Deputy Sheriff Andy Huston Jenkins, Claiborne County Sheriff's Office, Tennessee

Deputy Sheriff Andy Huston Jenkins

Claiborne County Sheriff's Office, Tennessee

End of Watch Friday, December 31, 1920

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Andy Huston Jenkins

Deputy Sheriff Andy Jenkins succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained four days earlier while attempting to arrest a miner at Sterling, Tennessee.

Despite his wounds, Deputy Jenkins returned fire and killed the subject.

Deputy Jenkins was taken to a hospital in Middlesboro, Kentucky, where he succumbed to his wounds on December 31st, 1920.

Deputy Jenkins was survived by his wife and five children.

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Age 57
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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Incident Date Monday, December 27, 1920
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Shot and killed

arrest

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Andy Houston Jenkins was my great grandfather. My grandfather was Christopher Lum Jenkins, father Jack Tenent Jenkins. As I remember stories passed down of Great granpa Andy it was told as a young man he was stabbed and cut in a courting dispute. His intestines were coming out he carried them home in his hands where they were washed in a tub and pushed back in his belly and sewed up. This was one of the reasons told he succumbed to his shooting injuries because his intestines where all out of place from a boyhood injury. I retired in 2015 as a federal law enforcement officer and reside in Claiborne county. May God continue to watch over our peace makers and keep them safe.

Sgt. Richard (Rocky) Jenkins
Great granson. USFS

August 17, 2025