From "History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler counties, Missouri, from the earliest times to the present : together with sundry personal, business and professional sketches and numerous family records .. (1888)": page 756

Hiram A. Atkins, farmer, is a son of Elias F. and Fannie (Dodson) Atkins. The father was born in Rappahannock, Va., but before becoming of age moved to Bourbon County, Ky., and after that time returned to Virginia, and married. By trade he was a saddler, in which he attained great proficiency. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died at the age of about one hundred years. His mother was a Methodist in belief, and died in 1862. The father is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. During the days of that party he was a Whig, but is now a Democrat. He is now living at the advanced age of ninety-one. Hiram A. Atkins is the oldest living child of a family of seven children,, of whom two sons and two daughters survive. He was born in Rappahannock County, Va., in 1833, and there grew to manhood, receiving a common-school education. At the age of fourteen he began to learn his father's trade, at which he afterward worked about twenty years. In 1857 he moved to Ripley, Jackson Co., W. Va., and while there was married in 1861 to Mary J. Mairs, daughter of Dr. Joseph Mairs. In 1867 he came to Sullivan County, Mo., and settled upon the farm where he now lives. To himself and wife five children have been born, four of whom are living: Joseph G., Fannie M., Maud v., Elias W. and Mark D. C. (deceased). Mrs. Atkins is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and since 1854 Mr. Atkins has belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and since 1865 to the I. O. O. F. For twenty years he has resided in Sullivan County, Mo., and since that time has become the owner of 300 acres of land, and has taken his place among the well-known and highly-respected citizens of the county. He has not escaped public notice, and from 1874 to 1878 served as treasurer of Duncan Township; from 1878 to 1880 as county assessor, and from 1880 to 1884 as township assessor.

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Their children were:

Joseph Garnett Atkins
1863 – 1923
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Fannie Mae Atkins
1865 –

Maude V Mariah Atkins
1868 – 1905
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Elias Waldo Atkins
1871 – 1945
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