Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1907 — Sudden Death of Charles Jenkins. [ARTICLE]

Sudden Death of Charles Jenkins.

Charles W. Jenkins, a much respected resident of Barkley township. died very suddenly Thursday night, at his home on the E. P. Honan farm, in the northwest part of that township. He had lately been suffering for a week or more with a severe attack ot grip and acute indigestion, and tho not well insisted Thursday in going out and doing a hard day’s work on the farm. In the evening he went to bed rather early, but while his wife was giving some medicine to one ot the children, he got up also not feeling well and was sitting in a chair, when he was seized with a choking spell, and tho his brother Will, who was present, tried to relievo him by pounding on the back, he dW not again recover his breath and in a very few minutes expired, without having been able to speak. The same physician who treated him a week before, was called out, but of course could do nothing. He attributed his death to dilitation of the heart, and acute indigestion. He wrs 41 years old, and a son of the late George W. Jenkins, whose death occured last year. He leaves a widow to whom he was married in June, 1894, and two children, aged four and two years. His funeral will be held Sunday, at the Dunkard church, in Barkley, and interment be made in Sandridge cemetery. Charley’s death is the sixth the Jenkias family in little more than a year. They include his talber, George Jenkins, two uncles, S. B. and Anderson Jenkins, an aunt, Mrs. Mary Daniels, and an infant child of S. B. Jenkins. Previous to these there had been no deaths in the family for more than 20 years.