Aberdeen Weekly News April 23, 1903
DEATH OF E. S. JENNE
Pioneer Resident and Soldier Succumbs to Pneumonia
The death of E. S. Jenna of Columbia on Monday removes one of the first settlers in Brown County and a most estimable man and citizen. In company with a party of ten others Mr. Jenne came to Brown county in March, 1880, when the county contained not more than a dozen inhabitants all told. The party left Chicago on March 15th and traveled to Watertown, from which place teams were secured and the drive made across the country to Columbia, then consisting of one building and a trapper’s dugout, the place being reached on March 21st. The teams were the first to cross the hills from Watertown that spring and within a few days thereafter the influx of settlers that came that season began. Mr. Jenne took land southeast of Columbia a couple miles on the Elm River and on this land he lived until a few years ago when he removed to Columbia and had made his home there until the time of his death.
Mr. Jenne had not been in the most robust health for a few years past, but for some time previous to his last illness, he had been rather better than usual. A week ago Monday night he was taken sick with pneumonia and this, complicated with a weak heart, caused his death. The deceased was about 65 years of age. He served in the war of the rebellion in a Michigan regiment and was an honored member of the G. A. R. Before coming to this state he had served in positions of honor and responsibility in Michigan, and he was a man whom everybody respected most highly.
He leaves a wife to mourn his loss. The funeral was held from the Congregational church in Columbia on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Enos S. Jenne was born December 28, 1939, and died April 20, 1903. He was married on April 13, 1859 to Harriet Sedore. Two children were born to them, Benjamin Leroy and John C. Jenne, both of whom are dead. Mr. Jenne enlisted August 8, 1862, in Company B, 111th New York Volunteer Infantry; was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and was discharged May 19, 1865.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith