When Lemuel Edward Adkins was born in 1853, in Gauley Bridge, Fayette, West Virginia, United States, his father, Cumberland Adkins, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Ann Jarrell, was 30. He married Virginia Whittington in 1870, in Boone, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Peytona, Boone, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Pocatalico District, Putnam, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 August 1931, in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: from the Middle English personal name Adkin (a pet form of Adam formed with the suffix -kin) + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name was particularly common in the English Midlands. Compare Atkins .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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