Family register
Elizabeth Jennings Anderson
née Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings Anderson (née Jennings) (18 March 1911 – 24 December 1983) was born in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut to Newell Jennings and Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings. She married Sherwood L. Anderson Jr.. Her child was Sherwood L. Anderson III. She died in 1983, in West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Life and records
Daughter of Newell Jennings × Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings (Dorothy Boyd Courant 2001; Seymour genealogy); mother of Sherwood L. Anderson III.
Maiden Jennings; full given Elizabeth Newell (Seymour genealogy). Later styled Elizabeth Anderson Foster after remarriage to Russell Trufant Foster (FAG; Dorothy Boyd Courant). Son’s Hartford Courant obituary uses Elizabeth Jennings Anderson. Hilda Jennings in Courant lists is her daughter (not a sister) — clarified via Seymour + Dorothy Boyd nieces.
Family
Sources
- Sherwood × Kathleen “had three children” (same Courant obituary).
Sherwood L. Anderson III, 90, died peacefully at his home in Burlington, Connecticut, on February 7, 2025, after a short illness. He was born July 17, 1934, in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Sherwood L. Anderson Jr. and Elizabeth Jennings Anderson.
- LOCK as mother of Elizabeth Jennings Anderson (Dorothy Boyd Courant obituary: daughter of Newell and Rachel Jennings; sister Elizabeth Anderson Foster).
She was born in Hartford on May 7, 1916 daughter of the late Newell and Rachel Jennings of Bristol. ... she and her sister Elizabeth would meet in the school garden to speak English. ... she leaves three nieces, Hilda Jennings of Princeton, NJ, Rachel Thompson of Hilton Head, SC ... two nephews, Sherwood Anderson of Burlington and Miles Peck Jennings, Jr. of Bristol ... She was predeceased by her sister Elizabeth Anderson Foster; and her brother Miles Peck Jennings.
- Identity dates (not parent lock): Find a Grave 21461670 for Elizabeth Newell Jennings Foster — b. 18 Mar 1911 Bristol CT; d. 24 Dec 1983 West Hartford CT; burial West Cemetery, Bristol; linked spouse Sherwood L. Anderson Jr. (m. 1932).
Elizabeth Newell Jennings Foster. Birth 18 Mar 1911 Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. Death 24 Dec 1983 (aged 72) West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. Burial West Cemetery, Bristol.
- LOCK parents: American Seymour Genealogy — Rachel Kezia (Peck) Jennings is second daughter of Mary Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck; child of their Bristol marriage; m. Newell Jennings 28 Jun 1910.
Rachel Kezia, b. 6 Jan. 1883; B.A. (Vassar, 1905); m. at Bristol, 28 June 1910, Newell Jennings ... Children: (1) Elizabeth Newell 11, b. in 1911; B.A. (Vassar, 1932); m. at Bristol, in 1932, Sherwood L Anderson, Jr., of Allentown, Pa. Children: A. Hilda Peck 12, b. 27 Mar. 1933. B. Sherwood L., b. 17 July 1934. C. Rachel Jennings, b. 20 Jan. 1936.