4:15 pm Wed May 18, A WEST View Of An 80 Acre Tract, Once Owned By Our Sarah’s Paternal Grandfather Henry Jennings. ….To get to this land, Lorna drove West (from the previous photo’s Sarah’s Old Grade School House, on the same gravel road = 230 th Street), about a mile from the School Site, then turned North on private drive way, about half mile. ….In this area, we talked to ~4 local persons who currently live near where the records (see below), showed this 80 tract was, but they had no additional information. As Mentioned In Previous Photos => Ms Lorna Grow Kindly Helped Us Find Considerable Historical Information Re The Jennings Family: For Example => The Following, Is From The Dallas County Genealogical Society Room of the Dallas Center Estle Public Library: ….Sarah’s paternal grandparents were Henry Jennings (1806-1890), born Fayette County PA and Katherine Bromfield Jennings (1816-1894), married in 1841, and moved to Dallas County in 1863. They had 12 children, among whom was Sarah’s father, Jacob Jennings (1851-1927), who married Sarah Elisabeth Adams (1858 – 1942) in 1884. From Dallas County Records, Volume I, Compiler: Howard and Barbara Snedden (~1890), we learn of Sarah’s paternal grandfather Henry Jennings, then living in Pennsylvania, on speculation, purchased some 1200 acres (and “at one time amounting to 1380 acres”), of Dallas County land, constituting of Sugar Grove Township sections, 28, 32, and 33 . Snedden also mentions that Jacob Jennings (Sarah’s father), “now owns 260 acres, made under a state of high cultivation and well improved. He carries on general farming, in which he meets with excellent success.” Although we could not find any leads to these Snedden statements in the Dallas County Courthouse, we did find a recorded 80 acre Henry Jennings purchase in 1854, which was situated on the north edge of the above 1200 acres. We also found an 1875 Sugar Grove Township map, with the same sections, 28, 32, and 33 labelled Henry Jennings, as well as the book, The History of Dallas County, Iowa dated 1879, shows Jacob Jennings) already living and farming Sugar Grove Township Section 33, P.O. Dallas Center, and thus in same location as the above discussed census records. Jacob would have been 27 at that time. ((NOTE: The publication date of Snedden book was unfortunately not recorded: But we estimate ~1890 from a from a similar book, same author => Google Result => KEOKUK COUNTY, IOWA HEIR AND LAND RECORDS, VOLUME 2, 1885-1893. Howard E. Snedden.)) For More Information, Please Click&GoTo => Our Sarah Vinke Biography Resource Page (SVBRP), which includes nearly all of Lorna Grow & Henry Gurr Sarah Vinke Field Research Findings AND Considerably More Extensive Information About Sarah Vinke’s Life & Times. It’s HUGE ! Photo File = DSC_0055.JPG … Posted 5 Aug 2020.