Micah Jenkins Jr.'s wife, Eloise Tucker (Greene), is buried in the Cabaniss plot at Bonaventure in Savannah, Ga. She lived a long life dying at the age of 85 years 2 months and 19 days. Her date of death is April 18, 1930. The cost would have been too great to take her body back to Brunson, SC and by this time none of the family remained there. Her sister, Anna Louise (Greene) Davis, had died March 8, 1912 and her children had left the area. One pertinent document was located in the Hampton County Deeds. Micah sold the land at McPhersonville that most likely was the family's summer home in the Pinelands until they built the home at Trewins Island, owned by the Mackays, on the end of Mackay's Point. The McPhersonville Village land was sold to Charles J. C. Hutson for $10 and it is stated that the property was "my father’s Micah Jenkins now deceased". It was three and three quarters acres which were the amount needed for a family to summer on as they had to raise their food and keep the livestock. This was sold September 12, 1883 and also included Eloise Tucker's right to dower.

Eloise Tucker Jenkins has a CSA pension application on line in the Georgia Archives virtual vault. She says she married Micah Jenkins on Jan. 11, 1861 in South Carolina. He enlisted in the South Carolina Beaufort Artillery and served until they surrendered in Greensboro, N. C. He died in Brunson, S. C. about 14 years ago. (Application made in 1907 so that would make his death about 1893.) Proof of her own death in Savannah on April 18, 1830 is included.
Jenkins, Eloise Tucker
County CHATHAM
Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_178193-00823
Last Name Jenkins
First Name Eloise
Middle Name Tucker
Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives
Digital Collection Confederate Pension Applications
Date created 2010-11-02