{"id":3233,"date":"2022-01-10T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:29:59","slug":"jenkins-james-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/jenkins-james-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenkins, James M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James M. Jenkins<\/strong>, ex-trustee of Lauderdale County, is a son of Samuel D. and<br \/>\nHelen (Brockinton) Jenkins, who were both natives of South Carolina. The<br \/>\nfather was born in 1808, and the mother in 1811. They married and settled in<br \/>\ntheir native State, and had a family of eight children &#8212; three boys and five<br \/>\ngirls. The mother died in 1846, and in 1848 Mr. Jenkins married Elizabeth<br \/>\nBeasley, and to this marriage two sons and four daughters were born. In 1850<br \/>\nthey moved to Lauderdale County. The father and both his wives were<br \/>\nMethodists, and he was an old Jeffersonian Democrat. By trade he was a<br \/>\nfinished carriage maker, but later in life gave his time to farming; he died<br \/>\nin 1882. Both of our subject&#8217;s grandfathers were Methodist preachers. The<br \/>\nJenkins family have supplied the church with a number of ministers; his<br \/>\ngrandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Our subject is of Scotch<br \/>\ndescent, and was born June 11, 1841, in Darlington County, S. C.; was raised<br \/>\non a farm; had few educational advantages, having attended school only a few<br \/>\nmonths, but has since acquired a practical business education. In 1861 he<br \/>\nenlisted in the Confederate service, in Company G, Fourth Tennessee Infantry,<br \/>\nbut after a year&#8217;s service was sent home on account of sickness, and commenced<br \/>\nfarming. In 1862 he married Mary J. Meadows, who was born July 21, 1843, in<br \/>\nLauderdale County. Of nine children born to them, two boys and two girls<br \/>\nsurvive. Both parents are Methodists. Mr. Jenkins is a Democrat. In 1878<br \/>\nhe was elected trustee of the county, and gave such entire satisfaction as an<br \/>\nofficer that he was re-elected four times. In 1880 he moved to Ripley, where<br \/>\nhe owns 380 acres of good land, but has given most of his time to official<br \/>\nduties; has been a resident of Lauderdale County for thirty-seven years, and<br \/>\nis one of her most substantial citizens.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James M. Jenkins, ex-trustee of Lauderdale County, is a son of Samuel D. and Helen (Brockinton) Jenkins, who were both natives of South Carolina. The father was born in 1808, and the mother in 1811. They married and settled in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/jenkins-james-m\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-jenkins"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}