Lura Kent Jenne obituary, Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan

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An obituary found pg. 7, "The Advertiser-Journal,"  Auburn, N.Y.
 (Cayuga Co., N.Y.) Friday April 3, 1914
 
LEFT COUNTY 80 Years Ago, Death of Lura Kent Jenne, Daughter of 
Michigan Pioneer Who Once Lived Here

    The death of Lura Kent Jenne, who left Cayuga County in the early 
'30's (1830's) is recorded in the following from the Dundee, Mich. 
Reporter:

     "One of the very few remaining pioneers of this community was 
called to her long home the early part of the week and was laid to rest 
in Oakwood, Wednesday morning. Mrs. Lura Jenne who was 88 years old the 
seventeenth of March, was four years old when she came to this community.
 Her father, Enos Kent and her husband's father, Samuel Jenne, were the 
very first immigrants to invade this part of Monroe County. They came 
from Cayuga County, New York in the early '30's. This was before even the
 advent of the stage coach and the trip was made across country on foot. 
These men were evidently good judges of land. They took a school section 
and located their homesteads just west of town, then returned to New York
 for their respective families. The subject of this sketch was the fourth 
of a family of 11 children of Enos and Betsy Kent. Over 80 years of her 
life were spent within two miles of the present location of the village 
of Dundee. Mrs. Eliza Jenne, of Milan, Mrs. Jane Moore, of this place and 
Allen Kent of Ann Arbor, are all that now remain of her father's family.
 January 4, 1846, she was wedded to Samuel Jenne, Jr. and of this union 
six children were born, of whom four are now living. These are Anna 
Alchin of Durand; Hattie Davis of Milan; Harvey, who still resides on the
 old homstead and Miles, of this place. Besides these she leaves 11 
grandchldren and five great grandchildren and a large number of other 
relatives  and a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Jenne was
 always known for her thrifty housewifery, and her industry. When no 
other work presented itself she would spend her odd moments knitting 
lace. Even a few days prior to her demise, she asked for her kitting 
needles, fearing they might be getting rusty from disues. Early in her 
girlhood she experienced religion in a series of meetings in the old log 
schoolhouse on the Macon. She has since been a devoted member of the M.E. 
Church.
 
Mrs. Mary Gilmore (no relative, just happened to find this obituary and 
hoped someone there might find it useful in their research)


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