Iowa
Old Press
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Sunday, April 29, 1917
Page 13, Columns 6-7
JENKINS FUNERAL MONDAY. Pioneer Woman Came to
Sioux City in 1869.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah M. Jenkins, 69 years old, a
resident of Sioux City since 1869, who died yesterday in a
hospital after an operation, will be held Monday * afternoon at 2
o'clock from the residence, 1628 Grand View boulevard. Rev. J. R.
Perkins, pastor of the First Christian church, will conduct the
services. Burial will be in Graceland Park cemetery. For several
weeks before being taken to the hospital for an
operation Mrs. Jenkins had been ill. Mrs. Jenkins was born in New
York state in 1848. When she was still a young girl her family
moved to Iowa. She has lived in and about Sioux City, in
northwestern Iowa**, since 1869. She is survived by two
daughters, three sisters and six brothers. Her husband, Dr. J. M.
Jenkins, died in Sioux City twenty-three years ago. The daughters
are: Mrs. Annie (sic Abbie) Stewart, of Rapid City, S. D., and
Mrs. J. L. Van Buskirk, of Sioux City, with whom she has made her
home. The sisters are: Mrs. Charles Brooks, of Coldwater, Mich.;
Mrs. George Darville, of Morningside, and Mrs. M. K. (sic H.)
Sheeley, of Albion, Ia. The brothers are: T. J. Reeves, of
Hawarden, Ia.; W. H. Reeves, of Monmouth, Ill.; M. S. Reeves, A.
M. Reeves and W. S. Reeves, all of Sioux City, and J. M. Reeves,
of Edmonton, Can.
[transcription notes: *Tuesday according to death record.
**Primarily in Plymouth county.]
[transcribed by V.R., January 2006]