Life History

Other facts

Notes

• All his siblings called him Bud.  His nieces and nephews called himUncle Bud.
  
  The name is spelled as Carthal in the Family Group Sheet from Harold KChristian.  Two childhood censuses list him as Carthel.  The cemeterylisting gives the spelling as Carthal.  This is one indication thatthis was the spelling used by the family.  In May 2009, Bud's sonCarthal Trent contacted me and his spelling of his name confirmed thecorrect spelling of Carthal.
  
  Bud's gravestone has only the initial C.  In May 2007, Lou Ila Jenkinsfound some old family notes she wrote down, probably in the 1950s, butthey contain no date or source info.  This has the name of Bud and hisson Trent spelled as Carthal.  I found the Bud's death informationfrom Bell County, Texas, also spells his name Carthal.
  
  In 1912 Bud accompanied his mother to British Columbia, Canada, wherehis father had gone earlier to work on the Canadian-Alaskan Highwayproject.  Jennie took all the children by train across the continentto join her husband.
  
  Canadian Immigration Records, White Rock, British Columbia, 12 Dec1912
  Jenkins, Mrs Jennie  Female age 30 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of TexasTrain CMR 356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver $3.00 Cash  To Husband
  Jenkins, Carthal age Male 3 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas TrainCMR 356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver
  
  In 1920 He is recorded as Author C, and as Carthel in 1930.
  
  1920 Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, 3 January, Mt View, District 14,Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
  Jenkins, Joseph A  Head  M W 54  TX NC MS Farmer
  Jenkins, Juliva  Wife  FW 39 TX GA NC
  Jenkins, Author C  Son M W 10 OK TX TX
  
  In the 1930 census, Bud was reported in his parents' household in MtView, Oklahoma.  His age is given as 10 in the January census.  Thiswould seem to indicate he was born in 1909, and the date of birth fromfamily sources is 28 December 1909.  However, there is no childcorresponding to Arthur in the 1910 census.  Rhonda Faye is the lastchild reported in 1910.
  
  1930 Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26,p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
  Joe A Jenkins  Head  M W 63 TX MS MS
  Julia Jenkins  Wife  F W 49 TX GA NC
  Carthel Jenkins son M W 20 OK TX TX
  
  Bud's son Trent tells me that Bud worked for his older brother Asa inAsa's appliance business before WWII.  Both Bud and his youngerbrother Orville worked at Tinker field Air Force Base in Midwest City(Oklahoma City) during World War II.  Bud and Eyline were living inthe Oklahoma City area and Orville lived with them a while during thatwartime work in the City.  Bud's son Michael Thomas was born inOklahoma City in 1943.
  
  After the war, Bud moved back to Chickasha, Oklahoma, where hisdaughter LaRhonda Eyline was born.  Bud's son (my first cousin) Trentgave me the birthplaces for himself and his siblings and their motherEyline Lynch.  In Chickasha Bud had a Maytag dealership in next doorto the City Hall and Police Department.  Bud shared the building withhis brother, my father Orville Lee Jenkins, who ran a radio sales andrepair business, until the early 1950s.  A picture of the buildingwhere the Jenkins Furniture Store in Anadarko was located is foundonline:
  http://home.comcast.net/~dale1879/dale9.html
  
  I found listings for them in the 1947 Chickasha City Directory.
  
  Chickasha City Directory 1947, p 135
  Jenkins Appliance Co (Arthur C Jenkins) 308 Choctaw av
  -- Arthur C (Eileen; Jenkins Appliance Co) h[ome] 1227 S 6th
  -- Jos A (Jennie) h 2002 S 2d
  -- Jenkins Orville L (Lou I; Jenkins Radio Co) h 2027 S 14th
  -- Radio Co (Orville L Jenkins) 312 Choctaw av
  
  Arthur Carthal (Bud) was ill for some time before he died.  He wasstill living in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, at the time of hisdeath.  Other family sources, including my cousin and Bud's nephewHarold K Christian, have no place of death, but report the date.
  
  However, I found out in May 2007, from his nephew Asa Lee, that hedied in Temple, Texas, while in the Scott White Hospital.  I laterfound the record in the Texas Death Index.  His heart was weak fromthe effects of rheumatic fever he suffered as a child.  He decided notto go through the operation to repair or replace one of the valves inhis heart.  He died on 24 January 1955.
  
  Bud was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery in Chickasha.  Though Bud isburied in a plot for two, the second place is unused.  His wife Eylinemarried a second time to Wayne Wornom.  They moved to Oklahoma Citysome years later, and Eyline apparently passed away and was buriedthere in another family plot.  As of September 2009 I have not foundthe burial information for Eyline Lynch Wornom.
  
  The Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, reports Bud's death on Certificate47522
  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. Asa Jenkins Family Interview by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 May 2007
• 2. R Christian GED
  • Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Sheet
• 3. Canadian Immigration Records, White Rock, British Columbia, 12 Dec1912
• 4. Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Oklahoma, listings
  • Online Address now invalid
• 5. Funeral announcement for Arthur C Jenkins, Chickasha (Oklahoma) DailyExpress, date unknown
• 6. 1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
  • 3 January, Mountain View, District 14, Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
• 7. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  • 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
• 8. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
  • Certificate 47522
• 9. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
• 10. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
• 11. Jenkins Family Notes by Lou Ila Jenkins, uncertain source, 1950s
• 12. Jenkins Family History by Harold Keith Christian
  • Name: Location:http://objgenealogy.com/articles/josephsanfordjenkinshistory.pdf;;
  • Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Record