Individual Details

Mary Adkins is the mother of almost all Adkins descendants of Southwestern West Virginia. With most family researchers her descendants make up the so-called "Royal Line". This Royal Line theory comes from the family oral tradition that Mary lived common law with a descendant of the Earl of Oxford. According to the tradition, he deserted Mary and her children during the Revolutionary War and returned to England. Because the family name of the person that held the title 'Earl of Oxford' during the mid 1700s was Harley it was assumed by almost all researchers that this man's name was Jacob Harley. Mary Adkins is buried in an unmarked grave on Beech Fork at the mouth of Bowen's Creek.

Birth	1735	Goochland County, Virginia
Death	Bet 1814 and 1820	Cabell County, Virginia

Child	David Adkins (1754 - 1832)
Child	Mark Adkins (1756 - )
Child	Christena Adkins (1759 - 1822)
Child	Jacob Adkins (1761 - 1857)
Child	Sherrod Adkins (1765 - )
Child	Nancy Adkins (1767 - 1846)
Child	John Adkins

Father	William Adkins/Atkinson (1690 - 1754)
Mother	Elizabeth Parker (1695 - )
Sibling	Joseph Adkins
Sibling	Richard Adkins (1717 - 1790)
Sibling	Parker V. Adkins (1720 - 1792)
Sibling	William Adkins Jr. (1721 - 1784)
Sibling	Jacob Adkins (1725 - 1791)
Sibling	Sherwood Adkins (1728 - 1780)
Sibling	Henry Adkins (1730 - )