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Jenkins, Henry Middleton (b. 1836
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest
Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 409-410

Henry Middleton Jenkins, born 1836, on Stewart's Run, son of
Jonathan and Amanda (McKensie) Jenkins, was married November 6,
1863, near Flemington, Taylor County, to Mary Ann, daughter of
Lewis and Cynthia (Bailey) Fleming. Children, Ella C, Hattie,
Amanda V., Martha P., Albert G., Patrick H., Jonathan Lewis,
Chester M. and Corder J. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist
Church, a Democrat and a farmer, living on Hacker's Creek, where he
owns 128 acres, largely improved. He has been a member of the Board
of Education, and was eight years Overseer of the Poor. His
daughter, Ella, married John C. Moats and lives five miles east of
Philippi; Hattie married Robert E. S. Holden and lives in Philippi;
Amanda married Mr. Rowe and lives in Taylor County; Martha married
Boyd W. Doak and lives in Pennsylvania. His great grandfather came
from Ireland and settled on Goose Creek, Loudoun County, Virginia;
and his grandfather, Jesse Jenkins, served in the War of 1812, as
well as his uncle, William McKinney, who, with his brother, Thomas,
(grandfather of the subject of this sketch) were early settlers in
Barbour, locating on Stewart's Run. His great grandmother, Jenkins,
came from Wales. The Baileys and Flemings were Irish, the McKinneys
Scotch. Edward Fleming, great grandfather of Mrs. Jenkins, served
in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Jenkins' brothers, John and Lewis,
served in the Union army, and Patrick in the Confederate army.
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