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Note: Mary Emaline was born the 26th of October, 1827 in Chatham County North Carolina. She was the first born of her parents James Wilson Jenkins, a 5th generation decendant of William Jenkins of Rappahannock Virginia, and Sarah Dowd, a grandaughter of Connor Dowd of Ireland.
Her parents and Jenkins grandparents sold there farms in Chatham County and left for Tennessee in 1832. They settled in the Brownsville area of Haywood Co TN. After her father applied for a land grant in 1838, they left for the Counce, Red Sulphur Springs, Pickwick area of Hardin County. The Mississippi - Tennessee State Line ran near or through their farm in southern Hardin County. In the 1840s the family was shown living in Tisomingo Mississippi. On the 1845 MS State census the family was still in Tishomingo Co. Mary Emeline married a young man, Edward Garland of Giles Co, who was living with his uncle, Peter Garland, two doors down. The marriage was said to have ended the same day.
Mary Emaline married William C. Sawyers of Mississippi about 1850. He was born in Alabama but his family had moved to Tishomingo County. William and Mary Emaline moved to Red Sulphur Springs, near Monticello in district 9 near the state line, south of Counce. Some of their children are shown on the census as being born in Tennessee and others in Mississippi. She and her family were members of the Bethel Baptist Church of Christ in Counce.
Their first child, Amanda, was born in 1852. Amanda never married and lived with her younger sister, Sarah, in later years. William J. Sawyers was born in 1862, but cannot be found after 1880. Sarah W. Sawyers was born in 1858 and married Harris Bazzel of Kentucky. Their children remained in the Pickwick area of Hardin County. Mary Louise Sawyers, the youngest daughter, married Julius Oliver Welch of MIssissippi and were parents of 10 children, most of whom remained around Counce. Richard was born after the Civil War, married Elizabeth Carson, and they and their children left the area.
Nearly all of Mary Emaline's descendants have been identified down to the 14th generation of William Jenkins but after her marriage to William Sawyer her descendants no longer share the Jenkins name and not recorded here.
Mary Emaline died of consumption on the 27th of February 1887, at the age of 60. She was taken to Roberts Cemetery in Counce, where it is believed her parents were buried. She is next to her brother, John Sanford Jenkins. William Sawyers, a blacksmith, lived another 20 years after her death. He died in 1908 in Hardin County. He was a veteran of the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.
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