J Surname Obits
Cass County,
Michigan
Jenkins, Jessie - death 1989 - The Herald Palladium carried an obituary for Jessie Jenkins on 19 Jul 1989 and it reads: “Dowagiac-Mrs. Jessie (John) Jenkins, 93, formerly of Dowagiac, died Wednesday morning at Shoreham Terrace Nursing Home, St. Joseph. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the McLauchlin-Clark Funeral Home, Dowagiac, where friends may call beginning at 1 p.m. Friday until the hour of the service. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac. Mrs. Jenkins was born Oct. 21, 1895, in South Wales, England, and moved to the United States in 1920. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Dowagiac, and of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Cass Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1855. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Stuart (Mildred) Popp of Mt. Prospect, Ill.; two sons, Donald of Union, S.C. and Larry of St. Joseph; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Emiah Hill of Swansea, South Wales. She was preceded in death by her husband, Sidney on July 2, 1953.”
Jenkins, Sydney - 1953 - The News Palladium carried an obituary for Sidney Jenkins on 03 Jul 1953 and it reads: “Sidney Jenkins Dies Dowagiac, July 3-Sidney Jenkins, 209 First avenue, died yesterday afternoon while he was a work at Heddon’s Manufacturing company. He was 59. Mr. Jenkins, who had been employed by the fishing tackle firm for terday afternoon while he was at working. Born May 22, 1894, at South Wales, England, Mr. Jenkins came to Dowagiac 40 years ago. He was a veteran of World War I. While in South Wales Mr. Jenkins was married Oct. 16, 1919 to Miss Jessie John. Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Stuart Popp of Chicago; two sons, Larry, at home, and Donald of Niles; three grandchildren; six sisters and four brothers in South Wales. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the McLauchlin funeral home with the Rev. Richard Cooper, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.” Note: Was “a work” should read was at work. There are words and letters missing between for and terday in this obituary. The newspaper made these errors in printing.
Jewell, Lucy A (Davis)Death of Mrs. Elbridge Jewell Mrs. Lucy A. Jewell, after a week's illness from malignant diphtheria, died at her home just north of Cassopolis at an early hour Monday morning, September 28, 1908. and was buried in Prospect Hill cemetery in the evening of the same day without public funeral. Her son Fred is convalescing from the same disease. For some time he has been night operator at the Grand Trunk passenger house and about two weeks ago was afflicted with sore throat supposed at the time to be a simple case of tonsilitis but which rapidly developed into diphtheria in a serious form. His mother while caring for him contracted the fatal disease and the home was placed under strict quarantine. Mrs. Jewell was the daughter of Charles F. S. and Susan Batchelor Davis, and was born in Dowagiac, January 28, 1859. In November 1880, two years after she, with her parents, came from Ohio, she was married to Elbridge Jewell and has been a faithful wife and mother. To this union there were born two sons, Hiram E. a telegraph operator at Vicksburg, and Fred C., before mentioned. The members of the Hive No. 406, Ladies of the Modern Maccabees, of which the deceased was a respected member, met at their hall in Cassopolis, Wednesday. Received 4 Dec 2006, copy of actual obit, no newspaper source
Johns, Reuben - Cassopolis Vigilant - June 14, 1887 - Reuben Johnes of Mason, born in Mass., Dec. 1819; settled in Mason in 1851; died at Adamsfille, dec 10, 1886; age 77.