Ornettie Klepper

Ornettie was born in 1874 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Ornettie's father was Nathan Klepper and her mother was Sarah Jane.  Her paternal grandparents were Jacob Klepper and Mary Loudermilch. She had four brothers and six sisters, named Isaac Shelby, Clinton, William, Simeon, Sarah, Eliza Lisa, Mary Susan, Joan, Martha and Nancy.  She was the second youngest of the eleven children. She had three half-brothers and three half-sisters, named John M., A. Judson, Alvin, Augusta, Nancy and Millie.