♀ 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 George Catlin ends his 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 24y
1838 • Dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America: Honduras and Costa Rica follow the example of Nicaragua and secede from the federation.

1840


Age: 25y
1840 • One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded.

1840


Mar 5
Age: 25y

1841


Nov 28
Age: 27y

1843


Sep 10
Age: 29y
1843 Natal is proclaimed a British colony.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 31y
1845 • In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase, which takes months to repair.

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 • The treaty called Punctation of Olmütz is signed in Olomouc. It means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to the Austrian Empire, which takes over the leadership of the German Confederation.

1852


Jan 1
Age: 37y
1852 Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army took Hanyang and begins the siege of Wuchang.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 39y

1856


Mar 24
Age: 41y
1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law abolishes privateering and regulates the relationship between neutral and belligerent and shipping on the high seas.

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).

1900


Age: 85y
1900 • Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism.

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.
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1900 • The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1906


Oct 16
Age: 92y

1906

1906 Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.

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