Greenberry and Letta Jenkins
He was born to Lewis and Susan Frost Jenkins on March 23,1860. And the grand son of Edward N.Frost and Jane Jennie Jenkins Frost.
Letta Savanah Knight daughter of John Knight and Polly Rommie Knight, she was born on March 8,1862 in Jasper Alabama.
Grandpa always told the story that him and Lettie met the first time when he was 17 and she was 15. They ran off to get married but her dad caught up with them and switched her all the way back home. They again met when he was 19 and she was 17, they ran off and got married by the roadside.
By the 1920's Greenberry was still living in Dewar with Letta and they had two more children,
Lula and Robert. They had Seven children all in all and four of them passed away from various things. She was 56 when her youngest Robert was born.
They lived in the in Miami,Oklahoma until their death, I found them one more time in the 1930 in the small town of Schulter Living with there were Lula daughter,Robert,their daughter and granddaughter Mary and Grace Healdee, Jay and Pearl Shellman son in law and daughter,and a grandson Jay Booker.
Greenberry had 11 children four passed away as children, 7 survived to adulthood. The 4 children passed away from various causes. The children who survived to adulthood were Daniel, Anna, Mary, Pearle, Ruby, Lula and Robert.
Greenberry and Leta's son Robert and his family were involved in a car accident, Robert suffered many broken bones, and was left crippled for life, his son Gary was thrown from the car and suffered a broken nose, and Roberts wife, Ruby Pearl Varnado-Hannah Jenkins, passed away. Out of the 8 people involved in the accident, Robert and Gary were the only survivors.
I have been blessed this year and met my cousin Gary and Betty Jenkins from Oklahoma and his family,for whom I wouldn't have received all this
During the flood of 1951, Jay Shellman Pearls husband helped grandpa move their funiture up to the roof of the house,which was in the NW part of
Grandpa was always in a cellar when a storm came through. The tornado broke the power lines to the house. Inside the house was a 3 legged table next
Gary remembered my grandparents, Percy and Oma Burrows and the chilli they made. It would take all day as he would smoke a roast and chop it up He also
When Gary lived with them his aunts and uncles were in their 60's and 70's. He remembered when anna Mae came over grandma would get tired of her
Pearle was killed in the early 60's in Utah in a 20 car pileup. Billy Jay's baby girl was also killed. They were buried together in the same casket.
They were in an Econoline Ford van where the windshield was right in front. I remember the vans because my dad had one when he was in tv repair business.
Grandma and Grandpa had all their wits about them when they died. She always claimed to be German Irish and he was Welsh Irish, grandma had red hair
He was wiry and could hold his own. Grandma had a cane and would goose grandpa every chance she got. She took assafidiy and cascade whiskey when
She would rock in her chair, humming and piecing quilts. All hand sewn, pieces by piece. Then she would make another and hand-sew them together.
They out-lived all but 1 or 2 of their kids, which to me was sad. Grandpa was a character, but well liked by everyone here in town. They were poor, but
By the 1900 they had Daniel Jacob B: June 14th,1892 D: October 22, 1980.
Annyma (Annie M)B: March 1894
and before going west they had Mary Ellen B: September 25,1900 D: December 31,1977
It was sometime after that Daniel met my great grandmother Kate McKee and they got married, I have not been able to find a marriage
certificate on them ,and Greenberry's family grew by 2 more children Ruby and Pearl.
Greenberry worked as a Engineer and Daniel worked as a Laborer in the coal mines.
along to me, to add to the family history.
information to start and update my web page. He told me some stories that I'm going to be putting on this page, along with some of the pictures I
have gotten from them.
town. The house flooded but the funiture survived. Grandpa and Grandma then moved to the east side of town after a tornado picked up the house,
which grandma was in turn it around. The door that faced west now was facing the south. She always got in her goose down feather mattress bed,
when a storm would come up because nothing could hurt her there, that what she told them.
to her bed with a glass of water, which didn't spill a drop, and the family Bible, it didn't hurt anything inside or break a window in the house. They moved
and ended up on B SE where they lived until their death. 
worked with the railroad. Grandpa Greenberry didn't like Dan Jr. much as he never came around them except to show off something new he had, because he
thought he was better then everyone else. Infact he came to the anniversary celebrationand grandpa said,"there's that sob"
and made him leave.
stirring everyone up,and she would tell her" I smell the beans burning at your house" and she would leave mumbling. Anna Mae also had a chimp named
Butch that ate at the table and wore clothes. Grandma Letta wouldn't let him sit at the the table to eat. 
and green eyes and so did Robert. Gary remembers well how grandpa would run to the neighbor's cellar and pump it out when a storm came up. That is
what caused him to catch pneumonia, which caused his death
she had "heart" problems. To this day they do not know what it was composed of. It also helped colds.
Lettie Jenkins
Gary Jenkins Wilma Moomaw and Roger Cundiff
She had bacon and eggs with pancakes every morning all her life. In fact she slipped on a piece of bacon and broke her hip,which ultimately led to
her death.
It took Gary 3 days to walk there and the Dr pronounced her dead 3 or 4 times,she told him she wasn't dead she was waiting on Gary and that Grandpa
was at the foot of her bed waiting for her, she told the Doctor that Gary was there, he said how do you know, and she replied that Grandpa told her.
Gary came into the room a few minutes later, much to the shock of the doctor. She talked to Gary, sighed and passed
away.
didn't realize it and were good people. Gary said one day he came home grandpa and grandma were eating sandwiches mady from "kennedy" meat and for
him to get himself a sandwich. He went into the kitchen and made himself a sandwich when he realized it was Alpo dog food. Said it wasn't bad tasting
it tasted like potted meat giggle.
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