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Samuel Thomas Jennings
BIRTH: 19 Mar 1841, Bedford Co., TN
DEATH: 24 Jan 1907, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United State
Lou Vicie Phillips
BIRTH: 01 Apr 1845, Bedford Co., TN
DEATH: 22 Jun 1917, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee, United States
Samuel Thomas Jennings by Linda Shanklin Jackson
Samuel Thomas Jennings was born March 19, 1841, the fourth child of his father, Robert Cross Jennings, and the second of his mother, Robert’s second wife, Chaney Word. His older brother was William Harrison who was born May 13, 1837. Samuel married on February 2, 1865 to Lou Vicie Phillips, the daughter of Garrett and Charlotte White Phillips. Samuel and Lou Vicie were neighbors on what is now Jennings Lane in District 6 of Bedford County.
Samuel and LouVicie had the following children:
- Frannettie "Annie" Jennings (Dec.4, 1865-Feb. 5, 1914) married Thomas Charles "TCA" Marks, next Dr. William Orr;
- Robert Harrison Jennings (June 23, 1872-May 7, 1937) married Emma Jane Stewart, next Julia Sanders;
- Thomas Garrett Jennings (Jan.29, 1875-Sept.4,1941) married Minnie Mai Osburn;
- Julia Charlotte Jennings(July 20, 1878-May 14, 1939) married R.Samuel Robinson.
Samuel Thomas Jennings served in the Civil War as a private in Captain Boones’ company (F) 41st Regiment of the Tennessee Vols and was at Camp Buckner in 1862. He was furloughed for 2 weeks in February 1862 due to pneumonia.
Samuel was a farmer and stayed on the family property on Jennings Lane. In 1869 he purchased 57 acres of additional land from Albert Eakin. His record book indicated that he sold butter, corn, clover hay, pigs, bred and boarded several horses on his property. His account books indicate that he hired several men to assist in the work on the farm. He was generous in loaning money to family and friends.
He was involved in the final settling up of the estate of Claiborne McCuistion. The family attended El Bethel Baptist Church. He retained receipts for a Harvesting Machine, Mowing and Reaping Machine, a Crooker & Bunnell’s Funnel Clothes Washer patented in 1872 and an organ. He also did some black smithing, and may have had a lumber mill. In 1883 the Emmit Cross Jennings, a half brother, and Samuel rented land from B.G. Green. They agreed to "reset the fence on the North Boundry line with four or five cedar rails at the bottom nine or ten rails high. Braced also. Reset the plank fence from the yard fence down to the picket fence below the spring.... and move the fence on the Porter Place to this side of the garden instead of the other side where it is now and we are not to let the stock run in the orchard garden or yard, except calves in the yard...."
In 1887, a subscription was paid for the Bedford County Times for 6 months at $.50. A 1892 account with Woods Corner Sample and Bargain Store shows purchases of 2 shirts for $1.00, hat $1.25, 2 pants $7.50, shirt, sox, cravat $2, overalls $.75, umbrella $1.25, Tie $.25 and one suit for $17. In 1892 he sold to Scudder & Blakemore, on Depot Street, 513 bags of wheat for $518.65. In 1894 Lou Vicie had a new Davis Sewing Machine, and subscribed to the Baptist and Reflector. In 1903, a bill was paid to Saint Thomas Hospital for 9 weeks board @2.00, operating room $5, 7 days board at $7= $30.00, and a bill to De Moville & Co. Druggist, Nashville, $15.00 for services.
Samuel Thomas Jennings died January 7, 1907. Lou Vicie Phillips Jennings died June 22, 1917. They are buried in the Jennings cemetery on Jennings Lane in Shelbyville. Lou Vicie was residing at the home of her son, Thomas Garrett Jennings, at the time of her death.. Lounettie Jenning Thompson remembers sleeping with her as a little girl until they found out that Lou Vicie had tuberculosis. Lounettie remembers her grandmother scraping an apple to feed her applesauce.
(Information for this article was gleaned from the information in the Jennings Phillips Collection of Early Bedford County, Tennessee Records by Judy Henley Phillips and Linda Shanklin Jackson.)
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