Miranda Jenkins
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Miranda Jenkins was born Dec 1865 in Louisiana per the 1900 census. (She is 51 per the 1920 census, and 56 per the 1930 census). Her maiden name of "Jenkins" comes from the death certificate of her son Hiluid Wimbly. | Miranda Jenkins was born Dec 1865 in Louisiana per the 1900 census. (She is 51 per the 1920 census, and 56 per the 1930 census). Her maiden name of "Jenkins" comes from the death certificate of her son Hiluid Wimbly. | ||
| − | She married [[George E Washington]] 4 Apr 1899 in Arkansas County as "Mirandy Wimberly" | + | She married [[George E Washington]] 4 Apr 1899 in Arkansas County as "Mirandy Wimberly". Maranda evidently had several children from a prior marriage, named Wimbly or Wimberly. On the 1900 census, they say married 1 year, but on the 1910 census, he says this is his first marriage, while she says it's her second and both say they married 18 years ago. On the 1930, he says married first at 17, while she says 15, so evidently he *also* had a prior marriage. |
| − | Per her tombstone (see below), she died in 1954, | + | Per her tombstone (see below), she died in 1954, probably in [http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Stuttgart,_Arkansas Stuttgart], Arkansas County, Arkansas. |
I placed a lookup request [http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.arkansas/1858/mb.ashx here on Ancestry's Arkansas County Board] and got this response:<blockquote> | I placed a lookup request [http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.arkansas/1858/mb.ashx here on Ancestry's Arkansas County Board] and got this response:<blockquote> | ||
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==Children== | ==Children== | ||
| − | Miranda was | + | Miranda was married before to a Mr Wimbly or Wimberley. Most if not all of her children from this marriage later took the surname Washington. |
*Hiluid Wimley. Althea has found a death certificate which says: "Age 44, colored, single, male. Date of birth April 15, 1886 at Dumas, AR. Mother Maranda Jenkins born in Shreveport, LA. Father Lawson Wimley, born in GA. Date of death March 20, 1929. The cause of death is a gunshot wound of the abdomen. He died at Desha County, Township of Randolph. It doesn't say where he was buried, just that the undertaker was General Morgan. A line beneath the undertaker's name contains the reference, "Owens and Brown....Gould, AR" | *Hiluid Wimley. Althea has found a death certificate which says: "Age 44, colored, single, male. Date of birth April 15, 1886 at Dumas, AR. Mother Maranda Jenkins born in Shreveport, LA. Father Lawson Wimley, born in GA. Date of death March 20, 1929. The cause of death is a gunshot wound of the abdomen. He died at Desha County, Township of Randolph. It doesn't say where he was buried, just that the undertaker was General Morgan. A line beneath the undertaker's name contains the reference, "Owens and Brown....Gould, AR" | ||
