Jessie is his real first name. He has an older brother John on the 1880 US census for the family. He also has a brother Homer.
Jessie was in an accident and died a few months after he and Bessie married.
Memoirs of his wife's father, Alexander Penny. A team of Penny line researchers spanning several countries and continents over a period of over 10 years worked on untangling this line. These included: Katherine Blake now deceased, Allana Inglis, Betty Mathers of New Zealand, Isabelle Thompson who is also a Family History Center Volunteer in Australia, Bob Marquis, Kate Wheeler, Maureen Burr, Angus Aitken, Sally Walton, David Wass, Randi Harrow, Ann Ritchie now deceased, DeLories R. Vaughn, Ella Kerr McElroy of Canada, Marjorie Pennie now deceased, Ruth Pennie Tonkin now deceased, Elizabeth Crawford, and members of the rootsweb Aberdeenshire Scotland list.
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Featured National Park champion connections: Jessie is 24 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 28 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 24 degrees from George Catlin, 27 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 33 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 25 degrees from George Grinnell, 32 degrees from Anton Kröller, 26 degrees from Stephen Mather, 27 degrees from Kara McKean, 27 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 36 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.