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Her first husband was Samuel Travis, who was what she called a “jack] eg” preacher. She couldn’t read very much and he read to her.
Mr. Travis had tuberculosis and “Aunt Jennie” nursed for 13 years. He was iht father of her daughter Ellen, who grew up, married and diedrin Alexandria in 1956 at the age of 76 years;
Her second husband was Samuel Bell, a steward on a boat which plied the Potomac in the old days.
Through the years “Aunt Jennie” was a toster mother, a midwife, and a baby sittef^a job she persued until her recent illness, and just plain good friend and neighbor. She numbeied her children, those whom she had helped raise in one way or another..— at least 44.
She had a foster daughter, Caroline Phillips, whom she reared from infancy and two nieces, Lucille J act son and Alberta Haley, and a nephew, Thornton Franklin.
As a widow of a Spanish American War veteran “Aunt Jennie” was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Information taken from Alexandria Gazette of last week.
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