Life History

Notes

• 1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 18 September, PO Attalaville, page 203 (scan #463), Hse #1277, Fam #1396
  Samuel Jenkins 66 M Farmer $800 Real Estate $700 Personal  born SC
  Nancy Jenkins 40 M Housekeeper born SC
  Elizabeth Jenkins 35 F born SC
  William Jenkins 19 M Laborer in Farm b SC
  Joseph Jenkins 16 M Laborer in Farm b SC [b abt 1841]
  Dick Jenkins 11 M b Miss
  John Hawkins 25 M Farm Laborer $100 Personal Estate b SC
  
  From the age of Nancy and Elizabeth, it appears that Nancy is the second wife and Elizabeth is a daughter of the first wife.  If Bettie in 1870 is the Elizabeth of 1860, however, she has gained 13 years instead of ten since the last census.  All the boys named in the 1860 census appeared in the 1850 census with their widowed father.
  
  It appears that the first wife Sara Catherine (no maiden name) died at childbirth with Richard (Dick) in 1849.  She would have been 59 years old.  It is remarkable that she was still bearing children, with Joseph born about 1956 when she was about 56 years old.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 24 August, Beat 4, PO Kosciusko, page 40, Hse #76, Fam #77
  Jenkins, Sam 81 M W Farmer $500 Real Estate $500 Personal born SC
  Taylor, Nancy 50 F W  Keeping House born Miss SC
  Taylor, Bettie 48 F W born SC
  
  Several family genealogies report that Eliza married Caleb Paseur (name also spelled other ways).  There is a marriage record of one Eliza Jane Jenkins marrying a Caleb Paysour in Lincoln County, North Carolina, about three counties north of Union County, South Carolina, where the Jenkins family lived.  This could be the correct person.  No image was available of the record, only the Ancestry transcription.  Note that the date we have here is the bond date, not the marriage date, though it might have been the same day.
  
  North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
  Eliza Jane Jinken [Eliza Jane Jenkins]
  Spouse Caleb Paysour
  Bond Date 14 Apr 1845
  Bond #000074887
  Lincoln County
  Record #01 097
  Bondsman David Hoffman
  Witness [no first name] Hoyl
  
  If the wife of Caleb Pasuer is the daughter of Samuel Jenkins, the date of death for Eliza Jane would be 1923, and not the date of 1931 claimed by some, despite the fact that one genealogy cites family claims that Eliza lived to be 105 years old.  The wife of Caleb Paseur died in Marshall County, Alabama.  He grave (see below) says she died on 12 April 1923.  Her death record has her name as Lizzie Jane Paseur.  Lizzie is, of course, another nickname for Elizabeth, like Eliza.
  
  Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
  Lizzie Jane Paseur [Eliza Jane Paseur]
  Birth abt 1826
  Death 12 Apr 1923 Paint Rock, Jackson, Alabama
  Death Age 97
  
  The 1931 Alabama death record is in the name of Eliza Jenkins, who in died Calhoun County, Mississippi in 1931.  But with the last name as Jenkins, this seems to be her married name  No details are posted on any genealogy I have found, nor could I find any further details of the Eliza Jenkins in Calhoun County.  Only the following transcription has been found.
  
  Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
  Eliza Jenkins
  Death Apr 1931 Calhoun County
  Volume 21, Page 10359
  
  To me, a question still remains as to whether the wife of Caleb Paseur is the daughter of Samuel Jenkins.  I have not seen anything definitive in any of the genealogies.  They consistently attach censuses for Caleb and his wife Eliza or Elizabeth to Eliza Jane, the daughter of Samuel Jenkins.  But I have seen no further documentation to confirm that.  In the 1850 and 1860 censuses there is a Jenins household headed by men who could be Eliza's brothers, Benjamin in 1850 and Jackson in 1860.  Neither of these names matches a son of Samuel Jenkins.
  
  Eliza Jane Jenkins Paseur
  Birth Apr. 26, 1826 North Carolina
  Death Apr. 12, 1923 Alabama
  Spouse Caleb Rhyne Paseur (1823 - 1900)
  Children:
  John Larkin Paseur (1851 - 1943)
  Eli Lee Paseur (1865 - 1945)
  Burial Walker Cemetery, Hebron, Marshall County, Alabama
  Created by Mary Jo Apr 04, 2008
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #25730326, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25730326

Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 5 September, Hse/Fam #136
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 24 August, Beat 4, PO Kisciusko, page 40, Hse #76, Fam #77
• 3. 1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 18 September, PO Attalaville, page 203 (scan #463), Hse #1277, Fam #1396
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974
• 6. North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
• 7. 1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 5 September, page 105B, Hse/Fam #143