Born about in Loudoun Co., Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jacob Silcott
and Tamar (Cowgill) Silcott
Wife of
Martin Jenkins
— married
30 Mar 1835 in Pike, Ohio, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Marietta J Jenkins and Adolphus Theophilus Jenkins
Died
at about age 91
in Sullivan, Moultrie Co., Illinois, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Aug 2013
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Biography
Amanda Silcott was born in September 1814 in Loudoun Co., Virginia. She was the daughter of Jacob Silcott and Tamar Cowgill.
1820 census -- Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia
- Name: Jacob Silcott
- Home in 1820: Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia
- Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
- Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2 (James H, Craven)
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2 (?,?)
- Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 (Jacob)
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 3 (Frances May, Mary Ann, Amanda)
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1 (?)
- Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 3 (Delilah, Nancy, Maria)
- Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 (Tamar)
- Slaves - Males - 14 thru 25: 1
- Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
- Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures: 3
- Free White Persons - Under 16: 6
- Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 13
- Total Slaves: 1
- Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 14[1]
1830 census -- Union, Loudoun Co., Virginia, USA
- Name: Jacob Silcott
- Home in 1830: Union, Loudoun, Virginia
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (Arthur)
- Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 (James)
- Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (?)
- Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 (Jacob)
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 (?)
- Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 (Mary Martha, Jane)
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 (Frances, Mary Ann)
- Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 2 (Amanda?,?)
- Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 (Tamar)
- Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 4
- Total Free White Persons: 12
- Total Slaves: 1
- Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 13[2]
She married Martin Jenkins 30 March 1835 in Pike Co., Ohio.[3]
1840 census -- Perry Twnp., Pike Co., Ohio, USA
- Name: Martin Jenkins
- Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Pike, Ohio
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (Adolphus)
- Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 ?
- Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 ?
- Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (Martin)
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 (Marietta)
- Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 (Amanda)
- Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 6
- Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6[4]
1850 census -- Franklin Twnp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
- Martha Jenkins, age 42, male, , farming, born Virginia; Amanda Jenkins, age 35, female, , born Virginia; Margarett Jenkins, age 14, female, , born Ohio, attended school; AJ Jenkins, age 12, male, , born Ohio, attended school; AH Jenkins, age 6, female, , born Ohio, attended school[5]
1860 census -- Camp Creek Twnp., Pike Co., Ohio, USA
- Martin Jenkins, age 39, male, , day laborer, $300 personal property, born Virginia; Amanda Jenkins, age 37, female, , born Virginia; Adolphus Jenkins, age 18, male, , born Ohio, attended school; Mary Jenkins, age 16, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Vienna Jenkins, age 14, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Ellen Jenkins, age 11, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Emma Jenkins, age 4, female, , born Ohio[6]
1870 census -- Newton Twnp., Pike Co., Ohio, USA
- Martin Jenkins, age 62, male, white, farmer, $800 personal property, born Virginia; Amanda W Jenkins, age 56, female, white, keeping house, born West Virginia; Marietta J Jenkins, age 34, female, white, helps mother, born Ohio; Adolphus T Jenkins, age 32, male, white, farmer, $1435 personal property, born Ohio; Ella B Jenkins, age 17, female, white, helps mother, born Ohio; Emma F Jenkins, age 13, female, white, at school, born Ohio, attends school; Oscar Silcott, age 15, male, white, helps on farm, born Missouri, attends school; Tamar Silcott, age 80, female, white, lives with daughter, born West Virginia, cannot read/write.[7]
1880 census -- Embarrass Twnp., Edgar Co., Illinois, USA
- Martin Jenkins, white, male, age 71, married, farmer, born Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Pennsylvania; Amanda Jenkins, white, female, age 65, wife, married, keeping house, born Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Marrietta J Jenkins, white, female, age 43, daughter, single, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Emma F Jenkins, white, female, age 23, daughter, single, school teacher, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Ella B Stedman, white, female, age 27, daughter, married, married during census year, teaching school, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Alverna H Witherup, white, female, age 35, daughter, married, milliner, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; OE Silcott, white, male, age 26, nephew, labors on farm, born Missouri, father born Virginia, mother born Ohio; Arthur Koons, white, male, age 15, laborer, single, laborer, born Illinois, father born Indiana, mother born Indiana[8]
1900 census -- Sullivan, Moultrie Co., Illinois, USA
- Amanda Jenkins, head, white, male, born Sept 1814, age 85, widow, 7 children / 4 living, born Virginia, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Virginia, own free house; Emma E Jenkins, daughter, white, female, born May 1857, age 43, single, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Lucy J Carroll, servant, white, female, born July 1886, age 13, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois, attended school[9]
She died 15 December 1905 in Moultrie Co., Illinois. She is buried in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan, Illinois.[10]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1820," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLY-4XZ : accessed 12 May 2015), Jacob Silcott, Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia; citing p. 130, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 137; FHL microfilm 193,696.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1830," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XH5F-V2J : accessed 12 May 2015), Jacob Silcott, Union, Loudoun, Virginia; citing p. 109, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 193; FHL microfilm 29,672.
- ↑ "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XDH9-993 : 10 February 2018), Martin Jenkins and Amanda W. Silcut, 30 Mar 1835; citing , Pike, Ohio, reference 2:DXPJ6Q; FHL microfilm 292,748.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHRR-1VM : 20 August 2017), Martin Jenkins, Pike, Ohio, United States; citing p. 30, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 421; FHL microfilm 20,174.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3D-HT4 : 12 April 2016), Amanda Jenkins in household of Martha Jenkins, Franklin, Adams, Ohio, United States; citing family 127, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCLR-T84 : 13 December 2017), Amanda Jenkins in entry for Martin Jenkins, 1860.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6LN-SBC : accessed 06 Aug 2013), Amanda W Jenkins in entry for Martin Jenkins, .
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXJD-5KG : 22 August 2017), Amanda Jenkins in household of Martin Jenkins, Embarras, Edgar, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 94, sheet 72D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0204; FHL microfilm 1,254,204.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS4T-NVQ : accessed 5 May 2018), Amanda Jenkins, Sullivan Township Sullivan city Ward 1-3, Moultrie, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 105, sheet 20B, family 477, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,332.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176840233/amanda-w-jenkins: accessed 01 July 2023), memorial page for Amanda W. Silcott Jenkins (28 Sep 1814–15 Dec 1905), Find A Grave: Memorial #176840233, citing Greenhill Cemetery, Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Cathie Jeisy Evard (contributor 48873480).
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Categories: Perry Township, Pike County, Ohio | Camp Creek Township, Pike County, Ohio | Newton Township, Pike County, Ohio | Embarrass Township, Edgar County, Illinois | Franklin Township, Adams County, Ohio | Loudoun County, Virginia | Sullivan, Illinois | Greenhill Cemetery, Sullivan, Illinois | 1820 US Census, Loudoun County, Virginia | 1830 US Census, Loudoun County, Virginia | 1840 US Census, Pike County, Ohio | 1850 US Census, Adams County, Ohio | 1860 US Census, Pike County, Ohio | 1870 US Census, Pike County, Ohio | 1880 US Census, Edgar County, Illinois | 1900 US Census, Moultrie County, Illinois