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Author: llward74469
Surnames: Jennings
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Parthena and Wiley Jennings are my great-great grandparents. I have found a lot of
information on this site about them, but I would love to have more. I know Wiley is buried
at East Okland Cemetery in Mountain Home, Arkansas, but I don't know where she is
buried. She died suddenly on the way to their son's house "Jim" (James, I
guess). My grandpa told us the story and he called him "Jim" but the closest
name on the list of children is James. Anyway, Wiley and Parthena were going to his house
because Jim and his wife had just had a baby. Jim came running out of the house in tears
because the baby had died. Parthena fell off the wagon from a heart attack. Based on the
information I have, this was around 1890, because my great grandfather, Richard Thomas
Jennings, was supposedly nine years old and he was born in 1881. Anyway, Wiley Demit
remarried Ida Lee Biggers and they had two children. They are bured side-by-side at
Mountain Home, Arkansas, even though she lived about!
40 years after his death. My grandpa Jennings called Wiley Jennings by his middle name
of "Demit"; however, the spelling we were always given was "Demmit."
Another thing is that Wiley Demit was a minister. He supposedly died while breaking in a
new pair of mules. The mules ran under the shed and broke his back. He was 82 years old.
Let me know if you receive this email and if you have any information you would like to
share. I'll be glad to share with you what I have.
Lisa Jennings Ward
Holdenville, Oklahoma
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