Schuylkill County PA Archives Obituaries.....Jenkins, Rev. George W. September 6, 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Wright wright@prestontel.com March 6, 2011, 9:15 pm Maquoketa Excelsior, Sep. 13, 1901 Maquoketa Excelsior, Maquoketa, Iowa, September 13, 1901 News came to this city Monday morning of the death of Rev. George W. Jenkins, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Marysville, Montana. His death occurred on September 6, 1901. Rev. Jenkins was at one time an honored and respected citizen of Jackson County and has many friends and admirers here, who with relatives mourn his death. He was born in Minorsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1836 and was the second child of William and Elizabeth Jenkins. He came to Jackson County with his parents in the Spring of 1839, settling in Richland Township near Cottonville and made this county his home until 1872, when his ministerial work called him elsewhere in the state. He edited a newspaper in Fairfax, Iowa, for a few years. About 1884 he was transferred from the Upper Iowa Conference to Minnesota, having charge of a work at Pipestone, Minnesota. In 1886, he, with his family moved to Montana where he filled some of the most ministerial charges in that state, among them the First Methodist Episcopal Churches of Phillipsburg, Helena, Anaconda, Butte City and Stevensville. Rev. Jenkins attended school and was educated at Fayette and Cornell colleges in Iowa, but upon the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he was among the first to enlist and became one of the brave boys to enlist in Company M of the Second Iowa Cavalry. He went through the war with his regiment and made a record for himself which his friends and relatives now turn to with pride. After the close of the war he returned home to his former work of preaching God’s word. On December 28, 1864, he was married to Sandra King, to which union there were born six children-Nellie, now deceased, Cora, William, Effa, Mariah and Belle. The family also has an adopted daughter, Mrs. Celia Gates of Nebraska. Rev. Jenkins also leaves two brothers-Phillip of DeSoto, Iowa, and Judson B. of Harrison County, Missouri, and five sisters-Sarah E. Elwood, Mary A. Cain, and Ida F. Johnson of Maquoketa, Josephine Merritt of Cottonville, and Nettie Matthews of Sioux City. These, with his widow and seven grandchildren mourn the death of George W. Jenkins. We hope that his spirit is in that better land with the God that gave it. His body is at rest by the side of that of his daughter Nellie at Phillipsburg, Montana. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb