♂ 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 Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 26y
1838 • The Boers win a decisive victory over the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River.

1840


Age: 28y
1840 British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding Wellington.

1840


Mar 5
Age: 28y
1840 Pedro II is declared "of age" prematurely and begins to reassert central control in Brazil.

1841


Nov 28
Age: 30y

1843


Sep 10
Age: 31y
1843 • The Danish government re-establishes the Althing in Iceland as an advisory body, by royal decree.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 34y
1845 • In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase, which takes months to repair.

1848


Feb 20
Age: 36y

1852


Jan 1
Age: 40y
1852 • United States statesman Henry Clay was the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 42y
1854 James Ambrose Cutting takes out the first of his three United States patents for improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography).

1861


Age: 49y
1861 • American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.

1880


Age: 68y

1887


Age: 75y

occupation


Missouri, USA ⇓
He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Seal from 1834.)
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1887 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
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1896


Aug 18
1896 Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

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