Jenks Cemetery, Cheshire, MA
The Jenks Family Cemetery off Wells Rd.
Photos taken in April of 2002
Transcribed by Dawn Newton Quinn
This cemetery has long been forgotten and buried on rural farmland. In order to access it, you must go through the backyard of a family living on Wells Rd. The path to the cemetery is guarded by a Rotweiler, and although the owners say he is friendly, I recommend calling them ahead of time if you plan on visiting. They do like visitors to the cemetery. Once you sneak past "pooch" (not his real name) you climb up a hill and through some brush, you walk into the cemetery. If you visit it in the fall or the early spring it seems very stark and forgotten. Visiting the cemetery in May, I was shocked by how beautiful the yellow wildflowers made the cemetery. A great wish of mine would be to clean up the cemetery. 10 years ago, Peter White visited the cemetery after the town of Cheshire had done their clean up for the 200 year celebration. He took a pole and began to prod the ground. He found two stones buried in the earth. Ricky Leab, a Berkshire Athenaeum librarian, checked a recording of this cemetery done in the early 1900s. They never recorded Thomas's stone. Thomas's stone had been buried for over 75 years. Are there more buried stones in this cemetery? Is it possible that Jesse Jenks and his second wife, Abigail Sayles, are buried in this cemetery? Please visit Peter's website for more information on the Jenks family.
Phalaice M Werden Died 3-8-1841, age 20 years; wife of Ambrose P. Werden
Elisha Phillips Died March 24, 1841
Alden
Jenks
Died 6-6-1841; Alden, son of Jabez and
Cynthia Jenks, age 4; Jabez is the grandson of Edmund Jenks; Cynthia is the
daughter of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (second wife) Abigail Sayles; Jabez and Cynthia
are first cousins-once removed.
Mary
M Field
Died 11-5-1841, age 17 years; Mary M,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Jenks Field; Thomas is the probable son of Chad and
Lorana Field. Mary is the daughter
of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (second wife) Abigail Sayles
Cynthia F. Jenks Died 5-27-1842, age 3 years; daughter of Jabez and Cynthia Jenks; Jabez is the grandson of Edmund Jenks; Cynthia is the daughter of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (second wife) Abigail Sayles. Jabez and Cynthia are first cousins-once removed.
Sophronia Ellison Died 9-4-1846, age 44 years
Mariah
Jenks
Died 5-30-1847, age 26 years; Mariah
Jenks, daughter of Jabez and Cynthia Jenks, age 26 years; Jabez is the grandson
of Edmund Jenks; Cynthia is the daughter of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (second wife)
Abigail Sayles
Mary
Jenks Field
Died November 27, 1850, age 60 years; Mary
Jenks, wife of Thomas Field, age 60 years; daughter of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and
(second wife) Abigail Sayles.
Eunice
Axtel Jenks
Died July 21, 1851, age 54 years; wife
of Welcome Jenks; Welcome is the son of Jesse Jenks, Jr. and Lucretia Mowry,
grandson of Jesse Jenks Sr. and (first wife) Mary Smith
Havrille Jenks Died September 14, 1853, age 60 years, 6 months, 7 days; son of Jesse Jenks, Jr. and Lucretia Mowry, grandson of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (first wife) Mary Smith.
Henry
A. Hammond Died
April 20, 1858, age 2 years, 9 months; son of Aaron Hammond, III and Elizabeth
Field; Aaron is the son of Aaron Hammond, II and Esther Wheelock; Elizabeth is
the daughter of Thomas Field and Mary Jenks.
Thomas Field
Died July 8, 1858, age 66 years; Thomas
Field, probable son of Chad and Lorana Field; husband of Mary Jenks, daughter of
Jesse Jenks and Abigail Sayles.
View of the left half of the cemetery if you are facing the front of the stones.
View of the right half of the cemetery if you are facing the front of the stones.
View of the stone wall covered in brush.
Jenks Cemetery in the Springtime. Photo taken in May of 2002.
Jenks
Cemetery in the Springtime: Henry Hammond, Mary M Field, Mary Jenks Field,
Thomas Field. Descendant of Mary Jenks and Thomas Field, Beverly Nicholls
Rainey and Peter White, descendant of Jesse Jenks, Sr. and (first wife) Mary
Smith. Photo taken in May of 2002.
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