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EDNA VICTORIA JENKINS, born April 20, 1897 in Bowie Co. Texas and had a twin brother, John R. Jenkins. John passed away at the age of 18 months and is buried in Bowie Co., Texas. Their parents were Israel Jenkins and Martha Jane Roberts.

The Jenkins family lived in Bowie County, Texas. There, Israel Jenkins drove a freight wagon making deliveries to DeKalb, Paris, New Boston, Texarkana, and other towns around the area. He also worked at the gin.

The family moved to Grayson County, Texas around 1900. The move was made in a wagon.
Edna started school in Pottsboro, going only two weeks before they moved to Collinsville.
She attended the Collinsville school through ninth grade. Her walk to school then back home was three miles each.
She attended church at Hog Town, also known as Union Grove, which was southeast of Collinsville.


Belvie & Edna Ridinger	Belvie & Edna Ridinger with son, Vernon

At the age of sixteen, Edna Jenkins married James Belvia Ridinger on 14 Dec 1913. They made their home in the Collinsville, Texas area. Belvie took sick with "T. B." in the spring of 1927 and passed away in 1929. Edna had to take over the farming with the help of her son, Vernon, who was twelve at the time. They finished the crop of 1927 and continued farming for a few years.

Children
of
Belvie Ridinger & Edna Jenkins

Vernon Ralph Ridinger	5 Sep 1915	2 Feb 1953
Vertie William Ridinger	19 Aug 1918	19 May 2002
Paul Eugene Ridinger	4 Jun 1921	18 Nov 1984
Helen Lexie Ridinger	22 Aug 1923	21 Sep 1996

Abie Baughman's first marriage was to Martha Elizabeth Roberts, born 26 Nov 1887 in Missouri. They were married on
4 Jan. 1911. The family moved to Texas about 1919. Martha's health started failing soon after. She passed away 15 May 1927, having drank Carbolic Acid.

Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Roberts Baughman

Children
of
Alvie Baughman & Martha Elizabeth Roberts

Luvena Adele Baughman	1913 Missouri	2005
Thomas Arthur Baughman	1915 Missouri	1974
Horace Festus Baughman	1917 Missouri	1952
Forrest Estus Baughman	1917 Missouri	2007
Eula Mae Baughman	1920 Texas	2014
Baby Baughman	1923 Texas	1923
Albie Parker Baughman	1926 Texas	1950

Albie Parker Baughman married Edna Jenkins Ridinger 5 Dec 1931 in Durant, Oklahoma. Prior to their marriage, Edna talked privately with each one of Albie's children that she would never be their mother because they already had a mother. However, she assured each child that she would make herself a place in their hearts. The children always considered Edna as a mother, never a step-mother. Edna and her children moved from their family farm in Collinsville and resided at Albie's rented farm in Southmayd, Texas. Eventually, they moved to the Gunter, Texas area. In 1951, their home burned with them loosing almost everything. They rented a house until their new home was built at the farm. Albie retired in 1962. At this time Albie and Edna bought a house in Tioga. This was their home for over four years until Albie's death in 1967.

Albie Baughman and Edna Jenkins Ridinger Baughman
ca 1964

Children
of
Alvie Baughman & Edna Jenkins Ridinger

	Dennis Lowell Baughman	1932	1991
	Ethel Wilma Baughman	1935	1997

Back Row (L-R): Albie Baughman; Martha Elizabeth Baughman
Front Row (L-R): Luvena A. Baughman; twins, Estus Baughman & Festus Baughman; Arthur Baughman

Back Row: Albie P. "Junior" Baughman

Middle Row (L-R)
Forrest "Estus" Baughman, Thomas "Arthur" Baughman; "Vernon" Ralph Ridinger

Front Row (L-R)
"Vertie" William Ridinger; Paul Eugene "Gene" Ridinger; Horace Festus "Fess" Baughman

Back Row: Rev Forrest Estus Baughman (in hat); Horace Festus Baughman & Dennis Lowell Baughman (looking over 2 womens shoulders);
Paul Eugene Ridinger (big hat); Thomas Arthur Baughman (2nd from end); Vertie William Ridinger (far right wearing hat)

Middle Row: Albie Parker Baughman Jr.; Luvena Baughman McKnight (my mother); Edna Victoria Jenkins Ridinger Baughman;
Albie Parker Baughman; Eula Mae Baughman Scoggins Mitchell; Helen Ridinger Duff; Vernon Ralph Ridinger (setting down)

Front row: Roy Lee Baughman; Elsie Jean Baughman Primm; twins Ethel Wilma Baughman Burchett & Edna Wanda Baughman Hilliard

Personal notes by Barbara McKnight Lintner, granddaughter of Edna Baughman & daughter of Luvena Adele Baughman McKnight, in the early 1960's. Barbara spent afternoons with her grandmother, writing down the stories she told at their home in Tioga.

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