Nova Bernice GRUBBS2,10,4,1,6,7,11,8

also known as Nova B DAVIS5

also known as Nova JENKINS2

24th Sep 19082,3,4,5,1,6,7,8 - 16th Jan 20019,5,1,8

Life History

24th Sep 1908	Born in Roff, Pontotoc, Oklahoma.2,3,4,5,1,6,7,8
24th Nov 1929	Married Thomas Asa JENKINS in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.3,20
1930	Resident in Fort Cobb, Caddo, Oklahoma.2
26th Nov 1930	Birth of son Asa Lee JENKINS in Ft Cobb, Caddo, Oklahoma.6,12,13,14,9,15
8th Nov 1935	Birth of son Jimmie Ray JENKINS in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma.3
8th Nov 1935	Death of son Jimmie Ray JENKINS in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma.3
24th Jul 1938	Birth of son Ronald Wayne JENKINS in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma.5,6,17,1,8,18,18
9th May 1969	Death of Thomas Asa JENKINS in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma.1,13,19
about Nov 1976	Married Someone DAVIS.8
4th Mar 1986	Death of son Ronald Wayne JENKINS in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.5,1,8,16
16th Jan 2001	Died in Oklahoma City, Cleveland, Oklahoma.9,5,1,8
after 16th Jan 2001	Buried in Memory Lane Cemetery, Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma.1

Other facts

	Social Security number 442-52-6299.5
	SSN issued in Oklahoma.5

Notes

Some genealogies appearing in searches in 2013 report that Nova is the daughter of James Warning Grubb (no S) and Mable C Christensen. Most have incomplete of missing parents' names, but one provides these full names. They are reported in censuses in Brown County, Kansas. The daughter of the Kansas family is reported in censuses as Bernie E Grubb born in Kansas. But this is a different person.
-- Newlin, McKinley, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/104828/person/170269389?ssrc=&ftm=1

These genealogies still report Nova born in Oklahoma, as other records indicate, even though they attach these Kansas censuses reporting Bernice Grubb as born in Kansas. Her father's name was given to me by Nova's son Asa Lee (my first cousin) as James Grubbs. Nova's mother was named Martha Bell Barefoot. The head of the Kansas household is also James.

It turned out from information discovered only in January 2017 that Barefgoot was not Mattie Bell's birth name. It was the surname of her stepfather. The information came from Asa Lee Jenkins' granddaughter-in-law, Erica Casperson Jenkins. Mattie Bell's parents were John Payton Dennis and Katie Magby. After John's death, Katie married Thomas Duncan Barefoot II, who died in 1917. After Thomas' death, Mattie Bell married Jefferson Davis Luttrell.
-- Casperson-Boyd-Jenkins-Riley, http://person.ancestry.com/tree/1860881/person/24446080363/facts

Mattie Belle Dennis
BIRTH 8 DEC 1890 Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma
DEATH 23 APRIL 1990 Caddo County, Oklahoma
Parents:
John Payton Dennis 1855-
Katie Magby 1871-1965
Spouse James Richard Grubbs 1889-1941
Children:
Nova Bernice Grubbs 1908-2001
Juanita G Grubbs 1911-1999
Helen Oleta Grubbs 1913-1997
-- Casperson-Boyd-Jenkins-Riley, http://person.ancestry.com/tree/1860881/person/24446080363/facts

With the 1930 and 1940 census reports of Nova's birth in Oklahoma, I pressed to find a Grubbs family in the Grady-Caddo area. I did find a Jim and Mattie Grubbs with a matching daughter, reported in 1920 as Nobla, 11 years old, matching her birth date in 1908. This family fits the picture of all the other facts we know.

1920 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 10 January, Tuttle, District 191, page 6A-B, Oak St, Hse/Fam #110
Grubbs, Jim Head Rents M W 30 Texas Georgia Texas Produce Salesmen [abt 1890]
- page 6B -
Grubbs, Mattie B Wife F W 29 TX TX TX [abt 1891]
Grubbs, Nobla B Dau F W 11 OK TX TX [abt 1908]
Grubbs, Juanita G Dau F W 9 OK TX TX [abt 1910]
Grubbs, Ellen Dau F W 6 OK TX TX [abt 1913]

This is confirmed when in 1940 we find J R Grubbs and his wife Mattie as expected in Anadarko, with a Maytag dealership. Nova Bernice Grubbs married Thomas Asa Jenkins. Asa went into business with his father-in-law in this Maytag dealership, then later opened his own store. The 1930 census reports they had just married that year.

1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, page 7B, Hse #146, Fam #178
Jenkins, Asa Head M W 26 married at age 26 OK TX TX Maytag Salesman
Jenkins, Nova Wife F W 21 married at age 21 OK TX OK [b 1908]

Asa and Nova met and married in Fort Cobb, Caddo County, Oklahoma. By at least 1936, Asa and Nova moved to Anadarko, where they lived the rest of their life.

1940 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 9 April, Anadarko, District 8-6, page 7B, 408 W Louisiana St, Hse #157, Owns $2500
Jenkins, Asa Head M W 36 Grade HS-4 b Oklahoma same place in 1935 Maytag Dealer
Jenkins, Nova B Wife F W 31 Grade Col-2 b Oklahoma same place in 1935
Jenkins, Asa Lee Son M W 9 Single Grade 3 b Oklahoma
Jenkins, Ronald W Son M W 1 Single b Oklahoma

Death information for Nova Bernice Grubbs Jenkins was not discovered until August 2007. And finally her burial information, which had included her name Jenkins: Her second marriage information came to light, only on 29 June 2014, when Loretta Gregory Gay, genealogist of the Gregory-Green family (and my maternal aunt), gave me a copy of the obit she had found. Nova G Jenkins Davis. At that time an entry for Jack James Davis wsa added to this genealogy.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Nova B Davis
Birth Date 24 Sep 1908
17 Sw 66 St, Oklahoma City, OK, 73139

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Nova Bernice Jenkins [Nova B Davis] [Nova Bernice Grubbs]
Birth 24 Sep 1908 Roff, Pontotoc, Oklahoma
Father Name James R Grubbs
Mother Name Mattie Dennis
Death Date 16 Jan 2001
SSN 442526299
Jan 1965 Name listed as NOVA BERNICE JENKINS; 08 Nov 1976 Name listed as NOVA B DAVIS

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
Nova B. Davis
Born 24 Sep 1908
Died 16 Jan 2001
Last Residence Oklahoma City, Cleveland, Oklahoma 73139
SSN 442-52-6299 issued Oklahoma (1965)

Nova Bernice Grubbs Jenkins
Birth Sep 24, 1908 Oklahoma
Death Jan 16, 2001 Oklahoma City, Cleveland County, Oklahoma
Parents:
James Richard Grubbs (1889 - 1941)
Mattie Belle Grubbs (1898 - 1990)
Siblings:
Juanita Grubbs Buckner (1910 - 1999)
J R Grubbs (1922 - 1926)
Spouse Thomas Asa Jenkins (1903 - 1969)
Burial Memory Lane Cemetery, Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Created by Lillian Mar 24, 2011
-- Find A Grave Memorial #67390614, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkins&GSiman=1&GScid=98944&GRid=67390614&

Sources

1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
2. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
- 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, page 7B, Hse #146, Fam #178
3. Jenkins Family Notes by Lou Ila Jenkins, uncertain source, 1950s
4. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
5. Social Security Death Index
6. 1940 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
- 9 April, Anadarko, District 8-6, page 7B, 408 W Louisiana St, Hse #157, Owns $2500
7. 1920 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma
- 10 January, Tuttle, District 191, page 6B, Oak St, Hse/Fam #110
8. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
9. Obituaries from Oklahoma
10. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
11. Obituary of Martha Belle Barefoot Grubbs, 1990
12. Anadarko Graduation Lists, http://home.comcast.net/~dale1878/dale75.html
13. Asa Jenkins Family Interview by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 May 2007
14. CampaignMoney.com
15. Oklahoma Voters
16. Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
17. Jenkins Family information
18. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990
19. SSDI Broderbund Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 6
20. Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Record, Harold Christian GED