Orville Lee JENKINS1,13,4,5

4th Oct 191212 - 29th May 19871

Life History

10th Apr 1912	Born in Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma.1,2,3,4,5
4th Oct 1912	Born in Social Security has erroneous date.12
1920	Resident in Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma.4
1st Sep 1946	Married Lou Ila GREGORY in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.17
21st Jul 1948	Birth of son Orville Boyd JENKINS in Grady County Clinic, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1
31st May 1951	Birth of son Gregory Wayne JENKINS in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1,14
19th Aug 1952	Birth of son Gary Lynn JENKINS in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1,16
13th Feb 1964	Divorced from <a href="indiI00045.html">Lou Ila GREGORY</a> in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1
1969	Married Martha Aretha TUCKER in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1
24th Feb 1970	Birth of daughter Beverly Michele JENKINS in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.18
5th Apr 1972	Death of son Gary Lynn JENKINS in Arkansas Baptist Hospital, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas.7,1,15
29th Aug 1974	Birth of daughter Julia Mabel JENKINS in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.18
29th May 1987	Died in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1
31st May 1987	Buried in Cypress Valley Cemetery, Vilonia, Faulkner, Arkansas.1

Other facts

Social Security number Social Security #: 446-24-5252.6

Notes

1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, 3 January, Mt View, District 14, Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
Jenkins, Joseph A Head M W 54 TX NC MS Farmer
Jenkins, Juliva [Julia Virginia] Wife FW 39 TX GA NC
Jenkins, Orville L Son M W 7 OK TX TX

When I was a boy my father, Orville Lee Jenkins, would tell us stories about his childhood. He told us about his father being a lawman infrontier Oklahoma. His father served as town marshal in Marlow, FortCobb and Mountain View, Oklahoma.

My grandfather, Joseph Asa Jenkins, was a peace officer for a total of 20 years, serving as chief of police in Marlow, deputy sheriff in Mountain View and city marshal of Fort Cobb. My father inherited an old hammer-fire shotgun from his father which Joseph Asa used in his police work. This shotgun is now in the possession of my brother Greg Jenkins.

1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
Joe A Jenkins Head M W 63 TX MS MS
Julia Jenkins Wife F W 49 TX GA NC
Orville Jenkins son M W 17 OK TX TX

By 1938, Orville had a thriving radio repair business. He is listed in the residential and business directories of Chickasha, Oklahoma in 1938. He has the only radio repair shop in Chickasha.

Chickasha City Directory 1938, p 107
Jenkins Orville radio service 113 N 4th r[esidence] 1417 S 18th

Chickasha City Business Directory 1938, p 301
Radio Repairing
Jenkins Orville 113 N 4th

Fourth street was in downtown Chickasha, on the main north-south highway going through town. The highway numbers running along this route now are US 81, US 277 and Oklahoma 92. They were about a block south of the main highway running east-west through Chickasha.

By 1940, the Chickasha City Business Directory indicates that Orvillehad four competitors in the radio repair business.

Chickasha City Business Directory 1940, p 259
Radio Repairing
Dunham Geo W 423 W Minnesota av
Ernest's Radio Service 515 Chickasha av
Franklin Avon L 925 S 20th
Home State Electric Shop 705 S 1st
Jenkins Orville 113 N 4th

The 1947 Chickasha Directory shows that Orville has moved his shop about two blocks around the corner where major east-west and north-southhighways meet and diverge. The new address is now 312 Choctaw Street. His radio repair shop is now located on the main east-west street in northern Chickasha. The highways running on this route are US 81, Oklahoma 9 and 92. Now his brother Bud (Arthur Carthal) is sharing thebuilding with Orville, running a Maytag appliance store at the streetaddress 308 Choctaw Street. The first Jenkins listing in Chickasha is the Appliance Store. I list here the entries related to our family.

Jenkins Appliance Co (Arthur C Jenkins) 308 Choctaw av
-- Arthur C (Eileen; Jenkins Appliance Co) h[ome] 1227 S 6th
-- Jos A (Jennie) h 2002 S 2d
-- Jenkins Orville L (Lou I; Jenkins Radio Co) h 2027 S 14th
-- Radio Co (Orville L Jenkins) 312 Choctaw av

Orville continued in this business until after he moved to Quanah, Texas, in 1951. He established a radio station in Quanah, while maintaining his radio shop, run by employees during his trips to Quanah whileestablishing the radio business and equipment before going on the air. He later sold the radio shop in Chickasha.

Sources

1. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
2. Jenkins Family History by Harold Keith Christian
3. Social Security Death Index
4. 1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
- Mt View, District 14, Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
5. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
- 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
6. SSDI Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 6
- Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: 1 Jan 2007, Interna
7. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, personal communication
8. Marriage License
9. Chickasha (Oklahoma) City Directory 1938
- p 107
10. Chickasha (Oklahoma) City Business Directory 1940
- p 259
11. Chickasha (Oklahoma) City Directory 1947
- p 135
12. SSDI Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 6
13. Family Trails
- http://www.geocities.com/tscobey/f3p3.htm#Tucker
14. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
15. Death Certificate of Gary Lynn Jenkins
16. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
17. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins Personal Communication, May-July 2007
18. McPherson Family Interviews by Orville Boyd Jenkins, July 2003