Coryell Co. Tx - Obit for Y. S. Jenkins

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   Tuesday, August 7, 1934--DEATH CLAIMS LIFE OF FORMER CITIZEN
   Y.  S. Jenkins, age 86, who for many years was a resident of this city
   died  at  his  home in Pasadena, California last Friday morning from a
   sudden heart attack.
   Mr.  Jenkins  was  born  in  Alabama  but came to Texas as a youth and
   settled  in  Gatesville.  He  grew with this section of the county and
   retired   to   Pasadena   something  like  25  years  ago.  He  was  a
   superintendent  of  the  Union  Sunday School here in 1871 and was the
   first  superintendent of the local Baptist Sunday School and served in
   that place until 1904.
   Burial was in Pasadena on Monday afternoon.
   He  is  survived  by  his widow, one sister, Miss Georgia Jenkins, who
   reides  somewhere  in Italy and a sistr-in-law, M. S. A. H. Gregory of
   this  city,  besides  a host of other relatives and friends who deeply
   mourn his departure.