James married Opal V. Sutton on 31 Aug 1945 in Rossville, Walker County, Georgia, and was divorced on 18 Jul 1980 in Los Angeles County, California. Opal (daughter of Andrew Jackson Sutton and Mary M. Simpson) was born on 4 Feb 1925 in Benham, Harlan County, Kentucky; died on 29 Jul 2009 in Simi Valley, Ventura County, California; was buried on 5 Aug 2009 in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Mary M. Simpson. Mary was born in 1886 in Kentucky; died in 1971; was buried in Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MILITARY: enlisted 20 April 1864 at Maryville, Tennessee
Company L, 3rd Tennessee Union Calvary
captured at Sulpher Trestle, Alabama on 25 Sept 1864
sent with 300 members of the 3rd to the Confederate prison, Castle Morgan, in Cahaba, Alabama
boarded the Sultana on 26 April 1865; the Sultana's boilers exploded at 1.00 a.m. on 27 April 1865
survived the disaster, but sustained a hernia
discharged 10 June 1865

MILITARY: Name: Samuel W. Jenkins
Company: L
Unit: 3 Tennessee Cavalry.
Rank - Discharge: Corporal
Allegiance: Union
Source Citation: Box: 392;Extraction: 8; Record: 327

BIOGRAPHY: On 18 Dec 1874, J. A. Thompson and wife N. A. Thompson sold Daniel E. Evans 100 acres of land on "Flat Branch" for $125. Witnessed by Samuel W. Jenkins. (Swain Co, NC Deed Book 1 page 307)

DEATH: Obituary Name JENKINS, SAMUEL W. (DR.) Date JAN. 20 1933 Newspaper TIMES
Dr S. W. Jenkins Dies At Bakewell
Union Veteran Fought With Tennessee Regiment
Was Medical Examiner
Dr Samuel W. Jenkins, 84, died at his home in Bakewell yesterday morning after a long illness.
Dr Jenkins was born March 19, 1848 and was a Union veteran of the War Between the States , being a member of Company L, Third Tennesse regiment. He served for more than three years and was one of the 2,120 soldiers on the boat Sultan when it was destroyed during the war on the Mississippi river.
Dr Jenkins was captured at Sulphur Trussel, Ala., and was in prison for six months at Andersonville. He helped to build the pontoon bridge across the Tennessee river here during the war and was also in the Battle of Orchard Knob. He was a practicing physician for more than sixty years and was pension examiner for the Southern railroad under Dr George Baxter and Dr W. A. Applegate of Chattanooga.
Dr Jenkins had lived in the section of Soddy and Bakewell for more than fifty years and was a charter member of the Masonic lodge of Soddy.
Dr Jenkins is survived by seven sons, E. A., S. W. Jr. And William, all of Soddy; Arthur of Emory Gap, Tenn. and John, Eddie and Theodore Jenkins of Bakewell; nine daughters, Mrs T. J. Welch, Red Bank; Mrs Elizabeth Woods, Toledo, Ohio; Miss Grace Jenkins, Chattanooga; Mrs Harry Sanders, Chattanooga; Mrs Walter Constigan, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs Jessie Ledford and Misses Glenna and Sallie Maude Jenkins, all of Bakewell; and Mrs Crystal Minnis of North Carolina; also a large number of grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Congregational church at Soddy, with the Reverend A. L. DeJarnette in charge, assisted by Reverend W. O. Peeples. Interment with be in Varner cemetery, with Hallett's in charge. The Masonic order will have charge of the services at the grave.

Samuel married Sarah Ann Good on 25 Jul 1901 in Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of John Ewing Good and Martha Frances Davis) was born on 19 Jul 1883 in Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee; died on 27 Jun 1924 in Highlands Sanatorium, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried on 29 Jun 1924 in Varner Cemetery, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]