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• Spelling appears both as Kerwin or Kerwyn.  I know the name as Kerwyn, and this is the way I find it in the 1930 census, when Kerwyn is 8 years old, and the family are living in Ft Cobb, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
  
  He was called Kerwyn (Kerwin) by family (following the dominant pattern of this family line in calling the children by their second name.  As an adult, however, he preferred to be called Charles.  I remember knowing his wife Lois when I was a child.  I believe they lived in California for some time, then we visited them in Chickasha, Oklahoma, his hometown.  I have no further information about his wife or children, except that some family members know of a son called Mark.
  
  Mabel was in Mt View, where she met Oscar Hill, after Joseph Asa moved his family to Mountain View in approximately 1914.  In information recorded by Ruth Christian, Mabel (Kerwyn's mother) states that the family had lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for about one year.
  
  This sequence of statements compresses events.  Harold Christian (Jenkins Family History, private paper) reports that the family moved to Canada sometime after Lahoma was born in Mt View on 25 November 1914.  They returned from British Columbia after World War One ended in 1918.  When they moved back to Mt View, Harold says they returned to an Indian lease farm southeast of Mt View.  Mary had already returned from Canada and  was staying with her sister Sallie Christian and her family.
  
  At some time later Mabel comments:  "When Kerwin was about 3-4 days old, Poppa was made City Marshall."   This reference seems to refer to the situation at Fort Cobb.  Other factors indicate the Jenkins family moved to Fort Cobb from Mountain View between 1918 and 1925.  Mabel's sister Netheline was born in Mountain View 25 December 1918.  Virginia Jo Jenkins was born 28 August 1925 in Fort Cobb.  Shortly after they moved to Ft Cobb, Joseph Asa became the City Marshall of Ft Cobb.  Kerwyn was born in October 1921.  If Mabel's memory is right, then Joseph Asa became Marshall of Fort Cobb in October 1921.
  
  This would be the period of time when Mabel married Oscar, and when Kerwyn was born.  Kerwyn's age is 8 in the 1930 census in Ft Cobb.  This date of birth for Kerwyn yielded by this is 1922.  In July 2007 my mother Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins late gave me family records she had found, consisting of information Lou had written down from my grandmother Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins.  This information gives Kerwyn's birth date as 27 October 1921.
  
  Known facts seem to indicate that Mabel and Oscar married in Mt View, and that Kerwyn was born in Mt. View.  I thus show the birth place as Mt. View.
  
  1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 2 April, Ft Cobb Town, District 26, page 2B, Hse #35, Fam #46
  Oscar Hill  Head M W 31 TX MO TX
  Mable Hill  Wife F W 26 OK TX GA GA
  Kerwyn Hill Son S W 8 OK TX OK
  Vevajune Hill Dau F W 3yrs 11mos  OK TX OK
  
  1940 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 12 April, Chickasha Ward 1 Block 50, District 78-40, page 11B, 3034 NW 18th St, Hse #270, Rents $28
  Hill, Mabel C  Head F W 38 Divorced Grade H-4 b Oklahoma same house in 1935 Bacon Slicer, Wholesale Meats
  Hill, Charles C Son M W 18 Single Grade H-3 b Oklahoma same house in 1935
  Hill, Veva J Dau F W 13 Single Grade 9 b Oklahoma same house
  
  U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
  Charles K Hill
  Birth Date 27 Oct 1921
  PO Box 1778, Chickasha, OK, 73023-1778
  516 W Chickasha Ave, Chickasha, OK, 73018-2412
  8 Skyview Dr, Chickasha, OK, 73018-6102 (1987-1992)
  
  I learned Kerwyn's death date first from the online registry of Rose Hill Cemetery in Chickasha, Oklahoma.  The full date of 28 May 1998 is also reported in the Social Security Death Index, which reports he was living in Chickasha at the time of death.  I had not seen him for a few years before his death.  He had lived in Chickasha ever since I can remember.
  
  U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
  Charles K. Hill
  Born 27 Oct 1921
  Died 28 May 1998
  Last Address Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma 73018
  SSN 446-01-9215 issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)
  
  Charles Hill
  Birth Oct. 27, 1921 Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
  Death May 28, 1998 Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
  Parents:
  Oscar C. Hill (1898 - 1984)
  Mabel Jenkins Hill (1901 - 1990)
  Burial Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
  Plot: Blk 6 Lt 1 Sp 8
  Maintained by Cokeman2, Originally Created by AL Dec 22, 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #63221805, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63221805

Sources

• 1. 1940 Federal Census, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
  • 12 April, Oklahoma City Ward 1 Block 50, District 78-40, page 11B, 3034 NW 18th St, Hse #270, Rents $28
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 4. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  • 2 April, Ft Cobb Town, District 26, page 2B, Hse #35, Fam #46
• 5. Jenkins Family Notes by Lou Ila Jenkins, uncertain source, 1950s
• 6. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
• 7. Cemeteries of Oklahoma
• 8. Social Security Death Index
• 9. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
• 10. Gravestones of Oklahoma