Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jenkins, William H., 1928 

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WILLIAM HENRY JENKINS

   William Henry Jenkins, one of the best-known citizens of Franklin and 
Southampton County, died at his home in North High Street Friday night, 
January 6, in the 74th year of his life.  He had been in ill health for 
several months following a stroke of paralysis sustained about two years ago.

   Mr. Jenkins was born at Sunbeam, this county, then known as "Joynersville" 
at the old Dyer homestead, on October 14, 1854, the son of John B. Jenkins, 
a native of Gates County, N.C. and of Mrs. Margaret Daughtrey Jenkins of 
Nansemond county.  On January 5, 1879, he married Miss Addie Lawrence of this 
county, daughter of Willis Lawrence, Mrs. Jenkins dying June 11, 1886.  There 
are two sons of this union, W. Crawford Jenkins of Norfolk and J. Willard 
Jenkins of New York.  On December 10, 1889, he married Miss Henrietta Rawls of 
Isle of Wight County who survives him with two children, William H. Jenkins 
Jr. of Philadelphia and Miss Sarah Jenkins of Portsmouth.

   He had made his home in Franklin for nearly 50 years, and much of this time 
had served his district and county acceptably as Justice of the Peace, being 
esteemed for his integrity, impartiality and even-handed justice.  He was a 
man of strong and outspoken convictions but numbered a host of friends who 
admired and esteemed him as an honorable and loyal friend.  He was a charter 
member of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias, organized here in the 
year 1879.

   Funeral services were held from his late residence Saturday afternoon at 
3:30 o’clock by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Baptist Church.  Interment 
following in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The body bearers were: Claude J. 
Edwards, R.J. Tucker, W.A. Jones, A.S. Johnson, J. Edwards Moyler, J.P. King, 
J. Linwood Edwards and Geo. O. Watkins.  The honorary pallbearers were: J.B. 
Vaughan, R.B. Eure, J.E. Lawrence, R.E.L. Watkins, W.W. Edwards, M.H. Moore, 
W.C. Watson, E. Frank Story, W.M. Cobb, C.F. Whitfield, W.O. Bogart, R.A. 
Pretlow, J.A. Pretlow, and Col. Jno. B. Pinner of Suffolk.


William Henry JENKINS (I), Justice of the Peace, 
b. 14 Oct 1854, Joynersville (Sunbeam), d. 6 Jan 1928, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 35*), Franklin, 
   7 Jan 1928, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 13, 1928, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Additional information: 

His widow's obits ("Tidewater News," Apr. 23, 1937, p. 1, & 
   Apr. 30, 1937, p. 1) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525h6ob.txt 

His first marriage - 

Wm. H. Jenkins, [age not given], single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o [parents not given], Clerk 
Addie Lawrence, [age not given], single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   dt/o Willis W. Lawrence & ___ 
m.lic. 2 Jan 1879 by clerk L.R. Edwards 
m. 5 Jan 1879, Franklin, Va., by Thomas G. Wood 
(Southampton Co. MB3:386) 


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