Captain William Jenkins 
Captain William was born on March 15th, 1762 in Valley of Neath, Wales,. Captain William's father is Evan Jenkins and his mother is Elizabeth Davis. He had four brothers and a sister, named John, Evan, Benjamin, Thomas and Esther. He was the youngest of the six children. He died at the age of 71 in 1833 in Okeana, Butler Co. Oh.General Notes
William Jenkins was born in Wales. At the age of 14, he visited his uncle in Ireland and fell in love with his cousin, Susannah WAlker. William's uncle was opposed to the marriage becasuse of their tender ages. Susannah was 13. They eloped to America in 1777 and married at the age of 15 for William and 14 for Susannah, then settled in Isle of Wright Co. Virginia. William joined the Virginia mil;ita when only 15 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, his exploits read like those of a mature man. After several years in Isle of Wight Country, they moved to Pittsylvania County where they remained until 1807 when they moved by oxteam to Ohio. He and his family settled in Cincinnati and bought 80 acres of land on the present site of Main Street, which he later sold. He then moved to Butler County and settled on Dry Fork
Source: DeArmond Famil;ies of American and Relatead Families, Roscoe Carlisle d'Armand, Family Record Society, 1954
The postmasters of this township from the beginning have been: Okeana.---Samuel D. LLOYD, May 27, 1858; Henry BRANDENBURG, May 3, 1866; Perry CLAWSON, January 13, 1876. Before being known as Okeana it was called Tariff, and under this cognomen had the following postmasters: William JENKINS, January 14, 1828;
History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio (1882):
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Taken from Burke’s GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, 16th Edition, London, 1939. A part of this work...American Families with British Ancestry...has been reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore.
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Captain William and Susannah were married in a religious ceremony in 1784. They had three sons and six daughters, named Evan, Benjamin D, William, Catherine, Ruth, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Nancy.
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Children
Catherine Jenkins
Catherine was born on March 15th, 1784. She died at the age of 76 on March 4th, 1861 in Butler Co. Oh.
Benjamin D Jenkins
Benjamin D was born on March 5th, 1800 in Butler County, Oh. He died at the age of 34 in 1834 in Fox River, in.
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