Baillet Family History
Obituary: Miss Jennie Baillet
Miss Jennie Baillet, for fifty years a resident of Tullahoma, died at her home Oct. 1, 1918. She was born Dec. 1, 1834 at Farmersville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., and in 1868 came with her father and other members of the family to Tullahoma. Soon after coming here, she and her sisters opened a millinery and dress making establishment, which for many years was one of the important business houses of Tullahoma. From the beginning of her residence in Tullahoma, Miss Baillet took a prominent part in the activities of the town and was recognized as a very unusual woman. In addition to business ability and sound judgment in all practical affairs she had, literary and artistic tastes wide information, a remarkable memory and magnetic personality.
Perhaps her strongest leaning was toward political affairs, public reforms and progressive movements of all kinds. Her interest in these she retained until the day of her death.
Older residents of the town remember her many deeds of charity, her sympathy for those in distress and the valuable service she rendered as a pioneer worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Equal Suffrage League.
For the past several years she had been so frail physically that she was shut in most of the time but she bore her infirmities uncomplainingly and her mind remained clear, her spirit courageous to the end, when she went gladly to "greet the unseen."
Surviving her are her sisters, Misses Emma and Affa Baillet of Tullahoma, a niece, Mrs. Mary Wade Barr, of Colorado Springs, Col., and two nephews, Frank Baillet of Limestone, NY, and Harry M. Lupher of Chattanooga, Tenn., now in service in France.
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