♀ 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

marriage


Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins
Kentucky, USA ⇓
A David Cravens signed their marriage contract.
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1836 Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

1841


Nov 28
Age: 27y
1841 United Kingdom Census held, the first to record names and approximate ages of every household member and to be administered nationally.

1843


Sep 10
Age: 29y
1843 Victoria, British Columbia, is founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 31y
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: 33y
1848 • The French government dissolves the national workshops in Paris, giving the workers the choice of joining the army or going to workshops in the provinces.

1852


Jan 1
Age: 37y
1852 Leo Tolstoy's first novel, Childhood, was published in book form.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 39y
1854 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; 2 years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg.

1856


Mar 24
Age: 41y

1900


Age: 85y
1900 Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking.

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 Philippine–American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a large American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.

1906


Oct 16
Age: 92y
1906 • A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

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