Mary Ann (Bennett) Jenkins (abt. 1787 - abt. 1863)

Born about 8 Apr 1787 in Wilkes, Georgia, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Abner Ernst Jenkins Sr — married 1812 in St Tammany Parish, Louisiana

Descendants

Died about 1863 at about age 75 in St. Tammany, Louisiana, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary Ann "Polly" Bennett, a daughter of Reuben Bennett and Elizabeth Tarpley, was born about 1787 in Georgia,^[1] probably in Wilkes County, where her next older and younger siblings are said to have been born.^[2]

Mary Ann Bennett may have first married a man with the surname Christian in Wilkes, Georgia around 1808, as she had a daughter named Laticia Christian (1809-1893), born before her 1812 marriage to Abner Jenkins.

Mary Ann Bennett married Abner Ernst Jenkins in 1812 in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.^[3][4] She was nine years older than her husband Abner.^[1] Mary Ann and Abner had eight children:

1. William Thomas Jenkins
2. Richard Tyner Jenkins
3. Nancy Moose Jenkins
4. Abner Ernest Jenkins
5. Aristides Bennett Jenkins
6. Daniel Percy Jenkins^[1]
7. Mary Ann Jenkins
8. John James Terrell Jenkins^[1]

In 1850, she was living with her husband Abner and two youngest sons in St Tammany Parish, Louisiana.^[1]

In Jun of 1854, Mary Ann Bennett separated from her husband Abner and filed for divorce in St. Tammany Parish, but the judge refused to grant the divorce.^[4][5] Apparently, in connection with this separation, between Jun 28 and Jun 30, 1854, Mary Ann and her husband Abner conveyed 2560 acres of their joint property to their seven surviving adult children and four grandchildren (children of their deceased daughter Mary Ann Jenkins Knight).^[6]

Mary Ann “Polly” Bennett Jenkins died in St Tammany Parish, Louisiana. According to the affidavit in Abner Jenkins' pension file of two people who attended the funeral, Mary Bennett Jenkins died in 1863.^{[7] [8]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJX-96Y : 12 April 2016), Mary Jinkins in household of Abner Jinkins, St. Tammany parish, St. Tammany, Louisiana, United States; citing family 728, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ The date 8 Apr 1787 used in the birth date field of this record comes from a record of the birth of Mary Ann Bennett, daughter of Thomas T. Bennett and his wife Ann, in St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia. See Fleet, Beverley. “Virginia Colonial Abstracts. Abstracted by Beverley Fleet. v.3, page 23” HathiTrust, (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39076006495472?urlappend=%3Bseq=29 : Accessed 22 Sept. 2020.) This birth record is inconsistent with the 1850 census which says she was born in Georgia and also has different parents.
3. ↑ War of 1812 Pension Application, Abner Jenkins (reproduced in Holden, Doris, On Through the Years with Abner Jenkins (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/363204-on-through-the-years-with-abner-jenkins : accessed 9 Aug 2020) at page 5A.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mary Ann Bennett Jenkins v. Abner Jenkins, Petition for Divorce, 24 Jun 1854, 8th Judicial District Court, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
5. ↑ Holden, supra. at page 7.
6. ↑ Holden, supra. at page 7.
7. ↑ United States, War of 1812 Pension Files, Abner Jenkins, page/image 101 of 108 (https://www.fold3.com/image/1/314343782 : accessed 10 Aug 2020)
8. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 November 2017), memorial page for Mary Ann “Polly” Bennett Jenkins (8 Apr 1787–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #52234408, citing Jenkins Cemetery, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Christopher Beard (contributor 47117351) .

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