James Everett JENKINS1,2,4,8,5,6,9

also known as Evert JENKINS

17th Jan 18881,2,3,4,5 - 16th Jan 19635

Life History

17th Jan 1888	Born in Dalton, Cass, Texas.1,2,3,4,5
1900	Resident in Marlow Town, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.7
1907	Married Osa I MCCLANAHAN in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.15 "Everett married Ocy McClanahan, whose parents are believed to have lived on a farm west of Marlow. Everett subsequently moved to MountainView where he later worked with his brother Ben in his dry cleaning shop." -- Harold Keith Christian, Jenkins Family History, private document.
3rd Mar 1908	Birth of son Joseph P JENKINS in Oklahoma.8,6,5,11
about 1910	Birth of daughter Verneice O JENKINS in Oklahoma.12
1910	Occupation Tailor, Mangaging Clothes Cleaning Business.6
11th Jun 1915	Birth of son Harry Carroll JENKINS in Oklahoma.5
about May 1918	Birth of son James P JENKINS in Oklahoma.8,13
about 1921	Birth of daughter Annie V JENKINS in Oklahoma.9
12th Feb 1928	Birth of son Gene K JENKINS in Oklahoma.14,11
9th Aug 1960	Death of Osa I MCCLANAHAN in Orange County, California.5
16th Jan 1963	Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.5

Other facts

Married Beulah UNKNOWN.

Notes

In 1910 Everett and Ocy are in Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma,where they run a clothes cleaning business. Everett (recorded as Evert) is reported in the 1910 census as a Tailor, and owner of a "Cleaning and Pressing" business.

Harold Christian reports in the Jenkins Family History that brother Ben (Joseph Benjamin) was working for his brother Everett in this business at one point during this period.

In the 1920 census he and Ocy are living in Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas. This is just across the Red River from Oklahoma. He and his brother-in-law Neil Yates (husband of Mary Jenkins Yates) are both working as drillers in the oil fields there. The two families live inthe same household.

In 1930, the picture is a little confusing. Osa and Everett are listed in different households in different counties of Oklahoma. While Osa is in Earlsboro, Pottawatomie County, with 22-year-old Joseph and a2-year old Gene, Everett ("Evert") is married to Beaulah (Beulah?) and lives in Maud in Seminole County. Everett and his family appear to be living in a boarding house, or a multi-family home, at 305 King Street in Maud, Oklahoma. Children living with Everett and Beulah areVernice, Harry, James (reported in previous censuses) and another daughter Annie V, age 9.

I would think from the given information that Annie, at age 9, was a daughter of Osa and that they divorced sometime after the birth of Gene, on 12 February 1928. It is not clear why Osa is reported as a widow, unless that was the standard census entry for an adult no longer living with a spouse.

The available information suggests that Osa and Everett divorced sometime in 1928, and Everett married Beulah sometime before the census in1930. The census indicates that Beulah was age 23 at the time of first marriage and 29 at this census. Since it appears that Everett was still married to Ocy until 1928 (assuming that Gene is Everett's child born in wedlock), this seems to indicate that Beulah was married previously also, and either divorced or widowed before marrying Everettbetween 1928 and 1930.

Everett lived for a long time in Bellflower, California.

Sources

1. Jenkins Family History by Harold Keith Christian
2. Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins, personal interview by Lou Ila Jenkins, about 1955
3. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
- 19 June, Marlow Town, District 164, page 8A
4. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
5. California Death Index, 1940-1997
6. 1910 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
- 15 April, Mountain View Town, Ward 1, District 178, 3rd Street, page 1
7. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
- 19 June, Marlow Town, Page #310, Hse #131, Family #133
8. 1920 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas
- 13 January, Burkburnett Town, District 197, page 8B, Hse #157, Fam #20
9. 1930 Federal Census, Seminole County, Oklahoma
- 2 April, Maud, District 19, page 1B, Hse #12 (?), Fam #13
10. Obituary of Joseph Asa Jenkins, Oklahoma City paper, name unknown, June 1962
11. 1930 Federal Census, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
- 7 April, Earlsboro, District 21, page 6B, Hse#147, Fam #152
12. 1920 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas
- 13 January, Burkburnett Town, District 197, page 8B
13. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
14. Social Security Death Index
15. Jenkins Journal, July 1982, by Harold Keith Christian