Jennie was the daughter of Daniel Leach and Agnes Baird who were living in China Township (now East China Township), St. Clair County, Michigan, north of present-day Marine City, by 1845. Her father was a former soldier in the U.S. Army and her mother was from Scotland, her family part of a failed utopian community in Canada who then then settled in China Township.
Jennie married George Jerome 15 May 1877, in Detroit. George was an attorney in Detroit; the Collector of Customs for the Port of Detroit, a Michigan State Senator and a founder of the Republican Party. George and Jennie had two children, Jennie Georgia Jerome and George, who both died young and are buried with their parents.
"Mrs. George Jerome Dead," Detroit Free Press, Sept. 9, 1914: "Word has been received in Detroit of the death in Siasconset, Nantucket Island, of Mrs. George Jerome, 68 years old, widow of George Jerome, a well known Detroiter who died about 10 years ago. She was spending the summer in the east. Mrs. Jerome lived for many years at 85 Alfred Street but spent last winter in the Pasadena Apartments."
Jennie married George Jerome 15 May 1877, in Detroit. George was an attorney in Detroit; the Collector of Customs for the Port of Detroit, a Michigan State Senator and a founder of the Republican Party. George and Jennie had two children, Jennie Georgia Jerome and George, who both died young and are buried with their parents.
"Mrs. George Jerome Dead," Detroit Free Press, Sept. 9, 1914: "Word has been received in Detroit of the death in Siasconset, Nantucket Island, of Mrs. George Jerome, 68 years old, widow of George Jerome, a well known Detroiter who died about 10 years ago. She was spending the summer in the east. Mrs. Jerome lived for many years at 85 Alfred Street but spent last winter in the Pasadena Apartments."
Jennie was the daughter of Daniel Leach and Agnes Baird who were living in China Township (now East China Township), St. Clair County, Michigan, north of present-day Marine City, by 1845. Her father was a former soldier in the U.S. Army and her mother was from Scotland, her family part of a failed utopian community in Canada who then then settled in China Township.
Jennie married George Jerome 15 May 1877, in Detroit. George was an attorney in Detroit; the Collector of Customs for the Port of Detroit, a Michigan State Senator and a founder of the Republican Party. George and Jennie had two children, Jennie Georgia Jerome and George, who both died young and are buried with their parents.
"Mrs. George Jerome Dead," Detroit Free Press, Sept. 9, 1914: "Word has been received in Detroit of the death in Siasconset, Nantucket Island, of Mrs. George Jerome, 68 years old, widow of George Jerome, a well known Detroiter who died about 10 years ago. She was spending the summer in the east. Mrs. Jerome lived for many years at 85 Alfred Street but spent last winter in the Pasadena Apartments."
Jennie married George Jerome 15 May 1877, in Detroit. George was an attorney in Detroit; the Collector of Customs for the Port of Detroit, a Michigan State Senator and a founder of the Republican Party. George and Jennie had two children, Jennie Georgia Jerome and George, who both died young and are buried with their parents.
"Mrs. George Jerome Dead," Detroit Free Press, Sept. 9, 1914: "Word has been received in Detroit of the death in Siasconset, Nantucket Island, of Mrs. George Jerome, 68 years old, widow of George Jerome, a well known Detroiter who died about 10 years ago. She was spending the summer in the east. Mrs. Jerome lived for many years at 85 Alfred Street but spent last winter in the Pasadena Apartments."
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