Biography:

Businesswoman. Born– May 21, 1904, Selma. Parents– R.A.P. and Ernestine (Blue) Smith. Married– George Lewis Jenkins, II, November 8, 1921. Children– Two. Assisted her husband for twenty years in running a game preserve on the old James plantation at Letohatchee, Ala., and wrote a dozen stories during this time which were published in Field and Stream and later collected into a book. After her husband’s death, became a field underwriter for New York Life Insurance Co. Member; board of directors, Montgomery Association of Life Underwriters; secretary, Montgomery Estate Planning Council; member, Central Alabama Chapter, American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters. Died March 31, 1998.

Source:

Files at Birmingham Public Library.

Publication(s):

Dog Stories. New York; Vantage, 1967.