Octavious Marcellus Jenkins

Birth Date

1823-12-25

Death Date

1901-05-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

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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