This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Babcock, Jenkins, Worcester, Moore, Crane Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1524 Message Board Post: Don: Your ancestor, Azoriah Babcock, was working at the Jenkins mill, one half mile south of Knox, Iowa, on Cooper's Creek. If you have a census for 1860 Fremont county, you will find Thomas Jenkins, 60, miller, as well as the Bobbitt and Hume families living in the same area. These were well known Knox area pioneers.....For forty years, one of my neighbors was a descendant of the proprietor of Jenkins Mill, Thomas Jenkins. I haven't the slightest idea as to why the Jenkin's Mill does not show up on the 1860 Iowa Industry Census for Fremont county. I couldn't believe my notes on this, so I back tracked on my research to see if my youthful enthusiasm 40 years ago had caused me to overlook it, but, NO LUCK--it just isn't there. But, I have some references on it which pretty well establishes its existence, so I will copy them. 1. NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. Dec. 22, 1866. (Clipped from the "American Union" Sidney, Iowa): "Last week, in company with several of our citizens we took a trip to the Missouri River Bottom. We took the road that passes by Jenkin's Mill. The road is a gradual descent from Sidney to the Bottom, a distance of three miles and a half.....Jenkins Mill has undergone thorough repairs, and is now in good running order, and doing a fine business, turning out a first rate article of Flour..." 2. THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. January 4, 1917. "...Rev. L.B. Worcester is a son of the late Rev. Daivd Worcester, who first came to Fremont county in 1843, when he taught a term of school at McKissick's Grove. In the early '50's he located in Sidney and ran a carding mill on the ground now occupied by the Stich building, where the Herald office was formerly located, and later ran a water mill near Knox and ground corn for the early settlers. He was a cousin of the author of Worcester's dictionary." 3. Source = ?, but dated Dec. 25, 1908.--Mrs. Elwood Moore of Salem, N.C., lived near Knox 35 years ago; her husband was an engineer at the Jenkins Mill that stood about a quarter of a mile south of Knox. 4. THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. Dec. 30, 1915. "THE OLD GRIST MILL".--Recently while passing over the road just south of Knox we were reminded there once stood a grist mill of the old fashioned type where many people of Fremont county would assemble to get a sucpply of choice flour or lmea. The process of manufacture was widely different then from now, as the stone burr and water power has been replaced by steel rollers driven by steam or electric power. This mill was known as the Jenkins mill, but for a period of time S.R. crane, now residing at Hamburg, owned an interest in the enterprise and gave it his personal supervision. Forty years have wrought many changes in the vicinity of Knox, and but few of that day remain to discuss the good old times when the flaky biscuit of the nutritious corn pone, products of the Jenkins mill, and baked by the fireplace, were heaped upon the festal board to appease the sharp appetite of the pioneers.