History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

246 DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
1697.
Mary Alice,
1698. Robert Jennings,
1699.
Eugenia,
b. Feb. 12, 1855, in St. Louis.
b. March 11, 1859, in St. Louis, was educated at
the Washington University, St. Louis,
b. July 16, i860, in St. Louis, graduated in 1879
at the Mary Institute, St. Louis.
587.
Martha Eliza Jennings, dau. of James and Ann B. [Montague
184] Jennings, b. Dec. 27, 1827, in Cartersville, Va. She was edu-
cated at the Albany Female Seminary, Albany, N. Y.; m., Oct. 19,
1853, Lucian Mead,* of the firm of Walker, Mead & Co., cotton
commission merchants of Mobile, Ala. In 1861 they removed to St.
Louis, Mo., where he d. in 1874.
CHILDREN.
1700. Mary Switzer, b. Aug. 17, 1854, in Mobile, Ala.
1701. Ja?nes Jennings, b. March 17, 1856, in Mobile, Ala. He is engaged
1702
1703
1704
1705
in lumber manufacturing business with his
brother-in-law, Mr. A. A. Speer, in Pittsburgh,
Pa., under the firm name of Mead & Speer.
John Walker, b. June 27, 1857, in St. Louis.
Liician HensJiaw, b. Sept. 1, 1859, in St. Louis, d. March 10, 1862.
Annie Montagite, b. July 15, 1862, d. Feb. 7, 1864.
Florence Isbel, b. Feb. 9, 1864, graduated at the Mary Institute in
1706. Nellie,
1707. Nannie,
1708. Eugenia Bertha,
1709.
Harry,
17 10. Jesse,
St. Louis in 1883.
b. June 12, 1865.
b. June 12, 1865, d. May 15, 1866.
b. Oct. 31, 1868.
b. Oct. 31, 1868, d. Feb. 22, 1869.
b. July 11, 1870, d. Aug. 9, 1872.
588.
John Camden Jennings, son of James and Ann B. [Montague
184] Jennings, b. July 20, 1829, in Cartersville, Va.
He ;;/. (1), March, 185 1, in St. Louis, Mo., Ida Weber, a very
beautiful and accomplished German lady, whom he met while she
was traveling in America with her parents. She was the dau. of Dr.
Maurus Ignatz Weber, professor of Surgery in the University of
* Meade—Mead—Meads. There are two derivations for the name :
1. From Anglo-
Saxon Moed, meaning what is mowed, or cut down, a meadow. 2. Meade, an anglicised
form of the old Irish name Meagh. At Meadestown, Co. Cork, there was formerly a castle
built by the Meaghs or Meades. The arms of Mead were, " Sa. a chev. between three pelicans
ar. vulning themselves gu."