The Jennings Family

From the Indiana Historical Society

The Jennings family were among the early settlers of Scott County, Indiana. They apparently came west from Connecticut about 1800. Ozias Jennings (1766-1821) was living in Garrand County, Kentucky, between 1799 and 1815. He had three brothers, Aaron, Enoch, and Ichabod. Aaron Jennings was living in Scott County from 1820, when as justice of the peace he performed the first marriage in the county, till his death in 1834. His wife, Sally, died in 1837. They had two sons: George W. Jennings, who with his wife Susannah lived in Lexington from their marriage in 1834 until at least 1872; and Levi, who after a short stay in Lexington in 1827 returned to the East and settled near Schenectady, N.Y. Levi became postmaster in Austin, Scott County, in 1854. He died about 1880.

George W. Jennings and his wife had relatives named Owens, some of whom settled in Texas in the early 1840s, others in Illinois and Iowa around 1850.

Three more generations of the family continued to live in Lexington: William L. Jennings (1877-1924), James H. Jennings (1916-1945), and James M. (Murray) Jennings (born 1917).

All the family were farmers.

Sources: Atlas of Scott County, 1889
Bogardus, Carl R., Centennial History of Austin, Scott County, Indiana, 1953
Early History of Scott County, 1970
Pioneer Life in Scott County, 1957

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