Ms. White - I do not know if we can connect on anything! My g-g-gf's name was James, we think. He would have been born around 1800. His wife's name was Martha. At least that is my g-g-gm's name. None of our family knows her maden name. She was born in S.C. in 1807. There was a James Jenkins, wife and six children listed in the 1840 Forsyth County, GA census. The 1845 GA. STATE census lists a James M. Jenkins with eleven in the household. The 1850 Forsyth County census lists only Martha and two sons, R. R., age 4, and I.B., age 1. I assume James died in 1848 or 1849. You mention one of Samuels brothers as James. Also you list a brother, Joseph. I have a copy of a letter written by R. R. (Russell Renneau), mu g-gf to his cousin, Joseph Benjamin Jenkins, in Mississippi stating, "It's good to know I have a living sister." No name given. Also, "it's bad when a father dies leaving a poor widdow with helpless little children to be separated one from another." I have no idea where my James was born. R. R. was born 12-03-1846. I. B. does not appear in any other census. Martha and R. R. are next listed in the 1860 Chattooga County GA census. R. R. married Mary Ann Hix in 1868. Martha was living with them in the 1870 census. No record of Martha after that. J.B.'s descendants and I have been unable to tie the cousins together as neither of us can find the parents of the cousins. Oh, I have talked with a descendant of Bartlett M. Jenkins and we also think they are cousins. Ray Jenkins [email protected]