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MRS. J. L. JENKINS
IS 100 YEARS OLD
Mrs. James
three meals for sons, cleaning her
Lud Jenkins of Slate Mills, Va. celebrated her 100th birthday Sunday. She performed her daily chores, cooking
herself and her
four-room house, feeding the chickens and bringing water fiom the spring.
For relaxation smokes her pipe squares.
Mrs. Jenkins
and pieces quilt
several of her
with presents,
and ice cream in
In the evening children arrived a birthday cake celebration.
Mrs. Jenkins recollects her father being away from home when he fought in the Civil War under General Lee in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
She is a spry, er ergetic lady who has lived her enti re life in Rappahannock County, porn near Nethers Mills, she is the former Nora Sisk, daughter of
James and Juriah Dodson Sisk. She was married at rive age of 20 who died in 1946.
to Lud Jenkins
Mrs. Jenkins summertime when with her flowers, and canning, happy, she says, long life and rarely leaves home few occasions has in an automobile.
looks
Stayi
good
forward to
she can work
her preserving
ing busy and
s her secret of
health. She
and on only a
she ever ridden
Her eleven livinig children (one is dead) are Hay wood Jenkins and Mrs. Nettie Jenkins of Sperryville, Egbert Jenkins, Remington, Conner Jenkins, jBoston, Ernest Jenkins at home, Cooper Jenkins, Mrs. Venie Jenkins and Mrs. Fairy Nichols of Culpeper, Mrs. Ora Finchatn, Peola MilLs, Mrs. Daisy Jenkins, Ccntreville and Mrs. Flossie Leake of Fredericksburg.
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