Jenkins, D. M. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 937, Waterford Township
D. M. Jenkins, born in Hamilton county, in 1832, is the son of Thomas S. and Mary A. (Shelton), the latter of Kentucky, the former of Tennessee; is a farmer on sec. 2; was married in March, 1859, to Mary Jane (Peterson); has 3 boys and 2 girls living; father was a Methodist preacher; in 1862 he enlisted in the famous 103d, Co. H, and was discharged August, 1865, having fought the battles of Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge and Resaca, and wounded in the latter, and was in many other celebrated engagements.