Arthur L. Jenkins was the son of John W. and Lena Bennett Jenkins. John was born in August 1865 in Kentucky and Lena was born in June 1866 in Illinois.
Arthur was born in Parsons, Kan., a small city in the southeast corner of the state. We have a newspaper clipping that notes his birth in 1888, but no information on whether John and Lena had lived there for some time or how long they were there.
By the 1900 Census, the family is listed in North Milton, Ore., and includes sons Arthur (born 18 Jan 1888 in Parsons, Kan.), Charles (born March 1893 in Oregon) and Orville (born September 1896 in Oregon).
From those dates we can surmise that the family left Kansas and went to Umatilla County, Oregon, sometime after January 1888 and before March 1893.
Son Charles died 11 Nov 1903 and is buried in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery. But in the 1910 Census, they have one more child listed: a daughter Orah, who was born about 1903.
At that time, they were still living in North Milton, Ore., and both John and his eldest son Arthur are listed in the census as fruit farmers.
John died Dec. 21, 1912, and is buried in in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery.
Sometime after 1920, Lena remarried — to a Frank E. Williams. She died in 1943 and is buried next to her first husband.
By 1930, Lena's son Arthur L. Jenkins and his wife Minnie Harman Jenkins were living in Athena, Ore. The ages listed for their children are 16 for Leland, 14 for Lowell, 11 for Doris and 9 for Dale. It lists all the children as born in Oregon.
In the 1939 City Directory for Athena, Ore., Arthur is listed as a packer for Preston-Shaffer Milling Co., the major flour mill in the area. His youngest son Dale is listed as a cannery worker. Oldest son Leland is also listed with his wife Priscilla, but he does not have an occupation noted.
The same information for Arthur is repeated in the 1941-42 Athena City Directory, but in the 1946 directory he and Minnie are listed as living in Weston and Arthur is a warehouseman for the Eastern Oregon Canning Co., where Leland is the corporate secretary. Arthur and Minnie are not included in the 1951 City Directory, so they must have moved to Lewiston, Idaho, before that.
According to Minnie's obituary from the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the family "lived in Milton-Freewater prior to moving to Athena. Her husband worked in a flourmill there.
"They moved to a wheat ranch near Lewiston in the late 1940s and helped with the cooking and did handy work. She continued to work after her husband died Aug. 26, 1951. She
moved into Lewiston in 1968 and to Milton-Freewater in February 1985."
— From Sarah Jenkins, granddaughter
Arthur was born in Parsons, Kan., a small city in the southeast corner of the state. We have a newspaper clipping that notes his birth in 1888, but no information on whether John and Lena had lived there for some time or how long they were there.
By the 1900 Census, the family is listed in North Milton, Ore., and includes sons Arthur (born 18 Jan 1888 in Parsons, Kan.), Charles (born March 1893 in Oregon) and Orville (born September 1896 in Oregon).
From those dates we can surmise that the family left Kansas and went to Umatilla County, Oregon, sometime after January 1888 and before March 1893.
Son Charles died 11 Nov 1903 and is buried in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery. But in the 1910 Census, they have one more child listed: a daughter Orah, who was born about 1903.
At that time, they were still living in North Milton, Ore., and both John and his eldest son Arthur are listed in the census as fruit farmers.
John died Dec. 21, 1912, and is buried in in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery.
Sometime after 1920, Lena remarried — to a Frank E. Williams. She died in 1943 and is buried next to her first husband.
By 1930, Lena's son Arthur L. Jenkins and his wife Minnie Harman Jenkins were living in Athena, Ore. The ages listed for their children are 16 for Leland, 14 for Lowell, 11 for Doris and 9 for Dale. It lists all the children as born in Oregon.
In the 1939 City Directory for Athena, Ore., Arthur is listed as a packer for Preston-Shaffer Milling Co., the major flour mill in the area. His youngest son Dale is listed as a cannery worker. Oldest son Leland is also listed with his wife Priscilla, but he does not have an occupation noted.
The same information for Arthur is repeated in the 1941-42 Athena City Directory, but in the 1946 directory he and Minnie are listed as living in Weston and Arthur is a warehouseman for the Eastern Oregon Canning Co., where Leland is the corporate secretary. Arthur and Minnie are not included in the 1951 City Directory, so they must have moved to Lewiston, Idaho, before that.
According to Minnie's obituary from the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the family "lived in Milton-Freewater prior to moving to Athena. Her husband worked in a flourmill there.
"They moved to a wheat ranch near Lewiston in the late 1940s and helped with the cooking and did handy work. She continued to work after her husband died Aug. 26, 1951. She
moved into Lewiston in 1968 and to Milton-Freewater in February 1985."
— From Sarah Jenkins, granddaughter
Arthur L. Jenkins was the son of John W. and Lena Bennett Jenkins. John was born in August 1865 in Kentucky and Lena was born in June 1866 in Illinois.
Arthur was born in Parsons, Kan., a small city in the southeast corner of the state. We have a newspaper clipping that notes his birth in 1888, but no information on whether John and Lena had lived there for some time or how long they were there.
By the 1900 Census, the family is listed in North Milton, Ore., and includes sons Arthur (born 18 Jan 1888 in Parsons, Kan.), Charles (born March 1893 in Oregon) and Orville (born September 1896 in Oregon).
From those dates we can surmise that the family left Kansas and went to Umatilla County, Oregon, sometime after January 1888 and before March 1893.
Son Charles died 11 Nov 1903 and is buried in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery. But in the 1910 Census, they have one more child listed: a daughter Orah, who was born about 1903.
At that time, they were still living in North Milton, Ore., and both John and his eldest son Arthur are listed in the census as fruit farmers.
John died Dec. 21, 1912, and is buried in in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery.
Sometime after 1920, Lena remarried — to a Frank E. Williams. She died in 1943 and is buried next to her first husband.
By 1930, Lena's son Arthur L. Jenkins and his wife Minnie Harman Jenkins were living in Athena, Ore. The ages listed for their children are 16 for Leland, 14 for Lowell, 11 for Doris and 9 for Dale. It lists all the children as born in Oregon.
In the 1939 City Directory for Athena, Ore., Arthur is listed as a packer for Preston-Shaffer Milling Co., the major flour mill in the area. His youngest son Dale is listed as a cannery worker. Oldest son Leland is also listed with his wife Priscilla, but he does not have an occupation noted.
The same information for Arthur is repeated in the 1941-42 Athena City Directory, but in the 1946 directory he and Minnie are listed as living in Weston and Arthur is a warehouseman for the Eastern Oregon Canning Co., where Leland is the corporate secretary. Arthur and Minnie are not included in the 1951 City Directory, so they must have moved to Lewiston, Idaho, before that.
According to Minnie's obituary from the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the family "lived in Milton-Freewater prior to moving to Athena. Her husband worked in a flourmill there.
"They moved to a wheat ranch near Lewiston in the late 1940s and helped with the cooking and did handy work. She continued to work after her husband died Aug. 26, 1951. She
moved into Lewiston in 1968 and to Milton-Freewater in February 1985."
— From Sarah Jenkins, granddaughter
Arthur was born in Parsons, Kan., a small city in the southeast corner of the state. We have a newspaper clipping that notes his birth in 1888, but no information on whether John and Lena had lived there for some time or how long they were there.
By the 1900 Census, the family is listed in North Milton, Ore., and includes sons Arthur (born 18 Jan 1888 in Parsons, Kan.), Charles (born March 1893 in Oregon) and Orville (born September 1896 in Oregon).
From those dates we can surmise that the family left Kansas and went to Umatilla County, Oregon, sometime after January 1888 and before March 1893.
Son Charles died 11 Nov 1903 and is buried in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery. But in the 1910 Census, they have one more child listed: a daughter Orah, who was born about 1903.
At that time, they were still living in North Milton, Ore., and both John and his eldest son Arthur are listed in the census as fruit farmers.
John died Dec. 21, 1912, and is buried in in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery.
Sometime after 1920, Lena remarried — to a Frank E. Williams. She died in 1943 and is buried next to her first husband.
By 1930, Lena's son Arthur L. Jenkins and his wife Minnie Harman Jenkins were living in Athena, Ore. The ages listed for their children are 16 for Leland, 14 for Lowell, 11 for Doris and 9 for Dale. It lists all the children as born in Oregon.
In the 1939 City Directory for Athena, Ore., Arthur is listed as a packer for Preston-Shaffer Milling Co., the major flour mill in the area. His youngest son Dale is listed as a cannery worker. Oldest son Leland is also listed with his wife Priscilla, but he does not have an occupation noted.
The same information for Arthur is repeated in the 1941-42 Athena City Directory, but in the 1946 directory he and Minnie are listed as living in Weston and Arthur is a warehouseman for the Eastern Oregon Canning Co., where Leland is the corporate secretary. Arthur and Minnie are not included in the 1951 City Directory, so they must have moved to Lewiston, Idaho, before that.
According to Minnie's obituary from the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the family "lived in Milton-Freewater prior to moving to Athena. Her husband worked in a flourmill there.
"They moved to a wheat ranch near Lewiston in the late 1940s and helped with the cooking and did handy work. She continued to work after her husband died Aug. 26, 1951. She
moved into Lewiston in 1968 and to Milton-Freewater in February 1985."
— From Sarah Jenkins, granddaughter
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