Life History

Notes

• This son of John Jenkins and Julia Ward is reported in the 1900 censusas Curley and in the 1920 census as Cull.  Curly is usually anickname.  There is a family tradition that John also had a brothernamed Curly, but Jenkins family researchers have been unable to findany documentation of anyone of this name.  Another child named Curlymay have died very young.
  
  Also there is a family tradition of a brother named Cullen, and Cullis a short form of that.  Cullen (Cull) and Curley could be the sameperson.  Here the same person seems to have both names.  Could it bethat it was this grandson of John Jenkins, a brother of Joseph AsaJenkins, that Joe's children remembered vaguely and incorrectly as abrother of their father, rather than their own cousin they never knew?
  
  1900 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 20 June, Justice Precinct 3,District 22, page 17A, Hse/Fam #285
  Jenkins, Julia Head W F Sept 1856  43 Widow  Bore 7 children/6 livingGA GA SC Farmer Owns Farm
  Jenkins, Curly Son W M Apr 1884  16 TX GA TX
  
  In about 1904, Cull married Ada Dycus.  In the 1910 census they areliving in Bowie County, Texas, north of Cass County on the Red River.Her father is living with them, which gives us Ada's maiden name ofDycus.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Bowie County, Texas, 13 May, Precinct 2, District12, page 25B, Hse #465, Fam #470
  Jinkins, Cull J Head M W 27 Married 6 years TX US US Farmer Rents
  Jinkins, Ada Wife F W 26 Married 6 years 0 children AR NC AL
  Dycus, Step[h]en T Father-in-Law M W 65 Widowed NC NC NC
  Hurst, Thell B Nephew M W 20 Single AR AR AR
  
  In 1918, Cullen and his wife Ada were living and farming near Naples,Morris County, Texas, just west of Cass County.
  
  World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  Cull Jenkins
  Residence Naples, Morris, Texas
  Birth Date 13 Apr 1883
  Occupation Farming
  Nearest Relative Mrs Ada Jenkins, Route 3, Naples, Morris, Texas
  Medium Height and Build, Brown Eyes, Dark Hair
  Registered 12 September 1918 in Linden, Cass County, Texas
  
  In 1920, Cull is living next door to Ebb Jenkins, also a son of Johnand Julia Jenkins.  Cull and his wife Ada are the last entry on page7A, and Ebb and Harriet are the first entry on the next page.  But itappears from the road notation on the pages that Cull and Ada live onNaples and Cornett Road, while Ebb and Harriet live on Naples andDalton Rd.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 20 Jan, Justice Precinct 3,Enumeration District 3, page 7A, Naples and Cornett Rd, Hse/Fam #123
  Jenkins, Cull Head Rents  M W 36 TX TN GA Farming [b abt 1884]
  Jenkins, Ada Wife F W 34 AR GA AR [b abt 1886]
  Jenkins, Clarence Son M W 5 OK TX AR [b abt 1915]
  
  Note the interesting report of birth place for Clarence.  He isreported born in Oklahoma, which may indicate that Cullen and his wifewere living with or near his Jenkins relatives in Oklahoma for awhile.  This would seem to strengthen the childhood memories of hiscousins that there was a Cullen in their family, but may have been soearly (before some were born) that they thought of him as an unclerather than a cousin.
  
  In 1930 we find them in Arkansas.  Their son Clarence is still in thehome, age 15, as well as a niece Jewel Mallonee, the daughter ofCull's sister Ethel..
  
  1930 Federal Census, Ouachita County, Arkansas, 2 April, WashingtonTownship, District 24 page 1A, Hse #9, Fam #10
  Jenkins, Cull Head Rents $55 M W 46 Married at 20 TX TX TX Crude OilPumper
  Jenkins, Ada E Wife F W 46 Married at 20 AR AR AR
  Jenkins, Clarence Son M W 15 OK TX AR
  Mallonee, Jewel B Niece F W 15 TX TX TX
  
  Cull's wife Ada passed away in 1937.  Cull survived her until 1945.
  
  The Arkansas Death Index informs us that Cull's full name wasapparently the same as his father, naming him John Cul Jenkins.  Thisis supported also by the 1910 census entry as Cull J, with the nameorder reversed, since he went by Cull.
  
  Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  Volume 13, Certificate #684
  John Cul Jenkins
  Estimated Birth Year: 1884
  Age: 61
  Death 16 Mar 1945 Ouachita County
  
  Graves of Cull and Ada Jenkins, Crossroads Baptist Church Cemetery,Smackover, Ouachita, Arkansas
  ADA  JENKINS    10-19-1883   to   8-9-1937
  CULL  JENKINS     4-13-1883   to   3-16-1945
  --  Crossroads Cemetery List,http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcemete/ouachita/crossroads.htm

Sources

• 1. 1900 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas
  • 20 June, Justice Precinct 3, District 22, page 17A, Hse/Fam #285
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas
  • 20 January, Justice Precinct 3, District 3, page 7A, Naples and
• 3. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  • Volume 13, Certificate #684
• 4. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 5. 1910 Federal Census, Bowie County, Texas
  • 13 May, Precinct 2, District 12, page 25B, Hse #465, Fam #470
• 6. 1930 Federal Census, Ouachita County, Arkansas
  • 2 April, Washington Township, District 24 page 1A, Hse #9, Fam #10
• 7. Crossroads Baptist Church Cemetery List, Smackover, Ouachita, Arkansas
  • Location:http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcemete/ouachita/crossroads.htm;
• 8. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
• 9. Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900-1949
  • Volume 24, Certificate #10340