Prentice Lyman Jenkins (1827 - 1907)

Born 31 Aug 1827 in Stanbridge East, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Clementine (Jersey) Jenkins — married 18 Sep 1849 in Stanbridge East, Missisquoi, Canada East

Descendants

Died 25 Aug 1907 at age 79 in Glen Sutton, Sutton, Brome, Quebec, Canada

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Biography

Prentice Lyman Jenkins was born in 1827, the son of Lyman Jenkins and Elizabeth Gage. When he was only 7 years old, Prentice lost his mother at the young age of 25. Later that year, his father re-married 23-year old never-married Almary Chapman (b. abt. 1812 in New Hampshire), in Frelighsburg.^[1][2] So Prentice and his younger sister Philura needed to adjust to a new step-mother.

And his father and step-mother welcomed three more children into the household. Prentice would have grown up along side new step-sister Lavina (abt 1837), but he was already married by the time two more step-brothers came along i.e. Oscar (1850) and Burton (1852).

On Sept. 18, 1849, Prentice married Clementine Jersey in her father's home church in Stanbridge East, Quebec^[3]. Clementine was 21 years of age and the first of her siblings to be married, with her older brother William to be married a year later, to the younger sister of her husband Prentice!

The couple went on to have 10 children over the next 20 years:

1. Byron Henry, b. 4 July 1850; d. 28 June 1911
2. Marcellus Francis, b. 8 June 1853; d. 18 May 1883
3. Prentiss Augustus, b. 18 July 1857; d. 16 Nov. 1920
4. Eva Livilla, b. 10 Nov. 1858; d. 20 July 1881
5. Irvin, b. 9 Nov. 1859; d. 18 May 1900
6. Azro Alexander, b. 9 Oct. 1861; d. 29 Nov. 1940
7. Margaretta Clementine, b. 30 June 1864; d. 19 Nov. 1886
8. Mary Catherine Ann, b. 20 March 1866; d. 12 June 1903
9. Ernest Lyman, b. 10 Dec. 1869; d. 20 April 1950, and
10. Arthur Lee, b. 26 Nov. 1871; d. 23 Aug. 1877.

Prentice was a farmer and the family's primary place of residence was Stanbridge East, except for a short period in Potton after Clementine's parents moved there. The couple appeared on the 1851 census for Stanbridge East (with one child Byron).^[4] They were recorded with their 5 oldest children on the 1861 census in Potton,^[5] then on the 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses back in Stanbridge East.

All ten children were recorded on the 1871 census.^[6] Seven of the children remained with their parents at home on the 1881 census.^[7] In 1891, Clementine and her husband were living with their son Azro.^[8]

Prentice's wife Clementine passed away in 1893 at the age of 65. Prentice survived her by another 14 years. Prentice passed away in 1907 just days away from his 80th birthday. He was interred at Chapel Hill Cemetery in Potton, while his wife Clementine was interred at Harris Hillside Cemetery in Stanbridge East.^[9]

• Fact: Pension (1907-1933) United States
• Fact: Religion Baptist
• Fact: Burial Chapel Cemetery (Baptist) near Mansonville, PQ

Sources

1. ↑ Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1928
2. ↑ Missisquoi Genealogy Transcriptions, Saint-Armand Methodist Church of Canada 1831-1836, Image 201, Marriage Jenkins
3. ↑ Missisquoi Genealogy Transcriptions, Stanbridge Baptist, 1842-1853, Image 132 and 166
4. ↑ 1851 Canada East Census, District 16 (Missisquoi); Sub-District 224 (Stanbridge); Page 35, Line 28| 1851 Canada East Census, "Printice Jenkins, Age 23"
5. ↑ 1861 Canada East Census, District of Brome, Sub-District of Potton, Page 172, Line 17| 1861 Canada East Census, "Printis F Jinkins, Age 32"
6. ↑ 1871 Canada Census, Province of Quebec, District 125 (Missisquoi), Sub-District i (Stanbridge), Page 6, Line 8| 1871 Canada Census, "Prentice Jenkins, Age 42"
7. ↑ 1881 Canada Census, Province of Quebec, District 65 (Missisquoi), Sub-District L Division 1 (Stanbridge), Family Nbr. 190, Page 36, Line 23| 1881 Canada Census, "Printice Jinkins, Age 57"
8. ↑ 1891 Canada Census, Province of Quebec, District 168 (Missisquoi), Sub-District L Division 1 (St. Armand West), Family Nbr. 56, Page 9. Line 8| 1891 Canada Census, "Prentice Jenkins, Age 62"
9. ↑ FindAGrave, Memorial #147036700, Prentice L. Jenkins. Created by Glenda Barry, May 26, 2015. [No gravestone photo.]

See Also:

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 September 2019, 16:18), entry for Prentis Lyman Jenkins(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K8Y9-R4W); contributed by various users.