Rebecca Ann Jenkins

JENKINS, HAND, PEARSON, HOLLISTER

Posted By: CMarshall (email)
Date: 11/26/2011 at 16:01:12

Rebecca Ann Jenkins

Rebecca Ann Jenkins was born near Dayton, O. October 16, 1837, the oldest of a family of nine children, five of whom are still living.

When a young woman she, with her father's family, moved to Livingston county, Illinois, where she was married to Job Pearson, June 9 1860. To this union were born four children, Orian, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Virgil, Bradley, Ill; Mrs. Eva Hand, of Rowley and Mrs. Bertha Hollister, of Long Beach Cal. In 1869 she with her husband and two sons moved to Iroquois county, the raw prairie, living there and in the nearby town, Onargo, until the husband's death in November, 1905. In September, the following year, she came to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. L. J. Hand. Besides her husband, one son and one grandchild preceded her to the heavenly home. Three children, fifteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren remain to mourn their loss.

In the early youth she united with the church, transferring her membership to the nearest church, with such change of residence. Her one regret when failing health confined her to her home much of the time, being that she could not go to the house of worship. For the past fifteen months she has had frequent attack of heart trouble. The end came quickly and painlessly at 7:15 a.m., Friday, June 16. She was a loving wife and mother, teaching love of God by precept and example. Having nothing but good will in her heart for all with whom she came in contact. She cared tenderly for her parents in their old age, her father being blind, her mother a paralytic invalid for many years.

Funeral services were held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. L.J. Hand, and then from the M.E. church in Rowley at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. O. Sandbach, of Fairbank, a former pastor here, and the remains accompanied by the daughter and Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Hand, left over the I.C: from Independence at midnight for her old home at Onargo, Ill., where she was laid to rest by the side of her husband. The sympathy of many friends is extended to Mrs. Hand in her sorrow.

[Bulletin Journal, Buchanan Co., Iowa