Mabel Clare JENKINS5,6,2

also known as Mabel J. HILL

27th Dec 19011,2,3 - 18th Jul 19901,2

Parents

Daughter of Joseph Asa JENKINS & Julia Virginia TERRY.

Life History

27th Dec 1901

Born in Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1,2,3

6th Oct 1919

Married Oscar Charlie HILL.3

27th Oct 1921

Birth of son Charles Kerwyn HILL in Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma.4,3,2

29th Apr 1926

Birth of daughter Veva June HILL in Fort Cobb, Caddo, Oklahoma.3,4

1930

Resident in Fort Cobb, Caddo, Oklahoma.4

18th Jul 1990

Died in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1,2

after 18th Jul 1990

Buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1

Other facts

 

Social Security number 444-10-1545.2

 

SSN issued in Oklahoma.2

Notes

  • I remember Aunt Mabel from my earliest years. We would visit her often, as she lived in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the same town as my grandparents.  Even as an adult, I do not remember ever knowing her middle name.  Mabel had been divorced earlier, and I never knew her husband Oscar.

    1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 2 May, District #239,p #18A, P #251, Wall Township, Marlow City, Fourth Ward, Family #347:
    Jenkins, Joseph A. Head M W 43 m-2 9-yrs TX SC MS City Marshall
    Jenkins, Julia V. Wife F W 29 m-1 9-yrs 5/4 GA GA TX (should be NC)
    Jenkins, Mabel Dau F W 8 s OK TX TX

    Mabel is not in the 1920 census with her parents.  I have not yet found her in a 1920 census record.

    I note that in the 1910 census Mabel's mother is reported as born in Georgia in Julia's own listing, but in Mabel's record she is reported as born in Texas!  I have found that the Texas birth place is right, though there was some confusion in the children's reports from census to census and in later memories reported to their children.

    In the 1930 census Mabel's mother is now reported as born in Georgia,where we have been seeing reports for Texas on other censuses, as discussed in Notes for Jennie.  This is what the family had handed down, but several censuses report either Jennie herself as born in Texas, orchildren's entries showing their mother born in Texas.

    1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 21 April, Hope Township, District 8, page 6B, Hse #114, Fam #119
    Oscar Hill  Head M W 31 TX MO TX
    Mable Hill  Wife F W 26 OK TX GA GA
    Kerwyn Hill Son S W 8 OK TX OK
    Vevajune Hill Dau F W 3yrs 11mos  OK TX OK

    Mabel's middle name is spelled Claire in the Epperson Genealogy, but it appears as Clare in Jenkins Family History by Harold K Christian.  This is also the spelling in notes taken by Lou Ila Jenkins, thought to be information from Jennie Jenkins, Mabel's mother.

    I found that her name on her gravestone is spelled Mable.  It is hardto tell why this error would have occurred.  I never saw it spelled in family sources other than Mabel.  I later found that this is the spelling of her name in the 1930 census.  I have commonly seen the name spelled Mabel, though I learned only recently that some people spell the name Mable, as on the gravestone.

    I found that on the Fairlawn Cemetery Registry, the name is spelled as Mabel, despite the error on the gravestone.  I think the family spelling is Mabel, but I lack sources now to confirm this, as all that generation have died.

    I have not been able to discover when she and Oscar divorced.

Sources

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