Gary--I believe Jenkins Ferry was on the Ouchita River (Arkansas) not the Sabine...unless there may have been a creek or ford that went by that name on, or near, the Ferry which is lost to modern history. That is not impossible because I've noted a number of places in Arkansas with Texas "names" and vice versa. I suspect that is because families coming in from the "old South" to settle Arkansas after it was opened as a territory in 1819 furnished a lot of settlers from their second generation (their children)to the new lands opening in Texas in the 1830s-50s. As a fourth generation Texan, now an Arkansawer, I've long been interested in the two states relationship.