Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Jenkins, Greenberry July 31, 1887
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This faithful veteran of Christ in Morgan County, Feb 18th, 1810, and was called 
forever from his labors on earth, by the Lord, on the 31st day of July 1887 so 
he died in great peace, at his residence in Clay County, in the 78th year of his 
life. January 9th, 1834, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Bandy, daughter 
of Judge Bandy of Morgan County, Ga. He afterwards removed to Pike County, in 
the year 1838, where he remained until the year 1846, when he removed to 
Chambers County, and from thence to Randolph now Clay County where he died. Miss 
Bandy, to whom was married, was a woman of much loveliness, and she retained all 
her elegance of manner and smooth, motherly tenderness, to the last of her life, 
which occurred at the residence of her late lamented husband, in Randolph 
County, in August 1863. I need not say that she was Christian, for G. B. Jenkins 
would not have' married an unbeliever. She was very and more than ordinarily 
active in Christian work. She became the mother of four children, three of whom 
are living, Dr. W. 0. Jenkins resides at Lineville, and is a Baptist preacher 
and a successful physician, J. K. Jenkins is an earnest Christian gentleman, and 
devoted traveler, Rev. G. B. Jenkins is a Baptist minister of intelligence and 
worth and resides in Georgia.
In the year 1864 he married Mrs. Lucinda Black, and daughter of Mr. William 
Henry, of Cleburne County, Ala. Mrs. Black was quite an amiable woman, and 
worthy and active, Christian. Though uneducated, she was more usually elegant 
and influential. She survives our late lamented brother, and resides, on the old 
homestead. By this marriage he was presented with one son now dead. Early in 
life brother Jenkin became Christian and united with the Baptist church. He 
distinguished himself in Christian activity, at once, and was made a deacon, 
which office he held great honor to himself and with much profit to the cause of 
his Master. Bro. Jenkins was not an ordinary man. His honesty, virtue, piety and 
unflinching integrity gave him a high place in the moral world. His Christian 
activity and intense desire for the prosperity of Zion secured him an enviable 
position in his church. His unwavering honesty and peaceful character secured 
from all who knew him well, exalted respect. He was loyal and faithful to his 
church and pastor and will be lamented and sadly missed by all his brethren.
He was an enterprising church member; rejoicing in all the advances made by his 
denomination. He was a strong and constant advocate of Christian missions and 
delighted in visiting the sessions of his Association claiming that the chief 
object of its meetings was to cultivate and foster the spirit of missions and 
systemhaus benevolence. Bro, Jenkins was one of the most pious men I ever knew. 
He was made of very stern stuff, and men could not learn to love him they didn't 
underst and him, and he was too unbending to accommodate his manner to their 
wants, and so they never knew him; and must know him in Heaven, to understand 
find appreciate the majesty of his character; for, he was, under certain 
circumstances, a majestic man. I was his pastor more than ten years, and found 
him to be a man of faith, and peace, and love, there nothing little or mean 
about him, and his example, in every station of life, was a.ro and generally 
most worthy of imitation, Bro. Jenkins was a farmer, and one of the most 
industrious men whom I was ever acquainted. He Believed that every healthy human 
being ought by their own to be self-sustaining, end if they were not, he claimed 
that they yere virtually stealing their living from these who had produced what 
they consumed end, ha did not hesitate to say so. He was as prompt and active in 
the performance of his church du ties as he was in discharging his temporal 
engagements. It was his boast that he had missed only a few meetings of his 
church in his entire life. He believed in active and liberal Christians and had 
very little respect for church boarders claiming that they should be laborers in 
the vineyard, and not burdens. In the death of brother Jenkins his family has 
lost an affectionate husband and faithful father, his church a pious and 
influential member, and the community an honest and enterprising citizen.
Affectionately, Jno P. Shaffer

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