Robert Jenkins and Jane Morton

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Husband Robert Jenkins ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - the north of Ireland
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           Died: Aft 1906
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       Marriage:  - Scotland

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Wife Jane Morton ²

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         Father: Thomas Morton (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Jane Gardner (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Frank M. Jenkins ²

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           Born: 1848 - Scotland 2
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           Died: Abt 1874
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Thomas Morton Jenkins ²

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           Born: 28 Mar 1857 2
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           Died: Jul 1897 2
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         Spouse: Nevada Buttermore (      -      ) 2

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3 M Robert Jenkins, Jr. ²

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           Born: Abt 1859
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           Died: 2 Apr 1908 3
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         Spouse: Rachel Elwell (      -Bef 1918) 3

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4 M Marion G. Jenkins ³

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           Died: Aft 1918
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5 F Jennie Jenkins ³

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           Died: Aft 1918
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6 F Mary Jenkins ³

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         Spouse: W. H. Hugus (      -Bef 1918) 3

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7 F Elizabeth W. Jenkins ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Rev. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray (1850-      ) 5 6
           Marr: 13 Jun 1877 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Jenkins

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He was married in Scotland when he was twenty years old. At twenty-one years of age he emigrated to the United States, settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, near the old William Brown residence. Mr. Jenkins had been a miner in Scotland, and was employed by Mr. Brown, the "coal king," until the time came when he was in circumstances to go in business for himself. In 1851 he came to Scotch Hill, near Robbins Station, opening the Scotch Hill Coal Mines on the Allegheny river and shipping coal to all the lower Ohio river and Mississippi cities. In 1865 he was nearly stranded in consequence of a large ice gorge, breaking up the dams and drying up the Youghiogheny river, and stopping navigation, where he had his works and mills. His whole plant was put out of commission, so that he was prevented from getting his coal floated to the markets in Pittsburgh. Mr. Jenkins was one of the pioneer coal men and was one of the first men to put steamboats on the Allegheny river, beginning with a boat appropriately named the "Allegheny." Later he became the owner of the "Robert Jenkins." Eventually he sold out to the Pittsburgh Coal Company.

He and his wife had ten children, three dying in infancy.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 361.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 307.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 308.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 305.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 359.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 303.