My second cousin, once removed, Elizabeth Mae Sturman Sadlier, gave me the the manuscripts of the records of the Jenks family reunions from 1911 through 1927 back in 1997.  I transcribed them and let them “age”.  I have finally gotten around to reviewing them, editing them, and sending them out to print with additional photographs and with five generations of the Laban and Prudence White Jenks family enumerated. 

This is a history of the family of Laban and Prudence who migrated from New York to Oakland County, Michigan, in 1820 and a snapshot of early life in Oakland County, Michigan.