Parents

Son of Joseph Asa JENKINS & Julia Virginia TERRY.

Life History

Notes

• All his siblings called him Bud.  His nieces and nephews called him Uncle Bud.
  
  The name is spelled as Carthal in the Family Group Sheet from HaroldK Christian.  It is spelled Carthel in Epperson Genealogy, and this is how I thought it was spelled.  Two childhood censuses also list himas Carthel.  The cemetery listing, however, gives the spelling as Carthal.  This is one indication that this was the spelling used by the family.  His gravestone has only the initial C.  In May 2007, Lou Ila Jenkins found some old family notes she wrote down, probably in the 1950s, but they contain no date or source info.  This has the name of Budand his son Trent spelled as Carthal.  I found the Bud's death information from Bell County, Texas, also spells his name Carthal.
  
  I was surprised to find that this name is rather common. I find it inboth spellings, both as a family name and as a given name.  I cannot find any definitive family source for the spelling.  It is likely Harold had informal sources not available to me.  However, due to the uncertainty, as of 10 March 2007, I am leaving the spelling as I have understood it.
  
  Bud was in a Maytag dealership in Chickasha, Oklahoma, next door to the City Hall and Police Department.  Bud shared the building with his brother, my father Orville Lee Jenkins, who ran a radio sales and repair business, until the early 1950s.  A picture of the building where the Jenkins Furniture Store in Anadarko was located is found online:
  http://home.comcast.net/~dale1879/dale9.html
  
  Arthur Carthal (Bud) was ill for some time before he died.  Bud was still living in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, at the time of his death.  Other family sources, including my cousin and Bud's nephew Harold K Christian, have no place of death, but report the date.
  
  However, I found out in May 2007, from his nephew Asa Lee, that he died in Temple, Texas, while in the Scott White Hospital.  His heart wasweak from the effects of rheumatic fever he suffered as a child.  He decided not to go through the operation to repair or replace hone of the valves in his heart.  He died on 24 January 1955.
  
  Bud was buried in Chickasha.  I have seen his gravestone there.  Though Bud is buried in a plot for two, the second place is unused.  His wife Eyline remarried.  I cannot remember the new husband's name from my childhood and have not found it in any family sources.  They moved to Oklahoma City some years later, and Eyline apparently passed away and was buried there in another family plot.
  
  The Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, reports Bud's death on Certificate 47522.
  Arthur Carthal Jenkins, Death 19 Oct 1955 Bell County.
  
  The date of death here is given as the date of burial in the FairlawnCemetery records in Chickasha.

Sources

• 1. R Christian GED
  • Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Sheet
• 2. Asa Jenkins Family Interview by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 May 2007
• 3. Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Oklahoma, listings
  • Online Address now invalid
• 4. Funeral announcement for Arthur C Jenkins, Chickasha (Oklahoma) DailyExpress, date unknown
• 5. 1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
  • Mt View, Kiowa County, District 14, Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
• 6. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  • 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
• 7. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
  • Certificate 47522
• 8. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
• 9. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
• 10. Jenkins Family Notes by Lou Ila Jenkins, uncertain source, 1950s
• 11. Jenkins Family History by Harold Keith Christian
  • Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Record