Deborah Ann Jenners, 1857-1879

Deborah Ann Jenners was born 4 April 1857 in Tippecanoe Co., Indiana to James Saurin Jenners and his wife, Ruth Ann DeNeale.   

She was probably named for her paternal grandmother, Deborah Ann (Young) Jenners.

Her parents moved around quite a bit while Debbie was young.  When her sister, Jennie, was born in 1859, the family was in Iowa.  By the 1860 census, the family was found in Newell Township, Vermilion Co., Illinois, which is about 50 miles west of Lafayette, Indiana, just over the state line between Indiana and Illinois.  By 1864, the family was back in Tippecanoe Co., Indiana.

Debbie is found on the 1870 census with her parents and siblings in Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana.  She was 15 years old.

Deborah did not marry.

On 12 September 1879, when she was just 22 years old, Deborah died in Tippecanoe Co., Indiana.  I have found nothing to date to give a cause of her death.  She was first buried at Wea Cemetery, Tippecanoe Co.  and moved to Greenbush Cemetery 5 May 1889.  She shares a tombstone with her younger brother, Saurin.