By Eilene Lyon Part 1 Part 2 1857–1863 Ann’s brother, Billy Jenkins, left San Francisco in the spring of 1857 to rejoin his daughter, Lizzie, and his parents in Jay County, Indiana. He purchased his parents’ farm and they all lived together there. Billy spent a year learning new skills at the Indiana School for... Continue Reading →
Ann’s Adventures—Part 2
By Eilene Lyon Part 1 1855–1856 Ann and William Ransom, with their two daughters and Billy Jenkins, took a boat north across the San Francisco Bay to the city, where they could catch the steamer going up the San Joaquin River to Stockton. The steamer wound its way through the head-high tule reeds in the... Continue Reading →
Ann’s Adventures—Part 1
By Eilene Lyon My 2nd great-grandaunt, Ann Jenkins, had a short but adventurous life for a mid-19th century woman. She was born July 5, 1831 in southwestern Ohio, oldest daughter of Henry Zane Jenkins and Abigail G. Bedford. When she was six years old, her family relocated to a newly platted Quaker town in a... Continue Reading →