Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[680] great battles of the army 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 profession in Spartanburg. He is a trustee of Wofford college and is now secretary of the board. He has always taken an active part in education and was formerly a member of the board of trustees of the public schools of Spartanburg. He was an alternate delegate to the Chicago convention of 1884 that nominated Grover Cleveland the first time, and he has frequently been a delegate to the Democratic State conventions of South Carolina. He was married, November 20, 1884, to Miss Lillie Carlisle, daughter of the Rev. John Mason Carlisle, a Methodist clergyman, and they. have four children, three sons and one daughter.

Lieutenant Robert H. Jennings, a planter and clerk of the circuit court of Fairfield county, S. C., was born in Fairfield county, in 1839, the younger of two children born to Henry R. and Nancy M. (Robinson) Jennings. He was educated in the old field schools, and was married in 1860 to Miss N. Leonora Gibson. Early in 1861 he enlisted in the Richland Guards, of Kershaw's Second regiment, and served on the coast and Morris island until his time of enlistment expired and he was discharged. During his service he witnessed the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G, Aiken Guards, of Fairfield county, Third South Carolina battalion, becoming third lieutenant in May,