Hickory County, Missouri Biographies--M. C. Jenkins

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 594, 595

M. C. Jenkins, of Hickory County, Mo., was born in Orange County, Ind., in 1831.  
His parents, William and Elizabeth (Pritchard) Jenkins, were natives of North 
Carolina, the former's birth occurring in 1808.  After residing until manhood in 
his native State, he moved to Indiana about 1831, and in the fall of 1842 emigrated 
to Missouri, locating in Benton County, where he helped erect the first grist-mill 
in this section of the country.  He was a farmer and merchant throughout life, and 
died in 1864, having been an earnest member of the Baptist Church and a Whig in 
Politics.  He and wife were the parents of eight children.  The paternal grandfather 
was born in Scotland, and emigrated to America previous to the Revolutionary War.  
It is said of him by his descendants that he gave a half-bushel of dollars for a 
substitute during that war.  M. C. Jenkins, our subject, was reared to manhood in 
Benton County, and was married in the spring of 1853 to Miss Nancy Barnett.  They 
settled in Hickory County, and began tilling the soil.  Mrs. Jenkins was born in 
Kentucky in 1829, and by Mr. Jenkins is the mother of eight children: Thomas J.; 
Paulina, wife of C. S. Thompson; Schyler B.; Harriet E., wife of J. C. Brown; Jennie, 
wife of J. R. Nease; Leatha, Nellie and Mattie.  Mrs. Jenkins is a daughter of 
Mr. Schyler and Elizabeth (Harrison) Barnett, the father being a native of Virginia, 
as was also his father.  Schyler died in Missouri, having been a farmer throughout 
life.  Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are members of the Christian Church, and he is a Democrat 
politically, and a member of the Agricultural Wheel.

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