose first husband Ambrose Rounsaville had passed in 1911. She had three sons by him named; Joseph Hobert, William Irby and Wiley Hoyt Rounsaville. Ambrose is buried in Shepherd Cemetery Yell County, Arkansas.
The best we can tell she met up with a widower named John A Sullivan who she married the 26th of October 1924 in Yell County. He had five children from his first wife.
The marriage was ill-fated due to the tragedy that occurred 16 of June 1925 near Van Buren in Crawford County, Arkansas. The drowning of her niece and one of the Sullivan daughters, Daisy, probably provided the impetus to the couple's separation and Maude returning the the surname Rounsaville.
Webbie Jennings, 11 yrs old and her new step-cousin, 16 yr old Daisy Sullivan attempted to save a younger Sullivan child, 11 yr old sister Johnnie Belle Sullivan from drowning in the river. In turn the younger Sullivan child was saved by an adult stranger who was never identified as the two would-be rescuers were lost to the river's swift currents.
Searchers were able to locate the bodies of the two girls downstream the next day.
Webbie and Daisy were memorialized at the same service and buried in Dora Cemetery adjacent to one-another. Daisy had a regular stone and at some point recently a good-Samaritan purchased the small marker with simply the name Webbie on it for her.
I have the records for the funeral service and the front page stories from the Fort Smith Southwest American newspaper that covered the story.
Webbie Carden Jennings
Webbie was born to Margarette "Meg" George & Wallace David Jennings the 10th of February 1914 in Mt George, Yell County, Arkansas.
She was named after her father's sister Georgia Webster "Webbie" Jennings and her mother's mother Josephine Victory Carden George.
She was the next to last and fourth daughter of eight children born to her mother. Her mother passed the year after her birth and her father's younger sisters, Maude Alice Jennings Rounsaville took her in due to the poor conditions at her home.
Maude was a widow whose first husband Ambrose Rounsaville had passed in 1911. She had three sons by him named; Joseph Hobert, William Irby and Wiley Hoyt Rounsaville. Ambrose is buried in Shepherd Cemetery Yell County, Arkansas.
The best we can tell she met up with a widower named John A Sullivan who she married the 26th of October 1924 in Yell County. He had five children from his first wife.
The marriage was ill-fated due to the tragedy that occurred 16 of June 1925 near Van Buren in Crawford County, Arkansas. The drowning of her niece and one of the Sullivan daughters, Daisy, probably provided the impetus to the couple's separation and Maude returning the the surname Rounsaville.
Webbie Jennings, 11 yrs old and her new step-cousin, 16 yr old Daisy Sullivan attempted to save a younger Sullivan child, 11 yr old sister Johnnie Belle Sullivan from drowning in the river. In turn the younger Sullivan child was saved by an adult stranger who was never identified as the two would-be rescuers were lost to the river's swift currents.
Searchers were able to locate the bodies of the two girls downstream the next day.
Webbie and Daisy were memorialized at the same service and buried in Dora Cemetery adjacent to one-another. Daisy had a regular stone and at some point recently a good-Samaritan purchased the small marker with simply the name Webbie on it for her.
I have the records for the funeral service and the front page stories from the Fort Smith Southwest American newspaper that covered the story.
Webbie was born to Margarette "Meg" George & Wallace David Jennings the 10th of February 1914 in Mt George, Yell County, Arkansas.
She was named after her father's sister Georgia Webster "Webbie" Jennings and her mother's mother Josephine Victory Carden George.
She was the next to last and fourth daughter of eight children born to her mother. Her mother passed the year after her birth and her father's younger sisters, Maude Alice Jennings Rounsaville took her in due to the poor conditions at her home.
Maude was a widow whose first husband Ambrose Rounsaville had passed in 1911. She had three sons by him named; Joseph Hobert, William Irby and Wiley Hoyt Rounsaville. Ambrose is buried in Shepherd Cemetery Yell County, Arkansas.
The best we can tell she met up with a widower named John A Sullivan who she married the 26th of October 1924 in Yell County. He had five children from his first wife.
The marriage was ill-fated due to the tragedy that occurred 16 of June 1925 near Van Buren in Crawford County, Arkansas. The drowning of her niece and one of the Sullivan daughters, Daisy, probably provided the impetus to the couple's separation and Maude returning the the surname Rounsaville.
Webbie Jennings, 11 yrs old and her new step-cousin, 16 yr old Daisy Sullivan attempted to save a younger Sullivan child, 11 yr old sister Johnnie Belle Sullivan from drowning in the river. In turn the younger Sullivan child was saved by an adult stranger who was never identified as the two would-be rescuers were lost to the river's swift currents.
Searchers were able to locate the bodies of the two girls downstream the next day.
Webbie and Daisy were memorialized at the same service and buried in Dora Cemetery adjacent to one-another. Daisy had a regular stone and at some point recently a good-Samaritan purchased the small marker with simply the name Webbie on it for her.
I have the records for the funeral service and the front page stories from the Fort Smith Southwest American newspaper that covered the story.
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