Individual Details

John Reuben Adkins

(12 May 1868 - 23 Feb 1940)

John's grandson, Raymond Adkins, remembers his grandfather very well. Raymond was 9 years old when John passed away and can remember every time he visited with his grandfather. John would always take out a small leather change purse and give Raymond and all his brothers the old Indian head pennys and the old Buffalo nickels. John and Eliza had an apartment above a grocery store and the grandchildren would break their necks going downstairs to buy the penny candy. Raymond can remember this as if it just happened yesterday, as his grandparents would shower the grandchildren with love every time they saw them.

Events

Birth12 May 1868Hager, Lincoln County, West Virginia
Census1870Lincoln County, West Virginia
Marriage24 Mar 1887Big Laurel Creek, West Virginia - Eliza Mildred Stowers
Death23 Feb 1940East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio
Burial26 Feb 1940Walker Adkins Cemetery in Sias, Lincoln County, West Virginia
OccupationFarmer - Lincoln County, West Virginia

Families

SpouseEliza Mildred Stowers (1868 - 1943)
ChildEzra Albert Adkins (1888 - 1950)
ChildStella Baine Adkins (1889 - 1971)
ChildAlva French Adkins (1892 - 1956)
ChildSamuel Brinton Adkins (1894 - 1959)
ChildLee Roy Adkins (1897 - 1980)
ChildErma Mae Adkins (1899 - 1968)
ChildRoma Earl Adkins (1902 - 1977)
ChildMable Adkins (1905 - 1981)
ChildRaymond Adkins (1907 - 1981)
ChildOda Sheba Adkins (1910 - 1980)
FatherJames Willis "Jim" Adkins (1829 - 1901)
MotherElizabeth "Betty" Burns (1836 - 1921)
SiblingAaron Doss Adkins (1861 - 1929)
SiblingAlmeda Adkins (1863 - )
SiblingRodolph Dietz Adkins (1864 - 1944)
SiblingRhoda Ann Adkins (1864 - )
SiblingEdna Adkins (1868 - 1939)
SiblingAmbrose Adkins (1872 - 1949)
SiblingAlpheus Adkins (1875 - 1947)
SiblingCharles "Moss" Adkins (1876 - 1953)
SiblingJerusha Elizabeth "Sissie" Adkins (1878 - 1954)
SiblingJustina "Tiny" Adkins (1878 - )
SiblingJames Walker Adkins (1880 - 1961)
SiblingLillie May Adkins (1884 - 1974)

Endnotes

1. From grave marker.

2. Ronnie Adkins, "Adkins Land of York to Beech Fork" (3540 South Georgetown Drive Montgomery, AL 36109-2232; (334)-272-3813; ronmar@knology.net), Page 97.

3. The Lincoln County Genealogical Society, "Lincoln County West Virginia and its People" (The Hamlin Lincoln County Public Library; 7799 Lynn Avenue; Hamlin, WV 25529; (304) 824-5481; 1991), Page 37.

4. David Anderson Turner, Families of Lincoln County West Virginia: The 1870 Census Annotated.

5. The Lincoln County Genealogical Society, "Lincoln County West Virginia and its People" (The Hamlin Lincoln County Public Library; 7799 Lynn Avenue; Hamlin, WV 25529; (304) 824-5481; 1991), Page 37.

6. Raymond Adkins (6020 St. Rt. 46 Cortland, OH 44410; (330) 638-7448; adki@onecom.com; Mar 1997).

7. From grave marker.

8. Raymond Adkins (6020 St. Rt. 46 Cortland, OH 44410; (330) 638-7448; adki@onecom.com; Mar 1997).

9. James J. Adkins II, Picture of grave marker taken in the Walker Adkins Cemetery (Sias, West Virginia; 30 Mar 1996).

10. Raymond Adkins (6020 St. Rt. 46 Cortland, OH 44410; (330) 638-7448; adki@onecom.com; Mar 1997).

11. Raymond Adkins (6020 St. Rt. 46 Cortland, OH 44410; (330) 638-7448; adki@onecom.com; Mar 1997).