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Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 03:58:24 -0500


Hi cousins,
As some of you know my health is pretty lousy these days and I appreciate
all the kind
and caring words that you have all sent to me. It occured to me a few
minutes ago, that I wrote down some Jenkins information 2 years ago from
our ancient library here
in Portsmouth when I first began searching for my ancestors. I did not
know how these people connected to me, and of course I still don't know,
because I haven't connected all the dots of my Jenkins yet... I haven't
figured things out yet, even after 2 years of getting no where!>smile<
But Portsmouth Library has a book down there
called "The Emmerson Papers".. Portsmouth used to have a newspaper
called,
The Emmerson, and a very generous woman took the articles from that
newspaper
and put them into book form with an index. I didn't have time to look up
the articles when I was down there, but I did write down all that I found
on all the Jenkins mentined in that book and I just thought that maybe
someone might benefit from what I wrote down. If any of these names and
dates sound familiar to you... or ring any bells.. let me know how. The
dates that are beside the names, are the dates that
the article was "written" NOT the birth year of the individual:
(this is just the index)
Jenkins (Steamboat) 1824 page 48
Jenkins & Cox (see Cox & Jenkins) 1833 page 62
Jenkins Brooks and Benson 1856 page 14
Captain Uriah Jenkins, 1825 page 56; 1827 page 83; 1829 page 45, page 59,
page
60, page 65, page 93; 1830 page7 and page 20.
Jenkins Celia Fenn 1830 page 20
Jenkins Charles E. 1866 page 3 (dry goods)
Jenkins cigar store 1872 page 12
Jenkins J.A. 1853 page 2; 1854 page 22; 1856 page 15; 1860 page 5.
Jenkins J.A. and son, 1856 page 15.
John Jenkins, 1867 page 35.
Margaret A Jenkins 1854 page 5.
Mr Jenkins 1833 page 62.
Jenkins, Miles (tobacco) 1872 page 26.
Jenkins, William 1867 page 35
Jenkins, Willie B. 1872 page 7
Jenkins, Jethro A 1867 page 43; 1868 page 40.
Old Homes, Annie E. page 9 and page 4.
John Summerfield Jenkins was Adjuviant of 14th VA Inf.
Charles E Jenkins private in Signal Corps
Miles Jenkins, private in Co C 14th VA inf.
John Benson born Sept 8, 1859 (lawyer and director of city library
Portsmouth, VA) married Eunice B. Wortham of Richmond.
Folks I do not know what is written about any of these Jenkins folks, but
if any of it
looks like it might help someone, please let me know. I am not able to
get down to
the library, but the man who runs the Local History Room down there is
named Bill
Baker and he is very kind and helpful. I'm sure if you wrote to him and
asked him
to copy the information for you he would do it. Portsmouth library does
not have an
email. There is also an index card file down there with plenty of cards
on file on:
John of Nansemond and Captain Henry Jenkins. I wish I had had sense
enough
to search it all out when I was down there a few years ago, but I
didn't..now I sure
wish I had! Sure hope this helps someone, take care folks and happy
holidays,
Susan in VA (ps Norfolk county, VA was one of the first areas in VA..goes
back to
1600's and information in our little ancient library includes the early
Jenkins in our
lines that came in through VA)
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