"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 326-327.  
Used by permission. [Daviess]

BENJAMIN FULTON JENKINS:  No minister has been more universally loved 
and respected in the history of this Association than Elder B. F. 
Jenkins.  Our subject was born of humble and Godly parentage in Meade 
County, Kentucky, on March 22, 1842, and was the youngest child of 
four born to B. S. and Elizabeth Humphrey Jenkins.  His grandfather 
was John S. Jenkins, who emigrated to Glasgow, Kentucky, about 1790, 
where he remained but a short time when he moved to Daviess County; 
and from thence to Meade County, where he reared a large family of 
nine children, of whom, B. S. Jenkins, the father of our subject was 
the sixth.
	Brother Jenkins' early educational advantages were limited to a 
great extent, but, by diligent reading and study, together with a 
strong physical development and a well balanced mind, he became an 
accurate reasoner, a clear and forceful speaker, and an eminently 
successful pastor.  At the outbreak of the Civil War, Brother Jenkins 
enlisted in the Union Army serving in Company D., Seventeenth Kentucky 
Volunteer Infantry, where he followed the fortunes of the Army of the 
Cumberland through all its important campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, 
and Georgia, including the famous battles of Missionary Ridge, 
Chickamauga, and Atlanta, doing his duty bravely for three years and 
four months.  It was during his services in the Army that he felt 
called to preach the Gospel.  He had previously professed faith in 
Christ and had been baptized into the fellowship of a Baptist Church 
by Elder Alfred Taylor while a small boy.  One of the gifts he took 
with him to the War was a small Bible, which he kept with him at all 
times, and from which he read continuously, when occasion permitted.
	Having returned safely from the War we find him ordained to the 
Gospel Ministry on the Third Sunday in April, 1865, at the Green River 
Baptist Church, near Cromwell, Ohio County, Kentucky.  Elders Alfred 
Taylor, J. S. Coleman, and J. F. Austin served as presbytery.  Thus 
began an active ministry which was to last for fifty-eight years.  In 
that time he served a total of forty-four churches, most of them 
within the Green River section.  He also held a total of 298 
protracted meetings, and as one of the tangible results of these 
meetings over 8,000 persons were converted and baptized into the 
fellowship of Baptist Churches.  Many of these he baptized with his 
own hands, while others were baptized by the pastors whom he assisted 
in the meetings young men who later became ministers of the gospel, 
twenty-six of whom he baptized himself.  Many of these became 
prominent pastors.  Among them may be mentioned M. H. Whitson, J. M. 
Jarnagin, and Granville Dockery.
	Brother Jenkins was the author of three tracts during his 
ministry- "Meat and Milk Of The Gospel," "What Causes Panics," and 
"Baptist Axioms."  The last mentioned tract had a circulation of over 
14,000, and was commented on very favorably by the brethren and the 
Baptist Press.  It is so outstanding that the author has included it 
in this history.
	On July 5, 1868, Brother Jenkins married Miss Elizabeth I. Arnold 
of Ohio County Kentucky.  Six children were born to this union, Susan 
E., John A., Aitha C., Laura A., B. Smith, and Benjamin F.  All of 
them are now dead.  The first Mrs. Jenkins died in October, 1882, the 
day after the birth of her youngest child, and Brother Jenkins married 
Miss Emma Miller, the eldest daughter of J. C. and Frances Miller, on 
December 24, 1884.  Four children were born to this second marriage but 
only one survives.  The second Mrs. Jenkins died in 1920.
	Our Brother served the following pastorates in this Association 
during his active ministry: Bell's Run 1885-1890, 1893-1899; Buck 
Creek 1885-1891; Island 1888; Mt. Carmel 1888-1899; Livermore 1889; 
Calhoun 1892-1893; Glenville 1892-1895; Bethel 1896-1900; Stanley 1897; 
Beaver Dam 1898-1900; Red Hill 1899-1900; Mt. Liberty 1901-1904; 
Concord 1901; Bethlehem 1903-1904; New Hope 1906-1907; Richland 1908; 
Hopewell 1915-1917; and Hall Street in Owensboro 1917-1918.  The last 
named pastorate was entered into on the day he was seventy-five years 
of age.
	Besides the above mentioned pastorates we note that Brother 
Jenkins also held several pastorates in Ohio, Butler, Hancock, and 
Muhlenberg Counties.  He served as Missionary for the Gasper River 
Association from 1867 to 1870.  He preached the Annual Sermon before 
the Daviess County Association in 1891 and served as Moderator in 1909 
and 1910.
	Near the year 1923 he left the state and moved to Missouri to 
live with his son, B. Smith Jenkins.  Even in his advanced years he 
continued to faithfully witness for Christ and led many souls into a 
walk with Him.  He died at the home of his son in Springfield, 
Missouri, on May 5, 1932.  His remains were brought back to his 
native State and laid to rest in the Elmwood Cemetery in Owensboro.
	For many years Brother Jenkins lived near Cromwell, in Ohio 
County.  Still later he made his home on a small farm near Habit, in 
Daviess County.  From that time on until his removal to Missouri his 
home was on Lewis Street in Owensboro.  For many years the pleasant 
sight of Brother Jenkins in his stove-pipe hat and frock-tail coat 
greeted the eyes of the brethren in this Association.  He reached the 
advanced age of ninety and gently fell to sleep.

Jenkins Humphrey Taylor Coleman Austin Whitson Jarnagin Dockery 
Arnold Miller
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Meade Glasgow-Barren Ohio Butler Hancock Muhlenberg MO

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