Sarah A. Cushman Jennings
BIRTH 6 Nov 1743
Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, USA
DEATH 1827 (aged 83–84)
Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL
Jennings Cemetery
Huber Heights, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Sarah Cushman Jennings is a Mayflower descendant, daughter of Thomas Cushman. She married David Jennings 27 Dec 1763 in New Providence, Essex (now Union) County, New Jersey. Sarah and David were among the earliest settlers of Columbia, Hamilton County, Ohio. David was killed there by an Indian 20 March 1794. Sarah purchased land in Miami County, Ohio in 1806.
Although she has no tombstone, I believe she is buried in this cemetery because:
The Miami County, Ohio deed that names all of her heirs, book 6, p. 421, 2 August 1827, states that Sarah Jennings was "late of Montgomery County", Ohio. Montgomery County is thus likely where she died and is buried. Some time between 1820, when she lived in Clark County, and when she died before 2 Aug 1827, she probably moved in with her son, Henry and family, who lived in Wayne Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio. Henry's first wife, Sarah Smith Jennings had died 6 Dec 1824, and Sarah probably moved there to help with the young children. Sarah Smith Jennings has one of the only two legible tombstones in the Jennings Cemetery.
Montgomery County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions ETC, Volume 1, Montgomery Co Chapter of OGS, 1982, Dayton, Ohio, p. 55, describes the Jennings Cemetery as an inactive family cemetery "located in a tilled field in a clump of stones and saplings; no fence, and only two legible stones as of April 1960. Deed book P, p. 209 shows that when Henry and his second wife, (whom he married about the time his mother died), Christina Jennings sold some of the land on 26 May 1832, they excepted a 3 rod square "whereon is a grave yard".
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