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Octavious Marcellus Jenkins (Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1823-12-25 d. 1901-05-03

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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).

Citation

Jenkins, Octavious Marcellus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197297 (November 12, 2026).

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