Nellie Jane Jenkins

I had my State DAR Fall Forum this weekend, so I again didn't get a chance to prepare a post this weekend. I will instead leave you with the death certificate for my father-in-law's aunt, Nellie Jane Jenkins. He never knew of her until I found her tombstone in the local cemetery. I found her death certificate a few months later.

Death Certificate for the stillborn "infant of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Jenkins"

I will also attach her tombstone, which is the only record that shows her name.

Copyright Brittany Jenkins, 2011

Sources:

• Death Certificate, Infant of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Jenkins (accessed on Ancestry)
• Tombstone, Nellie Jane Jenkins

Edmund and Mary S. Sheron

This week, I thought I would focus on a family about which I know relatively little. Edmund Sheron, my husband's third great-grandfather, was born about 1835 in North Carolina. He married Mary Self on 7 July 1861.

Clipping from the Guilford County Marriage Records

They had at least the following children:

• Sarah Sheron
• Elizabeth Sheron
• William Henry Sheron
• Nancy Sheron
• Charles Wheeler Sheron

I have found this family living in Walkertown, Middle Fork, Forsyth County, North Carolina in 1870. 

Clipping from 1870 Census

I have also found this family living in Huntsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1880. I lose everybody in the family until 1920 when I find their son, Charles, living in Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina. I have also found their son, William, living in Guilford County, North Carolina. But Sarah, Elizabeth, and Nancy are still mysteries to me.

This family definitely requires quite a bit of work, but I hope to keep digging into them to find more about them and where they originated. (I don't even know where they are buried.) The only clue I have was found in the 1880 census for Edmond. It states that Edmond's father may have been born in Virginia and his mother may have been born in North Carolina. Here's to open genealogical doors!

Sources:

• 1870 Walkertown, Middle Fork, Forsyth County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1880 Huntsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1920 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• Guilford County Marriage Records (accessed on Ancestry)

Phillip A. Jenkins and Minnie Sheron Jenkins

Happy Anniversary! Today would have been Phillip Arister Jenkins and Minnie Tree Sheron's 90th wedding anniversary. These are my husband's great-grandparents. In honor of that milestone, I wanted to talk about their family.

Phillip "Arister" Jenkins was born 31 August 1886 in Yadkin County, North Carolina. He was the second child born to Columbus Franklin Jenkins and Sarah Frances Southard. Arister first married Mary A. ("Molly") Nance. According to the 1910 Census, they were married about 1905. Together, Arister and Molly had at least five children. They were:

• Cora N. Jenkins, b. about 1905
• Columbus Paul Jenkins, b. 28 April 1909
• Fred Jenkins, b. about 1912
• Homer Jenkins, b. 22 February 1913
• Leona Jenkins, b. about 1917

Clipping from the 1920 Census

I do not know much about Arister and Molly's relationship. I was shocked when I even found out that Arister was married before he was married to Minnie! Molly Nance died 30 July 1921 at the age of 35. I have not yet found a cause of death for her. Her death (and life) have always been a bit of a mystery to me.

Copyright Brittany Jenkins, 2011.

After Molly's death, Arister married Minnie Tree Sheron, the daughter of Charles Wheeler Sheron and Lucy Jane Smith. They were married 21 February 1925 in Randolph County, North Carolina. Together, they had five children:

• Nellie Jane Jenkins, b. 16 January 1926
• Charles Wray Jenkins, b. 1927
• Phillip Earl Jenkins, b. 7 April 1929
• Joe Frank Jenkins, b. 1 March 1931
• Joyce J. Jenkins, b. about 1933

Clipping from the 1930 Census. Notice Arister's "Age at first marriage" is listed as 38, not 19.

Clipping from the 1940 Census.

I am unsure whether or not Nellie was born premature or was stillborn, but she died the same day she was born. My father-in-law did not even know of his Aunt Nellie's existence until I uncovered it in my research at the local cemetery. I wonder if her siblings even knew about her.

Copyright Brittany Jenkins, 2011.

Arister died at the age of 73 on 8 December 1959 in Franklinville, Randolph County, North Carolina of hemoplegia due to arteriosclerosis. Minnie died about 30 years later on 5 February 1993. Arister, Molly, Minnie, and Nellie are all buried at Grays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Franklinville, Randolph County, North Carolina.

Copyright Brittany Jenkins, 2011.

Sources:

• 1910 Boonville, Yadkin County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1920 Meadows, Stokes County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1930 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1940 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Phillip Arister Jenkins (accessed on Ancestry)
• Tombstone, Molly Jenkins (photo taken Christmas 2011)
• Tombstone, Nellie Jane Jenkins (photo taken Christmas 2011)
• Tombstone, Phillip A. and Minnie S. Jenkins (photo taken Christmas 2011)

William Marshall Lineberry

William Marshall Lineberry was born on 8 March 1918 in Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina. He was the fourth of eight children born to William Gaston Fletcher Lineberry and Maude Elsie Foust.

At the age of 18, on 26 December 1936, he married Lois Mozelle Saunders.



Together, they had three children.

1. Elsie Louise Lineberry
2. James Marshall Lineberry
3. Angela Frances Lineberry

They also raised a nephew, Dennis Saunders, as one of their own. 

For my first post on this blog, I wanted to highlight someone who was important from my husband's childhood. My mind immediately went to his Paw-paw Lineberry. I asked Andrew what he remembered about the relationship between his grandparents. He couldn't tell me much as he was very young when they were still alive, but he did tell me something interesting.

When Marshall's youngest grandsons knew him, he and Lois were sleeping in separate bedrooms. This got me curious to know more about their relationship together. I called their youngest daughter, Angie, my mother-in-law, for more information about them. She did not disappoint! Here's what I found out.

Marshall and Lois first met while Lois was babysitting near Grays Chapel School. Marshall was driving a school bus at the time, and when she saw him, she decided right then that he was the man she was going to marry.

Lois had attended Franklinville School, while Marshall had attended Grays Chapel School, so they didn't know each other growing up. But Lois didn't let that stop her. She wasn't allowed to go on "double-dates," but she was allowed to meet him with a group of people (even if it was a group of guys and she was the only girl) in order to see each other. That's how their relationship began.

When I first asked Angie about her parents and their relationship, the first thing she said was, "At the time my mom died, they had been married for 61 years. They never fought or fussed, at least not in front of us kids." She said they were very family-oriented and wanted to keep all of their kids close to them. This only got stronger as their kids started having kids of their own.

When Angie talked about how her parents spoiled their grandkids, she told me they each had their own way of going about it.

Granny Lineberry would spoil them by playing Uno games with them (a game that is still very prevalent in my husband's family). Her grandson, Andrew, recalls she was "ruthless" when it came to playing Uno. She did not just let them win. She also spoiled them by cooking them whatever foods and desserts they wanted to eat. She "loved on" the kids, Angie said.

Paw-paw, on the other hand, gave the kids things, money or gifts, to spoil them. He also hated green beans, so he never made the grandkids eat them. Instead, he would give them chocolate pudding and bananas... foods he enjoyed. Andrew shared his dislike of green beans. In fact, he still hates green beans to this day. I find it funny, though, that green beans were one of his Granny Lineberry's favorite foods.

Lois passed away in 1999. When I asked Angie how Marshall was affected by her death, she said she thinks he "about mourned himself" to death. Marshall died just two years later on 12 October 2001 in Asheboro, Randolph, North Carolina. He was 83. He is buried next to his wife at Grays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. which is located at Franklinville, Randolph County, North Carolina.

So, despite their decisions to sleep in separate rooms, I think it is clear their relationship was a loving one. It was family-oriented and, while Marshall wasn't known as a "romantic," he let everyone around him feel the effects of his love for his wife.

"She was a good woman."

-Marshall Lineberry

Sources:

• Andrew Jenkins, grandchild
• Angie Jenkins, child
• Photos provided by Angie Jenkins