Octavious Marcellus Jenkins

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1823-12-25

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1901-05-03

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"Octavious Marcellus Jenkins" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00006367, (accessed March 14, 2025).

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Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant. Maryland, native. Married to Frances Mildred Garner Jenkins. Father of Mildred Jenkins, Marshall Jenkins, and Maga Jenkins. Clerk in Caldwell County, Kentucky, for merchants Robert L. Cobb and Gideon D. Cobb, in 1850. Dry goods merchant in Eddyville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 326B
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 762
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416A
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 41A
Find A Grave, "Octavius Marcellus Jenkins (December 25, 1823-May 3, 1901)," Memorial #6656566, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6656566 (accessed July 24, 2019).

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