Daniel Laman JENNINGS
Sarah Eliza CAREY
Jane Elvira OAKS

Husband:  Daniel Laman JENNINGS
Birth:  7 Apr 1822, Ohio Co., Kentucky
Occupation:  Attorney; Postmaster, State Legislator
Death:  17 Apr 1868, Stoddard Co., Missouri              (will)
Burial:
Father:  Stephen JENNINGS
Mother:  Elizabeth MCGILL

Marriage-1:    28 Dec 1847, Daviess Co., Kentucky

Wife-1:  Sarah Eliza CAREY
Birth:  20 Mar 1829, Union Co., Kentucky 
Death:  28 Feb 1851, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri 
Burial:  
Father:  Charles M. CAREY   
Mother:  Ann T. FINNIE 

Marriage-2:  8 Oct 1851, Missouri

Wife-2:  Jane Elvira OAKS
Birth:  22 Jun 1832, Bollinger Co., Missouri
Death: 1 Apr 1913, Stoddard Co., Missouri
Burial:  April 1913, Pleasant Grove East Cemetery, Stoddard Co., Missouri     (pic)
Father:  Jonas OAKS
Mother:  Mary B. UNKNOWN

Children - Marriage-1:
1. Beatrice L. JENNINGS,  b: 28 Mar 1849, Daviess Co., Kentucky

Children - Marriage-2:
1. Virgil S. JENNINGS,  b: 8 Aug 1852, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
2. Augustus Jonas "A. J." JENNINGS, b: 18 Sep 1854, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
3. Ella Mary JENNINGS, b: 8 Jan 1857, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
4. Alonzo JENNINGS, b: 18 Sep 1860, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
5. Warren James JENNINGS, b: 12 Dec 1864, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
                                            d: 20 Mar 1865, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
6. Jane Belle JENNINGS,  b: 29 Aug 1865, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
7. Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" JENNINGS, b: 18 Feb 1868, Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
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Notes:
Daniel's brother James married Sarah's sister Rachel.

After Daniel and Jane were married, they settled in Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri.  Daniel was the first attorney to settle in Poplar Bluff before the Civil War.  He was also a Major in the 2nd Battalion, Missouri Calvary State Guard, First Division.  Per the Complete History of Butler County (1a, page 52):
   "Most troop movements in Butler County were merely routine patrols or "scouts". A few skirmishes occurred such as the one reported February 10, 1862, by Major McClellan: "We have just taken Poplar Bluff and Doniphan, capturing Major Jennings and 29 men of the rebel army." The Jennings was Daniel Jennings, credited with being the first attorney to locate in Poplar Bluff before the war."

Also from the Complete History of Butler County (1a, page 241), in the section called Life in Poplar Bluff, the Many Owners of the Lavin House Property at Broadway, Lester and Main:
   "A curious reporter with the Daily American Republic smelled a story when he covered the fire that burned the "Lavin House" in Poplar Bluff in 1976. The reporter called it a "piece of local history" and traced the site to its first ownership in 1855 - six years after Butler County was organized.  It's account of ownership gives us a glimpse of the succeeding layers of Poplar Bluff history at the intersection of Broadway, Lester and Main streets. The "Old Lavin Place", stood on the site of an older house which also burned. The original owner, Private Elkin Craine, had served with Captain Dunnis' Company of Illinois militia in the Black Hawk Indian War in 1832.  Twenty years later, Congress awarded him (Craine) 120 acres on Black River, the site of the old Lavin home.  Apparently Craine never lived on the land he was awarded.  Instead he gave it to Daniel and Jane Jennings shortly after receiving the deed signed by President James Buchanan and then faded away into the yellowed pages of land abstracts.  Jennings sold the land to Thomas Price in 1857 for $80.  Price died and James Spence bought 10 acres from Spence's estate in the probate court of James Ferguson. Further research by this writer reveals that Jennings was a wealthy lawyer who first appears at age 39 in the 1860 Butler County census with his wife, Jane, and four children - ages two to ten.  Also in the house were two young doctors, a laborer and a seamstress.  The laborer was born in Denmark."

Again, from the Complete History of Butler County (1a, page 260), Daniel is listed as Poplar Bluff Postmaster, 1858.

An account of how Daniel and Jane lost their home in Poplar Bluff, received from Jim Mayo, President of the Stars & Stripes Museum, Bloomfield, Mo., comes from the Charleston, Mo. newspaper (1b), dated April 5, 1861:  
  BUTLER COUNTY
  "The citizens of that county have been in high ecstasy caused by the arrival of the steamboat Daniel B Miller, at Poplar Bluffs. They were treated to a steamboat ride down the river and back for some ten miles, and upon their return the citizens of Poplar Bluff gave a big party and ball at night.  During the progress of the party, the people were aroused by the cry of fire and the fine residence of D. L. Jennings, situated across the river, was discovered to be in flames, which with everything in it, was totally consumed.  In the mean time, another cry of fire was raised, and it was found that the jail was on fire - a man by the name of Patterson being therein confined for the murder of a slave. Patterson was endeavoring to burn out, but his water giving out, he could not control the fire, and was compelled to give the alarm. It is supposed that a son-in-law of Patterson had been induced to set fire to the Jennings house, hoping to draw the citizens from the town, so that Patterson could escape, which he probably would have done had the jail fire not gotten the master of him, as the door was nearly burnt through around each of the hinges."

1860 Federal Census Data (M653_0610, Page 68), Poplar Bluff Dist #1, Butler Co., Missouri
                                                                                                                   Enumeration Date: 23-Jul-1860, Family #642

Daniel was also the Census Marshall for Poplar Bluff, Butler County in this 1860 census.

1870 Federal Census Data (M593_0823 Page 92B),  Piketon, Pike Township, Stoddard Co., Missouri
                                                                                                                         Enumeration Date: 1-Jun-1870, Family #93

1880 Federal Census Data (T9_0737, Page 553C), Piketon, Pike Township, Stoddard Co., Missouri
                                                                                  Enumeration District: 158, Enumeration Date: 22-Jun-1880, Family #227

1900 Federal Census Data (T623_0904, Page 5B),  Pike Township, Stoddard Co.,  Missouri
                                                                                   Enumeration District: #130  Enumeration Date: 2-Jun-1900, Family #80

Lizzie wasn't really born in 1874 - her father died in 1868.

By 1910, Jane was living with her daughter, Elizabeth "Lizzie".
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Sources:
1) Family-Biography: a) Complete History of Butler County, Missouri, Copyright 1999, by Robt H. Forister, pages 52, 241, & 260
                                  b) Charleston, Mo. newspaper dated April 5, 1861
2) Husband - Occupation: Office of the Secretary of State, Matt Blunt, Missouri State Legislators 1820-2000
3) Marriage-1:  Daviess County Kentucky Vital Statistics - Marriages, Book A, Page 128
4) Husband - Death:  Record Book of Wills for Stoddard County, Missouri, Book C, pages 67-68
5) Wife - Burial:  Stoddard County Historical Society, Cemeteries of Stoddard Co., Mo., 1839-1992, page 533