Jane Jenkins

10 September 1847–1 January 1933 (Age 85)
Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Jane

When Jane Jenkins was born on 10 September 1847, in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Hardie Jenkins, was 25 and her mother, Janet Laird, was 25. She married William Stewart on 16 December 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 1 January 1933, in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Stewart
1828–1892
Jane Jenkins
1847–1933
Marriage: 16 December 1864
Jennette Jenkins Stewart
1865–1949
Elizabeth Stewart
1867–1954
Isabel Stewart
1870–1944
Jane Stewart
1872–1872
William Stewart
1873–1873
Enoch Stewart
1874–1961
Ellen Stewart
1877–1962
James Jenkins Stewart
1879–1971
May Stewart
1882–1964
Georgie Stewart
1885–1954
Myrtle Stewart
1892–1974

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    16 December 1864Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (11)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (13)

    +8 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1850 · Los Angeles Is Incorporated
    Age 3
    Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850.
    1863
    Age 16
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 23
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Junkins
    Jenkin
    Jinkins

    Story Highlight

    Elizabeth Stewart Fisher - compiled and written by Bertha Fisher Shields

    A life of toil and triumph over hardships is that of Elizabeth Stewart Fisher formerly of Meadow Millard Co. Utah and lately of Raymond, Alberta, Canada. Elizabeth Stewart was born 25 August 1867 …

    Sources (33)

    • Jane Stewart in household of William Stewart, "United States Census, 1880"
    • Jane Kenkins in entry for Jack Schoeppe and May Wilson, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
    • Jane in entry for Jennette Stewart Greenhalgh, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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