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Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings
née Peck
Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings (née Peck) (6 January 1883 – 6 October 1972) was born in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut to Mary Harriet Seymour Peck and Miles Lewis Peck. She married Newell Jennings. Her child was Elizabeth Jennings Anderson. She died in 1972, in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Life and records
Mother of Elizabeth Jennings Anderson (Courant + Seymour). Parents locked: Miles Lewis Peck × Mary Harriet Seymour Peck (Seymour genealogy).
Maiden Peck; parents LOCKED: Miles Lewis Peck × Mary Harriet Seymour Peck (American Seymour Genealogy — “second daughter of Mary Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck”). Styled Rachel Jennings in Dorothy Boyd Courant obituary.
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- 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.
- 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 10 (PECK) JENNINGS (1883– ), second daughter of Mary Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck, was educated in Bristol schools and at Vassar College (B.A., 1905). MARY HARRIET, b. 22 July 1849; d. at Bristol, Conn., 31 Oct. 1926; m. at Bristol, 18 Oct. 1871, MILES LEWIS PECK, b. at Bristol, 24 July 1849, s. of Josiah Tracy and Ellen (Barnard) Peck. Children, b. at Bristol: … IV. Rachel Kezia, b. 6 Jan. 1883; B.A. (Vassar, 1905); m. at Bristol, 28 June 1910, Newell Jennings…
- Identity of father: Connecticut Reports memorial (vol. 152) — Newell Jennings married Rachel K. Peck 28 Jun 1910; survived by wife and two of three children (does not name Elizabeth).
Judge Jennings was married on June 28, 1910, to Rachel K. Peck. On June 28, 1960, a host of friends gathered to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Jennings survives him along with two of their three children and seven grandchildren.
- 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.