More on William and Suzannah (Walker) JENKINS
of Butler County OH
See also the Jenkins-Jeffries-Lee Family Page (African Americans of VA and PA)

Children of William & Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS biographies follow
Name Birth Father Mother Spouse Death Burial Source
Ruth JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS John SHIELDS 17 or 18 Jan 1803
Monongalia Co WV
Butler Co OH Emolene and
AZ Hirvel IGI
James JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Nancy
Butler Co OH
Evan JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS 1) Isabelle HANDLEY
b ca Jan 1795 d 14 Nov 1832
2) Maria SHIELDS

Butler Co OH
Catherine JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Philip LYNCH or LINCH
m 13 Dec 1804
Monongalia Co WV
4 Mar 1861 Butler Co OH Emolene and
AZ Hirvel IGI
Elizabeth JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS William CLARK
Butler Co OH
Rebecca JENKINS 1790/3 William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Thomas DeARMOND 6 Oct 1834 Butler Co OH Mentioned in biography
Nancy
Benjamin JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Sarah JONES
Butler Co OH
Mary JENKINS 17-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS William RAGSDALE Butler Co OH
William JENKINS 1801 ? William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Martha GRANT 1802 NJ-1855 Butler Co OH
daughter of James GRANT and Theadocia REED
Butler Co OH Grant Descendants; William is mentioned in the biography of Alexander Walker DeARMOND and might be the grandfather of Abigail Jenkins George
Nancy JENKINS 18-- William JENKINS 1762-1833 Suzannah (WALKER) JENKINS Joseph JONES
Butler Co OH

William and Susannah (WALKER) JENKINS

William JENKINS was born Mar 1 1762 in Wales. Suzannah WALKER was born in 1764, in Ireland. In Butler County, Ohio, William operated one of the Morgan township stills and had a tavern near Okeana. He served in the War of 1812. William died May 21 1833 near Okeana. Suzannah died July 29 1852. [pp 425-6 and 437, History of Butler County, Ohio (1882)]

=======
Source 1: a letter (Jan 21 1938) from Charles T. Jenkins, of Oxford, Ohio:

William JENKINS I born 1762, died 1833, buried at Okeana. He owned what is now the village - was the first Post Master, Justice of Peace, etc.

His children:

  1. Ruth - married John SHIELDS a farmer and storekeeper at Okeana
  2. James - married Nancy (?) a cousin. He was a farmer north of Okeana.
  3. Evan - married
    1. Isabel HANDLEY
      His first child by Isabel Handley married Alex DEARMOND. Her name was Isabel.
    2. Maria SHIELDS.
  4. Kate - Philip LYNCH
  5. Elizabeth - William CLARK
  6. Rebecca - (your ancestors) married Thomas DEARMOND. Her stone in old cemetary at Shandon states she died Oct 6, 1834 aged 41 years. (More on DeArmond)
  7. Benjamin - Sarah JONES
  8. Mary - William RAGSDALE
  9. William - Martha GRANT (William JENKINS is mentioned in the biography of Alexander Walker DeARMOND)
  10. Nancy - Joseph JONES

The witnesses of the will of Reuben GEORGE are children of William 1st. We are descendants of William 2nd. William 1st, William 2nd, and their wives lie in the old JENKINS cemetary on the JENKINS homestead where your uncle Cary lived near Okeana School.

(the letter continues on, listing Rebecca JENKINS DeARMOND's children, plus some personal comments.)

===========
More on William JENKINS, from Miriam GEORGE VAN MASON (undated letter):

William JENKINS, 1762-1833, born in Wales. At the age of 14, he visited his uncle in Ireland and fell in love with his cousin, Susannah WALKER, born 1764. William's uncle was opposed to the marriage because of their tender ages. Susannah was 13. They eloped to America in 1777 and married at the age of 15 for William and 14 for Susannah, then settled in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. William joined the Virginia militia when only 15 years old and served throughout the Revolutionary War, his exploits reading like those of a mature man. After several years in Isle of Wight County they moved to Pittsylvania County where they remained until 1807 when they moved by oxteam to Ohio. He and his family settled in Cincinnati and bought 80 acres of land on the present site of Main Street, which he later sold. He then moved to Butler County and settle on Dry Fork. He died in Okeana at the age of 71. Susannah died at the age of 88.

(Source: DeArmond Families of America and Related Families, Roscoe Carlisle d'Armand, Family Record Society, 1954)

===========
Comments and Questions:
AZ Hirvel wrote: "Genealogy of Some Early Jenkins Families of Preston County, WV, 1786-1982 by Frances Jenkins Quinn (out of print and she is deceased) says that William and Susannah were conveying land on Indian Creek in Fayette County, Pa. until Oct. 1811. She says that William and Benjamin had disposed of all their land holdings in Preston and Monongalia Counties and by that time were in their fifties. She did not find them after that."
Is the William Jenkins who lived in Butler County OH the same William Jenkins who lived in Fayette CO, PA and Monongalia Co WV?

===========

RETURN TO
Butler County Index Genealogy Chart Index 1882 Butler Co History Book
Compiled by Nancy Sween
Sources: