OBIT: Charles Falk JENKINS, 1949, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES F. JENKINS

  Charles Falk Jenkins, well known Meyersdale resident for 45 years, died 
Thursday, May 5, in the Hazel McGilvery Hospital after a brief illness.  He was 
born in Hancock, Md., April 6, 1863, the son of Solomon and Helen (Beard) 
Jenkins, and was one of eleven children, all of whom have preceded him to the 
grave.
  Mr. Jenkins first came to Meyersdale in 1894 as a salesman for E. C. Orrick 
Son Company, wholesale grocers of Cumberland.  He went with the Kenneweg Company 
of Cumberland in 1902, establishing the firm's Meyersdale branch in 1905.  He 
was manager of this branch until 1915, when he went to Fairmont, W.Va., as a 
manager of the Miller Clark Grain Company, a subsidiary of the Consolidation 
Coal Co.  Preferring to live in Meyersdale, he returned a year later to take 
over the management of the Miller Manufacturing Co.  In 1920 he became manager 
of the Twentieth Century Mfg. Co. of Boynton.  He was later associated with the 
Connellsville Macaroni Co., as salesman, and was also employed by the Meyersdale 
School Board.  In recent years he lived more or less retired.  For the past 
three years he was a deputy in the Tax Collector's office in Meyersdale.
  Mr. Jenkins was married in 1904 to Miss Edith North of Cumberland.  Mrs. 
Jenkins and their two children survive.  The son, Charles N. Jenkins, is the 
proprietor of a drug store in Erie.  The daughter, Florence M. Jenkins of 
Arlington, Va., is employed by the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C.  
  Mr. Jenkins was a member of the Masonic Order and of the Episcopal Church in 
Hancock.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Price Funeral Home, Friday evening at 
7:30 by the Rev. L. A. McKinley, pastor of the Methodist Church.  Leon Ford sang 
"Sometime You'll Understand."  The body was taken to Hancock, Saturday, where it 
lay in state in St. Thomas Episcopal Church between 1 and 2 o'clock, after which 
short services were conducted by the rector.  Burial was made in the cemetery 
adjoining the church.
  Besides Charles N. Jenkins and Miss Florence Jenkins, those from out of town 
attending the services here were Mrs. Mildred Engle, sister of Mrs. Jenkins, 
William Engle and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Manky of Baltimore, and Mrs. Charles N. 
Jenkins, of Erie.

Meyersdale Republican, May 12, 1949