Page News & Courier, Friday 29 October 1937
Philip Jenkins, about 74 years of age, died at his home between Ida and the Mauck neighborhood on Tuesday. He had been in ill health for a year or more. His first illness began ten or twelve years ago when he began to suffer excruciating pains in one of his legs. This finally developed into dropsy, from which he has recently been a great sufferer, being unable for a number of weeks before his death to lie in bed only for short periods of time. His latest malady involved almost his entire body which had swollen to unusual proportions... He had been twice married, his first wife being a daughter of Israel Jenkins and his last wife Miss Sarah Catherine Sisk, daughter of the late Layton Sisk, who for many years lived just over the Page line in Madison county not far from the Hawksbill Head. His children are Mrs. Bessie Buracker, "Son" Jenkins, Newton Jenkins, Mrs. Mattie Berry and Mrs. Mamie Cave, the latter the widow of the late Peter Cave, of Marksville district, this county. In his younger life Mr. Jenkins for many years was a tenant of "Glen Mary" farm, now a part of the Ida Valley Homestead.
The funeral was held on Wednesday by Eld. Walter Strickler, of Luray, with interment in the cemetery near Kiblinger's Store.
Page News & Courier, Friday 5 Nov 1937
One of the Old Time Rock Fence Builders Passes
Philip Jenkins, who died at his home near Ida one day last week, many years ago was one of the physical giants of the county, if reports are true. Years ago he was one of the old time rock fence builders of the county. Many of the rock fences still standing in the neighborhood where Mr. Jenkins lived were built by him and others. One the old Shipe farm- now the home of the Ida Valley Homestead- Mr. Jenkins used to say that when he was a boy he built or assisted in building many of the rock fences still standing, declaring that he carried many of the rocks from the bottoms and creek sides near by- and that some of the stones weighed as much as one hundred pounds. The gist of this story is about as related by Mr. Jenkins years ago. For a quarter of a century Mr. Jenkins was a tenant on the Glen Mary farm owned for many years by the late A. Shipe and later by W.C. Saunders, deceased. He had the distinction a few years ago of being the only man in Page county that could out-general agents and surveyors of the United States Government at that time establishing the lines of the Shenandoah National Park. The original lines on the western side of the park were planned to take in Mr. Jenkins' small mountain farm. But he (Jenkins) wouldn't have it that way. He had so many parleys and arguments with officials of the government that the latter at last made strange-looking angles in order to placate the verbose Mr. Jenkins. To this day the strange looking angle on the outside of the boundaries of the park is known as "the Jenkins runaround." Mr. Jenkins was 76 instead of 74, as stated by this paper.
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