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Jacob Adkins, who died yesterday at the age of 98 at his Monroe county farm overlooking Alderson, traded his Richmond district farm at Pluto for a better farm in Monroe county when he was 82 years of age.
At a time in life when most humans have quit the struggle, Adkins was starting anew. Like Abraham, he gathered up his children—the youngest of the 11 was 24 years of age then — and migrated to the Greenbrier.
And when he died yesterday he left the wife with whom he had lived 67 years. She was Miss Sarah Jane Harris, a grandmother of Sophia’s Oral Phillips, an aunt of O. B. Harris, and mother of Mrs. Mont Phillips, Beckley, Mrs. Cleve Cales, Winding Gulf, and Mrs. Isaac Hilton, Coal City.
A year ago Mrs. Adkins, holding on to the arm of her feeble husband, told us: “We have lived together 66 years and never fit yet...and I would go the same way again.
She married when she was 16; he was 31.
Adkins was born at Pluto in 1841. He was 18 when the Civil War broke out. He remembered General Alfred Beckley and some of the skirmishes that took place in Raleigh county.
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Jacob Adkins, who died yesterday at the age of 98 at his Monroe county farm overlooking Alderson, traded his Richmond district farm at Pluto for a better farm in Monroe county when he was 82 years of age.
At a time in life when most humans have quit the struggle, Adkins was starting anew. Like Abraham, he gathered up his children—the youngest of the 11 was 24 years of age then — and migrated to the Greenbrier.
And when he died yesterday he left the wife with whom he had lived 67 years. She was Miss Sarah Jane Harris, a grandmother of Sophia’s Oral Phillips, an aunt of O. B. Harris, and mother of Mrs. Mont Phillips, Beckley, Mrs. Cleve Cales, Winding Gulf, and Mrs. Isaac Hilton, Coal City.
A year ago Mrs. Adkins, holding on to the arm of her feeble husband, told us: “We have lived together 66 years and never fit yet...and I would go the same way again.
She married when she was 16; he was 31.
Adkins was born at Pluto in 1841. He was 18 when the Civil War broke out. He remembered General Alfred Beckley and some of the skirmishes that took place in Raleigh county.
Family Members
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Harvey McClung Adkins
1874–1962
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Ida Belle Adkins Phillips
1877–1952
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Julia Catherine Adkins Meador
1881–1960
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Seldon Rickles Adkins
1883–1973
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Wilbur Jessie Adkins
1886–1972
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Clarinda Cales Adkins Futch
1887–1990
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Lonnie Burdette Adkins
1890–1973
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SGT Edward Myles Adkins
1894–1971
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Teel Owen Adkins
1899–1947
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