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Cora Ellen Jenkins

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• • Great-grandmother of Penn Jillette — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Marshall I. Jenkins 
  • Mother:
  • Ellen L. Rhoades   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Jan 1866 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Feb 1911 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 16 Feb 1911 
  • Burial Location:
  • Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth Jenkins (Ahnentafel No:7 )

• Additional marriages for Cora Ellen Jenkins

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  • Spouse:
  • Charles H. Ball
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1893
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts

• Sources for Cora Ellen Jenkins

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Hampshire County, 1880, Cummington, E.D. 324, p. 20, Image 20 of 23.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Hampshire County, 1870, Cummington, p. 12, Image 12 of 27.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Records, 1840-1915, Birth record for her illegitimate daughter Lizzie Jenkins.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Records, 1840-1915, Birth record for Cora Ellen Jenkins.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death certificate for Cora Ellen Ball.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915, Marriage record for Charles H Ball and Cora E Jenkins.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for her illegitimate daughter Lizzie Jenkins.
  • ⁸ The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), 11 JUN 1908, p. 3, "East Windsor - Birthday Party Celebration".
  • ⁹ Rising, Justus and Gale J. Bunner, Rising Genealogy: Descendants of Jonathan Rising of Suffield, Ct., Belmont, Massachusetts: Rising Family Association (1983), 141, marriage and death dates are incorrect.

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