Old Jenkins Cemetery, St. Tammany Parish, La. File submitted by Donald W. Johnson 3/99 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Old Jenkins Cemetery St. Tammany Parish, La. The Old Jenkins Cemetery is about two miles off Highway 40, across a ditch that was dug before 1850 by slaves of Abner Jenkins (1795-1877) and is on property formerly owned by Abner Jenkins The graves are in the northwest corner of the property and there are old wooden markers in the weeds and between the trees. Some of the unmarked graves are saId to be of slaves. Copied July 1974 by Doris Martln Holden. Richard Tyner Jenkins 30 April 1816 18 December 1882 Richard Tyner Jenkins, II 12 December 1858 23 February 1914 William Jenkins 1842 - 1906 S. Ann Stafford Wife of Richard Tyner Jenkins 12 December 1825 Died 1897 Isaac Jenkins 18 September 1862 15 December 1930 Abner Jenkins 1790 - 1877