Family register
Newell Jennings
Newell Jennings (12 May 1883 – 17 February 1965) was born in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut to Elizabeth Naomi Newell Jennings and John Joseph Jennings. He married Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings. His child was Elizabeth Jennings Anderson. He died in 1965, in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Life and records
Father of Elizabeth Jennings Anderson (Dorothy Boyd Courant 2001 + Seymour genealogy). Parents locked: John Joseph Jennings × Elizabeth Naomi Newell Jennings (CT Reports vol. 152).
Hon. Newell Jennings; Connecticut Supreme Court justice (1937–1953); nicknamed Iron Man / man at the iron bench. Do not confuse with his mother Elizabeth (Newell) Jennings.
Family
Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 born in Bristol on May 12, 1883, and lived there until his death on February 17, 1965. He was the son of John J. and Elizabeth Newell Jennings.
- Identity: CT Supreme Court justice Newell Jennings (1883–1965), son of John J. and Elizabeth (Newell) Jennings; Wikipedia + CT State Library judge biography.
Newell Jennings (May 12, 1883 – February 17, 1965) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1937 to 1953. Born in Bristol, Connecticut, to John J. and Elizabeth (Newell) Jennings...
- 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.