Thomas Jethro Adkins

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name: Thomas Jethro Adkins
death date: 06 Aug 1956
death place: Houston, Harris, Texas
gender: Male
race: White
death age: 49 years 3 months 18 days
estimated birth date:
birth date: 18 Apr 1907
birthplace: San Augustine Co, Texas
marital status: Married
spouse's name:
father's name: Jesse Adkins
father's birthplace: Louisiana
mother's name: Sara Elizabeth Parker
mother's birthplace: Sabine Co, Texas
occupation: Laborer
place of residence: Pineland, Sabine, Texas
cemetery: Rosevine Cemetery
burial place: Sabine County, Texas
burial date: 06 Aug 1956
additional relatives: X
film number: 2114932
digital film number: 4032106
image number: 1736
reference number: cn 42595
Collection: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," Thomas Jethro Adkins, 1956

Notes:

He was a son of Tilman Jr. and Molly Adkins. His grandparents, Tilman Sr. and Mandy Spangler Adkins, came to Louisiana from Macon, Georgia and Mississippi. They all moved to Texas in 1896 to the Rosevine community where he attended Goat Hill school with the late John Minton as teacher.

He registered for the draft in San Augustine County, and indicated he was a tenant on the F. D. Lewis place, supporting a wife and 5 children. He was tall, slender, with gray eyes and light hair.

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 1
Enumerated 5 and 6 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 194 Sheets 2A and 2B
26-26
Adkins, Jessie Head M W 32 M La La Tx Farmer
Adkins, Sallie Wf F W 31 M Tx Tx Tx
Adkins, Jethro Son M W 12 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Bertha Dtr F W 10 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Johnson Son M w 8 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Reese Son M W 6 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Francis Dtr F W 3 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Lewis Son M W 2/12 S Tx La Tx
Parker, Ether Sister-in-law F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine, JP 8
Enumerated April 26, 1920
ED 202-11 SD 19 Sheet 7A
Highway Hemphill to San Augustine
144-152
Adkins, Jessie Head M W 42 M17 La La LaFarmer
Adkins, Sallie Wf F W 42 M17 Tx Ga La
Adkins, Reese W Son M W 16 S Tx La Tx Farm Labor
Adkins, Francis Dtr F W 13 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Louis Son M W 10 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Edward T Son m W 8 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Willie M Dtr F W 6 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Wenford Son M W 4 S Tx La Tx
Adkins, Cordell A Son M W 1 5/12 S Tx La Tx
Parker, Ether Sister-in-law F W 26 S Tx Tx Tx

Jesse married Sara "Sallie" Elizabeth Parker on 3 Jul 1904 in Sabine County, Texas. Sara was born about 1888 in Milam, Sabine County, Texas; died on 6 Nov 1966 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of Tommy and Ellen Armstrong Parker. She attended school at Mt. Nebo and Goat Hill.

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Married:
Their wedding was at the home of her parents, with Preacher Martin, a hard-shell Baptist Minister officiating. There was a big crowd. The wedding supper was in her parents' home....and dinner at the home of the grooms' parents. Mrs. Adkins added that there were lots of watermelons, which they spent the day eating. The groom was 17 and his bride was only 16 years of age.

Their sixtieth wedding anniversary celebration was hosted by their seven (surviving) children: Jimmerson Adkins of Pineland, Mrs. Ozro Pratt of Hemphill, Louis Adkins of Rosevine, Mrs. Johnnie Butler of Alta Loma, Wendford Adkins of Pearland, and Cordell Adkins of Jasper. Members of the family, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, attended church services Sunday making a total of 45 in all.

"The Adkinses are a young-looking, young-acting couple in excellent health, he gardens and she takes care of her house, fills her freezer and then cans about 200 jars of food each year...He and a neighbor, Mrs. W. C. Boyd, share a garden...Mr. and Mrs. Adkins also lived in Jasper, and in Jackson County, Oklahoma, always being engaged in farming and ranching and retiring in 1960."

Besides their two daughters and five sons, the Adkinses boast 47 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren.

(Excerpted from Virgie Speight's "Vignettes of Pioneer Families" column published July 9, 1964, on the occasion of their sixtieth wedding anniversary).