Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jenkins, Van Mrs. November 1 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C. Epps Bond http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003902 August 10, 2004, 2:11 am Athens Banner Herald, Athens, Ga Friday, November 2, 1951 Jenkins Jenkins Services are held today Services for Mrs. Van Jenkins, prominent Madison County woman who died in a local hospital early Thursday, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from Union Baptist Church. Conducting the services were Rev. Thomas Wheeler, pastor of First Methodist Church in Madison, Rev. R. E. Carter, pastor of Union Baptist Church, and Rev. William Cauthen, pastor of Danielsville Methodist Church. Burial was in Union Cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Grandsons of Mrs. Jenkins were pall-bearers. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. Grady Gower, LaGrange, and Miss Ruby Jenkins, Danielsville; six sons, J. V. Jenkins, Sr., and H. B. Jenkins, both of Hull, Ruel Jenkins, Daielsville, D. D. Jenkins, Colbert, A. F. Jenkins, Madison, and L. E. Jenkins, Athens, fifteen grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. A native and lifelong resident of Madison County, Mrs. Jenkins before her marriage was Cora Lee White, daughter of the Late James and Martha Mitchell White. She was a member of the Danielsville Methodist Church and with her husband celebrated their firty-fourth wedding anniversary before his death some nine years ago. She had resided in the same house for the past 64 years. Mrs. Jenkins was member of one of Madison County's most prominent families. She was 82 years old and had been in failing health for the past three months, though she had been seriously ill for only the past ten days. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/madison/obits/nob192jenkins.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb