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Submitted: 6/8/12 • Approved: 9/19/23 • Last Updated: 9/21/23 • R709243-G709243-S3
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FIRST SERGEANT
Company A 34th Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
September 1, 1837 - December 20, 1904
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Wednesday, March 1, 1905
JENKINS, Herald Porter - In Memory Of One We Miss Much -
"Our brother wore the compass and kept within that cirle due
Thats circumscribed by law Divine
Excluding all thats sin
Including all thats true
The compass that traces that curve
Outside of which no passions swerve.
After long months of patient suffering, Tuesday morn, December 20th, 1904, Herald P. Jenkins passed away so gently. It was rather an imperceptible cessation of a delightful emblem of the going out and entering upon a brighter and higher life.
He leaves a wife, three sons, one daughter and many friends to mourn his great loss.
There is no death to those who know Christ and that change that comes but once left no trace of sorrow upon this good man's brow but that look of trusting patient waiting was diffused over every lineament of his face, that highly celestial expression, that mingling of rapture and repose which showed it was to earthly or temporal sleep but that long sacred rest which "He giveth to his beloved."
He had been a member of the Baptist Church since early boyhood and was ever constant in his faith in Christ, which passes the soul through the shadow into the perfect day. He was a Royal Arch Mason and always true to the principles of that Ancient holy perfect plan which teaches faith in God, hope in immortality and charity to all mankind; an emblem of universal friendship and benevolence which is as expansive as the blue arch of Heaven. His zealous Christian acts of benevolence were never short of their pretensions and the aspirations of his heart ever ascended as a rich odor which is the sweetest incense that can be offered to our God of Gods.
After Rev. J.E. Bryan's eulogy, the body was laid to rest in Zion Cemetery by the Fayetteville Masonic Lodge of which he had long been a member; he was a man of fine character, charitable in the extreme, the widow and the orphans can attest to his benevolence and it will be long before his place is filled again. He not only loved the government in which he lived, but it was one of his greatest delights to contribute to the prosperity of his immediate community for the good and happiness of all, so, "Let he who would be greatest be servant to all." Herald Porter Jenkins was a brave Confederate soldier, who followed the varying fortunes of success and defeat during those years of terrible war and no heart ever swelled with more pride and devotion than his, when he spoke of his leaders and companions whose valor was tried and proven in camp and on the battlefield. He was a man of strong convictions but ever willing to accord the right of opinions to others and demand the same rights to himself, always loyal in love, faithful in friendship, true in trust. Tho' he may be gone, his acts will live on in the memory of the living, long after the grass grows green and the willows weep over his grave. As the spirit took the flight -whispered back:
God bless her, she never surrendered
He's crowned her with laurels of glory
They are jewels of faith and devotion
And never surrendered her post. S.R.O.
*Obituary
The Springdale News
Friday, December 23, 1904
JENKINS, H.P. –(from The Fayetteville Daily, Tuesday) H.P. Jenkins died at his home five miles northeast of town this morning after a long illness of Bright’s disease. He was a native of Tennessee and was sixty-seven years of age. He came with his father to Washington County, Arkansas in 1858 and, with the exception of a few years after the way when the family resided in White County, this county has since been home. He made a fine record as a Confederate soldier in time of war and in the pursuits of peace he was industrious and prosperous. In his death Washington County loses one of her best citizens.
*Obituary (Pension)
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
Mrs. N.S. Jenkins, widow of H.P. Jenkins, who died in 1904, filed Widow Application #26354 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate widow pension and it was received as allowed August 1923 at the State, citing her husband’s service with Company A, 31st Arkansas Infantry from 1863 thru 1865. Mrs. Jenkins died January 13, 1927.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
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1848 - January 13, 1937
Contributed on 6/8/12 by judyfrog
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