Wayne-Grant-Randolph County IN Archives Biographies.....Jennings, Nathan Madron before 1849 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 15, 2006, 8:09 pm Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Green Township p. 476 & 477 Nathan Madron Jennings, youngest son of Samuel and Margaret (Madron) Jennings, was reared a farmer, and received his early education in the common schools. At the age of twenty years he entered the Hillsboro Seminary, where he remained one year, after which he spent one term in the Normal School of Richmond, Ind. He taught school at intervals to defray the expenses of his education, and has taught nearly twenty years in Wayne, Randolph and Grant Counties, Ind., and holds certificates of the highest grades. He was principal of a graded school at Jalapa, Grant Co., Ind., two years, one year a graded school at Jacksonburg, Wayne County, and two years at East Germantown, Wayne County. His last school was at College Corner, in this county, after which he settled on his farm in Green Township. He takes great interest in raising fowls, and has a fine collection. He was married in his twenty-fourth year to Narcissa J., daughter of William and Nancy (Hicks) Smith, who came to Wayne County from North Carolina in an early day. Her father was born in 1809, and followed agricultural pursuits till his death in 1849. His wife was born in 1806 of English ancestry, and is still living. Mr. Jennings and wife have three children---James M., born June 16, 1865; William M., born Aug. 6, 1869, and died Sept. 13, 1876; Josephus L., born March 21, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings are members of the Missionary Baptist church, of which he is Clerk. He is a Master Mason, and member of Cambridge City Lodge, No.5, A. F. & A. M., and was Master of Thomas Nubia Lodge before the two lodges were consolidated. Politically he is a Greenbacker. His parents settled near Richmond, Wayne County, Ind., in 1820, where they remained two years, then lived two years near Fountain City. In 1825 he purchased the farm in Randolph County, where they lived till death, the father aged nearly sixty-eight, and the mother aged eighty-one years. James, Samuel J., John R. and Nathan M. are the surviving members of their family of ten children. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/jennings122gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb