Family rumor is that Tennie was Cherokee. Nobody knows for sure. Her family info is listed as:

Birth: Dec. 24, 1876
Jackson County
Tennessee, USA
Death: May 10, 1948
Chattanooga
Hamilton County
Tennessee, USA

d/o James Byrd Julian, b. 2 December 1847, Jackson Co., TN – d. 10 June
1916, Mayfield, Jackson, TN Mom Elizabeth Jane Pippin, b. September 1854,
Jackson Co., TN – d. aft. 1920

Family links:
Spouse:
William Riley Jernigan (1867 – 1917)

Children:
Thomas Wiley Jernigan (1891 – 1952)*
Walter V Jernigan (1897 – 1946)*
Lunie W Jernigan (1901 – 1954)*