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Note: Jennie lost her mother at age three, when her mother died giving birth to a son, who also died. Up until her teen years, she lived in the homes of the Bernages, the Reverend John J. Wilson at Blaine, Kansas, and the Reverend Louis E. Sikes near Fairview, Kansas. During the great grasshopper invasion in the 1870s, Jennie gathered aprons full of grasshoppers for play. At about age 13 she, with her father, moved to a farm home near Blaine where she kept house all of her teen years. During this time, she met her future husband. They married in Westmoreland, in or near which most of their married life was spent, with the exception of a few years in Colorado and western Kansas. Jennie was a nurse and midwife who cared for many in their homes in Westmoreland and in neighboring communities. She was the first of her family to ride in an airplane at Wamego on the 4th of July in the early 1930s.
Jennie and her father are in the 1875 Kansas census in Clear Creek, next door to Rev. John J. Wilson, one of the families with whom she lived in her early years when her father was absent. She is listed as Jane Dunwaty, age 7, born in Indiana. It states her father is David Dunwaty, age 50, born in Ohio. He owns the land, valued at $400 and has $25 in personal property. It also states that they were both in Missouri before moving to Kansas.
The 1880 census shows them in Clear Creek. The surname is indexed as "Den" and written out as "Denwaty." David, 50, widower, farmer, born Ohio, father Tennessee, mother Virginia. Jenny is 16, keeping house, born Indiana, father Ohio, mother Indiana.
Culver is a town in Marshall County, Indiana, United States. Culver is part of Union Township that also includes the communities of Burr Oak, Hibbard, Maxinkuckee and Rutland. The city is known for its location on the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee. The present town of Culver lays its foundation to many years of development during which time it was known by three other names - Union Town, Marmont, and Culver City. The proposition for the change of the name to Culver City met with universal approval among the people, but the post office department at Washington refuse to recognize the name as there was already a town by the name of Culver, in Tippecanoe County. Also the word "City" had been eliminated from all towns bearing that annex to the regular name. Henry H. Culver, after whom the town had been named, and who had played such a prominent part in the establishment of the Culver Military Academy on grounds adjoining the city, went to the "Culver" in Tippecanoe County and pursued negotiations which finally brought about the changing of the name of that town to "Crane". Then papers were properly made out and filed with the post office department changing the name of Marmont to Culver, omitting the word "city", and thus Marmont and Culver City became Culver, as it is today. The population of Culver at the start of the nineteenth century was 505.
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