 1829 - 1915 (85 years)
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| Name |
Charles Jonas Jenkins |
| Nickname |
Dock |
| Born |
16 May 1829 |
Haywood County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
20 Jan 1915 |
Bryson City, Swain County, North Carolina [1] |
| Buried |
23 Jan 1915 |
Arlington Cemetery, Bryson City, Swain County, North Carolina [1] |
| Person ID |
I108 |
Our_Family |
| Last Modified |
23 Jan 2019 |
| Family |
Mary Jane Nichols, b. 2 May 1834, Macon County, North Carolina , d. 8 Dec 1909, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
19 May 1850 |
Macon County, North Carolina |
| Children |
| | 1. Silas Jenkins, b. 19 Jun 1851, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 26 Jun 1851, Jackson County, North Carolina (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Caroline Jenkins, b. 29 Jul 1852, Macon County, North Carolina , d. 4 Dec 1907 (Age 55 years) |
| + | 3. Nancy Jane Jenkins, b. 20 Aug 1854, Swain County, North Carolina , d. 17 Oct 1934, Charleston, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 80 years) |
| | 4. Zenobia Caldonia Jenkins, b. 2 Jul 1858, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 1 May 1908, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 49 years) |
| + | 5. Laura Palestine Jenkins, b. 4 Feb 1861, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 8 Jul 1907, Judson, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 46 years) |
| | 6. Josephine Jenkins, b. 28 Nov 1864, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 20 Mar 1944, Young Harris, Towns County, Georgia (Age 79 years) |
| | 7. Thomas A. Jenkins, b. 19 Oct 1867, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 11 Nov 1883, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 16 years) |
| | 8. Robert Lee Jenkins, b. 15 Feb 1871, Jackson County, North Carolina , d. 25 Feb 1906, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 35 years) |
| + | 9. Marsada Parsade Jenkins, b. 8 Mar 1874, Swain County, North Carolina , d. 1904, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 29 years) |
| | 10. Charles F. Jenkins, b. 25 Aug 1880, Swain County, North Carolina , d. 28 Feb 1903, Swain County, North Carolina (Age 22 years) |
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| Last Modified |
17 Jan 2021 |
| Family ID |
F114 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Dock served during the Civil War in the Confederate Army, joining in 1861, Sgt. Company F, 29th Regiment, North Carolina. He enlisted August 31, 1861 at the age of 41. He was wounded in an unspecified battle. (Information from Confederate military records per National Archives Record Group 109, Conf. book-volume VIII., Jonas and Ann's ages and birthplace per 1850 Macon County, NC census p. 348)
The original marriage bond for Dock and Mary (Polly Mae) is on file in the Macon County Courthouse and is an interesting document. For example, the bond was for "five hundred pounds current money of the State" and Mary's surname is spelled NICHELS. The bondsman was a Michael Jenkins. Ordinarily Jonas would have been the bondsman, but since he opposed the marriage, soneone else had to sigh the bond. As bondsmen usually were close relatives, it is possible this Michael Jenkins may have been one of the unidentified sons of Jonas and Ann Williams Jenkins, a half-brother to Charles, but it is just speculation, nothing proved yet.
The story goes that Jonas was very upset about the pending marriage and moved into North Georgia for a while. According to the booklet written, the reason Jonas so upset was because Polly Mae was the daughter of Charles' half sister - Nancy Jenkins - who was married to Alexander Nichols. Jonas apparently got over his "fit" because the September 13, 1850 census for Macon County, NC - Smokey Mountain Township shows Charles and Mary, Jonas and Polly living in the same house.
The Arlington Church Cemetery was originally the Charles "Dock" Jenkins Family Cemetery. The land is part of an original grant made to Jonas Jenkins when he first settled in the Jenkins Branch area. After Jonas' death the land passed to Dock. He set aside the land by deed for the continued use as a cemetery by all the members of his family before his own death in 1915. Dock took great care in the layout of his cemetery. He established a very orderly pattern with straight rows and uniform spacing between the graves. He took extra care to mark the exact location of each grave. Until the latter half of the twentieth century, the majority of the burials in this cemetery were of people directly descended from Dock and Polly Jenkins.
The earliest tombstone erected in the cemetery is a dual stone for Silas and Eliza Jenkins. The stone was erected after May 1857.
Sadly, only Nancy Jane and Sarah Josephine outlived their parents. Birth dates and names per 1880, Swain County, North Carolina Census - also Dock, Polly, Thomas, Robert, Charles, Caladona and her husband. Nancy Jane and her husband, & Silas and Eliza are buried at the Arlington Cemetery. The stones and inscriptions on all but Silas and Eliza were personally verified by Joan Gillett.
Census for 1850 in Macon County, North Carlolina shows Jonas & Polly as parents.
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