JENNINGS CEMETERY

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JENNINGS CEMETERY

photos by Anita White

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: From Eupora, Miss. travel north on Hwy. 9, 4.3 miles at Walthall, turn right on Hwy. 50, go 2.7 mile's to a paved road on the left. then go 5.2 mile's to Mantee Road, turn left and go 2.6 mile's to Double Springs Church Road, go 2 mile's (you'll pass Double Springs Church & Cemetery on your right, turn right on a gravel road, then go to the first house on your right, pull in driveway, and ask permission to go past the house up the trail along a fence, between the house and horses, go up a hill abt. 2/10 of a mile, and the grave's are on the right near the old log road.

Buried in this cemetery is Boswell Jennings and his wife Nancy Crowley. Boswell's tombstone was destroyed a long time ago. A small wooden plaque has been placed with his name on it.

Boswell Jennings was born abt. 1801 in Edgefield Dist., S. C., and died abt. 1859 in Choctaw Co., Miss. He married Nancy Crowley in 1823, and they had 10 known children. They came to Choctaw Co., Miss. before 1840, and settled near Hornlenden, Miss. just south of the Chickasaw Co., Miss. county line.

Nancy was born Oct. 13, 1801, and died Nov. 18, 1871.

On her marker it reads; Dear children, too, your mother's friends. Must go and leave you here behind. May Jesus design your souls to join and sing his lasting praise.

Boswell Jennings Old Broken Stone

Boswell Jennings wooden plaque

stone for Nancy Crowley Jennings wife of Boswell Jennings