Jennie lost her mother at age three, when her mother died giving birth to a son, who also died. Up until her teen years, she lived in the homes of the Bernages, the Reverend Wilson at Blaine, Kansas, and the Reverend Sikes near Fairview, Kansas. During the great grasshopper invasion in the 1870s, Jennie gathered aprons full of grasshoppers for play. At about age 13 she, with her father, moved to a farm home near Blaine where she kept house all of her teen years. During this time, she met her future husband. They married in Westmoreland, in or near which most of their married life was spent, with the exception of a few years in Colorado and western Kansas. Jennie was a nurse and midwife who cared for many in their homes in Westmoreland and in neighboring communities. She was the first of her family to ride in an airplane at Wamego on the 4th of July in the early 1930s.
Jennie lost her mother at age three, when her mother died giving birth to a son, who also died. Up until her teen years, she lived in the homes of the Bernages, the Reverend Wilson at Blaine, Kansas, and the Reverend Sikes near Fairview, Kansas. During the great grasshopper invasion in the 1870s, Jennie gathered aprons full of grasshoppers for play. At about age 13 she, with her father, moved to a farm home near Blaine where she kept house all of her teen years. During this time, she met her future husband. They married in Westmoreland, in or near which most of their married life was spent, with the exception of a few years in Colorado and western Kansas. Jennie was a nurse and midwife who cared for many in their homes in Westmoreland and in neighboring communities. She was the first of her family to ride in an airplane at Wamego on the 4th of July in the early 1930s.
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