Boss Elwood Adkins

Notes:

http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/AdkinsFamily2.htm
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BOSS ELWOOD ADKINS, b. August 15, 1879, Pittsylvania
County, Virginia; d. July 28, 1945; m. LOU JENNIE GIBSON,
May 1902; b. July 14, 1885

Name:
Obituary incorrectly states his middle name is EDWARD; it is not Edward; it is Elwood; as is his son's name.

Notes:

Wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia

Ralph married Harriet Ann "Heary" Reynolds 15 Jan 1861, Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.. Harriet (daughter of John Philpott Reynolds and Rhoda Elizabeth 'Rody' Smith) was born 9 Dec 1839, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 6 Apr1901, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried , Adkins-Oakes Cemetery, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/pittsylvania/cemeteries/adkins02.txt
Heary Ann Adkins (Harriet)

Notes:

Married:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/pittsylvania/cemeteries/adkins02.txt
Heary Ann Adkins (Harriet)

Anderson married Nancy Booker Reynolds 19 Feb 1836. Nancy (daughter of Joseph M. Reynolds and Nancy Ford) was born 15 Mar 1817, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 16 Aug 1894, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried , Adkins-Oakes Cemetery, Pittsylvania County, Virginia . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!NAME:Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, Eggleston, Mary
Frances Reynolds

!NAME:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh

!BIRTH:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh

!DEATH:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh

Birth:
Bible Record reports 4 Aug 1809

John married Rhoda Elizabeth 'Rody' Smith. Rhoda (daughter of George Kenan Smith, Jr. and Susanna "Sucky" Hartman Adkins) was born 2 Jun 1811, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia; died 27 Mar 1858, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried , Adkins-Oakes Cemetery, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Born on her Father's plantation on Tomahawk Creek, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Notes:

!NAME:Eileen Adkins, Adkins, Eileen, email dated Jan. 18,
2011

Henry married Elizabeth [L5FR-GS3] Rossett 7 Oct 1799, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Elizabeth was born 1783, Virginia; died 1860, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Henry Adkins (1782-1867 )and Elizabeth Rossett(1785-1875)daughter of Sam DeRossett and a woman from the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians name not recorded from Catahoula, Louisiana...Henry and Elizabeth are my great grandparents x4 Henry is the son of William III and brother of Owen .

Notes:

Married:
Elizabeth Rossett is the daughter of Sam Rossett; surety
for marriage, William Reynolds
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy


Children of HENRY ADKINS and ELIZABETH ROSSETT are:
...i....JOSEPH ADKINS, m. BATHINA MARTIN, January 18, 1830.
184....ii....NANCY ADKINS, b. Abt. 1801.
...iii....AGNES ADKINS, b. Abt. 1804; m. HENRY GIBSON,
August 26, 1833.
185....iv....WYATT ADKINS, b. Abt. 1804, Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; d. 1869, Grant County, Indiana.
186....v....ANDERSON ADKINS, b. August 05, 1806,
Pittsylvania County, Virginia; d. March 01, 1876,
Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
187....vi....JOHN WARD ADKINS, b. Abt. 1811; d. Warren
County, Missouri?.
188....vii....CALEB ADKINS, b. Abt. 1820, Pittsylvania
County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1893.
189....viii....ELIZABETH M. ADKINS, b. June 1823,
Pittsylvania County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1903, Pittsylvania
County, Virginia.
...ix....HENRY ADKINS, b. Abt. 1825; m. NANCY BLAND NAPIER,
November 22, 1850; b. Abt. 1833, Pittsylvania County,
Virginia. In 25 October 1850 census for Northern District,
Pittsylvania Co. VA, next door to Henry and Elizabeth
Adkins, are Henry Adkins Jr., age 25, laborer, and wife
Nancy, 17.
190....x....JACKSON ADKINS, b. Abt. 1819.


!MARRIAGE:Eileen Adkins, Adkins, Eileen, email dated Jan.
18, 2011

Notes:

Slaves of Joseph Reynolds are named as follows: Eliza Seamore; Charles Seamore, David B., Richard and Rob.

Diary of Rev John Cuthbertson 1751-1791 records Marriage of Hew Reynolds and Mary ? at Wm. Nieley's and later the Baptism of Joseph son to Hew Reynolds.



Oaths of Allegiance 1777 Pittsylvania County, Virginia
NOTE: Hugh Reynolds and his son Joseph are found on this 1777 list. Hugh's son William, is not, The record for William Reynolds is found in Virginia Court Records, page 125, also dated 1777. Joseph's Baptism of 15 Aug 1759 gives us his age. William is shown on court records in 1788 when he inherits the land of his grandfather, William Neeley. Both Joseph and William are Qualified as Executors (Book 6/170 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Court Records 1787-91)
Another record dated 22 Mar 1796 for William Reynolds and Charles Lewis must be our William, as the other William Reynolds of Culpepper has died in 1791. No connecton has been documented for William of Culpepper having any connection to the Hugh Reynolds family. -Mary Frances Reynolds

Name:
Capt. Hankins List ~ Oaths of Allegiance - 1777 Pittsylvania County, VA Revolutionary War Records VIRGINIA SECTION IV page 592-593 Lived along Tomahawk Creek.

Joseph married Nancy Ford 26 Jul 1803, Prob. Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Nancy was born Est 1780, Virginia; died 1847, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

DAR Patriot Index Lookup
PHILPOT, CHARLES THOMAS; A090845
Child/Child : SARAH PHILPOTT m. JOHN DEVIN REYNOLDS
Service: MARYLAND Rank: SERGEANT
Birth: 11-20-1753 CHARLES CO MARYLAND
Death: 2-29-1836 HENRY CO VIRGINIA
Pension Number: *S5924
Service Source: *S5924
Service Description:
1) CAPTS ENEAS CAMPBELL,MONTJOY BAILY
2) COL JOHN GUNBY
Chancery Court record dated Aug 1805
DOD apparently listed in chancery suit

['Modern' headstone replaced by Mrs. Ruth Marlowe, (Ruth Mae
Reynolds) granddaughter, along with a marker for Allen
Gilmer Reynolds and wife Martha Ann Jackson.-mfe]

Sarah Ann Philpott
Buried: Worlds Cemetery, Callands, Pittsylvania Co., Va.
Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston
Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh


John Devin Reynolds is the 2nd son of Joseph M. Reynolds and his wife, Margaret Devin. Named for his Uncle John, and his Mother's Maiden name [Devin], he was born in 1783. He died 18 Mar 1831. His death was not an easy one. He writhed in agony from what we know today, as kidney stones, and after 9 days, finally succumbed to his exhaustion. His wife, described his agony and mortification in a letter to her daughter, Herodias in Missouri.

Because John's father, Joseph M. Reynolds had two wives, he enjoyed the company of 17 siblings. Eldest brother, Hugh is beginning his family in the same year his father produces his final heir.

Absolute documented proof, and multiple dna matches, confirm the father of Joseph M. Reynolds, and grandfather of John Devin Reynolds, is Hugh Reynolds of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Pittsylvania County Virginia.

John married Sarah Ann "Sally" dna Philpott 19 Jul 1808, Henry County, Virginia . Sarah (daughter of Charles Thomas Philpott and Elizabeth Garrett) was born 1 Oct 1784, Frederick County, Maryland; died Abt 1863, Pittsylvania County, Virginia C.S.A.; was buried , Worlds Cemetery Callands, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah Ann Philpott is buried with her husband John Devin
Reynolds in the Reynolds/Adkins Cemetery in Worlds, Pittsylvania County, Virginia


Name:
Sally Philpott is the sister of Cassandra Philpott who is a dna match on GEDMATCH to Mary Frances Reynolds.

Notes:

Married:
!MARRIAGE:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh

Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com~vapittsygenealogynotes2.htm
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George K. Smith (the last ancestor that I have authentic
proof of in 1953 - BTA) owned around 1100 acres of land in
Pittsylvania County, Virginia on Tomahawk Creek (near
Museville). According to family tradition, he was born
near Museville, Virginia and buried near Tomahawk, Va.
where he lived. Family tradition says he was a miller.
Value of property, $15,302; George K. Smith married Susan
Adkins and had the following issue:
1. Booker (Bowker) Smith was never married. He built the
R.J. Reynolds tobacco factory and manufactured tobacco. He
had a train of wagons and sold it through the Carolinas and
Georgia. He died in early manhood so showed a genius for
business ability quite young. (This line of Smith's are
related to R.J.Reynolds' wife according to Dr. George Smith
Anderson, nephew of Booker Smith). According to his
tombstone at the old Smith home near Tomahawk he died
Sepember 23, 1841.

2. Ralph Smith, born September 1, 1813; d. January7,
1902; married 7th December 1843, Ardennia Wright (b. Jan.
14, 1827;d. Jan. 24, 1904). Ralph was
willed land on Tomahawk Creek by his father, Geo. K. Smith,
and his son, William lived on a farm adjoining that of his
brother, Ralph.

3. William Smith, born September 2, 1818; died August
2,1896. He married February 18, 1856 Rebecca Hodnett (b.
Sept. 28,1852;d. July 11, 1904). He owned a vast amount of
land on Tomahawk Creek and had many slaves who stayed on
with him even after the war as long as he lived, thus
making it most profitable for him. He was a very
successful farmer. During the Civil War he lost a leg but
this did not seem to handicap him in anyway. He once rode
horseback alone to Kentucky with nine thousand dollars in
his pocket and purchased 1000 acres of land from a Mr.
Grubb for himself, Mr. Joe Reynolds and Ward Reynolds which
extended from Greenpond back to Bearskin Creek, etc.
He and wife were buried at their old home place
where the home and tombstones still stand (1953).

4. Jabez Smith married Catherine Ann Mahan and died
without issue. They were buried at the old home place near
Tomahawk.

5. Rhoda Smith married John Reynolds and lived near
Greenpond Church and they, too, are buried at their old
homeplace. Adkins-Oakes Cemetery

6. Mary (Polly) Smith married Demarcus (Mark) Anderson,
son of Jesse Anderson of Franklin County. Their
descendants in the Anderson Family Book.

7. Eliza Beth (Betsey) married Dec. 21, 1837, Naaman
Mahan and are buried at their old homeplace.

8. Nancy Smith, born April 11, 1823; died Oct. 6,1869;
married Jan. 16, 1843, Watt Otey Anderson (b. August 18,
1816; d.April 27, 1883). They lived near Greenpond Church
and are buried at the family burial ground on his farm.
Their descendants in the Anderson Family Book.

9. Letitia Smith married Ambrose Rucker on December 12,
1853. He was a Captain of Co. "C" 46th Regt., Virginia
Infantry. He was at one time a sheriff of some county.
They had dau. Mary Rucker md. a Dewberry and dau.Victoria
md. Kange Simpson.

!NAME:Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, Eggleston, Mary
Frances Reynolds

George married Susanna "Sucky" Hartman Adkins Bef 1811, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Susanna (daughter of William Vortimer Adkins and Mary Anne 'Polly' Hartman) was born Abt 1785, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 9 Oct 1851, Will Date Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/notes.htm

Anderson Atkinson son of Suckey Atkinson apprenticed to Henry Atkinson, Sr. June 20, 1780, p. 42 Wit: Jos. Allen Issac Clement