OBITUARIES: Joseph Jenkins; 21 Aug 1916

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Johnstown Tribune
21 Aug 1916

  Joseph Jenkins, at one time Justice of the Peace of West 
Taylor Township, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 
Annie Hanley, in Milwaukee, Wis. aged 78 years.  He has been 
making his home in Milwaukee since 1913.  The remains were 
brought to Johnstown this afternoon, and were taken to the 
home of the deceased's son, Benjamin M. Jenkins, of Hemlock 
Street, Lower Yoder Township, from where the funeral will take 
place tomorrow afternoon.  The services will be conducted by the 
Rev. J. W. Mills, of the Morrellville Church of the Brethren.  
Burial will be made in Grandview Cemetery.  Joseph Jenkins was 
born in 1838 in Mifflin County, this state, and served in the 
Civil War in one of the companies that was recruited in that 
county.  Mr. Jenkins located in Johnstown in 1878.  He is 
survived by a brother, Jackson Jenkins, of McVeytown, and these 
children: Samuel J., of Altoona; Joseph E. of Lorain, O; 
Benjamin M. of Lower Yoder Township; Ambrose of Ohio; John M. of 
West Taylor Township; Clarence E. of Morrellville; and Mrs. 
Annie Hanley of Milwaukee.  Mrs. Rebecca Gross Jenkins, wife of 
Joseph Jenkins, died in this place four years ago.