This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JENKINS, HARLESS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GKB.2ACE/1690.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hello Thelma, You may want to contact Pearl (Jenkins) Martin. email address: pmm8829@hotmail.com. She is the granddaughter of George JENKINS and Eliza Ann HARLESS. Here is a following post Pearl made at GENFORUM.COM at the "Harless Forum" site.------------------- ----------------------------------------(Message 999) ELIZA ANN HARLESS B. 20, MARCH,1965, D. 7 MAY, 1950. DIED AT LOCUST GROVE, OK., BURIED AT ROSE CEMETARY, JUST NORTH OF ROSE OK. ROSE IS A HAMLET OF ONE STORE, A P.O., AND A FEW DWELLINGS, IT IS IN MAYES CO. ELIZA MARRIED GEORGE WASHINGTON JENKINS AT GOODHOPE, MO. 21 APRIL,1887. GEORGE WAS ORDAINED AS A BAPTIST MINISTER AT ISABELL, MO., SEPT , 1900. THEY HAD 8 CHILDREN, 4 BOYS AND 4 GIRLS. MY FATHER, WILLIE RILEY JENKINS WAS BORN AT YELLVILLE, AK. 1900, IN MARIAN CO AK. GEORGE AND ELIZA AND CHILDREN CAME FROM PONTIAC, MO. TO OK ca SEPT 1908, IN A COVERED WAGON, SETTLED AROUND COWETA, OK. I NEVER KNEW OF GRANDPA BEING THE PASTOR OF ANY PARTICULAR CHURCH, HE RODE HORSEBACK AND CARRIED HIS BIBLE IN HIS SADDLEBAGS. HE ESTABLISHED SEVERAL CHURCHES IN NORTHEASTERN OK. HE WOULD HAVE SERVICES IN A SCHOOLHOUSE, OR PRIVATE HOME IF THERE WASN'T A CHURCH IN THE AREA. WHEN HE GOT THAT CHURCH ESTABLISHED HE WOULD MOVE ON SOME PLACE ELSE. DURING ALL MY CHILDHOOD WE LIVED ABOUT A BLOCK FROM ! GRANDPA AND GRANDMA (GEORGE & ELIZA) LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP MORE. PEARL JENKINS MARTIN