Florence Belle JENNEY

1878 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Florence Belle JENNEY  [1]
  Birth	17 Sep 1878	Greenwich, Huron, Ohio, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	1B25F47E674E4A42B27BA69978B2073ECE0D
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I1084	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2006

  
  

  Father	Truman Warren JENNEY   d. 1924, Burbank, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Mother	Susan B. WINDER,   b. 6 Oct 1850   d. 22 Feb 1936, Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1873	, Huron, Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  According to Robert L. Winder (Sep 2000): Florence Belle Jenney, born 17 September 1878 at Greenwich, Ohio. Florence went to Greenwich High School and began her studies at Oberlin Conservatory in the fall of 1894. After two years of study she taught for several years, and then received her Mus B degree in 1907. She then joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty. On 28 June 1919 she married James Husst Hall, who came to Oberlin as an undergraduate, receiving his MusB degree in 1914, his AB in 1915, and finally his MA in 1922. Their only child, James Truman Hall, was born 24 June 1920. He attended the public schools in Oberlin, Ohio, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1938. He was a student at Oberlin College in 1942 when he entered the US Marine Corps, and became a pilot. James T. Hall lost his life in a plane crash in the Pacific theater on 20 October 1943. Florence Jenney Hall taught singing until 1944, and her husband taught history and criticism of music at the Oberlin Conservatory until 1955. James Husst Hall died in 1967, and Florence Jenney Hall died 22 March 1975 at the age of 96. She is buried in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.

  
  

• Sources

  [S81] Robert L. Winder, Winder Families (untitled), (November 1997, revised Fall 2000).