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Ida Viola <I>Robinette</I> Jennings

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Ida Viola Robinette Jennings

Birth
Fairview, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Death
16 Oct 1971 (aged 92)
Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Weber City, Scott County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Ida Viola Robinette Jennings

Ida was the daughter of Ira Pendleton Robinette and Margaret Malinda Taylor. She married Abraham R. Jennings on March 31, 1932. This was her third marriage. Married first Charles Calhoun Boatright and second John Orville Oatman.


Daughter of Ira Pendleton Robinette and Margaret Malinda Taylor. Wife of Charles Calhoun Boatright.

Charles met Ida while he was traveling through Fairview community selling an apparatus that cleaned the feathers of feather beds while the ticks were bing washed.

Ida and Charles began housekeeping in a little house located in Fairview, Scott County, Virginia. Later they moved to Maness in Lee County, Virginia where they operated a store. By 1897 they had purchased a hotel in Gate City, Scott County, Virginia, which the family operated until 1919.

In 1903 Charles Calhoun and J. C. Boatright founded a newspaper, the Gate City Herald. This paper was later operated by their brother, L. B. Boatright, who sold it about 1930.

Married: 20 JUL 1893 in Fairview, Scott County, Virginia.

Married 2nd John Orville Oatman in 1919 in Gate City.

Married 3rd Abraham R. Jennings 31 Mar 1932 in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Ida Viola Robinette Jennings

Ida was the daughter of Ira Pendleton Robinette and Margaret Malinda Taylor. She married Abraham R. Jennings on March 31, 1932. This was her third marriage. Married first Charles Calhoun Boatright and second John Orville Oatman.


Daughter of Ira Pendleton Robinette and Margaret Malinda Taylor. Wife of Charles Calhoun Boatright.

Charles met Ida while he was traveling through Fairview community selling an apparatus that cleaned the feathers of feather beds while the ticks were bing washed.

Ida and Charles began housekeeping in a little house located in Fairview, Scott County, Virginia. Later they moved to Maness in Lee County, Virginia where they operated a store. By 1897 they had purchased a hotel in Gate City, Scott County, Virginia, which the family operated until 1919.

In 1903 Charles Calhoun and J. C. Boatright founded a newspaper, the Gate City Herald. This paper was later operated by their brother, L. B. Boatright, who sold it about 1930.

Married: 20 JUL 1893 in Fairview, Scott County, Virginia.

Married 2nd John Orville Oatman in 1919 in Gate City.

Married 3rd Abraham R. Jennings 31 Mar 1932 in Elizabethton, Tennessee.



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