# Relations * Father * Mother: [[BUTLER_Lottie_Mabel]] * Wife: [[FULLEN_Lois_Thelma]] * Child: [[JENNINGS_Ben_Leon]] # Key Dates - **28 Nov 1932** - Born in Piggott, Clay County, Arkansas. [^1] - Full name listed as Leonard Benjamin (and theƒn surname in different pen "Carmack or Butler"). - Born at 6 a.m. - Legitimate? is marked "no." - Mother noted as Lottie Butler, white, age 33 at last birthday, no occupation noted, birthplacƒe Arkansas. - Father noted as Roy Carmack, white, age 25 at last birthday, occupation laborer, birthplace Arkansas. - Certificate signed by attending physician W. P. Custer, MD. - Given name added from a supplemental report dated January (1933). Original certificate dated 10 Jan 1933. - **1935** - Living in Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri, per 1940 census. [^2] - 6 April 1940 - Living in Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri. [^3] - Lottie noted as informant for 1940 census; she gave Bennie's name as Leonard. - Bennie noted as age 7, last grade of school completed noted as first grade, birthplace noted as Arkansas. - 1948 - Living in Vallejo, Solano County, California. [^4] - **19 Apr 1950** - Living in Vallejo, Solano County, California. [^6] - Living in household of his eldest sister Beatrice's (age 27) second husband, Larry McDonald (26). *Note that Larry's occupation is listed as painter; in 1962, he died in a flash fire while painting the inside of a large tank at the Oakland Auditorium Theater.* [^8] Ten people lived in this apartment. In addition to Larry & Bea (and Bennie, of course), there were: - Larry & Bea's daughter Doris Ann (2) and son Larry Clinton (born March 1950); - Bea's daughters from her first marriage Janice (10), Joyce E. (7), and Judy J. (6); - Bennie's mother Lottie M. (age 50, marital status widowed) and - Bennie's younger sister Carol (11). - Bennie's age is listed as 16 years old, though based on his birth certificate he would actually be 17 at this time. - Additional information for his sister Carol says she was living in the same house a year earlier, so assume this would be true for Bennie as well. - Address is 201 East Lane, Apt 844. Some web research indicates this is likely in a wartime housing project built in Vallejo to house defense workers for Mare Island Naval Shipyard during World War II (where Bennie would soon be working himself), perhaps Chabot Terrace or Floyd Terrace.[^7] - **15 May 1955** Marriage to Lois Thelma FULLEN in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. [^5] - **5 June 2004** Death in Retsil, Kitsap County, Washington. - Burial at Washington Veterans Home Cemetery, Retsil, Kitsap County, Washington Here's Bennie at a family Thanksgiving dinner in 2001, about a week before his 69th birthday: ![[Bennie - 2001-11-22.jpg]] # Outstanding Research Tasks - [ ] Determine if DNA evidence supports the birth certificate's designation of Roy (Verser) Carmack as Bennie's father #loc/online ⏫ - [ ] Locate transcript of Bennie's deposition related to asbestos injuries; scan and note significant events included #loc/lakewood 🔼 - *Looked in BLJ filing cabinet 2022-12-30 in Lakewood garage; did not locate.* - [ ] Scan Bennie & Lois marriage certificate (assume there's a certificate in Lakewood files) #loc/lakewood *Looked in BLJ filing cabinet 2022-12-30 in Lakewood garage; did not locate. - [ ] Scan Bennie's death certificate for digital files (think there's a physical certificate in Ben's files in Lakewood) #loc/lakewood *Looked in BLJ filing cabinet 2022-12-30 in Lakewood garage; did not locate. - [^1]: Arkansas State Board of Health, Registration District No. 101, Primary Registration District No. 5290, birth certificate 468 (1932), Leonard Benjamin Carmack or Butler (Bennie Leonard Jennings); Bureau of Vital Statistics, Little Rock. 9 Feb 1989 certified copy in BLJ files. Image %% [in DEVONthink](x-devonthink-item://2012CCDB-4D5D-4689-93E7-1BC0363EEF5F) %% also in [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdkzacvrgqn2wsd/1932-11-28%20JENNINGS_Bennie_Leonard%20Birth%20Certificate.pdf?dl=0). [^2]: 1940 U.S. census, Dunklin County, Missouri, population schedule, Kennett city, enumeration district (ED) 35-20, sheet 5-B, dwelling 603 N Main St, family 106, Jennings, Lottie household, Leonard (Bennie) on line 72; image, *Ancestry.com*, (https://ancestry.com: accessed 26 Nov 2022), citing National Archives and Record Administration, roll m-t0627-02104, frame 10 of 36. Image copy %% in [DEVONthink](x-devonthink-item://21979FF9-9242-44EB-A203-4CD0EADD0FA3) %% also in [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf94q4n7ybvlhiv/1940%20United%20States%20Federal%20Census%20-%20JENNINGS%20-%20LW%2C%20Bennie%2C%20Carol-%20BUTLER-Lottie%20-%20BARNWELL%20-%20Beatrice%20copy.pdf?dl=0). [^3]: 1940 U.S. census, Dunklin County, Missouri, population schedule, Kennett city, enumeration district (ED) 35-20, sheet 5-B, dwelling 603 N Main St, family 106, Jennings, Lottie household, Leonard (Bennie) on line 72; image, *Ancestry.com*, (https://ancestry.com: accessed 26 Nov 2022), citing National Archives and Record Administration, roll m-t0627-02104, frame 10 of 36. Image copy %% in [DEVONthink](x-devonthink-item://21979FF9-9242-44EB-A203-4CD0EADD0FA3) %% also in [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf94q4n7ybvlhiv/1940%20United%20States%20Federal%20Census%20-%20JENNINGS%20-%20LW%2C%20Bennie%2C%20Carol-%20BUTLER-Lottie%20-%20BARNWELL%20-%20Beatrice%20copy.pdf?dl=0). [^4]: Notes from 1990-11-06 deposition [^5]: See Marriage Certificate [^6]: 1950 U.S. census, Solano County, California, population schedule, Vallejo, enumeration district (ED) 48-121, sheet 22 (penned), 201 East Lane, apt 844, family 203, McDonald, Laurence household, Jennings, Bennie on line 10; digital image, *Ancestry.com* (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2022); citing Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, Record Group 29, National Archives, roll 613, frame 23 of 70. Image copy %% in [DEVONthink](x-devonthink-item://28BF0592-BE58-4DEA-AEB2-347425B18DAF) %% also in [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0w2g43dq86z1uz/1950%20Census%20-%20Vallejo%20-%20Bennie%20-%20Lottie%20-%20Carol%20-%20Bea.pdf?dl=0). [^7]: See http://vallejomuseum.blogspot.com/2009/05/vallejos-wartime-housing.html, accessed 10 Dec 2022. Some commenters on this blog post identify addresses that would seemingly be very near where Bennie was living. [^8]: "Worker Burned in Flash Fire Dies." *Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California)*, 12 May 1962, home edition, p. 2 col. 1; image copy, *Newspapers.com* (https://www.newspapers.com/image/342810558: accessed 10 Dec 2022). %%x-devonthink-item://E43FCE73-12A5-42AF-BA42-25A35782CD9D%%