Maud E. Cunningham Jennings

Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Maud Jennings, at her home in Salem, Ill., on Saturday, Dec. 28th, after and illness of several weeks. Mrs. Jennings was formerly Miss Maud Cunningham and was graduated from the Blair High School in the Class of ’96. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Cunningham, were living on the Markel farm at DeSoto and she attended school here, living with Supt. and Mrs. W. K. Fowler the year she graduated, her parents having moved back to Salem. Mrs. Cunningham is a sister of the late Dr. Mercer, of Omaha and Frank Cunningham attended the Creighton Medical College, graduating from that institution and was practicing medicine at Salem until he went into the service last year. Miss Maud was the valedictorian of her class and taught school for ten years, the last seven of that time in Salem. In 1902 she was married to Judge C. E. Jennings, a cousin to William Jennings Bryan, who death occurred Nov. 26th, 1913. After his death she was appointed assistant superintendent of the girls schools at Geneva and she later transferred to a state position with the Eye and Ear Infirmary at Chicago. Shortly after the war started, she accepted a position in the quartermasters department of Chicago, from which she retired because of ill health. She was much loved in Salem, where she taught and lived so many years. She was only forty years of age at the time of her death and is survived by her father and mother and only brother Frank.

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~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska library.~~~