When Mary Elizabeth Adkins was born on 27 October 1840, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States, her father, Pleasant Alfred Adkins Sr., was 42 and her mother, Mary Freeman, was 41. She married John James or Jackson Jr Galloway on 10 April 1859, in Wayne, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1910 and Dayton, Columbia, Washington, United States in 1920. She died on 30 July 1928, in Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Washington, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
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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 .
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