Obit of: Emma (Masters) Jenkens
November 13, 1940 Lenox, Iowa Mrs. Emma Jenkins d. at the home of her son, Evan Brannon, Wednesday, November 13, at the age of 66 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs Jenkins had been in failing health for the past year and several months had been suffering from the dreaded cancer.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Lenox Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16th at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. F.J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan Cemetery.
Emma Arminda Jenkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth West (Smith) Masters, was born in Adams county, Iowa, four and a half miles northeast of Lenox, on January 12, 1874. She grew to woman hood in this community and on March 4, 1897, she was married to William M. Brannon at Bedford, Iowa. One son, Evan, was born. In 1914 her husband d. near Sargent, Nebraska and on October 16, 1923 she again married to Harry Jenkins, who d. about a year later at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
Her early life was spent in the vicinity of Lenox and after her first marriage, she lived for some time near Sargent, Nebraska but the last nine years of her life she made her home near Butler, Mo. In June of this year (1940) she came to make her home with her son, where she was cared for by himself and his wife and her sister, Mrs. Zetta Wilt.
She is survived by her son Evan and his wife Wilma; three grandchildren, Beverly, Donn and Jean Brannon and three sisters, Nellie Masters of Butler, Mo., Mrs. Zetta Wilt of Lenox and Mrs. Ella Cade of New Market besides three nephews and one niece.
November 13, 1940 Lenox, Iowa Mrs. Emma Jenkins d. at the home of her son, Evan Brannon, Wednesday, November 13, at the age of 66 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs Jenkins had been in failing health for the past year and several months had been suffering from the dreaded cancer.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Lenox Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16th at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. F.J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan Cemetery.
Emma Arminda Jenkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth West (Smith) Masters, was born in Adams county, Iowa, four and a half miles northeast of Lenox, on January 12, 1874. She grew to woman hood in this community and on March 4, 1897, she was married to William M. Brannon at Bedford, Iowa. One son, Evan, was born. In 1914 her husband d. near Sargent, Nebraska and on October 16, 1923 she again married to Harry Jenkins, who d. about a year later at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
Her early life was spent in the vicinity of Lenox and after her first marriage, she lived for some time near Sargent, Nebraska but the last nine years of her life she made her home near Butler, Mo. In June of this year (1940) she came to make her home with her son, where she was cared for by himself and his wife and her sister, Mrs. Zetta Wilt.
She is survived by her son Evan and his wife Wilma; three grandchildren, Beverly, Donn and Jean Brannon and three sisters, Nellie Masters of Butler, Mo., Mrs. Zetta Wilt of Lenox and Mrs. Ella Cade of New Market besides three nephews and one niece.
Obit of: Emma (Masters) Jenkens
November 13, 1940 Lenox, Iowa Mrs. Emma Jenkins d. at the home of her son, Evan Brannon, Wednesday, November 13, at the age of 66 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs Jenkins had been in failing health for the past year and several months had been suffering from the dreaded cancer.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Lenox Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16th at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. F.J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan Cemetery.
Emma Arminda Jenkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth West (Smith) Masters, was born in Adams county, Iowa, four and a half miles northeast of Lenox, on January 12, 1874. She grew to woman hood in this community and on March 4, 1897, she was married to William M. Brannon at Bedford, Iowa. One son, Evan, was born. In 1914 her husband d. near Sargent, Nebraska and on October 16, 1923 she again married to Harry Jenkins, who d. about a year later at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
Her early life was spent in the vicinity of Lenox and after her first marriage, she lived for some time near Sargent, Nebraska but the last nine years of her life she made her home near Butler, Mo. In June of this year (1940) she came to make her home with her son, where she was cared for by himself and his wife and her sister, Mrs. Zetta Wilt.
She is survived by her son Evan and his wife Wilma; three grandchildren, Beverly, Donn and Jean Brannon and three sisters, Nellie Masters of Butler, Mo., Mrs. Zetta Wilt of Lenox and Mrs. Ella Cade of New Market besides three nephews and one niece.
November 13, 1940 Lenox, Iowa Mrs. Emma Jenkins d. at the home of her son, Evan Brannon, Wednesday, November 13, at the age of 66 years, 10 months and 1 day. Mrs Jenkins had been in failing health for the past year and several months had been suffering from the dreaded cancer.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Lenox Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16th at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. F.J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan Cemetery.
Emma Arminda Jenkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth West (Smith) Masters, was born in Adams county, Iowa, four and a half miles northeast of Lenox, on January 12, 1874. She grew to woman hood in this community and on March 4, 1897, she was married to William M. Brannon at Bedford, Iowa. One son, Evan, was born. In 1914 her husband d. near Sargent, Nebraska and on October 16, 1923 she again married to Harry Jenkins, who d. about a year later at a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo.
Her early life was spent in the vicinity of Lenox and after her first marriage, she lived for some time near Sargent, Nebraska but the last nine years of her life she made her home near Butler, Mo. In June of this year (1940) she came to make her home with her son, where she was cared for by himself and his wife and her sister, Mrs. Zetta Wilt.
She is survived by her son Evan and his wife Wilma; three grandchildren, Beverly, Donn and Jean Brannon and three sisters, Nellie Masters of Butler, Mo., Mrs. Zetta Wilt of Lenox and Mrs. Ella Cade of New Market besides three nephews and one niece.
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Although Emma has a headstone here with her first husband she seems to be buried in Kent, Iowa. That is memorial #22173041. Many thanks to FAG member Jerry Sanner (#47394587) for his help with this memorial.
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