Son of John G Atkins and Nancy Jane Smyth Atkins. Thomas married 1st Stella M Moore in 1891 at Augusta, Butler County, Kansas. He married 2nd Margaret Augusta Richards on March 27, 1907.
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Thomas Pickney Atkins left Tennessee when he was just 9 months old and came with his folks and brothers and sisters to Independence County, Arkansas. They traveled by train to Memphis and from there to Jackson Port, Arkansas by steamboat. Following the close of the civil war, the family remained for a while in Independence County, moving in 1867 to Shiloh from where they moved three years later to a farm near Hickory Plains in Prairie County, where most of the family lived from then on. He was the 3rd eldest child in a family of 10. He was educated in the public and high school in Prairie County and taught in both schools and in Woodruff County until 1889 when he entered the law office of J.G. Thweatt. He obtained his license to practice law in Arkansas in 1889. He was a member of the House of the Arkansas legislature in 1901, 1903, 1925 and 1929. He was a member of the Methodist Church, serving as member of the Board of Stewards for many years. He was superintendent of the Methodist Church Sunday School for 39 years. He was also an active member of the school board for many years. He died at the age of 81 years being at that time the oldest member of the Prairie County Bar Assoc. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. James Thomas of Little Rock officiating. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.
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Thomas Pickney Atkins left Tennessee when he was just 9 months old and came with his folks and brothers and sisters to Independence County, Arkansas. They traveled by train to Memphis and from there to Jackson Port, Arkansas by steamboat. Following the close of the civil war, the family remained for a while in Independence County, moving in 1867 to Shiloh from where they moved three years later to a farm near Hickory Plains in Prairie County, where most of the family lived from then on. He was the 3rd eldest child in a family of 10. He was educated in the public and high school in Prairie County and taught in both schools and in Woodruff County until 1889 when he entered the law office of J.G. Thweatt. He obtained his license to practice law in Arkansas in 1889. He was a member of the House of the Arkansas legislature in 1901, 1903, 1925 and 1929. He was a member of the Methodist Church, serving as member of the Board of Stewards for many years. He was superintendent of the Methodist Church Sunday School for 39 years. He was also an active member of the school board for many years. He died at the age of 81 years being at that time the oldest member of the Prairie County Bar Assoc. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. James Thomas of Little Rock officiating. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.
Son of John G Atkins and Nancy Jane Smyth Atkins. Thomas married 1st Stella M Moore in 1891 at Augusta, Butler County, Kansas. He married 2nd Margaret Augusta Richards on March 27, 1907.
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Thomas Pickney Atkins left Tennessee when he was just 9 months old and came with his folks and brothers and sisters to Independence County, Arkansas. They traveled by train to Memphis and from there to Jackson Port, Arkansas by steamboat. Following the close of the civil war, the family remained for a while in Independence County, moving in 1867 to Shiloh from where they moved three years later to a farm near Hickory Plains in Prairie County, where most of the family lived from then on. He was the 3rd eldest child in a family of 10. He was educated in the public and high school in Prairie County and taught in both schools and in Woodruff County until 1889 when he entered the law office of J.G. Thweatt. He obtained his license to practice law in Arkansas in 1889. He was a member of the House of the Arkansas legislature in 1901, 1903, 1925 and 1929. He was a member of the Methodist Church, serving as member of the Board of Stewards for many years. He was superintendent of the Methodist Church Sunday School for 39 years. He was also an active member of the school board for many years. He died at the age of 81 years being at that time the oldest member of the Prairie County Bar Assoc. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. James Thomas of Little Rock officiating. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.
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Thomas Pickney Atkins left Tennessee when he was just 9 months old and came with his folks and brothers and sisters to Independence County, Arkansas. They traveled by train to Memphis and from there to Jackson Port, Arkansas by steamboat. Following the close of the civil war, the family remained for a while in Independence County, moving in 1867 to Shiloh from where they moved three years later to a farm near Hickory Plains in Prairie County, where most of the family lived from then on. He was the 3rd eldest child in a family of 10. He was educated in the public and high school in Prairie County and taught in both schools and in Woodruff County until 1889 when he entered the law office of J.G. Thweatt. He obtained his license to practice law in Arkansas in 1889. He was a member of the House of the Arkansas legislature in 1901, 1903, 1925 and 1929. He was a member of the Methodist Church, serving as member of the Board of Stewards for many years. He was superintendent of the Methodist Church Sunday School for 39 years. He was also an active member of the school board for many years. He died at the age of 81 years being at that time the oldest member of the Prairie County Bar Assoc. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. James Thomas of Little Rock officiating. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.
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