Obeying the Bible Injunction

J. M. Jenkins, of Paulding county was in town yesterday.  He has been married twice, had eight children by his first wife and twelve by his second, fifteen of whom are living. He has forty-two grand children; appears to be about sixty-five years of age.  At this second marriage his wife was twenty years old, he then been forty. His youngest child is just one year old. On telling his story to a number of gentlemen on the street. Mr. Graham, of the Rawlins saloon invited him in to take something. The old gentleman with a smile acquiesced.

Jackson News - Week of October 4, 1882

Submitted by Don Bankston