Samuel Washington Jenkins & Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Rose

Children of Samuel Washington Jenkins and Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Rose

Samuel Washington Jenkins

Dr. Samuel Washington Jenkins was a physician in Hamilton County,
Tennessee. He was a prisoner during the Civil War and was injured after
his release from prison when his boat (The Sultana) blew up in the
Mississippi River near Vicksburg. He fought on the Union side and was
discharged as a Corporal.

Obituary for Dr. Samuel Washington Jenkins
January 20, 1933

Dr. S. W. Jenkins, 84, Dies At Bakewell
Union Veteran Fought in Tennessee Regiment - Was Medical
Examiner

Dr. Samuel W. Jenkins, 84, died at his home in Bakewell yesterday
morning after a long illness. Dr. Jenkins was born March 19, 1848, and
was a Union veteran of the War Between the States, being a member of
Company L, Third Tennessee regiment. He served for more than three years
and was one of the 2,120 soldiers on the boat Sultana when it was
destroyed during the war on the Mississippi river.
Dr. Jenkins was captured at Sulphur Trussel, Alabama, and was in
prison for six months at Andersonville. He helped to build the pontoon
bridge across the Tennessee river here during the war and was also in the
Battle of Orchard Knob. He was a practicing physician for more than
sixty years and was pension examiner for the Southern railroad under Dr.
George Baxter and Dr. W. A. Applegate of Chattanooga.
Dr. Jenkins had lived in the section of Soddy and Bakewell for more
than fifty years and was a charter member of the Masonic lodge of Soddy.
Dr. Jenkins is survived by seven sons, E. A., S. W.,Jr., and
William, all of Soddy; Arthur of Emory Gap, Tennessee, and John, Eddie
and Theodore Jenkins of Bakewell; nine daughters, Mrs. T. J. Welch, Red
Bank; Mrs. Elizabeth Woods, Toledo, Ohio; Miss Grace Jenkins,
Chattanooga; Mrs. Harry Sanders, Chattanooga; Mrs. Walter Constigan,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Jessie Ledford and Misses Glenna and Sallie Maude
Jenkins, all of Bakewell, and Mrs. Crystal Minnis of North Carolina; also
a large number of grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the
Congregational church at Soddy, with the Reverend A. L. DeJarnette in
charge, assisted by Reverend W. O. Peeples. Interment with be in Varner
cemetery, with Hallett's in charge. The Masonic order will have charge
of the services at the grave.

Article from Chattanooga Newspaper
January 21, 1933

Dr. Jenkins Death Recalls Sultana
Survived Ship Tragedy in Mississippi River
Paroled Union Soldiers Crowded on Board
Total of 1,338 Lost Lives

The death of Dr. Samuel W. Jenkins, survivor of the sinking of the
Sultana, at his home in Bakewell Thursday, recalled to memories of a few
old-timers the story of that ill-fated steamer whose destruction cost
1,338 lives. Dr. Jenkins was 84 and was spared in his youth to tell the
tale of the Sultana.
The boat, loaded with 1,990 persons, including about 1,200 paroled
Union soldiers, sank in the Mississippi river in April of 1865. Two
nations - the United States of America and the Confederate States of
America - were shaken by the stark horror of the disaster and yet
chronicles of was scarcely mention it - if at all, the Associated Press
reported.
There was nothing glamorous about the disaster - no brave men
charging into cannon, no rebel yells and no waving flags. It was just
death without the tinsel of romance. The steamer either blew up or
turned over from weight of its passengers. Anyway its human cargo was
thrown into the mad Mississippi and most of the men and women drowned.
Acts of congress and snatches of history in documents of the "war of
rebellion" mention the disaster. The prisoners were paroled by the
Confederates in the Vicksburg area and were loaded on boats to go home.
The Sultana steamed up the river and 1,900 persons were loaded aboard.
Some documents say there were protests against herding so many men on one
little ship.
But she started north and up the river she went down. Experts
examined pieces of her boiler and testified as to causes of the
disaster. The men who would have known what happened were dead - victims
of the river. The secretary of war ordered an investigation.
One record says a captain was responsible for the large number of
passengers and another document places blame on another Union officer.
There were court martials. An ensign from the U.S.S. Ironclad Essex
testified Union soldiers at Fort Pickering fired on him and his crew when
they sought to save drowning soldiers. Other authorities said the
ensign's report was not true. There were charges and counter-charges,
but somehow the story of the Sultana died down.
The funeral of Dr. Jenkins was held at the Soddy Congregational
church yesterday. Dr. A. L. DeJarnette officiating, assisted by the
Reverend W. O. Peeples. Interment was in Varner cemetery.

Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Rose

Emanuel Alexander Jenkins

Obituary for Emanuel Jenkins
February 8, 1939

Emanuel A. Jenkins

Emanuel A. Jenkins, 65, for forth years a telegraph operator with
the Southern railway died at his home in Soddy at 11:30 o'clock last
night. Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Rachel and Mary; two
sisters, Mrs. T. J. Welch, of Red Bank, and Mrs. Sam Woods, of Toledo,
Ohio; two brothers, Sam of Somerset, Kentucky and Arthur, of McKinney,
Kentucky, and ten-half brothers. Funeral plans will be announced by
Coulter's.

Emanuel Jenkins
February 9, 1938

Funeral services for Emanuel Jenkins, veteran railroad telegraph
operator, who died at his Soddy home Monday, will be held at the
residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the Reverends A. T. Hayes and W.
H. Black officiating. Interment will be in Varner cemetery, Coulter's in
charge. Pallbearers will be James Gault, Frank Coulter, Ed Copeland,
Will Beck, Haydn Morgan, Lon Smith, Will Mysinger and Tom
Dodd. Members of the Masonic lodge of which he was a member,
Thirty-second degree, will serve as honorary pallbearers. His body is at
the residence.

William Francis Jenkins

Mary Clementine (Lemmie) Jenkins

Samuel Washington Jenkins

Elizabeth Jane Jenkins

Arthur Augustus Jenkins

Obituary for Arthur A. Jenkins
From: The Chattanooga Time, August 30, 1970

Arthur A. Jenkins

Harriman, Tenn. -- Arthur A. Jenkins, 86, of Emory Gap, a pioneer
Roane County resident died Saturday in a hospital in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Mr. Jenkins was one of the oldest members of South Gate Lodge
569, F&AM, a member of the Eastern Star, a member of the Order of
Railroad Telegraphers, a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Order of
Railroad Telegraphers, and a member of Valley Chapel Methodist Church.
Surviving are a son, Woodrow A. Jenkins, Cincinnati, Ohio, and three
daughters, Mrs. Edna Gossage and Mrs. Alma Freudenburg, both of
Crossville, Tennessee, and Mrs. Marie Smith, of Emory Gap.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Valley Chapel
Methodist Church in Emory Gap. The Reverend A. W. Holden will
officiate. Interment will be in Roane Memorial Gardens. The body is at
Kyker Funeral Home here but will taken to the church to lie in state 30
minutes before the service.

Charles L. Jenkins