Parthenia Jenkins Chilton Times April 21, 1888
JENKINSIn Fort Atkinson, Wis., March 19, 1888, Mrs. Parthenia Jenkins, mother of Geo. A. Jenkins, aged 96 years, 5 months and 3 days.
This, without a doubt, records the death of the oldest person in our city. We give below a brief sketch of her life.
Parthenia Wood was born Oct. 16, 1791, in Middleton, Vt. Her father was sergeant in the Revolutionary Army. At twelve years of age, she with her father and an aunt, removed to the wilderness of New York, three miles east of Ontario.
She was the last of a family of eleven children. Was married to George Jenkins April 1809. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. She was a mother of seven children, two daughters and five sons, two dying in infancy. Three sons are still living. Her husband died in December, 1854. In 1855 she again removed, with two sons, and one daughter to the then new country of Calumet County, Wisconsin. There the daughter was laid away to rest.
Grandma Jenkins as she was generally known, retained her faculties to the last, remarkably. She was taken sick Friday morning, March 16; was about and at the table Sunday night. Monday morning she knew all about her, but soon became unconscious and quickly passed away at half past three o'clock p.m.
Among the last words she spoke she repeated snatches of the hymns; among them the words of her favorite hymn, beginning, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare;" and the scriptural passage, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and "All things shall work together for good to them that love God." She was always ready with a word of advice to the young.
She lived to a grand old age. Her tranquil life was as unselfish as it was useful, and the outside world with its needs, reforms and progress, had a share of her interest and sympathy up to her very last moments.
JENKINSIn Fort Atkinson, Wis., March 19, 1888, Mrs. Parthenia Jenkins, mother of Geo. A. Jenkins, aged 96 years, 5 months and 3 days.
This, without a doubt, records the death of the oldest person in our city. We give below a brief sketch of her life.
Parthenia Wood was born Oct. 16, 1791, in Middleton, Vt. Her father was sergeant in the Revolutionary Army. At twelve years of age, she with her father and an aunt, removed to the wilderness of New York, three miles east of Ontario.
She was the last of a family of eleven children. Was married to George Jenkins April 1809. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. She was a mother of seven children, two daughters and five sons, two dying in infancy. Three sons are still living. Her husband died in December, 1854. In 1855 she again removed, with two sons, and one daughter to the then new country of Calumet County, Wisconsin. There the daughter was laid away to rest.
Grandma Jenkins as she was generally known, retained her faculties to the last, remarkably. She was taken sick Friday morning, March 16; was about and at the table Sunday night. Monday morning she knew all about her, but soon became unconscious and quickly passed away at half past three o'clock p.m.
Among the last words she spoke she repeated snatches of the hymns; among them the words of her favorite hymn, beginning, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare;" and the scriptural passage, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and "All things shall work together for good to them that love God." She was always ready with a word of advice to the young.
She lived to a grand old age. Her tranquil life was as unselfish as it was useful, and the outside world with its needs, reforms and progress, had a share of her interest and sympathy up to her very last moments.
Parthenia Jenkins Chilton Times April 21, 1888
JENKINSIn Fort Atkinson, Wis., March 19, 1888, Mrs. Parthenia Jenkins, mother of Geo. A. Jenkins, aged 96 years, 5 months and 3 days.
This, without a doubt, records the death of the oldest person in our city. We give below a brief sketch of her life.
Parthenia Wood was born Oct. 16, 1791, in Middleton, Vt. Her father was sergeant in the Revolutionary Army. At twelve years of age, she with her father and an aunt, removed to the wilderness of New York, three miles east of Ontario.
She was the last of a family of eleven children. Was married to George Jenkins April 1809. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. She was a mother of seven children, two daughters and five sons, two dying in infancy. Three sons are still living. Her husband died in December, 1854. In 1855 she again removed, with two sons, and one daughter to the then new country of Calumet County, Wisconsin. There the daughter was laid away to rest.
Grandma Jenkins as she was generally known, retained her faculties to the last, remarkably. She was taken sick Friday morning, March 16; was about and at the table Sunday night. Monday morning she knew all about her, but soon became unconscious and quickly passed away at half past three o'clock p.m.
Among the last words she spoke she repeated snatches of the hymns; among them the words of her favorite hymn, beginning, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare;" and the scriptural passage, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and "All things shall work together for good to them that love God." She was always ready with a word of advice to the young.
She lived to a grand old age. Her tranquil life was as unselfish as it was useful, and the outside world with its needs, reforms and progress, had a share of her interest and sympathy up to her very last moments.
JENKINSIn Fort Atkinson, Wis., March 19, 1888, Mrs. Parthenia Jenkins, mother of Geo. A. Jenkins, aged 96 years, 5 months and 3 days.
This, without a doubt, records the death of the oldest person in our city. We give below a brief sketch of her life.
Parthenia Wood was born Oct. 16, 1791, in Middleton, Vt. Her father was sergeant in the Revolutionary Army. At twelve years of age, she with her father and an aunt, removed to the wilderness of New York, three miles east of Ontario.
She was the last of a family of eleven children. Was married to George Jenkins April 1809. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. She was a mother of seven children, two daughters and five sons, two dying in infancy. Three sons are still living. Her husband died in December, 1854. In 1855 she again removed, with two sons, and one daughter to the then new country of Calumet County, Wisconsin. There the daughter was laid away to rest.
Grandma Jenkins as she was generally known, retained her faculties to the last, remarkably. She was taken sick Friday morning, March 16; was about and at the table Sunday night. Monday morning she knew all about her, but soon became unconscious and quickly passed away at half past three o'clock p.m.
Among the last words she spoke she repeated snatches of the hymns; among them the words of her favorite hymn, beginning, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare;" and the scriptural passage, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and "All things shall work together for good to them that love God." She was always ready with a word of advice to the young.
She lived to a grand old age. Her tranquil life was as unselfish as it was useful, and the outside world with its needs, reforms and progress, had a share of her interest and sympathy up to her very last moments.
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