JAMES ELBURTAS "BERT" ADKINS, son of Andrew Jackson Adkins and Olevia Jane "Levie" Ward Adkins, was born March 18, 1874 in Clark County, Indiana (near Bennettsville). He travelled with his family to northern Texas, leaving Indiana in the summer of 1876.
Bert married Mollie Ransom Keeton on October 15, 1895 at Kingston, Marshall County OK (then Indian Territory). They eloped when Mollie was 15 years old. They were the parents of 8 known children: (1) Baby Boy Adkins#1, born and died March 1897, (2) Andrew Calvin Adkins, 1898-1984, (3) James Gilliam Adkins, 1900-1971, (4) Claude William Adkins, 1902-1983, (5) Baby Boy Adkins#2, born and died May 1904, (6) Mary Mae Adkins Nance, 1906-1993, (7) Walter Herman Adkins, 1913-1994, and (8) Baby Boy Adkins#3, born and died September 1918.
EXTRACTED FROM "MEMORIES OF MARSHALL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA":
".........Bert told about cutting hay where the present town of Kingston is located. He would cut the waist-high prairie grass and stack it near where the lumber yard is now located. A fence would be built around the hay until winter when it would be torn down so the open range stock belonging to his father and his father's partner could feed from the hay stack. During the depression days, Bert would remark that he had once mowed grass in the main streets of Kingston, and it looked as if he would soon be able to do so again. That was the period when business after business closed and people moved away until Kingston almost became a ghost town.
NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR JAMES ELBURTAS ADKINS, FAMILY RECORDS OF NORA ADKINS ANDERSON:
"BERT ADKINS DIES TUESDAY, FUNERAL HELD AT KINGSTON--James Elburtas (Bert) Adkins died in the Madill hospital Tuesday. He had been ill for several months, and had been in the hospital the past five weeks.
Mr. Adkins was born in Indiana, March 18, 1874, and moved to the southern part of Marshall County in 1888.
He continued as a prominent farmer in this county until his retirement. He had been a member of the Methodist Church for a number of years.
Mr. Adkins was married to Miss Mollie Keeton, October 15, 1895. His wife survives him.
Funeral services were held at the Kingston Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. John Dennis, assisted by John W. Pigg, conducting.
Burial was in the Kingston Cemetery, with Watts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Other survivors, in addition to Mrs. Adkins, are: five children, May (sic, Mae) Nance, Lamar, Okla; Calvin Adkins, Madill; Jim Adkins, Great Bend, Kansas; Bill Adkins and Walter Adkins, Shay.
Three brothers, Ben Adkins, Snyder, Charlie Adkins, Cleburne, Texas, and R. E. (sic, Roscoe) Adkins, San Juan, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Bess Blakely, Madill and Mrs. Nora Anderson, Shawnee; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren."
Bert married Mollie Ransom Keeton on October 15, 1895 at Kingston, Marshall County OK (then Indian Territory). They eloped when Mollie was 15 years old. They were the parents of 8 known children: (1) Baby Boy Adkins#1, born and died March 1897, (2) Andrew Calvin Adkins, 1898-1984, (3) James Gilliam Adkins, 1900-1971, (4) Claude William Adkins, 1902-1983, (5) Baby Boy Adkins#2, born and died May 1904, (6) Mary Mae Adkins Nance, 1906-1993, (7) Walter Herman Adkins, 1913-1994, and (8) Baby Boy Adkins#3, born and died September 1918.
EXTRACTED FROM "MEMORIES OF MARSHALL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA":
".........Bert told about cutting hay where the present town of Kingston is located. He would cut the waist-high prairie grass and stack it near where the lumber yard is now located. A fence would be built around the hay until winter when it would be torn down so the open range stock belonging to his father and his father's partner could feed from the hay stack. During the depression days, Bert would remark that he had once mowed grass in the main streets of Kingston, and it looked as if he would soon be able to do so again. That was the period when business after business closed and people moved away until Kingston almost became a ghost town.
NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR JAMES ELBURTAS ADKINS, FAMILY RECORDS OF NORA ADKINS ANDERSON:
"BERT ADKINS DIES TUESDAY, FUNERAL HELD AT KINGSTON--James Elburtas (Bert) Adkins died in the Madill hospital Tuesday. He had been ill for several months, and had been in the hospital the past five weeks.
Mr. Adkins was born in Indiana, March 18, 1874, and moved to the southern part of Marshall County in 1888.
He continued as a prominent farmer in this county until his retirement. He had been a member of the Methodist Church for a number of years.
Mr. Adkins was married to Miss Mollie Keeton, October 15, 1895. His wife survives him.
Funeral services were held at the Kingston Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. John Dennis, assisted by John W. Pigg, conducting.
Burial was in the Kingston Cemetery, with Watts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Other survivors, in addition to Mrs. Adkins, are: five children, May (sic, Mae) Nance, Lamar, Okla; Calvin Adkins, Madill; Jim Adkins, Great Bend, Kansas; Bill Adkins and Walter Adkins, Shay.
Three brothers, Ben Adkins, Snyder, Charlie Adkins, Cleburne, Texas, and R. E. (sic, Roscoe) Adkins, San Juan, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Bess Blakely, Madill and Mrs. Nora Anderson, Shawnee; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren."
JAMES ELBURTAS "BERT" ADKINS, son of Andrew Jackson Adkins and Olevia Jane "Levie" Ward Adkins, was born March 18, 1874 in Clark County, Indiana (near Bennettsville). He travelled with his family to northern Texas, leaving Indiana in the summer of 1876.
Bert married Mollie Ransom Keeton on October 15, 1895 at Kingston, Marshall County OK (then Indian Territory). They eloped when Mollie was 15 years old. They were the parents of 8 known children: (1) Baby Boy Adkins#1, born and died March 1897, (2) Andrew Calvin Adkins, 1898-1984, (3) James Gilliam Adkins, 1900-1971, (4) Claude William Adkins, 1902-1983, (5) Baby Boy Adkins#2, born and died May 1904, (6) Mary Mae Adkins Nance, 1906-1993, (7) Walter Herman Adkins, 1913-1994, and (8) Baby Boy Adkins#3, born and died September 1918.
EXTRACTED FROM "MEMORIES OF MARSHALL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA":
".........Bert told about cutting hay where the present town of Kingston is located. He would cut the waist-high prairie grass and stack it near where the lumber yard is now located. A fence would be built around the hay until winter when it would be torn down so the open range stock belonging to his father and his father's partner could feed from the hay stack. During the depression days, Bert would remark that he had once mowed grass in the main streets of Kingston, and it looked as if he would soon be able to do so again. That was the period when business after business closed and people moved away until Kingston almost became a ghost town.
NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR JAMES ELBURTAS ADKINS, FAMILY RECORDS OF NORA ADKINS ANDERSON:
"BERT ADKINS DIES TUESDAY, FUNERAL HELD AT KINGSTON--James Elburtas (Bert) Adkins died in the Madill hospital Tuesday. He had been ill for several months, and had been in the hospital the past five weeks.
Mr. Adkins was born in Indiana, March 18, 1874, and moved to the southern part of Marshall County in 1888.
He continued as a prominent farmer in this county until his retirement. He had been a member of the Methodist Church for a number of years.
Mr. Adkins was married to Miss Mollie Keeton, October 15, 1895. His wife survives him.
Funeral services were held at the Kingston Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. John Dennis, assisted by John W. Pigg, conducting.
Burial was in the Kingston Cemetery, with Watts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Other survivors, in addition to Mrs. Adkins, are: five children, May (sic, Mae) Nance, Lamar, Okla; Calvin Adkins, Madill; Jim Adkins, Great Bend, Kansas; Bill Adkins and Walter Adkins, Shay.
Three brothers, Ben Adkins, Snyder, Charlie Adkins, Cleburne, Texas, and R. E. (sic, Roscoe) Adkins, San Juan, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Bess Blakely, Madill and Mrs. Nora Anderson, Shawnee; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren."
Bert married Mollie Ransom Keeton on October 15, 1895 at Kingston, Marshall County OK (then Indian Territory). They eloped when Mollie was 15 years old. They were the parents of 8 known children: (1) Baby Boy Adkins#1, born and died March 1897, (2) Andrew Calvin Adkins, 1898-1984, (3) James Gilliam Adkins, 1900-1971, (4) Claude William Adkins, 1902-1983, (5) Baby Boy Adkins#2, born and died May 1904, (6) Mary Mae Adkins Nance, 1906-1993, (7) Walter Herman Adkins, 1913-1994, and (8) Baby Boy Adkins#3, born and died September 1918.
EXTRACTED FROM "MEMORIES OF MARSHALL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA":
".........Bert told about cutting hay where the present town of Kingston is located. He would cut the waist-high prairie grass and stack it near where the lumber yard is now located. A fence would be built around the hay until winter when it would be torn down so the open range stock belonging to his father and his father's partner could feed from the hay stack. During the depression days, Bert would remark that he had once mowed grass in the main streets of Kingston, and it looked as if he would soon be able to do so again. That was the period when business after business closed and people moved away until Kingston almost became a ghost town.
NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR JAMES ELBURTAS ADKINS, FAMILY RECORDS OF NORA ADKINS ANDERSON:
"BERT ADKINS DIES TUESDAY, FUNERAL HELD AT KINGSTON--James Elburtas (Bert) Adkins died in the Madill hospital Tuesday. He had been ill for several months, and had been in the hospital the past five weeks.
Mr. Adkins was born in Indiana, March 18, 1874, and moved to the southern part of Marshall County in 1888.
He continued as a prominent farmer in this county until his retirement. He had been a member of the Methodist Church for a number of years.
Mr. Adkins was married to Miss Mollie Keeton, October 15, 1895. His wife survives him.
Funeral services were held at the Kingston Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. John Dennis, assisted by John W. Pigg, conducting.
Burial was in the Kingston Cemetery, with Watts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Other survivors, in addition to Mrs. Adkins, are: five children, May (sic, Mae) Nance, Lamar, Okla; Calvin Adkins, Madill; Jim Adkins, Great Bend, Kansas; Bill Adkins and Walter Adkins, Shay.
Three brothers, Ben Adkins, Snyder, Charlie Adkins, Cleburne, Texas, and R. E. (sic, Roscoe) Adkins, San Juan, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Bess Blakely, Madill and Mrs. Nora Anderson, Shawnee; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren."
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Family Members
Siblings
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Lucinda Mariah "Lula" Adkins Baker
1871–1900
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Charles William "Charlie" Adkins
1878–1962
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Bennett Franklin "Ben" Adkins Sr
1882–1960
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Claudia May "Claudie" Adkins Locke
1884–1933
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Roscoe Norway "Bill Earl & Billy Earl" Adkins
1887–1966
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Bessie Irl Adkins Blakely
1890–1986
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Nora Sylvestia Adkins Anderson
1892–1975
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