Orville Boyd Jenkins Life Report
Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Individual Facts:
Residence1:

Bet. 1948–1951 in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma

Birth:

21 Jul 1948 in Grady County Clinic, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma

Residence2:

Bet. 1951–1963 in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas

Baptism:

1955 in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas; By Dr. W E Norman, pastor, First Baptist Church, Quanah

Occupation:

Bet. 1957–1961 in Radio Announcer & Record Librarian, Station KOLJ, (and Student) Quanah, Hardeman, Texas

Occupation2:

Bet. 1960–1970 in Rancher, Quanah, Texas, and Conway, Arkansas; My cattle career started with a 4H project calf. My dad encouraged me to reinvest this and gradually he and I owned a herd of cattle in Arkansas that ran 35-50 head. I finally sold out by 1971.

Residence3:

Bet. 1963–1971 in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas; We lived initially in the Friendship Community, south of Liberty, which is on Hwy 64 between Conway and Vilonia. After a few months we moved near the outskirts of Conway on Hwy 64 east of town.

Occupation3:

Bet. Jun–Nov 1963 in Radio Announcer, Station KVEE, (and Student) Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas; June to November 1963; Dad and I lost our jobs when the station was sold to new owners. I had to drop out of band and work after school with Dad in our new electronics repair business. I had other parttime jobs through high school

Occupation4:

Bet. Nov 1963–May 1966 in Assistant Electronic Repair Technician, Jenkins Electronics, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas; Our shop was on Harkrider (US Hwy 65) in the first block north of Oak Street (US Hwy 64), next to the John Deer dealer

Occupation5:

Bet. Aug 1964–Sep 1967 in Pastor, Springfield, Conway, Arkansas and Cherry Hill, Perry, Arkansas; Springfield is a small rural community in Conway County north of Plummerville; Perryville is west of Conway across the Arkansas River in Perry County

Occupation6:

Bet. May 1966–Jan 1971 in Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas; Radio Announcer and Producer KVEE and KCON, Conway, Arkansas; while a student at State college of Arkansas (University of Central Arkansas)

Graduation:

03 Jun 1966 in Conway (Arkansas) High School

Ordination:

05 Jun 1966 in North Conway Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas

Occupation7:

Jan 1971 in Radio Announcer (and Student), North Carolina; January - June 1971, announcer at two radio stations, Henderson, North Carolina, and Lewisburg, North Carolina, which a student in Wake Forest, North Caroilna

Residence4:

Jan 1971 in Wake Forest, Wake, North Carolina; January - August 1971, Student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest North Carolina, and summer cross-cultural training at Meridith College, Raleigh, North Carolina

Degree:

May 1971 in University of Central Arkansas, BA, French and Philosophy

Residence5:

Bet. Aug 1971–Sep 1972 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya

Occupation8:

Bet. Aug 1971–Jun 1973 in Assistant to the Director, Baptist Communications Centre (Radio-TV-Film), Nariobi, Kenya

Residence6:

Bet. Sep 1972–Aug 1973 in Shauri Moyo, Nairobi, Kenya

Residence:

Bet. 1973–1976 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Residence7:

Bet. Aug 1973–Jan 1976 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Individual Facts:
Occupation9:

Bet. Sep 1973–May 1976 in Independent Language Learning Consultant, Graduate Student; I was in Graduate School and Seminary, and served as a conference and training consultant in language and culture learning methods. I taught in the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, a summer one-month intensive in self-directed language-culture learning

Occupation10:

1975 in Associate Director, North Texas Christian Communication Commission

Ordination2:

19 Dec 1975 in Cliff Temple Baptist Church, Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Residence8:

Bet. Jan–May 1976 in Pine Mountain, Georgia; Training for overseas living and cross-cultural communication

Occupation11:

Bet. 1976–1979 in Radio-TV Producer, Baptist Communications Centre, Nairoibi, Kenya.

Residence9:

Bet. May–Dec 1976 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya

Residence10:

Bet. Dec 1976–Apr 1979 in Ofafa, Nairobi, Kenya

Occupation12:

Bet. 1977–1981 in Executive Director, Afromedia (TV-Film Production Company), Nairobi, Kenya

Occupation13:

Bet. Sep 1977–Aug 1989 in Director, Baptist Language Centre, Tigoni, Kenya

Residence11:

Bet. Apr 1979–May 1980 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya

Residence12:

Bet. May 1980–Jun 1981 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Degree2:

May 1981 in Communications, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, MTh

Residence13:

Bet. Jul 1981–Jul 1984 in Kanyawa, Tigoni, Kenya

Occupation14:

Bet. Sep 1983–Aug 1997 in Communication Resource Specialist, Limuru-Nairobi, Kenya

Advanced Degree:

Mar 1984 in Institute for Advanced Studies, Clayton, Missouri, EdD, Applied Linguistics

Residence14:

Bet. May 1984–May 1985 in North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA

Residence15:

Bet. Jul 1985–Jul 1989 in Kanyawa-Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya

Residence16:

Bet. Jul 1989–Jul 1990 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA

Residence17:

Bet. Jul 1990–Apr 1991 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya

Residence18:

Bet. Apr 1991–Jul 1993 in Nairobi, Kenya

Doctor's Degree:

Feb 1993 in Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, CA, PhD, Linguistics

Residence19:

Bet. Jul 1993–Jan 1994 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Short-term residence in the Park Cities, fall term of the school year

Residence20:

Bet. Jan 1994–Aug 1997 in Nairobi, Kenya

Occupation15:

Bet. Mar 1994–Aug 1997 in Director, Interfaith Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Residence21:

Bet. Aug 1997–May 1998 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA

Occupation16:

Bet. Oct 1997–Nov 2008 in Ethnic Researcher and Cross Cultural Communcation Consultant; During one year in the US, and in a new overseas assignment, I conducted seminars and training courses as well as consulting with various groups on language and culture learning and research.

Residence22:

Bet. May 1998–Oct 2001 in Nicosia, Cyprus; I worked with an international media and culture resource company, providing services in cultural research, communication strategy, development of websites and newsletters, and providing seminars in ethnic research and cross-cultural strategy.

Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Individual Facts:
Residence23:

Bet. Oct 2001–Oct 2005 in Richmond, Virginia, USA; I was Founding Editor of the Registry of Peoples, working with a worldwide network of language and culture researchers, establishing a standard coded list for all ethnic groups of the world, enabling all databases to compare and exchange information

Residence24:

Bet. Nov 2005–Dec 2008 in Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa; Ethnic Researcher and Cross Cultural Communcation Consultant; coordinating worldwide research network on peoples of the world.

Residence25:

Jan 2009 in Arlington, Tarrant, Texas; moved to Arlington from Edenvale Gauteng, South Africa

Shared Facts: Edith Marie McSwain
Marriage:

01 Aug 1970 in First Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas; Ceremony performed by Pastor Dr William T. Flynt; our reception was planned by the church choir, of which we were both members.

Children:

Gareth Boyd Jenkins

Christopher Kevin Jenkins

Notes:
Person Notes:

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan.  This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans.  I commonly go by Orville Boyd.  But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

 

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like.  I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association.  The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England.  The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."

 

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials:  OBJ.  In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.

 

I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah.  Two direct descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal grandmothers.  One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born 1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.

 

Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother:

?

Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Augustus Lafayette West

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins.  You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.

 

Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother

?

George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax

?

Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins

?

Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.

 

I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business.  He owned KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years.  I began working on the air at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program, "The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.

 

Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287).  We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard or fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers.  All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper , each to our own set of customers.

 

I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper.  I remember having to get up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was up, to roll and bag my papers.  I would deliver them on my Cushman Eagle motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very popular among guys in Quanah.  Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for children to roam and work, and full of opportunities.

 

I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone.  The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football games.  I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats of the football team in the rainy fall.  I just wanted to play music.  I stuck with it and continued with music and play the saxophone today.  I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way.

 

We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6.  I was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.  This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to singing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for several churches from age 13 on.  I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach (or ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as my faith and experience developed).

 

I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel.  Our family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and I was the regular music leader for the worship services.  Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church leadership activities as part of their discipleship.  My assignment was to preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular music leader.  Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas.  I had already been serving as the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.

 

From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer at a local radio station in Conway.  I later worked at another station in  Conway.  During the first year of classes in college, I also served as a pastor.  But I dropped that after the first year.  I was also working as a radio announcer, to help pay my way through school, and i was living on my own.  I later had a similar job at another station, together with a freight dock job for a trucking company in Little Rock.

 

I was also leading a successful music group (first a folk group called The Folk, then a folk-rock band called The New Light), and we were traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at churches or university music events, as well as local events around Conway and Faulkner County.  In 1971 The New Light recorded an album, which we sold at our appearances.  What a schedule!

 

One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd.  This is actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as a permanent address for a time.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville B Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718

 

The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period of our service when were overseas.  This was the first home of our son Gareth Boyd.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292

Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Notes:

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan.  This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans.  I commonly go by Orville Boyd.  But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

 

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like.  I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association.  The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England.  The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."

 

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials:  OBJ.  In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.

 

I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah.  Two direct descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal grandmothers.  One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born 1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.

 

Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother:

?

Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Augustus Lafayette West

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins.  You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.

 

Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother

?

George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax

?

Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins

?

Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.

 

I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business.  He owned KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years.  I began working on the air at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program, "The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.

 

Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287).  We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard or fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers.  All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper , each to our own set of customers.

 

I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper.  I remember having to get up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was up, to roll and bag my papers.  I would deliver them on my Cushman Eagle motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very popular among guys in Quanah.  Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for children to roam and work, and full of opportunities.

 

I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone.  The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football games.  I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats of the football team in the rainy fall.  I just wanted to play music.  I stuck with it and continued with music and play the saxophone today.  I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way.

 

We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6.  I was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.  This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to singing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for several churches from age 13 on.  I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach (or ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as my faith and experience developed).

 

I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel.  Our family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and I was the regular music leader for the worship services.  Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church leadership activities as part of their discipleship.  My assignment was to preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular music leader.  Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas.  I had already been serving as the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.

 

From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer at a local radio station in Conway.  I later worked at another station in  Conway.  During the first year of classes in college, I also served as a pastor.  But I dropped that after the first year.  I was also working as a radio announcer, to help pay my way through school, and i was living on my own.  I later had a similar job at another station, together with a freight dock job for a trucking company in Little Rock.

 

I was also leading a successful music group (first a folk group called The Folk, then a folk-rock band called The New Light), and we were traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at churches or university music events, as well as local events around Conway and Faulkner County.  In 1971 The New Light recorded an album, which we sold at our appearances.  What a schedule!

 

One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd.  This is actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as a permanent address for a time.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville B Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718

 

The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period of our service when were overseas.  This was the first home of our son Gareth Boyd.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292

Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Notes:

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan.  This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans.  I commonly go by Orville Boyd.  But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

 

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like.  I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association.  The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England.  The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."

 

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials:  OBJ.  In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.

 

I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah.  Two direct descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal grandmothers.  One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born 1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.

 

Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother:

?

Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Augustus Lafayette West

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins.  You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.

 

Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother

?

George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax

?

Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins

?

Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

?

Orville Boyd Jenkins You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.

 

I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business.  He owned KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years.  I began working on the air at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program, "The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.

 

Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287).  We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard or fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers.  All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper , each to our own set of customers.

 

I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper.  I remember having to get up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was up, to roll and bag my papers.  I would deliver them on my Cushman Eagle motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very popular among guys in Quanah.  Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for children to roam and work, and full of opportunities.

 

I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone.  The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football games.  I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats of the football team in the rainy fall.  I just wanted to play music.  I stuck with it and continued with music and play the saxophone today.  I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way.

 

We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6.  I was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.  This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to singing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for several churches from age 13 on.  I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach (or ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as my faith and experience developed).

 

I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel.  Our family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and I was the regular music leader for the worship services.  Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church leadership activities as part of their discipleship.  My assignment was to preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular music leader.  Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas.  I had already been serving as the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.

 

From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer at a local radio station in Conway.  I later worked at another station in  Conway.  During the first year of classes in college, I also served as a pastor.  But I dropped that after the first year.  I was also working as a radio announcer, to help pay my way through school, and i was living on my own.  I later had a similar job at another station, together with a freight dock job for a trucking company in Little Rock.

 

I was also leading a successful music group (first a folk group called The Folk, then a folk-rock band called The New Light), and we were traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at churches or university music events, as well as local events around Conway and Faulkner County.  In 1971 The New Light recorded an album, which we sold at our appearances.  What a schedule!

 

One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd.  This is actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as a permanent address for a time.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville B Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718

 

The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period of our service when were overseas.  This was the first home of our son Gareth Boyd.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292

Individual Summary:

Orville Boyd Jenkins

born 21 Jul 1948 - 
Sex:

Male

Father: Orville Lee Jenkins
Mother: Lou Ila Gregory
Notes:

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan.  This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans.  I commonly go by Orville Boyd.  But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

 

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like.  I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association.  The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England.  The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."

 

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials:  OBJ.  In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.

 

I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah.  Two direct descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal grandmothers.  One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born 1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.

 

Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother:

?

Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax

?

Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Augustus Lafayette West

?

Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

?

Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

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Orville Boyd Jenkins.  You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.

 

Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother

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George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax

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Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins

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Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins

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Luada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum

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Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West

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Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green

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Orville Boyd Jenkins You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

 

You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.

 

I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business.  He owned KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years.  I began working on the air at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program, "The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.

 

Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287).  We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard or fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers.  All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper , each to our own set of customers.

 

I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper.  I remember having to get up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was up, to roll and bag my papers.  I would deliver them on my Cushman Eagle motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very popular among guys in Quanah.  Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for children to roam and work, and full of opportunities.

 

I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone.  The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football games.  I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats of the football team in the rainy fall.  I just wanted to play music.  I stuck with it and continued with music and play the saxophone today.  I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way.

 

We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6.  I was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.  This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to singing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for several churches from age 13 on.  I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach (or ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as my faith and experience developed).

 

I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel.  Our family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and I was the regular music leader for the worship services.  Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church leadership activities as part of their discipleship.  My assignment was to preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular music leader.  Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas.  I had already been serving as the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.

 

From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer at a local radio station in Conway.  I later worked at another station in  Conway.  During the first year of classes in college, I also served as a pastor.  But I dropped that after the first year.  I was also working as a radio announcer, to help pay my way through school, and i was living on my own.  I later had a similar job at another station, together with a freight dock job for a trucking company in Little Rock.

 

I was also leading a successful music group (first a folk group called The Folk, then a folk-rock band called The New Light), and we were traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at churches or university music events, as well as local events around Conway and Faulkner County.  In 1971 The New Light recorded an album, which we sold at our appearances.  What a schedule!

 

One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd.  This is actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as a permanent address for a time.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville B Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718

 

The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period of our service when were overseas.  This was the first home of our son Gareth Boyd.

 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2

Orville Jenkins

Birth Date 21 Jul 1948

Address 2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292

Marriage Notes:

(01 Aug 1970 in First Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas; Ceremony performed by Pastor Dr William T. Flynt;  our reception was planned by the church choir, of which we were both members.) Ceremony performed by Dr William Flynt, pastor of First Baptist Church, Conway, Arkansas.  Reception provided by the choir of the church, of which the bride and groom were members.