Family: Jesse Marion Adkins / Sara "Sallie" Elizabeth Parker (F6752)

• Male Jesse Marion Adkins

  
  

  Birth	22 Dec 1887	Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
  Death	6 Sep 1967	San Augustine County, Texas
  Burial		Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas
  Marriage	3 Jul 1904  [1, 2]	Sabine County, Texas  [1, 2]
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  Female Sara "Sallie" Elizabeth Parker

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1888	Milam, Sabine County, Texas
  Death	6 Nov 1966	San Augustine County, Texas
  Burial		Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas
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  Male Thomas Jethro Adkins

  
  

  Birth	18 Apr 1907	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	6 Aug 1956	Houston, Harris County, Texas
  Burial		Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas

  
  

  Female Bertha Adkins

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1910	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	Yes, date unknown
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  Male Jimmerson Adkins

  
  

  Birth	25 Feb 1911	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	13 Aug 1996	Sabine County, Texas
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  Male William Reese Adkins

  
  

  Birth	9 Aug 1913	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	12 Aug 1944	Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
  Burial		Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas

  
  

  Female Clara Francis Adkins

  
  

  Birth	29 Nov 1916	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	23 Nov 2003	San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas
  Burial		Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas
  Spouse	Ozro Lee Pratt | F8284
  Marriage	Abt 1933

  
  

  Male Louis Adkins

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1920	San Augustine County, Texas
  Death	Yes, date unknown
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  Male Tony Edward Adkins

  
  

  Birth	18 Sep 1921	Texas
  Death	21 Feb 1986	Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas
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  Female Willie Mae Adkins

  
  

  Birth	1 Apr 1924	Texas
  Death	16 Oct 1996	La Porte, Harris County, Texas
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  Spouse	Living | F12497
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  Male Windford Adkins

  
  

  Birth	9 Apr 1926	Texas
  Death	27 Feb 1987	Channelview, Harris County, Texas
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  Male Cordell Adkins

  
  

  Birth	26 Oct 1929	Texas
  Death	20 Nov 1988	Jasper County, Texas
  Burial		Trotti Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas

  
  

• Notes

  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).

  
  

• Sources

  [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 57 (Reliability: 3). [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 58481060 (Reliability: 3).