When William Jenkins was born in November 1856, in Michigan Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States, his father, William G Jenkins, was 48 and his mother, Barbara Shaver, was 38. He married Minerva Ann Kent on 8 August 1880, in Clinton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1929, in Clinton, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Whiteman Cemetery, Michigan Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States.
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English and Welsh: variant of Jenkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Jenkins is one of the most common surnames in England, especially southwestern England, but is also especially associated with Wales.
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