Daughter of Newell Jennings × Rachel Kezia Peck Jennings (Dorothy Boyd Courant 2001; Seymour genealogy); mother of Sherwood L. Anderson III.
Maiden Jennings; full given Elizabeth Newell (Seymour genealogy). Later styled Elizabeth Anderson Foster after remarriage to Russell Trufant Foster (FAG; Dorothy Boyd Courant). Son’s Hartford Courant obituary uses Elizabeth Jennings Anderson. Hilda Jennings in Courant lists is her daughter (not a sister) — clarified via Seymour + Dorothy Boyd nieces.
Facts
- Name
- Elizabeth Jennings Anderson
- Maiden name
- Jennings
- Born
- 18 March 1911
- Birthplace
- Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Died
- 24 December 1983
- Place of death
- West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Generation
- 3
- Status
- confirmed
- Sex
- Female
Parents
Spouses
Children
Sources
- Corroboration (namesake): Dorothy Boyd Courant obituary — Rachel’s son Miles Peck Jennings / nephew Miles Peck Jennings Jr. — maternal grandfather Miles Peck.
She was born in Hartford on May 7, 1916 daughter of the late Newell and Rachel Jennings of Bristol. ... she and her sister Elizabeth would meet in the school garden to speak English. ... she leaves three nieces, Hilda Jennings of Princeton, NJ, Rachel Thompson of Hilton Head, SC ... two nephews, Sherwood Anderson of Burlington and Miles Peck Jennings, Jr. of Bristol ... She was predeceased by her sister Elizabeth Anderson Foster; and her brother Miles Peck Jennings.
- Named among five grandchildren of Sherwood L. Anderson III × Kathleen Tildsley Griffiths; Laura Martineau is the only Martineau-surnamed child in the same survivor block (parallel to Genevieve Anderson-Krengel → Sarah). Listed as Sherwood Martineau.
Sherwood L. Anderson III, 90, died peacefully at his home in Burlington, Connecticut, on February 7, 2025, after a short illness. He was born July 17, 1934, in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Sherwood L. Anderson Jr. and Elizabeth Jennings Anderson.
- Gen-7 lead only (not locked): Seymour genealogy — Electa daughter of John Churchill × Laura Wells.
Rachel Kezia, b. 6 Jan. 1883; B.A. (Vassar, 1905); m. at Bristol, 28 June 1910, Newell Jennings ... Children: (1) Elizabeth Newell 11, b. in 1911; B.A. (Vassar, 1932); m. at Bristol, in 1932, Sherwood L Anderson, Jr., of Allentown, Pa. Children: A. Hilda Peck 12, b. 27 Mar. 1933. B. Sherwood L., b. 17 July 1934. C. Rachel Jennings, b. 20 Jan. 1936.
- Identity dates (not parent lock): Find a Grave 21461670 for Elizabeth Newell Jennings Foster — b. 18 Mar 1911 Bristol CT; d. 24 Dec 1983 West Hartford CT; burial West Cemetery, Bristol; linked spouse Sherwood L. Anderson Jr. (m. 1932).
Elizabeth Newell Jennings Foster. Birth 18 Mar 1911 Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. Death 24 Dec 1983 (aged 72) West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. Burial West Cemetery, Bristol.