Life History

Notes

• "My mother was a Jenkins in Attala County, Ms.  My grandfather was Joseph Samuel Jenkins, whose ancestors settled in Attalaville in the mid-19th.  My great grandfather was Owen Selby Jenkins 1837-1872; my great, great, great grandfather, Samuel M. Jenkins 1791-1850 & his wife was Sara Catherine; my great, great, great, great grandfather was James Randolf Jenkins 1760-1824, and his wife was Deborah Eliz. Darby."
  --  Joseph H. Miller, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 June 2016
  
  Joseph Samuel Jenkins is one of the children of Owen linked to hs memorial in Find a Grave (see below).
  
  1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 5 September, Hse/Fam #136
  Samuel Jenkins 66 M Farmer $300 Real Estate b SC
  Owen Jenkins 12 M b SC
  
  About 1854, Owen married Mary Jane Breazeale.  Ther are enumerated in the 1860 census in Attala County, Mississippi, with one 5-year-old daughter named Julia.  A Dr John Young and his family are living in the same household with them.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 19 September, Township 13, page 200 (scan 466), Hse #1301, Fam #1421
  Owen Jenkins 42 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $50 Personal born SC
  Mary J Jenkins 35 F Housekeeper born Tenn
  Julia Jenkins 5 F born Miss
  John A Young 38 M Physician $0 Real Estate $4000 Personal born NC
  Rachel Young 25 F born North Carolina
  James G Young 6 M born Miss
  Henry P Young 2 M born Miss
  
  1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 24 August, Beat #4, PO Kosciusko, page 70 Hse #78, Fam #78
  Jenkins, Owen 37 M W Farmer $50 [sic] Real Estate $250 Personal b Miss [b abt 1833]
  Jenkins, Jane 24 F W Keeping House born Miss [b abt 1845]
  Jenkins, Julia 14 F W born Miss [b abt 1856] [dau of Mary Jane Brazeale]
  Jenkins, Frances 12 F W born Miss [b abt 1858] [dau of Mary Jane Brazeale]
  Jenkins, Leonida 4 F W born Miss [b abt 1866]
  Jenkins, Mary Ann 3 F born Miss [b aby 1867]
  Jenkins, Babe 6mos F W born Miss [b abt Jan 1870]
  
  Owen is buried in Attala County,Mississippi, where his parents died.  The memorial on Find a Grave strangely reports that he died in South Carolina, when the obituary that is included in the memorial reports he died in Attala County.  The location is not stated.
  
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  Owen Selvy Jenkins
  Birth May 13, 1837 [in South Carolina, as the obit below says]
  Death Mar 3, 1872 South Carolina
  [? The included obituary reports he died in Attala County, Mississippi, where he was buried.]
  
  Co C 40th MS Inf Confederate States Army,enlisted April 28, 1862 at Attala County, MS under Captain R. B Campbell for a term of 3 years. On June 30,1862 he was discharged by order of the commander & the proof for disability.
  
  Owen was married to Mary Jane Breazeale & they had 3 children.
  After Mary Jane died he married Elizabeth Jane Jenkins they had 4 children: Mary Ann who married Young Reagan Criswell, Lula Virginia who married Benjamin Dew & Joseph Samuel who married Allie Edwards.
  
  Owen was born in South Carolina on May 13, 1837 and died in Attala County, MS march 3, 1872 and is buried at Suggs Cemetery in Attala County, MS.
  
  Source of above information, Book - United Daughters of Confederacy, page 114
  
  Spouse Jane Elizabeth Jenkins Allen (1846 - 1915)
  Children:
  Mary Ann Jenkins Criswell (1866 - 1934)
  Joseph Samuel Jenkins (1872 - 1949)
  
  Burial Suggs Cemetery, Sallis, Attala County, Mississippi
  
  Created by Buena Smith Feb 23, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #66034654, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66034654
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Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 5 September, Hse/Fam #136
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. Ancestry Messaging
• 4. 1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 19 September, Township 13, page 200 (scan 466), Hse #1301, Fam #1421
• 5. Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
• 6. 1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 24 August, Beat #4, PO Kosciusko, page 70 Hse #78, Fam #78
• 7. 1940 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 19 April, Newport, District 4-14, Page 10B, Hse #239, Rents $4