♂ Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins

1811 - 1896

 

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Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins
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Parents
Spouse
Margaret Cravens
Margaret Cravens
1814 - 1906
Children
William Washington Jenkins
William W Jenkins
1838 - 1919
David Cravens Jenkins
David Cravens Jenkins
1840 - 1871
Mary Melvina Jenkins
Mary Melvina Jenkins
1841 - 1925
Eleven Jenkins
Eleven Jenkins
1843 - 1924
John Seldon Jenkins
John Seldon Jenkins
1845 - 1922
Rodney King Jenkins
Rodney King Jenkins
1848 - 1891
Priscilla Ann Jenkins
Priscilla Ann Jenkins
1852 - 1918
Siblings
Harriet Jenkins
Harriet Jenkins
1810 - 1900

Jeremiah owned 240 acres of land in Scotland County, was a member of the I.O.O.F., (Independent Order of Odd Fellows), and he and his wife were members of the Old School Presbyterian Church.

1836


May 25
Age: 24y
1836 Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 26y
1838 Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica, thus beginning his second term in office.

1840


Mar 5
Age: 28y
1840 Joseph Strutt hands over the deeds and papers concerning the Derby Arboretum, which is to become England's first public park.

1841


Nov 28
Age: 30y
1841 • Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.

1843


Sep 10
Age: 31y
1843 • The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 34y
1845 Manifest destiny: U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

1848


Feb 20
Age: 36y

1852


Jan 1
Age: 40y

1854


Apr 10
Age: 42y
1854 • In Venezuela, slavery was abolished

1861


Age: 49y
1861 • American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 men to confront in the South, "combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary way".

1880


Age: 68y
1880 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.

1887


Age: 75y

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Missouri, USA ⇓
He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Seal from 1834.)
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1887 Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
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1896


Aug 18
1896 • An extraordinary heat wave affects the northeastern United States.

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