Life History

Notes

• Virginia Jo was killed in a shotgun accident in a family home.  A loaded shotgun was discovered by children when a big family gathering was underway at a family home in Lone Wolf, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.  The gun went off and killed Virginia Jo.  The story was related to me by my father, Orville Lee Jenkins, Virgina Jo's older brother.  This event was a key reference in our family's gun safety awareness.
  
  Nancy Charlton found Virginia Jo's obituary and posted a memorial on Find a Grave.  Jody is the only Jenkins buried in the Ft Cobb cemtery.  Additional information I submitted was added to the memorial.
  
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  Virginia Jo Jenkins
  Birth Aug 28, 1925 Fort Cobb, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  Death Jun 29, 1930 Lone Wolf, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
  
  Parents:
  Joseph Asa Jenkins (1866 - 1962)
  Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins (1880 - 1966)
  
  Siblings:
  James Everett Jenkins (1886 - 1963) Half-siblng
  Joseph Benjamin Jenkins (1889 - 1978) Half-siblng
  Sallie Hester Jenkins Christian (1893 - 1982) Half-siblng
  Ocy Belle Jenkins (1896 - 1896) Half-sibling
  Mary Nettie Jenkins Yates (1897 - 1991) Half-sibling
  Mabel Clare Jenkins Hill (1901 - 1990)
  Thomas Asa Jenkins (1903 - 1969)
  Nannie May Jenkins (1905 - 1906)
  Rhonda Fay Jenkins Boyd (1907 - 1963)
  Arthur Carthal Jenkins (1909 - 1955)
  Orville Lee Jenkins (1912 - 1987)
  Gladys Lahoma Jenkins Hendron (1914 - 1991)
  Martha Netheline Jenkins Callaway (1918 - 2007)
  
  The Carnegie Herald, Wed., July 2, 1930
  
  Gun Discharge Is Fatal to Playmate
  
  Grim tragedy stalked into the midst of a happy family reunion at Lone Wolf Sunday and claimed little Virginia Jo, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Jenkins of Fort Cobb. The little girl was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a small playmate.
  
  The accident occurred while most of the family were seated at the dinner table, the children playing in an adjoining room having obtained the gun which was thought to have been concealed in a closet.
  
  Funeral services were held at the Baptist church in Fort Cobb Monday afternoon [30 June 1930] and interment made in the cemetery there. The Jenkins family has lived in Fort Cobb for the past nine years where Mr. Jenkins is employed as night watchman.
  
  Inscription  Daughter of J.A. & Virginia
  
  Burial Fort Cobb Cemetery, Fort Cobb, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  
  Created by Nancy Charlton Apr 22, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #8771471, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68771471
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Sources

• 1. 1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  • 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26, p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
• 2. Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins
• 3. Jenkins Family History by Harold Keith Christian
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. Harold K Christian, Pedigree Chart, January 1990
• 6. Jenkins Virginia Jo Cradle Roll Certificate
• 7. Joseph Asa Jenkins Family Group Record, Harold Christian GED
• 8. Various Jenkins Family Sources