♀ Margaret Cravens

1814 - 1906

 

Mary, Conley

Margaret Cravens
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Parents
John C Cravens
John C Cravens
1760 - 1850
Mary Carlyle
Mary Carlyle
1773 - 1866
Spouse
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

Margaret and Jeremiah were married for 60 years, and had five sons and four daughters.  She was married previously to a Michael Conley.  Her sister Martha married Jeremiah's brother, George Washington Jenkins.

1814


Jun 24
1814 • American naval schooner USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from participating in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom in the Caribbean.

1836


May 25
Age: 21y
Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins - Find a Grave

marriage


Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins
Kentucky, USA ⇓
A David Cravens signed their marriage contract.
1 Source ⇓
1836 Dade County, Florida, is formed.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 24y
1838 Grace Darling and her father rescue thirteen survivors from the SS Forfarshire off the Farne Islands.

1840


Age: 25y
1840 Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.

1840


Mar 5
Age: 25y
1840 • The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.

1843


Sep 10
Age: 29y
1843 Brazil becomes the second country, after Great Britain, to issue nationally valid postage stamps with the release of its "Bull's Eye" series.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 31y
1845 • Due to different transition dates to the Gregorian calendar, Finland (then part of the Russian Empire) is the only place in the world to have Easter day on this particular Sunday.

1848


Feb 20
Age: 33y
1848 Richard Wagner begins writing the libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

1850


Age: 35y
1850 US census shows that 11.2% of the population classed as "Negro" are of mixed race.

1852


Jan 1
Age: 37y
1852 • The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, was established.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 39y
1854 • The United States packet ship Powhattan is wrecked off the New Jersey shore with more than 200 + victims.

1856


Mar 24
Age: 41y
1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). Sumner is unable to return to duty for 3 years while he recovers; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.

1860


Aug 9
Age: 46y
1860 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War.

1861


Age: 46y
1861 • American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

1900


Age: 85y
1900 Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.

1900


Age: 85y
Margaret Cravens - 1900 United States Federal Census

residence


Marshall, Saline, Missouri, USA ⇓
Living with her son John, who was a gardener. Both her parents are listed as being born in Virginia.
1 Source ⇓
1900 • First Michelin Guide published in France.

1906

1906 • Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.

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