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Margarette <I>Harris</I> Jennings

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Margarette Harris Jennings

Birth
Perry County, Indiana, USA
Death
1859 (aged 33–34)
Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Tobinsport, Perry County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Harris family plot
Memorial ID
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Margaret Harris Jennings was the first wife of Lewis Jennings. She was born about 1825 probably in Perry County Indiana, and is PROBABLY a daughter of Nathaniel and fanny Bruener Harris. Lewis Jennings and Margaret Harris married in 1848., In Breckenridge county. She lived with her husband, Lewis Jennings, on the Jennings Famiky Farm, at Hites run, 3 miles east of Cloverport Kentucky, And died about 1859. she is probably buried in the Simmons Cemetery of the Harris memorial Methodist church in Tobinsport, along with all those other Harris family members. When Lewis Jennings died in 1883, he was Buried beside his first wife, Margaret Harris Jennings. Their headstones and grave sites have never been located. Their graves may be marked with field stones, and are likely buried with Harris Family Members near Tobinsport, across the river from Cloverport, Kentucky. ------ Both Margaret Harris and her husband Lewis Jennings are likely buried in either 1 of 4 PLACES, IN ORDER-OF-LIKELINESS: 1st-the Simmons cemetery in Tobinsport, or, 2nd-The Burdette Cemetery located at the intersection of routes 60 and 144, which was originally the Hites run Baptist church congregation Cemetery. Where Lewis and Margaret Harris Jennings attended is possibly the Clover Creek Baptist Church because the Hites Run Church was dissolved for a while. 3rd—buried on the old Nathaniel & fanny Bruener Harris Family farm north of Tobinsport, Perry County, Indiana, across The Ohio River from Cloverport, Kentucky. Or 4th- with her brothers' family, William Harris, in the Bull & Town Creek community. ----- James Harris was likely another brother of Margaret and he was born 1818 in Perry county, Indiana., And also, Peter Harris born 1814 in Perry County. He too was likely a brother of Margaret Harris Jennings. ---- see the above photograph showing james was born in Perry County. Mrs. Margaret Harris Jennings was likely born in Perry County Indiana circa 1825. ----- I was recently told (11/2016) by a local historian that the Simons cemetery grounds keepers REMOVED many gravemarkers & headstones from the Simons cemetery a few decades ago! The historian said they removed ALL the creekstone grave markers and some of the broken crumbled or unledgible commercial headstones, and DUMPED these headstone/gravemarkers at a DUMP! So, it's been confirmed that the Simons cemetery groundskeepers removed and DUMPED MANY Simons cemetery gravestones. ---- i know It was often practice for groundskeepers mowing the lawn to bury the creekstone grave markers and the footstones below the grass so that they could mow the lawn easier. over the years I have discovered this to be the case in many old cemeteries. If one were to take a metal rod and probe into the sod-grass they might discover that many headstones were buried so that the grass could be mowed much quicker. Many of these old headstones were JUST CREEK STONES and they had no inscription on them, so the groundskeepers didn't feel bad about burying a Creekstone grave Marker that had no inscription. ----- Also, many of these 19th century graves had a footstone. even the Creekstone marked graves sometimes additionally had a Creekstone foot marker, and often these footstone markers were buried to mow the lawn easier. This has been the case in many cemeteries that I have helped restore. Sometimes, the foot stones have the deceased initials crudely carved onto it.-—
Margaret Harris Jennings was the first wife of Lewis Jennings. She was born about 1825 probably in Perry County Indiana, and is PROBABLY a daughter of Nathaniel and fanny Bruener Harris. Lewis Jennings and Margaret Harris married in 1848., In Breckenridge county. She lived with her husband, Lewis Jennings, on the Jennings Famiky Farm, at Hites run, 3 miles east of Cloverport Kentucky, And died about 1859. she is probably buried in the Simmons Cemetery of the Harris memorial Methodist church in Tobinsport, along with all those other Harris family members. When Lewis Jennings died in 1883, he was Buried beside his first wife, Margaret Harris Jennings. Their headstones and grave sites have never been located. Their graves may be marked with field stones, and are likely buried with Harris Family Members near Tobinsport, across the river from Cloverport, Kentucky. ------ Both Margaret Harris and her husband Lewis Jennings are likely buried in either 1 of 4 PLACES, IN ORDER-OF-LIKELINESS: 1st-the Simmons cemetery in Tobinsport, or, 2nd-The Burdette Cemetery located at the intersection of routes 60 and 144, which was originally the Hites run Baptist church congregation Cemetery. Where Lewis and Margaret Harris Jennings attended is possibly the Clover Creek Baptist Church because the Hites Run Church was dissolved for a while. 3rd—buried on the old Nathaniel & fanny Bruener Harris Family farm north of Tobinsport, Perry County, Indiana, across The Ohio River from Cloverport, Kentucky. Or 4th- with her brothers' family, William Harris, in the Bull & Town Creek community. ----- James Harris was likely another brother of Margaret and he was born 1818 in Perry county, Indiana., And also, Peter Harris born 1814 in Perry County. He too was likely a brother of Margaret Harris Jennings. ---- see the above photograph showing james was born in Perry County. Mrs. Margaret Harris Jennings was likely born in Perry County Indiana circa 1825. ----- I was recently told (11/2016) by a local historian that the Simons cemetery grounds keepers REMOVED many gravemarkers & headstones from the Simons cemetery a few decades ago! The historian said they removed ALL the creekstone grave markers and some of the broken crumbled or unledgible commercial headstones, and DUMPED these headstone/gravemarkers at a DUMP! So, it's been confirmed that the Simons cemetery groundskeepers removed and DUMPED MANY Simons cemetery gravestones. ---- i know It was often practice for groundskeepers mowing the lawn to bury the creekstone grave markers and the footstones below the grass so that they could mow the lawn easier. over the years I have discovered this to be the case in many old cemeteries. If one were to take a metal rod and probe into the sod-grass they might discover that many headstones were buried so that the grass could be mowed much quicker. Many of these old headstones were JUST CREEK STONES and they had no inscription on them, so the groundskeepers didn't feel bad about burying a Creekstone grave Marker that had no inscription. ----- Also, many of these 19th century graves had a footstone. even the Creekstone marked graves sometimes additionally had a Creekstone foot marker, and often these footstone markers were buried to mow the lawn easier. This has been the case in many cemeteries that I have helped restore. Sometimes, the foot stones have the deceased initials crudely carved onto it.-—

Gravesite Details

Exact grave sites are unknown. There were many graves marked with field stones.



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