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Elisha “Eli” Jenkins

6 Jun 1841 – 9 Apr 1864

Birth	6 Jun 1841
Death	9 Apr 1864
Cemetery	Old Pleasant Hill Cemetery Pelican , DeSoto Parish , Louisiana , USA
Added by	Terry Jenkins on 23 Sep 2022
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243780615

Gravesite details

Buried among other soldier markers at the cemetery

Bio

Elisha "Eli" Jenkins died during the Battle of Pleasant Hill on 9 April 1864. He was born 6 June 1841, the third son of Benjamin J. Jenkins and Francis Rhodes, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. His father passed away sometime before 1849 and is buried in Lincoln County. Francis, along with her three sons, and her parents, Elisha Rhondes and Rachel Dilling, moved the family to Texas, living in Williamson County in 1850. By 1860, Eli married Martha Jane Long in Williamson County. In 1861, they had a son, Benjamin Jackson Jenkins. Francis remarried and had a daughter and the family moved to Runnels County, Texas. There is a stone in the soldier part of this cemetery with the initials E. J. carved on it and we believe this is our Elisha Jenkins.

Inscription

E.J.

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Family

Parents

• Frances Rhodes Prewitt 1816–1880 FaG

Spouse

• Martha Jane Long Jenkins Brown 1842–1914

Siblings

• Walter Byrem Jenkins 1838–1924 FaG
• James Sherod Prewitt 1850–1934 FaG
• Martha Sarah "Mattie" Prewitt Crowson 1861–1938 FaG

Children

• Benjamin Jackson Jenkins 1861–1939

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