Thursday, September 20, 2012

Korean War Remembrance

Please let me know if I have left anyone off the following list.


CPL HAYWARD C BALL

23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT

2ND INFANTRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)

DATE OF LOSS: SEPTEMBER 25, 1951

SERVICE NUMBER: US52018656

BORN: MARCH 20, 1928

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

OHIO COUNTY, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: HEARTBREAK RIDGE

BURIAL LOCATION

WEST PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CEMETERY, OHIO COUNTY, KY

Comments: Corporal Ball was a member of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on September 25, 1951. Entered service Tazewell County, Illinois.


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PFC KENNETH LEE BEASLEY

1ST MARINE REGIMENT

D CO 2 BN

1ST MARINE DIVISION

MARINES

HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)

DATE OF LOSS: APRIL 6, 1953

SERVICE NUMBER: 12288189

BORN: MARCH 18, 1932

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

FORDSVILLE, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: WESTERN OUTPOSTS

HILL OR OUTPOST: HILL 90

BURIAL LOCATION

OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, BUTLER COUNTY, KY

Comments: Private First Class Beasley was a member of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in Korea on April 6, 1953. Ambush near Hill 90 of patrol from COP-2.


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PVT ERNEST EVERETT EDGE

23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT

2ND INFANTRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)

DATE OF LOSS: MAY 18, 1951

SERVICE NUMBER: US52018518

BORN: OCTOBER 25, 1927

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

FORDSVILLE, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: CHAUN-NI

BURIAL LOCATION

ZACHARY TAYLOR NATIONAL CEMETERY

Comments: Private Edge was a member of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in South Korea on May 18, 1951.


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SFC JAMES WOODBURN MADDOX

BRONZE STAR

31ST INFANTRY REGIMENT

M CO 3 BN

7TH INFANTRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED WHILE CAPTURED (POW)

REMAINS NOT RECOVERED

DATE OF LOSS: DECEMBER 2, 1950

SERVICE NUMBER: RA15046510

BORN: MARCH 30, 1919

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

ROCKPORT, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: CHOSIN RESERVOIR

TOWN OR AREA: EASTERN SHORE

Comments: Sergeant First Class Maddox was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a member of Company M, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. On December 2, 1950, as his unit pushed south towards Hagaru-ri, North Korea, he was taken Prisoner of War, marched to Reksil Li and died on December 20, 1950 of exhaustion and pneumonia. His remains were not recovered.



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CPL ARDELL NATION NEAL

8TH CAVALRY REGIMENT

G CO 2 BN

1ST CAVALRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED WHILE MISSING (MIA)

REMAINS NOT RECOVERED

DATE OF LOSS: NOVEMBER 1, 1950

SERVICE NUMBER: RA35982879

BORN: DECEMBER 16, 1926

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

OHIO COUNTY, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: UNSAN

Comments: Corporal Neal was a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 1, 1950. He was presumed dead on December 31, 1953.


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PFC FORREST JOSEPH THOMASSON

7TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

C CO 1 BN

3RD INFANTRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)

REMAINS NOT RECOVERED

DATE OF LOSS: DECEMBER 12, 1950

SERVICE NUMBER: RA35722098

BORN: MAY 25, 1920

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

OHIO COUNTY, KY

Comments: Private First Class Thomasson was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on December 12, 1950. His remains were not recovered.


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PVT EARL T WILSON

21ST INFANTRY REGIMENT

I CO 3 BN

24TH INFANTRY DIVISION

ARMY

HOSTILE, DIED WHILE CAPTURED (POW)

DATE OF LOSS: JULY 12, 1950

SERVICE NUMBER: RA35013028

YEAR OF BIRTH: 1918

HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

CROMWELL, KY

LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: CHOCHIWON

Comments: Private Wilson was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 12, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on April 30, 1951.




Monday, September 17, 2012

Ohio County Poor Farm Cemetery


Ohio County Poor Farm Cemetery

            There is an untold story about the Ohio County Poor Farm Cemetery. I regret
that I cannot find the facts as to what actually happened to this cemetery.

            We have documents that prove Ohio County had a “Poor Farm” (sometimes
called a “Poor House” or “County Home”), and these documents include census
records and death certificates indicating burial in the Poor Farm Cemetery. According
to the 1920 census the Poor Farm was located in the East Hartford precinct. The
county also had people employed as administrators of the Poor Farm and its’ cemetery.
The 1920 census shows Charley Smith, age 42, as the “county farm manager.”
Additionally, a book was published for the City of Hartford 1808-2008 Bicentennial
that includes a researched list of the known burials at the Poor Farm (see below). It
appears certain that Ohio County owned and operated a Poor Farm and that there
was a cemetery at the Poor Farm. Neighboring Daviess County also had a Poor Farm
Cemetery as this was a common practice in the 1800’s and early 1900’s in Kentucky.[1]

            Apparently the Ohio County Poor Farm ended its’ activities in the early 1960’s
but I have not found any documents to explain how or when it ended. I assume there
would be minutes of the Ohio County Fiscal Court or the County Executive that could
answer these questions, but I do not have access to these documents.

            I am told that the existing County Club golf course is located where the Poor Farm
and the Poor Farm Cemetery was located (it was recently announced that the County is
purchasing the golf course from its’ current owner for $350,000 which means the county
is purchasing property it once owned). Although I do not have any personal knowledge of
the following, it has been suggested to me that the golf course and some of the buildings
associated with the Country Club were built on the Poor Farm property without removing
and relocating the Poor Farm graves. As most of you know, the Country Club is located
east of Highway 69 and on the north side of Country Club Road.

            If these graves were not properly removed according to the procedures set forth in
Kentucky statutes, then that is a travesty and an injustice to those individuals and their
families. I hope that some day we will know the full facts about what happened to this
cemetery. If anyone reading this has any knowledge about this cemetery, please contact me.

            I found a 1907 map of Ohio County that shows a “County House” located east of
Hartford in approximately the location of the Ohio County Country Club. I assume that
this was the Poor Farm. This 1907 map is shown below:


Compare the above map to the Country Club golf course, which is marked with a red X in the map below.

        
The Ohio County Poor Farm was in existence from at least 1880 to 1963.  The cemetery no longer exists. 

Here is a list of the known individuals buried in the Ohio County Poor Farm Cemetery:

NAME                                    DATE OF BIRTH (if known) and DATE OF BURIAL

Elizabeth Ashcraft                   January 25, 1901
Marion Bailey                          May 18, 1929 (Death certificate)
Hannah Brown                        September 7, 1914 (Death certificate)
Marion Burgess                       May, 1889 (Hartford Herald)
W N Burgess                          June 9, 1856-August 1, 1912 (Death certificate)
Elizabeth Carter                      November, 1826-November 13, 1893
                        (Moved to Oakwood April, 1894.  Served in Civil War, Hartford Herald)
Dave Chinn                             May 19, 1888
Newton Chinn                         1846-February 21, 1914 (Death certificate)
George Clark                           January 24, 1940 (Death certificate)
Ann Cochran                           1844-July 2, 1911 (Death certificate)
Joe Conner                              1854-February 12, 1914 (Death certificate)
E W Davis                               June, 1892 (Hartford Herald)
Clifton Duggins                        June 23, 1917-July 31, 1917 (Death certificate)
Ike Duncan                             January 23, 1928-January 28, 1928 (Death certificate)
Harden Duvall                         August 23, 1931 (Death certificate)
James Early                             Civil War veteran
Lillian Hunt Eskridge               December 15, 1915 (Death certificate)
Elizabeth Evans                      March 6, 1918 (Death certificate)
Thomas Faught                       February 13, 1937 (Ohio County News)
William Faught                       May 8, 1919 (Death certificate)
Rachel Gilstrap                       February 23, 1917 (Death certificate)
Susan Hardin                          August 14, 1917 (Death certificate)
Andrew Jackson Hardin         1863-February 25, 1910 (Hartford Herald)
Owen Harris                           September 7, 1888
Lafe Hicks                              June 30, 1930 (Death certificate)
S W Hodges                           1847-November 30, 1912 (Death certificate)
Squire Hodges                        1870-February 28, 1914 (Death certificate)
Fanny Johnson                        1896-March 14, 1914 (Death certificate)
Henry Johnson                        June 18, 1929 (Death certificate)
Johnny Johnson                       February 6, 1939 (Death certificate)
Letha Johnson                         February 26, 1933 (Death certificate)
Lillian Johnson                        December 1, 1913-January 23, 1914 (Death certificate)
Ollie Johnson                          1882-April 15, 1930 (Death certificate)
Mary Kay                                March 7, 1951 (Death certificate)
Ben Kaysinger                        1830-February 19, 1914 (Death certificate)
George Kenedy                      November 26, 1923 (Death certificate)
Isaac Kinder                           June 9, 1921 (Death certificate)
Hardin Kuykendall                  October 20, 1919 (Death certificate)
Alfred Allen Leisure                September 7, 1917 (Death certificate)
William Lewis                         November 28, 1938 (Death certificate)
Janey Loney                            June 1950 (Ohio County News)
Female Long                           August 28, 1901-August 29, 1901 (Ohio County Herald)
John Lynch                             August 24, 1856-September 5, 1925 (Death certificate)
Julia Lynch                              March 3, 1925 (Death certificate)
Julia Ann Martin                      November 29, 1917 (Death certificate)
Peter Martin                            1831-July 26, 1911 (Death certificate)
Jessie Mathews                       June 16, 1904-March 2, 1920 (Death certificate)
Isom Matlock                          June 12, 1928 (Death certificate)(Civil War)
Winston Mauzy                       1859-November 18, 1912 (Death certificate)
Tobe Midkiff                           January 10, 1848-July 24, 1935 (Death certificate)
C Walter Miller                       September 5, 1892 (Hartford Herald)
Infant stillbirth Moore              April 22, 1922-April 22, 1922 (Death certificate)
Nannie Morgan                       February 25, 1936 (Death certificate)
S Morgan                                January 9, 1888
William Neitman                      August 15, 1882 (Hartford Herald)
Professor R D Newton           1868-April 1, 1928 (Death certificate)
W M P Paris                           1853-August 3, 1918 (Hartford Republican)
Jim Bob Powers                      February 20, 1934 (Death certificate)
Redmon (Redivan) Prior          May 9, 1922 (Death certificate)
Arvin (Aaron) Lee Pryor          March 13, 1921-March 20, 1921 (Death certificate)
George Robinson                    March 16, 1857-April 8, 1936 (Death certificate)
James Royal                            April 12, 1886 (Hartford Herald)
Dave Sanders                          November 26, 1916 (Death certificate)
Frank Shrader                         August 6, 1869-October 17, 1938
Harry Smith                            1890-October 25, 1912 (Death certificate)
Thomas Jefferson Stevens      January 5, 1911 (Death certificate)
Ben Taylor                              April 9, 1888
James Tooley                          August 6, 1938 (Death certificate)
Amanda Tichenor                   February 1867-June 17, 1936 (Death certificate)
Henry Whitehouse                  May, 1935 (Ohio County News)
Malissa Wilson                       March 2, 1912 (Death certificate)
Virge Wise                             July 7, 1920 (Death certificate)
Miss Matt Woodward             April 4, 1920 (Death certificate)
Thomas Wright                      April 13, 1924 (Death certificate)

Also:
Black railroad laborer, Mr. Flax, died 6-2-1907 killed at Centertown.  Buried at “almshouse cemetery” in Hartford (Daviess County Historical Quarterly, Volume 11-12).
Unknown infant died 1924 (Death certificate).
Unknown male murdered on ICRR tracks died April 10, 1936.
Lena Gary died there December 3, 1900.



[1] Wikipedia: Poor farms were county or town-run residences where paupers (mainly elderly and disabled people) were supported at public expense. They were common in the United States beginning in the middle of the 19th century and declined in use after the Social Security Act took effect in 1935 with most disappearing completely by about 1950.
Most were working farms that produced at least some of the produce, grain, and livestock they consumed. Residents were expected to provide labor to the extent that their health would allow, both in the fields and in providing housekeeping and care for other residents. Rules were strict and accommodations minimal.
Poor farms were the origin of the U.S. tradition of county governments (rather than cities, townships, or state or federal governments) providing social services for the needy within their borders; the federal government did not participate in social welfare for over 70 years following the 1854 veto of the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane by Franklin Pierce. This tradition has continued and is in most cases codified in state law, although the financial costs of such care have been shifted in part to state and federal governments.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Grand Jury for May Term, Ohio Circuit Court, 1895.


From: Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers

The Hartford Herald Newspaper,
June 5, 1895,  page 2

Grand Jury for May Term, Ohio Circuit Court, 1895.

Thomas A. Stewart, foreman, born in Ohio county, Ky., October 25, 1840, married Nancy Chapman in 1867, member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, served as Deputy Sheriff under T. J. Smith and as Magistrate one term Was a  private in Gen. N. B. Forest's command in the Confederate Army, a Democrat; has 3 children; a farmer and lives near Beaver Dam, Ky.

Elijah Miller, born in Ohio county, Ky., February, 6, 1834, member of the Methodist Church, South, married Elvira Barrett, of Ohio county, Ky., in 1855, had born to him 10 children, 5 of whom are dead, is a Democrat, occupation, farming; post office is Hartford, Ky.

Isaac M. Gidcomb, born in Butler county, Ky., July, 5, 1837, moved to Ohio county in 1882, married Jane Bowers, of Warren county, in 1859, has 12 children, 4 of whom are dead, member of the Concord Baptist Church, is a Democrat, occupation, a farmer; post office is Sulphur Springs.

Alfred T. Brown, born in Ohio county, Ky.. April 16, 1837, married S. C. Maddox, of Ohio county, in July 1858, has 9 children, 2 of whom are dead, deacon of Providence Baptist Church, is a Democrat and a farmer, post office is Rockport, Ky.

Phillip R. Robertson. Sheriff, born in Ohio county. Ky., May 28, 1838, married Bettie Wade, of Ohio county, Ky., September 14, 1865, has 10 children, 5 of whom are dead, is a People's party man and farmer, post office is Echols,Ky.

Francis M. Hoover, born in Ohio county, Ky., Feb. 9, 1850, married Georgia A. Warden, of Ohio county, in 1882, a Democrat and merchant, post office is Buford, Ky.

Geo. W. Hines, born in Butler county, Ky., Feb. 12, 1853, moved to Ohio county in 1863, married Virginia Bell, of Ohio county, Oct. 11, 1878, has five children, 1 of whom is dead, is a Democrat and a farmer, post office is Sulphur Springs, Ky.

John R.. Henry, born in Franklin county, Ky., July 19, 1839, moved to Spencer county when 18 months old and to Ohio county in October, 1857, married Tabitha Henry, Jan. 10, 1860, has 9 children, two of whom are dead, member of Christian church, People's party man and a farmer.

Eugene G. Kirby, born in Ohio county, Ky., September 20, 1864, married Ida Aston, Dec. 5, 1889, has 2 children, is a member of Mt. Vernon Methodist church, South, is a Democrat and a farmer, post office is Sulphur Springs.

Remus C. Hunter, born in Ohio Ky., March 2, 1862, married Sadie Engler, of Ohio county, in Augnst,1882, and Edna Riley, of Muhlenberg county April 23, 1895, has 3 children, two of whom are dead, is a Democrat and a farmer, post office is McHenry, Ky.

James B. York, born in Ohio county, Ky., July 14, 1860, married M. T. Acton in 1881, has 6 children, 1 of whom is dead, is a Republican and a farmer, post office is Rosine.

Lycurgus  Reid, Clerk, born in Ohio county, Ky., November 11, 1842, served as a private in Co. C., 9th Ky. Vol., Lewis Orphan Brigade, Confederate Army, married Cally Nash, of Muhlenberg county, May 1, 1878, has 6 children, 1 of whom is dead, is a Democrat and a mechanic, post office is Rockport, Ky.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Revolutionary Soldiers Who Settled in Ohio County

I found the following book on the internet. It gives some valuable information about 15 men, so I hope it is helpful to some one. I do not think the book includes all of the Revolutionary War pensioners that lived in Ohio County. 


Revolutionary Soldiers Who Settled in Ohio County
By: Annie Walker Burns of Washington, DC - published 1900

1. Arnold, Ziba or Zebra                                              New Jersey

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of November 5, 1832, at the age of 74 years. He enlisted in the county/town of Morristown, state not given, on March 1776. Affidavit of fellow soldier who served with him, by the name of William Meide, was made in Ohio County, state of Kentucky. He served with him in Elizabethtown and Mohawk River.

2. Barnard, William L.                                                  Maryland

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of September 3, 1832, at the age of 73 years. Affidavit of fellow soldier who served with him, by the name of James Tannehill, was made in Ohio County, state of Kentucky. He served with him in Flying Camp.

3. Calloway, Chesley                                                       Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of May 6, 1833, at the age of 73 years. He states he was born in the county of Bedford, state of Virginia, in the year of 1717. He enlisted in the county of Bedford, state of Virginia on the date of May 1776. Prior to the Revolutionary War he lived in Bedford County, state of Virginia. Since the Revolutionary War he lived in Ohio County, state of Kentucky.

4. Carter, William  (private, Va. Militia 5-25-1834, 3-4-1831)*       Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of November 5, 1832, at the age of 72 years. He states he was born in the county of Amherst, state of Virginia, on August 21, 1760. He enlisted in the county of Amherst, state of Virginia in the last of February or the first of March, year not given. Prior to the Revolutionary War he lived in Carter County, state of Tennessee, Washington County, state of Kentucky, and Ohio County, state of Kentucky. He moved to Kentucky in 1802 or 1803 from Carter County, state of Tennessee. His widow, whose name is Sarah filed her claim for widow’s pension on the date of Dec. 13, 1853, while residing in Ohio County, state of Kentucky. Her name before marriage was Sarah Williams. They were married in the county of Breckinridge, state of Kentucky on the date of January 7, 1809.

5. Campbell, William  (Private, Lea’s Legion 5-6-1819, 7-13-1818)   New Jersey

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of November 13, 1820, at the age of 67 years. He enlisted in 1775 or 1777. His children were mentioned, but names not given: one girl age 18, girl age 15, one girl age 10.

6. Cooper, William   (Private, Maryland line 5-21-1819, 7-13-1818)    Maryland

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of August 14, 1820, at the age of 70 years. He enlisted in the county of Hartford, state of Maryland, on July 15, 1776. His widow, whose name is Polly Cooper, filed her claim for widow’s pension date of Dec. 6, 1838, while residing in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky. They were married on the date of Jan. 20, 1780.

7. Howell, John  (Capt. New Jersey line 4-24-1828, 8-20-1818)      New Jersey

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of November 13, 1820, at the age of 65 years. He states that he enlisted in the year of 1775. He had four children but the names were not given. His widow, whose name was Eleanor, filed her claim for widow’s pension in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky. They were married in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky, date of Dec. 7, 1793.

8. Johnson, Moses  (Private Va. Line 2-15-1820, 7-13-1818)           Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension on the date of Nov. 13, 1820, at the age of 71 years. He states that he enlisted in the county of Frederick, state of Virginia, on the date of 1777. He had no family except a wife, whose name was not given. He made affidavit in Ohio County, state of Kentucky on the date of Oct. 13, 1819. (Fellow Soldier). He knew him in two Virginia regiments in the Continental line.

9. Maddox, John                                                             Virginia

The above named soldier was living in Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of November 3, 1834, at the age of 71 years. He states he was born in the County of Goochland, state of Virginia. That he enlisted in the county of Goochland, state of Maryland, on the date of 1777 or 1778. A fellow soldier made his affidavit in Logan County, state of Kentucky on the date of Sept. 5, 1834. He knew him in the county of Goochland, state of Virginia. In Revolution service locations not mentioned.

10. Mosely or Mosley, Robert  (Lieut. PA line 2-5-1819, 11-11-1818)   Pennsylvania

The above named soldier was living in county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension. Age of 69 years. He states that he enlisted in the army of Revolution 1776.

11. Monroe, John (Lt. Va. Militia 1-19-1834, 3-41831) Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of October 9, 1832, at the age of 82 years. He was born in the county of Westmoreland, state of Virginia, on November 10, 1749. He enlisted in the state of Virginia on the date of Sept. 1775. Prior to the Revolutionary War he lived in Westmoreland, state of Virginia and King George County, state of Virginia. Since the Revolutionary war he has lived in Woodford County, state of Kentucky, Scott County, state of Kentucky, and Ohio County, state of Kentucky. He moved to Kentucky date of 1807 from the state of Virginia, county of Westmoreland. A fellow soldier made affidavit in Ohio County, state of Kentucky, on the date of Dec. 18, 1833. He knew him in the state of Virginia.

12. Parks, Peter   (Private N.C. line 2-1-1825, 1-17-1825)               North Carolina

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of October 16, 1824, at the age of 60 years. He enlisted in the county of Northhampton, state of North Carolina, the date not remembered. His children’s names were Quinton Parks and Daniel Parks, the birth date not given.

13. Pender, Thomas  (Private, Maryland 5-21-1819, 7-13-1818)     Maryland

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date (not given), at the age of between 70 and 73 years. He enlisted in the county of Montgomery, state of Maryland, on the date of 1778. He had one child living with him age 2 years, six step children (four boys and two girls) boys ages 20, 13, 9, 6 and girls of ages 17 and 18. His widow, whose name is Anna Pender (age 43 years) filed her claim for widow’s pension date of May 2, 1853, while residing in the county of Davis (sic), state of Kentucky.

14. Shults, Matthias (Private, Va. Militia 11-7-1833, 3-4-1831) died 5-19-1834  Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of January 7, 1833, at the age of 75 years. He states that he was born in the county of Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the county of Frederick, state of Virginia, date of 1776. Prior to the Revolutionary War he lived in the county of Frederick, state of Virginia. Since the Revolutionary war he didn’t give where he lived. He moved to Kentucky in 1780 from the state of Virginia, county of Frederick. His widow, whose name is Didamah filed her claim for Widow’s Pension date of January 7, 1839, while residing in Ohio County, state of Kentucky. They were married in the state of Kentucky on November 7, 1784.

15. Taylor, Richard (Private Va. Militia 11-7-1833, 3-4-1831) died 5-19-1834  Virginia

The above named soldier was living in the county of Ohio, state of Kentucky when he applied for pension of the date of Aug. 8, 1842, at the age of 82 years. He enlisted in the county of Frederick, state of Virginia, date of 1777.

* The book did not disclose the meaning of these dates or if the named state was the state of birth. My guess is the dates had something to do with the date of the application for pension and the date of the granting of the pension, but that is just a guess.

Update: I found the 1840 census of veterans:

Name of Veteran           Age                        Head of Household
                                                                     where Veteran lived

Zebra Arnold                 83                           Bayliss Axton
William L. Barnard        81                          William L. Barnard
William Campbell          87                          William Capmbell
William Carter, Sr.         80                          William Carter, Sr.
John Maddox, Sr.          78                           John Maddox, Sr.
Francis Petty                 87                           Pinkney Petty
Peter Parks                    81                           Peter Parks
Diadama Shults             78                           Joseph Shults
Chesley Calloway          81                           William Simmons
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The following was added as an update 9/21/2012 with permission of Sandi Gorin.  Sandi's Website is: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/
 
A list of Revolutionary War soldiers that was drawn up by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Secretary of War to Congress in 1835 and published later by the Kentucky Society of the American Revolution. Quisenberry's original works were done in 1895.

These lists are all the pensioners under the Act of March 18, 1818 and the Act of June 7, 1832. Information includes soldier's name, rank, where served, date pension applied for, when pension was granted (often backdated), the amount of pension, age and/or date of death when shown. There were several times when the government offered these pensions and the information varies. If only one date appears, pension began at that time.

  
BARNARD, William L; Pvt; MD Militia; Feb 28, 1833; $20; age 75.
BRANDON, Peter; no rank; VA line; July 6, 1822; Aug 24, 1819; $96; age 84.
BURCH, Benjamin; Sgt; 3rd Regt, MD Line; May 8, 18223; $120; Died Dec 17, 1830.
BURTON, Seley; Pvt; NC Militia; Jan 19, 1833; $40; age 78.
CALLOWAY, Chesley; Pvt; VA Militia; June 11, 1833; $80; age 74.
CAMPBELL, William; Pvt; Lee'S Legion; May 6, 1819; July 13, 1818; $96; age 81.
CARTER, William; Pvt; VA Militia; May 23, 1824; $33.33; age 74.
COOPER, William; Pvt; MD line; May 21, 1819; July 13, 1818; $96; age 84.
HOWELL, John; Capt; NJ line; Apr 24, 1820; Aug 20, 1818; $240; age 73.
JOHNSON, Moses; Pvt; VA line; Feb 15, 1820; July 13, 1818; $96; age 85.
MONROE, John; Pvt; Sgt & Lt; VA Militia; Jan 10, 1834; $68.33; age 84.
MOSELY, Robert; Lt; PA line; Feb 15, 1819; Nov 11, 1818; $240; age 69.
PARKS, Peter; Pvt; NC line; Mar 1, 1825; Jan 31, 1825; $96; age 70.
PENDER, Thomas; Pvt; MD line; May 21, 1819; July 13 1818; $96; died Jan 14, 1833.
SHULTS, Matthias; Pvt; VA Militia; Nov 7, 1833; $29.76; age 76; died May 19, 1834.
SORRELS, John; Pvt & Sgt; NC line; Oct 11, 1833; $92.33; age 78.
In county 1840: Zebra ARNOLD, 83; and John MADDOX, Sr., age 78.
Total for county: 18.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Reverend Benjamin Fulton Jenkins


The following article was submitted by Janice Cox Brown, of Tyler, Texas, 2nd great-grand niece of Reverend Benjamin Fulton Jenkins. 

Reverend Benjamin Fulton Jenkins
March 22, 1842 – May 5, 1932
of
 Meade, Ohio and Daviess Counties, Kentucky

Benjamin Fulton Jenkins was the fourth child and youngest son of Benjamin Shacklett Jenkins and Elizabeth Tichenor Humphrey.  His paternal grandparents, John S. Jenkins and Sarah Quick Shacklett, (formerly of George’s Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania), were early Kentucky settlers before 1800 in Meade County (then Hardin County).  His maternal grandparents were Abijah Humphrey and Catherine Emerson of Burkesville, Cumberland County, Kentucky.

Ben Jenkins was born in early spring, March 22, 1842, near Doe Run in the rolling hills of farmland in Meade County. Benjamin’s brothers and sisters, all born Meade County, were Catherine Ann “Kitty” Jenkins, born February 1831; John H. Jenkins, born August 14, 1833; and Sarah Jane “Sallie” Jenkins, born June 3, 1836.  .  “Kitty Ann,” as she was called by the family, was married December 24, 1848, to Thomas Smith, a next door neighbor.  He was a son of Thomas J. Smith and Eliza Grant.  Thomas and Kitty Ann (Jenkins) Smith were the grandparents of my grandmother, Eva Caroline Smith, who married Jasper Newton Cox, in September 1908 in Ohio County, Kentucky.  Thomas Smith became a brother-in-law to Benjamin Fulton Jenkins, and both became members of the Cromwell Home Guard. 

            About 1855, when Benjamin Fulton was between twelve and thirteen years old, his parents moved from Meade to Ohio County, Kentucky, where he was raised to manhood on his father’s farm.  In between crops, Ben attended the county schools when he could and acquired a fairly good common education.  In the Ohio County, Kentucky 1860 Federal population census the Jenkins family is listed as living in the Cromwell District. At some point in his youth, Ben F. Jenkins became interested in wagon making.  In Meade County, they had lived not too far away from George P. Paul, a blacksmith.  When his father bought a farm in Ohio County about 1856, they lived near another blacksmith, Wm. W. Angell, a carpenter, D. C. Mitchell, and William Valentine, a wagon maker.  While still in his teens, Benjamin Fulton Jenkins, called “Fult” by his family, was a strong, healthy boy and was always a tinkerer.  In the 1860 census when he was eighteen, he reported his occupation as “wagon maker.”

            Even though Kentucky declared neutrality in the fast-approaching civil war, men and boys living near Cromwell, a small village on Green River in Ohio County, put down their plows and picked up guns to defend their homes.  The Cromwell Home Guards were organized in June 1861. Ben, then nineteen, and his brother, John, twenty-eight, joined up along with many of their friends, including his brother-in-law, Thomas Smith, and friends and neighbors, Leonard Thomas Cox and his father, Thomas Jefferson Cox.  As members of the Guard, they were anxious to help protect their own family members and their homes.

Later, probably thinking they would find adventure and excitement, the two young men, Ben and Leonard, were recruited and volunteered for enlistment in Company D (that later became Company H).  Their company became a part of McHenry’s regiment, designated as the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, organized at Hartford and Calhoun, Kentucky, under command of Colonel John Hardin McHenry, Jr.  The two young friends, Benjamin F. Jenkins and Leonard T. Cox, were part of the brand new soldiers who, in December 1861, were formally organized and mustered into the service of the United States for a three year enlistment. 

During the war-torn years, the 17th Kentucky Regiment participated in the six major battles of Donelson, Corinth, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta and Missionary Ridge, along with many other smaller battles, assaults and sieges. When it was mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on January 23, 1865, the regiment had lost a total of 298 men during service, with 7 officers and 128 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and 5 officers and 158 enlisted men who died of disease. Benjamin Fulton Jenkins and his friend, Leonard Thomas Cox, both of Cromwell, must have considered themselves lucky to have survived the war and be returned home to their families.

Being from a religious and Godly family, Benjamin had joined the Baptist church when he was young, and about four months after his return from the war in January 1865, he had already felt “called” to the ministry.   No doubt he was strongly influenced from all he had endured upon the battlefield, where he saw so many sick and wounded soldiers being nursed.  Benjamin Fulton Jenkins was ordained in April 1865 by Alfred Warder Taylor and immediately took up his work in the ministry under the direction of the Gasper River Association of the United Baptist Church.  He was said to “have a strong physical development, a well balanced mind, and he became an accurate and logical reasoner, a clear and forcible speaker, and an eminently successful pastor, recognized for his knowledge of the Bible.”

Eventually, Ben Jenkins bought and managed a well-watered and timbered farm of 113 acres near Beda, about three and one-half miles from Cromwell, where he lived for about twenty-one years.  He was up at dawn, farming five days a week until dusk, and preaching on the weekends, where he held or assisted other preachers in holding large revivals, called, in that day and age, “protracted meetings.”  All day meetings and dinners on the ground were held in the summertime.  He traveled by horse or buggy and sometimes on foot to preach at his churches, performed weddings, and performed hundreds of Baptisms in ponds and creeks. 

            A little over three years after his return from the Civil War when he was twenty-six, Benjamin chose for his bride, Elizabeth Iler Arnold, nineteen, the daughter of John H. Arnold and Altha Jane Iler.  The young couple married July 5, 1868, and had six children: Susan E., John A., Altha C., Laura D., Benjamin Franklin, and Broadus Smith Jenkins.

            In the 1870 census Ben Fulton Jenkins was found living at Cromwell, (listed as Benj. F. Jackson) and listed in the household was Benj. F., age 28, wagon maker, and his wife, listed as Eliza J., age 21; and their little daughter, Eliza S. age 1; also living in their home were both of his parents: Benj. S. Jenkins, age 67 and his wife, Eliza T.

Ben and Elizabeth Jenkins had been married fourteen years when their last child was born, but the happy event turned sad when Elizabeth died from complications of the birth.  She was only thirty-three when she passed away on October 17, 1882, at her home in Cromwell, one day after giving birth to Broadus Smith Jenkins.  “Bettie” as she was known was buried at the Arnold Cemetery, not far from Bald Knob Church

My grandmother told me that when Elizabeth died, Benjamin's sister, Kitty Ann (Jenkins) Smith took the baby and cared for him until he was almost two years old, when Benjamin married for a second time.

            Sometime after 1883, Ben moved his children to Habit, in Daviess County.  Benjamin Fulton Jenkins, sixty-one, and Nancy Emmaline Miller, twenty-seven, born Ohio County, married in Daviess County, Kentucky on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1884.  Nancy, called “Emma,” was the daughter of James C. Miller and Frances Y. Haynes, who moved to Daviess County in January 1871. 

Emma became the step-mother to Ben’s six motherless children, ranging in age from Susan, 16; John, 13; Altha, 11; Laura, 8; Benjamin, 6; and Broadus, 2.  Ben and Emma’s union produced four children of their own:  James C. M. “Miller,” Emerson Haynes, Josiah Clint “Joe,” and an infant, who was born and died on the same day.   

Emma and her husband had been married thirty-six years when she died on May 31, 1920 at her home in Owensboro, Daviess County.  She was sixty-three at the time and left her husband and one son, called Joe Clint, age fifteen, and two grown stepsons, Benjamin Franklin and Broadus Smith.  She was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Daviess County.  Her obituary was published in the Owensboro Messenger newspaper, Tuesday, June 1, 1920:

"Mrs. Emmaline Jenkins"

Mrs. Emmaline Jenkins, wife of Rev. B. F. Jenkins, died at her
home, 604 Lewis street at 3:55 o'clock.  Mrs. Jenkins is survived by her husband and three sons, Frank, Smith, and Joe Clint Jenkins.

Rev. Sam P. Martin, assisted by Baptist preachers of the Daviess County Association, will conduct the services from the Third Baptist church, at 3 o'clock this afternoon.  Baptist preachers are requested to attend in a body.

The pallbearers will be Prof. A. Powell, H. M. Talbot, E. O. Miller, George Milliken, S. B. Lee and J. W. Cottrell, with interment in Elmwood Cemetery."

            My grandmother said her grandmother’s brother, “Uncle Fult” as he was called by the family, was really smart.  On the day of my visit, she went to her big trunk and took out a yellowed “tract” of three poems B. F. Jenkins had written about the Civil War.  I had photocopies made.  Grandmother had written on front of the “tract” “My great uncle wrote these poems.  My grandmother Smith’s brother.  Mother.” 

            I quote these poems below, written by the old soldier many years after the Civil War had long been ended.  He must have given the war much thought throughout his lifetime as he recalled his service and the difficulty of getting used to the rigors and demands of army life. 

LIBERTY BELL

                                    Ring on, old bell; we still hear thy chimes
                                      Thy  music to  us  is still  sublime
                                    With wondr’s vibrations the world shall hear,
                                      American  freedom  loud  and  clear.
                                    Thy notes of freedom hath no bound –
                                      Their effects are felt the world around;
                                    Freedom to think and freedom to act,
                                      In science and genius has made its track.
                                   
                                    The wondrous advancements of this age
                                      Are only the announcements of another page
                                    (this line, on fold is illegible)
                                      As tyranny is smitten by thy Liberty peals.

                                    Ring on, old bell, thy glorious note;
                                      O’er land and sea may freedom float,
                                    The bondage and tyranny shall lose its power,
                                      And kings shall quail and monarchs shall cower.

                                    The soul, the genius, the mind set free,
                                      Has marked this age of Liberty
                                    With wondrous strides of inventive skill
                                      Like improvements made on the mortar mill.

                                    The reaper takes the sickle’s place,
                                      The whip-saw is lost in the hand-saw race,
                                    The oar, and paddle, and even the sail,
                                      Before the steam engine on the waters quail.

                                    The old great lamp that hung on the jam,
                                    By the electric light has received a slam
                                      These items are enough for the reader to see,
                                    What the bell rang out, Man Shall Be Free! 

“WHAT CAUSED THE WAR?”

                                    What caused the war, did the boys in gray?
                                      Not they, not they.
                                    What caused the war, did the boys in blue?
                                      Not true, not true.

                                    What part, then, did they play,
                                      The boys in blue, the boys in gray?
                                    They were the arbiters of national strife
                                      That was here in the beginning of the
                                      Government’s life.

                                    Two systems of labor do not agree,
                                      One slave, the other free
                                    The labor system of every land
                                      Must have its laws on which to stand.

                                    Two systems of labor in one domain
                                      Causes strife to the legislative game.
                                    The law making powers can never agree
                                      While one part is slave and the other free—
                                    On tariff and taxes one public domain,
                                      One suffers loss, the other gains.
                                    The best men that lived tried to adjust,
                                      For Congress was forever in a big fuss,
                                    Trying to fix what never could be,
                                      With one part slave and the other free.

                                    If free labor and slave had neither been sin
                                      Lawmakers would have had the same trouble within.
                                    Hence it was left to sword and blood
                                      To settle what congress never could.

                                    As we were the arbiters of that day,
                                      Lay a flower at the grave of the blue and the gray,
                                    And think not to say that we caused the strife,
                                      That cost so many a noble life.


“THE BLUE AND THE GRAY”

                                    This solemn tread will soon be o’er
                                      This day heaps honors on heroes dead;
                                    And you and I will be no more,
                                      Yet, resting on the same cold bed.

                                    Around our graves, then, who will march
                                      To pay tribute to the fallen brave,
                                    And bear the colors of this arch,
                                      And wave them o’er our silent grave?

                                    They will lack the experience we have had,
                                      Of standing by mid battle’s storm,
                                    And looking on our fallen dead,
                                      Seeing fresh-spilled blood from manly form.


                                    Oh, if I had inventive skill,
                                      I would superceed artillery’s roar;
                                    I would spike each gun that dares to kill,
                                      And sheathe the sword from shore to shore.
                                   
 I would make one gun of the blood war spin
                                      I would load it with the love they bore.
                                    And shoot it through the stubborn will
                                      Until carnal war is heard no more.

                                    Yes, I would make a gun so very large
                                      That all the world could hear,
                                    And load it, with LOVE the charge,
                                      And fire it in God’s fear.

                                    That unborn millions might possess
                                      The victory we have won.
                                    As around the graves we march to bless
                                      The Blue and the Gray as one.

                                    Yes, o’er my head in years to come
                                       When men do honor in the brave
                                    Let love’s soft thunders shake my home
                                       As o’er my grave the flag is waved.

                                    And still is love and peace unfurled,
                                      ‘Till the seven last thunders shake the world,
                                    Then from the grave the good will rise;
                                      Then Comrades meet beyond the skies.

Probably one of the fullest accounts of the life of Benjamin Fulton Jenkins was written by Wendell H. Rone (1884-1943) and can be found in “A History of the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association.”

Reverend Benjamin Fulton Jenkins

“No minister has been more universally loved and respected in the history of this Association than Elder B. F. Jenkins.  Our subject was born of humble and Godly parentage in Meade County, Kentucky, on March 22, 1842, and was the youngest child of four born to B. S. and his wife, Elizabeth Humphrey Jenkins.  His grandfather was John S. Jenkins, who emigrated to Glasgow, Kentucky, about 1790, where he remained but a short time when he moved to Daviess County; and from thence to Meade County, where he reared a large family of nine children, of whom B. S., the father of our subject, was the sixth.

Brother Jenkins’ early educational advantages were limited to a great extent, but, by diligent study, together with a strong physical development and a well balanced mind, he became an accurate reasoner, a clear and forceful speaker, and an eminently successful pastor.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Brother Jenkins enlisted in the Union Army, serving in Company D., Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, where he followed the fortunes of the Army of the Cumberland through all its famous battles of Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, and Atlanta, doing his duty bravely for three years and four months.

It was during his services in the Army that he felt called to preach the Gospel.  He had previously professed faith in Christ and had been baptized into the fellowship of a Baptist Church by Elder Alfred Taylor while a small boy.  One of the gifts he took with him to the war was a small Bible, which he kept with him at all times, and from which he read continuously, when occasion permitted.

Having returned safely from the War, we find him ordained in the Gospel Ministry on the Third Sunday in April 1865, at the Green River Baptist Church, near Cromwell, Ohio County, Kentucky.  Elders Alfred Taylor, J. S. Coleman and J. F. Austin served as presbytery.  This began an active ministry, which was to last for fifty-eight years.  In that time he served a total of forty-four churches, most of them within the Green River section. 

He also held a total of 298 protracted meetings, and as one of the tangible results of these meetings, over 8,000 persons were converted and baptized into the fellowship of Baptist Churches.  Many of these he baptized with his own hands, while others were baptized by the pastors whom he assisted in the meetings.

Among the large number of converts at these meetings were forty-four young men who later became ministers of the Gospel, twenty-six of whom he baptized himself.  Many of these became prominent pastors.  Among them may be mentioned M. W. Whitson, J. N. Jarnagin, and Granville Dockery.

Brother Jenkins was the author of three tracts during his ministry – “Meat and Milk of the Gospel,”  “What Causes Panics?” and “Baptist Axioms.”  The last mentioned tract had a circulation of over 14,000 and was commented on very favorably by the brethren and the Baptist Press.  It is so outstanding that the author has included it in this history.

On July 5, 1868, Brother Jenkins married Miss Elizabeth I. Arnold of Ohio County, Kentucky.  Six children were born to this union:  Susan E., John A., Altha C., Laura A., Benjamin, and Broadus Smith.   The first Mrs. Jenkins died in October 1882, the day after the birth of her youngest child, and Brother Jenkins married Miss Emma Miller, the eldest daughter of J. C. and Frances Miller, on December 24, 1884.  Four children were born to this second marriage, but only one survives.  The second Mrs. Jenkins died in 1920.

Our Brother served the following pastorates in this Association during his active ministry:  Bell’s Run, 1885-1890, 1893-1899; Buck Creek, 1885-1891; Island, 1888; Mt. Carmel, 1888-1899; Livermore 1889; Calhoun, 1892-1893; Glenville, 1892-1895; Bethel, 1896-1900;  Stanley, 1897; Beaver Dam, 1898-1900; Red Hill, 1899-1900; Mt. Liberty, 1901-1904; Concord, 1901; Bethlehem, 1903-1904; New Hope, 1906-1907; Richland, 1908; Hopewell, 1915-1917; and Hall Street in Owensboro, 1917-1918.  The last named pastorate was entered into on the day he was seventy-five years of age.

Besides the above-mentioned pastorates, we note that Brother Jenkins also held several pastorates in Ohio, Butler, Hancock, and Muhlenberg Counties.  He served as Missionary for the Gasper River Association from 1867 to 1870.  He preached the Annual Sermon before the Daviess County Association in 1891 and served as Moderator in 1909 and 1910.

Near the year 1923 he left the state and moved to Missouri to live with his son, B. Smith Jenkins.  Even in his advanced years, he continued to faithfully witness for Christ and led many souls into a walk with Him.  He died at the home of his son in Springfield, Missouri, on May 5, 1932.  His remains were brought back to his native state and laid to rest in the Elmwood Cemetery in Owensboro.

For many years Brother Jenkins lived near Cromwell in Ohio County.  Still later in life he made his home on a small farm near Habit, in Daviess County.  From that time on until his removal to Missouri, his home was on Lewis Street in Owensboro.  For many years the Pleasant sight of Brother Jenkins in his stove-pipe hat and frock-tail coat greeted the eyes of the brethren in the Association.  He reached the advanced age of ninety and gently fell asleep.”

Obituary from "The Ohio County News" - Friday, May 13, 1932:

" AGED MINISTER'S FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY”
..~.~..
Rev. B. F. Jenkins Had Baptized 7,500 in 55 Years as Pastor
..~.~..

        Funeral services for Rev. Benjamin Fulton Jenkins were conducted at the
        Third Street Baptist church in Owensboro, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
        and included brief talks by Rev. C. G. Cagle, Rev. Norris Lashbrook,
        Rev. J. J. Willet, Rev. Sam Coakley, Dr. O. C. Robertson and others.
        Interment was in Elmwood cemetery beside his last wife.  His death
       occurred in Springfield, Missouri, Thursday, May 5.  His age was 90 years,
       2 months and 13 days.

       Rev. Jenkins was born March 22, 1843 in Meade county and moved to
       Cromwell at the age of 12 years.  When the call came in 1861 he enlisted in
       Co. K 17th Kentucky Infantry serving his country as a soldier 3 years, 3
       months and 17 days and engaging in some of the fiercest conflicts, of the
       war between the states.

      Just after the war he was ordained as a Baptist minister and remained active
      until the age of 78, serving as pastor of 44 churches within a period of 55
      years. He assisted in 294 revivals and baptized 7,500 converts.  He ordained
      44 young men into the ministry, 26 of them having been immersed by him.
      Much of this service was in Ohio county, where he is remembered by most
      of the older citizens.

      In 1867 he was married to Elizabeth I. Arnold, whose death occurred
      October 17, 1882.  Six children were born to this union.  Sue, John, Altha,
      Laura, Frank and Smith.  Only the two last named survive.  Frank resides
      at Memphis, Tennessee and Smith at Springfield, Missouri.

     On December 24, 1884, he was married to Nancy Emmaline Miller, who
     also preceded her husband to the grave.  Four children were born to this
     marriage.  All died in infancy except Joe C. Jenkins, who resides in
     Gainesville, Florida."

Thus ends the life of Benjamin F. Jenkins, an old soldier and an eminent preacher in Ohio and Daviess Counties and Western Kentucky, whose sermons and good preaching were long remembered by those who heard him. He advanced to the age of ninety, living a life of simplicity and devotion, faithful to his Lord until his death, May 5, 1932. 

His final wish to be buried in his beloved home state of Kentucky was granted.  He lies beside his second wife, Emmaline (Miller) Jenkins in Elmwood Cemetery at Owensboro, Kentucky.