His name was Notley Anderson - not Nodley

[Susan Higginbotham]

(12-16-2014 03:28 PM)L Verge Wrote:  One more tidbit. The Surratt/Jenkins tie to the Kirby family is via one of John Zadoc Jenkins's daughters (Olivia, perhaps) marrying into the Kirbys. Mrs. Surratt's lady's desk, which now resides in our parlor, came to us via a Kirby descendant, whose family inherited it from Annie Surratt's daughter, Clara, who never married and gave it to a favorite Kirby cousin.

Weird fact: Three of John Z. Jenkins' daughters married three brothers. Olivia married James W. Donohoe, Eugenia married Daniel T. Donohoe, and Emily married John F. Donohoe. (A fourth Jenkins daughter, Margaret, married someone named Brooke--evidently there were no more Donohoes left.) I thought this odd, but the abstract of John Z.'s will at the Hall research center does indeed name all three Donohoe brides as John's daughters, and other sources confirm that the three men were brothers.

Olivia was the first of the Donohoe brides to die (in 1898). James, sadly, suffocated in a hotel fire in 1901; he had come home late and chose to spend the night at the hotel rather than disturb his household. Their marker in Mount Olivet is quite nice:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...i=51251591