Lulu
'Fannie' Jennings
(1883- ? )
Lulu 'Fannie' Jennings was born on Oct. 3, 1883 at Ohiopyle, Fayette County, PA, the youngest of eight children of John R. and Martha (Knight) Jennings Sr.
After her parents divorced, and then her mother's death, Fannie lived with her sister Jennie in Ohiopyle, Fayette County, PA. The Connellsville Courier reports that the two sisters were frequent visitors to relatives, perhaps their father, in nearby Ursina, Somerset County, PA.
Seen
here is a rare old postcard image showing bathers in the Youghiogheny River
at Ohiopyle -- an activity known to just about everybody in the mountain town.
The Oct. 29, 1897 Courier reported that Fannie and her mother attended a reception for "newly married minister" Rev. C.N. Colgrove. The July 22, 1898 Courier said Fannie was one of eight students in a Sunday School class which met for a party at the Hotel Williams in Ohiopyle.
The July 14, 1899 Connellsville Daily Courier reported that she and her sister Jennie were living in McKeesport, Allegheny County, PA, and that Fannie was reported to be "very ill in the McKeesport hospital with typhoid fever."
Fannie's fate after that is not known.
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