Life History

Notes

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records
  Martha Garner
  Birth 1681 Westmoreland Co VA
  Death 1729 Westmoreland Co VA
  Marriage date 1695
  --  Family Data Collection, Compiled by Edmund West
  
  Family sources and research indicate she was born about the same time her husbnd was in or about 1856.
  
  "I have traced my family's origins to Shropshire, England to my ancestor John Jenkins, 1656-1717, married to Martha Garner, 1656-1752.  They settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia. ... They had two sons, Ezekiel Jenkins, 1695-1750, & William Jenkins, 1704-1747.  William Jenkins had one son, William Jenkins - 1740-1787, had 4 sons, one of which was James Randolph Jenkins, 1760-1824, who was born in Fairfax County, Va., & had 19 children, one of which was Samuel M. Jenkins, 1789-1872 ... the first of this set of Jenkinses to be born in Union County, South Carolina."
  --  Joseph H Miller, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 5 July 2016
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Samuel Rust
  Birth 1667 VA
  Spouse Martha
  Spouse 1667 VA
  Marriage 1688 VA
  Page 23
  
  Another transcription of this marriage record with more information informs us that Martha's last name wsa Eskridge.  This may mean that this was s different Rust married to a Martha, or it may mean Martha Garner was married to an Eskridge before marrying Sam Rusk, making two marriages before she married John Jenkins.  But it seems from other records that she married Rust after John's death.
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Samuel Rust
  Birth 1667 VA
  Spouse Martha Eskridge
  Spouse Birth 1667 VA

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Messaging
• 2. Family Data Collection - Individual Records
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 4. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• 5. Fairfax County Virginia Wills