canadian viagra sales<\/a> spinach, eggs, watermelon, cashews, almonds, banana, garlic and pumpkin seeds in your daily diet. <\/span><\/p>\nSallie Jenkins was a Baptist most of her life. In the early 1870\u2019s trouble broke out at Cane Creek (now Fairview) Baptist Church as an aftermath of the Civil War. The great majority of people who owned slaves belonged to the Methodist Church. A few slaveowner families were Baptists, probably around five percent. They were mostly Merrills and Ashworths. Even though they were a small minority of the church, they provided 80 or 90 percent of the church\u2019s money. Since they financed the church they believed they should run things. The 80 or 90 percent who did not have slaves but made up the vast majority of the membership thought they should run things.<\/p>\n
Asheville was the only strong pro-slavery pro-Confederate stronghold in the mountains. The rural areas hated the north but were only lukewarm at best to the Confederacy and didn\u2019t care too much for North Carolina. They just hated the government and came to the mountains to get away from it. In northeastern North Carolina white Democrats had problems regaining control because of the large black population; many counties were predominantly black or close to it. But in western North Carolina there were few blacks. They posed no problem but the rural whites had not been very loyal Democrats since the much hated Andrew Jackson; these rural areas had had a third of their young men killed or wounded in the Civil War. It was looked upon as a Democrat- Zebulon Vance War. Both men were worshiped in Asheville and most of North Carolina, but not in rural Western NC.<\/p>\n
Maintaining control outside of Asheville proved a problem. Vance\u2019s Ku Klux Klan was used more against whites than blacks in the mountains, and this problem spread in to the churches as well. Just at the peak of the problems in Cane Creek Baptist Church, Aunt Sallie\u2019s brother James Whitaker came home from Utah to pick up his family\u2019s records his baby brother Henry Whitaker (1811-1883) had been gathering for him with the help of Aunt Sallie and her son Henry Jenkins.<\/p>\n
James Whitaker (1805-1892) was a Mormon Bishop. He was born and raised in Fairview and what Fairview residents that were not relatives of his, knew him. James saw the opportunity at hand and stayed in Fairview for two years doing missionary work. Aunt Sallie and most of her sisters and brothers not only became Mormons but so did almost the majority of Fairview. Over the next 15 years the Mormon faith began spreading out of Fairview to other parts of Buncombe County, McDowall County and other areas of the mountains.<\/p>\n
North Carolina\u2019s political machine had regained solid control of the state but could not understand what the heck had happened in Fairview. In the late 1880\u2019s the machine had enough: The Mormons either had to go back to their old faith or move to Utah. It may not have been legal, but whoever heard of a political machine obeying the law? A good many people in Fairview moved to Utah and Idaho. Most stayed here and went back to their old faith, others didn\u2019t go back to church at all, and some like Sallie Jenkins just stayed at home and practiced their faith in secret.<\/p>\n
Sarah \u201cSallie\u201d Whitaker Jenkins died July 22, 1896 at the ripe old age of 95. Her mind stayed sharp. She had to use a cane but was still able to cook and look after herself.<\/p>\n
Sallie Jenkins had four children:<\/p>\n
Columbus M. Jenkins was born in Fairview February 24, 1834. He died August 7, 1861 after a long, painful and lingering illness. He never married and was buried in Cane Creek Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Mary Manerva Jenkins was born in Fairview June 27, 1835. She married Rev. Peter Owen (1793-1859) who was 42 years older than she. He is buried in Cane Creek Cemetery. She married a second time to John Marcus Trantham (August 7, 1844\u2013February 7, 1916). He was the son of Jeptha and Mary Wright Trantham. John left Manerva and moved to Westminster, SC. Manerva Jenkins Trantham died August 8, 1912. She is buried in Tweeds Chapel Cemetery in Fairview.<\/p>\n
William Lafayette Jenkins was born in Fairview July 29, 1837 and died February 27, 1838. He is buried in Cane Creek Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Henry Jenkins was born in Fairview February 16, 1839. He married his first cousin Harriett Amanda \u201cMandie\u201d Whitaker (November 8, 1836-March 16, 1922). She was the daughter of William Whitaker Sr. and Rutha Williams. Henry died September 18, 1919. Both are buried in Cane Creek Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Local historian Bruce Whitaker documents genealogy in the Fairview area. Contact Mr. Whitaker by phone at 828 628-1089 or email brucewhitaker@bellsouth.net<\/p>\n