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From: Linda Ward <>
Subject: JOEL JENKINS
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 21:00:27 -0400

I found the following article in "The Heritage" of the Mulenberg Co.
Gen. Soc., Jan., Feb., March, 1999, Vol 13, No 1.

"In a special edition of Ancestor Retrieval Messenger, by Bobby
Anderson. . . he poses the question: Did they ever find Joel's wife's
grave?
The answer is "we think so" and "we hope so". The question refers
to the wife of Joel Jenkins, Sarah "Sallie" Wood Jenkins, who mothered
the first 14 of Joel's 24 children.
On a farm in the edge of Butler Co. (next to Muhl. Co) near Arnold's
Bridge (Hwy 949). "Sallie Jenkins, b 20 Jul 1795, d. 13 Nov 1839." This
was the only engraved stone found in the undergrowth.
A check of records reveals that Joel Jenkins, the son of Jesse and
Martha House Jenkins came to Butler co. from North Carolina shortly
after 1800. These were the first Jenkins to settle in South Muhlenberg
and North Logan Co. Joel was b. 24 Jul 1774 in NC(probably Rowan Co)
and m. Sarah Wood in Muhlenberg 17 Dec 1811. (Note: some genealogists
still contend Joel Jenkins m. Polly Neill in Logan Co. the same year.)
Joel and sarah had 14 children (13 of whom can be named) before her
death. Joel remarried in 1840, when he was 66 years old, he and a
13-year-old Martha (Patsey) Tooley on 29 Oct 1840. On two horses, they
rode to Springfield, TN and were married. This marriage produced 10
children all of whom are documented.
Joel Jenkins d. 13 Feb 1863, almost 89 years old. He is buried in
the Green Hill cemetery, on his old farm, just across the road and up
the hill from his residence and that of Crawford Hunt.
The fact that he remarried in 1840, about a year following the death
of Sallie, whose grave was recently found, is one bit of evidence that
this is his first wife. The second, and perhaps a stronger bit of
evidence is that the tombstone at Sallie's grave is exactly the same as
the one marking Joel's grave, with the exception of their names and
dates.
A descendant of Richmond V. Jenkins, s/o Joel and Sallie, tells the
story, told by her grandmother, that Sally was buried in the backyard of
their home. So this could be, would be, and probably is the same Sallie
Jenkins, wife of Joel."
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