Emma Adkins

Brief Life History of Emma

When Emma Adkins was born in March 1890, in Mingo, Randolph, West Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Fulton Adkins, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Marrs, was 23. She lived in Matewan, Mingo, West Virginia, United States in 1900.

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Family Time Line

Robert Fulton Adkins
1856–1935
Margaret Marrs
1867–
Robert Adkins
1881–1965
Virginia Lee Adkins
1885–1970
Adell Aeline Adkins
1886–1936
Mary Campbell Adkins
1888–1927
Emma Adkins
1890–
Allen D. Adkins
1892–1963
Claude Dickison Adkins
1896–1969
Rhoda C Adkins
1898–1970
Mitilda Adkins
1898–1927
Paul Rutherford Adkins
1908–1955
Pally Adkin
1908–

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  • Emma Adkins in household of Robert Adkins, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

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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