Jennison - Mary Cumberland
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 1 April 1898
Mary Cumberland Jennison, wife of A. C. Jennison, Esq., passed into rest Sunday evening at 5 o’clock, after a long illness and great suffering. She was the eldest daughter of J. W. Cumberland, late of this city, sister of Frank S. Cumberland of Montezuma and of Lew W. Cumberland of Kokomo, and Mrs. A. O. Penniman, now of Dunkirk, Ind. She taught in the Lafayette and Indianapolis High Schools and will be long remembered by most of her pupils as an earnest and faithful teacher, to whom they owe some of the finest inspirations of their lives, for she had a rare genius in exciting the best ambitions in those she taught. Since her marriage in 1883, she has lived here on College Hill, and before her illness was active in intellectual and philanthropic pursuits. She organized the Mothers’ Council and was one of the main supporters of the kindergarten during the lifetime of her youngest boy, John. She has left besides her husband, one boy, Albert C. Jennison, Jr., now past twelve years, well started in his education in which she took especial care and pride. The funeral occurred Tuesday at 2 o’clock p.m. at her late residence, 416 West Wabash Avenue. -s
Source: Crawfordsville Review 2 April 1898 p 7
Mary Cumberland Jennison, wife of AC Jennison died at her home on College Hill Sunday evening after a long illness of consumption. The funeral occurred from the resident Tues afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. Alexander officiating. The deceased was the oldest daughter of the late Jesse W. Cumberland. She was married to AC Jennison in 1883. To them two children were born, one of whom survives her, Albert C. Jennison Jr aged 12 years. She was always closely identified with Christian work and will be greatly missed by the church. Mrs. Jennison was a sister of Frank Cumberland of Montezuma, Lew W Cumberland of Kokomo and Mrs. Eva R. Penniman of Dunkirk. - kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 8 April 1898
Lafayette Sunday Times: The death of Mrs. Mary Cumberland Jennison in Crawfordsville last week was sad news to her many friends in Lafayette, especially to those who as pupils of hers had come under the influence of her rare personality during the ten years she taught in the high school. She was the eldest daughter of J. W. Cumberland, late of Crawfordsville and from childhood was gifted with a most gracious and winning manner, united to mental gifts of the highest order. She was one of six young women to apply to admission to Wabash College, and the venerable ex-President Tuttle said recently that it would be hard to find an equal number more generously endowed with intellect than Mary Cumberland, Mary H. Krout and their companions. Always ambitious for the most thorough mental equipment, Miss Cumberland spent a season in study at the Harvard Annex and also at Wellesley College. Fine and thorough as was her culture, her influence over her pupils was due mainly to the sweetness and perfection of her own character. She appreciated the best in literature or life, and unconsciously she brought out the best in every one whom she met. While directing the literary taste of her pupils with unerring judgment, she at the same time instilled a love for whatsoever things are pure and lovely, and of good report. Her interest did not cease with the closing of their school life, she was always found rejoicing in their success, sorrowing with them in their griefs or failures, giving her tenderest sympathy, her kindliest judgment. After her marriage to Albert C. Jennision, in 1883, there was a new development in her character, in the relation of wife, mother and homemaker. She was especially active in all intellectual and philanthropic work, organizing the “Mother’s Council,” of Crawfordsville. Those who were permitted to share in the gracious hospitality of this home, found it, indeed, a “House Beautiful”—a center for all sweet and benign influences. Her husband and son have this comfort at least, that she whom they mourn is indeed one of those “immortal dead, who live again in minds made better by their presence.” - s