Jenny

Jenny was the name of a person who visited the Inn in 1924.

Prior to her Inn visit, Jenny had been a man of 85 years, who visited with his wife. He had been a farmer, before finding success in the grocery business. After transformation, Jenny was a mere infant and the woman who had been his wife became Jenny's mother. As she grew, she remembered more about her past life, "as a grown adult remembers childhood." She describes herself as having been an unstable, difficult child, sometimes quiet and sometimes boistrous, and beaten often.

Her life experience caused her to excel in school, although she was prone to asking other children about their "past lives," which caused everyone to become uncomfortable. Sometime later, the full story of the Inn was revealed.

Jenny's father had become rich from speculation, but this fortune was lost in the market crash of '29, after which the family beame farmers again while Jenny's father sunk into an alcoholic stupor.

She preferred wearing dungarees over dresses and was at home feeding the pigs and playing with boys. However, as male playmates became "earnest, boring suitors," she found herself restricted by the bounds of "ladylike" behavior.

During World War II, she worked in a munitions factory, then enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, stationed as a radio operator in the Philippines, where she met and fell in love with a soldier. They had four children together, and in the 1960s, Jenny becamed involved in the Women's movement and studied, then taught, sociology. Following the passing  of her mother in 1964, she never spoke to another person about her experience; her husband died in 2002, never having learned.

"In my life I have lived over one hundred sixty seven years. I have had eleven children, nineteen grandchildren, at least twenty eight great grandchildren and more great great grandchildren and great great great grandchildren than I could possibly trace. I fought in the Civil War in the 1860s and I marched for civil rights in the 1960s. I have been a soldier and a mother, a farmer and a teacher, a businessman and a beggar. I have seen so much, felt so much, that my heart feels full to bursting with the wonder of life."