John Ward Adkins

Abt 1810 - 1903  (~ 93 years)

• Name	John Ward Adkins
  Born	Abt 1810	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	1903	Clinton, Tennessee   [1]
  Person ID	I5559	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2016

  
  

  Father	Henry L4B6-MF4 Adkins,   b. Abt 1782, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 4 Aug 1875, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age ~ 93 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth [L5FR-GS3] Rossett,   b. 1783, Virginia ,   d. 1860, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 77 years)
  Married	7 Oct 1799	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  	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
  Family ID	F2718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Herodias Philpott Reynolds,   b. 6 Nov 1808, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 17 Oct 1877, Henry County, Missouri  (Age 68 years)
  Married	10 Nov 1828	Henry County, Virginia
  Children	+ 1. Henry Gilmer Adkins,   b. 13 Dec 1833,   d. 16 Jan 1876, Henry County, Missouri  (Age 42 years) + 2. Sarah Ann Adkins,   b. 1 Feb 1849, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 12 Dec 1923, Henry County, Missouri  (Age 74 years) + 3. John Devin Adkins,   b. 20 Jan 1835, Warren Co., Missouri ,   d. 25 Jan 1878, Henry County, Missouri  (Age 43 years) + 4. Elizabeth Virginia Adkins,   b. 29 Nov 1834, Missouri ,   d. 30 Jan 1904, Missouri  (Age 69 years) + 5. Josiah Adkins,   b. 20 Jul 1844, Missouri ,   d. 31 Jul 1868, Missouri  (Age 24 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2018
  Family ID	F1184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		John Ward Adkins john ward adkins (rootsweb).jpg
  		Newspaper Article Death of John Ward Adkins na5559JohnWardAdkins.jpg
  		Abstracts of Pittsylvania County Virginia: John W. Adkins and Herodias Reynolds; John D. Reynolds, f/o Hardice and Henry Adkins, father of John W. sign the certificate. Married 12/13 Nov by the Rev. Orson Martin. Owen Adkins and Isabel Harriss d/o John Harris who consents. Sr. James Hines p.46 Wyatt Adkins and Phoebe Oakes. Sur William Oakes. Catherine Oakes consents. Henry Adkins consents for his son, Wyatt. Marr Pitts Co 1806-30 Reynolds Pg 3.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  John Ward Adkins-Prisoner Escape The Richmond Times Dec 12, 1894

  
  

• Notes

  Herodias and John Ward moved to Missouri; See letter from Sarah "Sally" Philpott Reynolds dated 3/25/1831 to her daughter Herodias in Missouri. ************* Julie Trout http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jwtrout&id=I248 They had moved to Taylor, ?Warren Co.,? MO by March 1831, possibly very recently because her mother asks for a quick reply to her letter and wants to know "whether you are pleased with the country." Three names are listed at the bottom of a letter written by Hery's mother in 1831. (The names are written in different ink and a different hand.) The names are: E lesethabeth (sic) Virginia Adkins, Herodias Adkins, and Henry Adkins. Since John W. Adkins is Hery's husband, my guess is that John was listing his wife and children's birthdates. Therefore, Henry Adkins was born the 13th of December (no year given). In this same letter from Sarah Reynolds to John and Herodias, Sarah mentions that "Joseph Atkins his wife and the whole family have lately returned again to the neighborhood." I don't know if this Joseph is a brother, father, or other close relative to John, but he probably is related in some way or Sarah wouldn't have mentioned it. [Joseph Adkins is John Ward Adkins' eldest brother-Mary Frances Eggleston] John Ward Adkins and Herodias Reynolds were married on November 10, 1828 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Even though it has been stated that Henry Gilmore was born in Virginia in 1833, that has been proven false because Sarah Reynolds wrote a letter to Herodias telling her of her fathers death in March 1831 and sent to Taylor PO in Warren Co., Mo. John?s first known land purchase in Warren Co. is in Sept. 1832. All children appear to have been born in Warren Co., Missouri. JOHN ADKINS MILITARY SERVICE: ML LAND WARRANT NO. 32428 FOR LAND IN WARREN CO., MO. In my records from 30 years ago (now 2012) I have a note that on July 15, 1849 John Ward Adkiins received land in Warren County Missouri under "M.L. Warrant No. 32528", this land was received in Warren County and he was the only John Adkins there to my knowledge. In the 1950's a Reverend Herbert Zeiler came to be the pastor of the little Brethern Church in Fairview Township of Henry Co., Mo. He was immensely interested in genealogy and he had all the members working on their genealogy. I still have some of the papers from the time he was here and gained a good deal of information from them. I was only about ten years old when the Rev. served the church, but I still remember him. On the John Ward Adkins and Herodias Philpot paper written by either Rev. Zeiler or one of the family, it is written that John fought in the MEXICAN WAR OF 1846 & 1847. The following is also written on this paper: "John Ward Adkins of Virginia and his wife Herodius (Philpot) Adkins migrated to Missouri in the early 1830's and settled at Warrenton in Warren County. John fought in the Mexican War of 1846 & 1847. Later in the 1850's the family moved to Henry County, Missouri when Sarah Ann was 8 months old and settled on the farm that was located one mile east and one mile south of LaDue (Henry Co.) Mo. where they built a frame house. The Philpot family was prominent in Virginia History throughout the Colonial days and down through the Revolutionary War, to the forming of the United States government. John and Herodius had five children all born in Warren Co., Mo. On October 10, 1870 (John would have been about 62) there was a dispute that had been going on for months over some hogs and road right-of-way between John W. Adkins and a Mills and a Bysor. They had their guns and fired and Mills was killed instantly. The situation got hot but no one was arrested. The authorities couldn't find out if Bysor or Adkins shot Mills but Adkins left the country and sent from Arkansas a deed to the widow Mrs. Mills for 40 acres of land in Henry County.

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] Newspaper Article, Death of John Ward Adkins. John Ward Adkins Death The (Roanoke) Evening News, Volume 8, Number 60, 19 December 1903