When Chester James Jenkins was born on 16 September 1907, in Stafford, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, his father, Gomer Ray Jenkins Sr, was 23 and his mother, Margaret Annie E. Woirhaye, was 54. He married Otha Opal Roberts on 1 September 1933, in Drummond, Granite, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chilhowee, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 4 Missoula City, Missoula, Montana, United States in 1940. He died on 31 December 1974, in Urich, Henry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67.