♀ 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.

1836


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

marriage


Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins
Kentucky, USA ⇓
A David Cravens signed their marriage contract.
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1836 • The city of Houston, Texas, is founded.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 24y
1838 Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica, thus beginning his second term in office.

1840


Age: 25y
1840 Pedro II is declared "of age" prematurely and begins to reassert central control in Brazil.

1841


Nov 28
Age: 27y
1841 • Scottish surgeon James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine in Manchester, which leads to his study of the phenomenon that he (Braid) eventually calls hypnotism.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 31y
1845 • American newspaper editor John L. O'Sullivan claims (in connection with the annexation of Texas) in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review that the United States should be allowed "the fullfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions". It is the second time he uses the term manifest destiny and will have a huge influence on American imperialism in the following century.

1848


Feb 20
Age: 33y

1852


Jan 1
Age: 37y
1852 • The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event, was held.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 39y
1854 • The Eureka Stockade Miner's Rebellion breaks out in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

1856


Mar 24
Age: 41y

1860


Aug 9
Age: 46y
1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation).

1861


Age: 46y
1861 • Following the death of Henri Mouhot, his servant Phrai begins shipping his diaries and specimens back to the west; they include accounts of Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat.

1900


Age: 85y
1900 Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station.

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

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