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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:20:54 EST


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> 1068 JENKINS W E MURDER D /525 /529

Does anyone know more about this?

W. E. Jenkins was the sheriff of Bastrop for a time. Is this the same man?

Recollections of Early Texas, The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins, p.255.
William Edward Jenkins, the oldest son of John and Mary Jane Jenkins was born
in 1847. He served as sheriff of Bastrop County from 1876 to 1884, the
period when the sheriff was the most important man in the county, and when
gunfights were common. With his brother Holland and Joe Jenkins as deputies,
he earned a respect somewhat like that accorded Pat Garrett of New Mexico.
Resigning as sheriff, he was immediately elected to the office of County
Clerk, which he held for sixteen years. He married Martha Aldridge on
December 27, 1888.


Michele Brooks

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