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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
y of Northern Virginia. He was twice married, first in 1848, to Jane E. Kelly, daughter of William Kelly. This lady died in 1861, leaving two sons: Lucius B., who died in 1873, and John K., who is now a lawyer at Spartanburg. It was soon after the death of his first wife that he enlisted in the Confederate army, and in September, 1863, while on leave of absence, Mr. Jennings was married to Mrs. Lucy Humphries, who died in 1868, leaving one son, Benson Coke Jennings, who died in 1891. John K. Jennings is the only surviving child. He was born in Union county, March 16, 1853, and remembers well the stirring scenes enacted during the war. Shortly after his father fell in battle he went to live with his uncle and guardian, Thomas J. Sartor, who had married his father's sister, and with him removed to Spartanburg in 1867. He graduated at Wofford college in 1873, after which he taught school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, since which time he has practiced his profes