@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {545},
      title = {Jenkin Roderick Jones},
      institution = {1949},
      organizations = {1949},
      publisher = {1949},
      address = {1940},
      number = {GENERAL},
      year = {1940},
      note = {Jenkin Roderick Jones was born in Buffalo, Guernsey  County, Ohio, January 22, 1914, the youngest of nine  children, to Jenkin and Maud L. Jones.  At the age of four  his family moved to Warren and lived on Logan Avenue, and  his mother and youngest sister later moved to 259 Harmon  Avenue.  He sang in the choir for six years at Christ  Episcopal Church, attended Warren G. Harding High School  and Kenyon and Hiram Colleges, and became the recreational  director in Warren.  

Jenkin enlisted in in the Army on  May 23rd, 1941 and trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and at  Fort Sam Houston, and was sent overseas in November, 1942.   In August, 1943 received the Legion of Merit for  exceptionally meritorious conduct during the preparations  for and execution of the landing on Sicily, and in January,  1944 he received the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in  action when he saved the lives of many people by  disorganizing an enemy attack during one of the campaigns  on the Volturno River.   He was killed in action May 26,  1944 over Italy and has been interred in the Sicily-Rome  American Cemetery.   


Gift of Sue R. Cox, niece.},
      url = {http://trumbullmemory.org/record/545},
}