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VOLUME FIVE
NUMBER TWENTY
A DEATHLESS MEMORIAL
The Children of Capt. and Mrs. Z. D. Jennings Trect beautiful ‘Buildings at Mississippi College and Blue Mountain in
Memory of their Honored Parents.
HEY are memorials that live —and
count while they live.
How much more sensible, how much
more beautiful than “polished shaft or
sculptured column!”
And just now when Mississippians
are about to gather for the B. Y. P. IT.
encampment at famous Blue Mountain,
July 9-17, the first time they have gath-
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CAPT. Z. D. JENNINGS.
“Jennings Memorial Building,” it is a
good time to study the “Great Hearts”
that reared such a band of children —
children with good sense enough and re
ligion enough to make them rejoice to
give such a memorial.
Much has been said of a man when it
is stated that as almost a boy he rode
gallantly with Van Dorn for a part of the
four years’ struggle between the States,
and that for the rest of the time he was
prominent in that dauntless band that
followed the intrepid Forest. Add to this
the true statement that after the clouds
of war had melted away he became one
of the most gentle, most livable, most
philanthropic, most useful and wealthiest
citizens of Mississippi, and you have in
miniature the career of Capt. Z. D. Jen
nings, late of Water Valley, Miss. One
who had been his pastor for years said
of him: “I considered him the best man
I ever knew.” Another who knew him
well said:
“He was a man of broad philanthropy
AMBITIOUS BOYS AND GIRLS—SEE PAGES EIGHT A
and unbounded charity, ever ready to extend a
helping hand to deserving young men and giving
freely and gladly of his wealth to worthy purposes. He
was a member of the Baptist Church, and was faithful,
liberal and devoted to his church duties. He was
regarded as one of the strongest and most influen
tial lay members of the denomination in the State.
As a citizen, Capt. Jennings was the essence of ster
ling worth and a tower of strength in the commu
nity. His views were strong, yet broad; his pur
pose fixed, but dictated by liberality and concilia
tion, and in every department of life the weight of
his influence could be depended upon for right and
justice, tempered with mercy.”
His Consort and Inspiration.
By the side of this godly, consecrated and suc
cessful business man walked a woman gentle, de
vout, earnest, strong, in every way worthy to be the
life companion of such a splendid husband. Their
children have risen up to call them blessed. These
parents were worthy of a $35,000 marble shaft over
their graves in the cemetery at Water Valley. This
would be about one-tenth of the value of the estate
left by the parents, but they were worthy of such a
memorial and their children were willing and glad
to extend that much in memory of the parents who
had not only left them this estate, but who had spent
a life of love and self-sacrifice for the comfort, hap
piness, training and education of these children.
So, the children said: “We will set apart at least
one-tenth of this estate for a memorial to our par
ents.” They did not, however, expend this in a
marble shaft for a cemetery, as children not so wise
and so thoughtful might have done. They spent it
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JENNINGS MEMORIAL BUILDING.
ATLANTA, GA., JULY 7, 1910.
in away that would bring much more honor to their
departed loved ones. Oh, that, more people would
do likewise!
The Jennings family gave $20,000 in memory of
their parents to help build the new boarding hall for
Mississippi College, the State Baptist School for
young men at Clinton. This building is known as
“Jennings Hall.” They are now just finishing the
beautiful “Jennings Memorial Building” at Blue
MRS. Z. D. JENNINGS.
Mountain College, Blue Mountain Miss.,
which is to be used as an Indus
trial Home where struggling girls can
“club together,” do their own house work,
and living at cost, attend school, an open
door without which these girls might
never know the blessings of a Christian
education.
Witnessing Side by Side.
Some years ago the now lamented S.
L. Hearn, of West Point, Miss., erected
a similar building for Blue Mountain
College in memory of his daughter, Mrs.
Carrie Hearn-Hurt. These two buildings
will doubtless stand side by side for a
century or more giving the opportunity
of education in that great institution to
more than sixty struggling girls each
year. What a beautiful memorial! If
the desire was to bring honor to the
loved departed, scores of people will see
and know of a memorial like this where
one would see a shaft away somewhere
in a cemetery. Again, those benefited
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