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Lynella…… didn’t mean for it to sound that way…… we all enjoy the tangents our threads take… ๐
What I meant was; a detailed analysis of the stones was unimportant when I originally posted about the people, and I couldn’t resist the “indian princess” answer when you first asked about consort. I did check the meaning in 5 dictionaries when we found the cemetery. One was a historical meanings dictionary. All said the formal meaning of the word “consort” is “spouse of the heir to the throne” or prince. When the prince becomes king then his consort becomes queen or her royal highness…… except in the current English royal family… Camella may still be called consort. So…… hopefully I’ve confused you more and I know I stayed off topic ๐
๐ Dreaminhawk,
That’s cute! No appology needed, I’m having fun! And I like catching myself going astray on the topics cause’ then I can’t get TOO out of hand!;) Love & Light, Lynella.
Dreaminghawk wrote: Becky and I found SEVERAL cemeteries of interest to this forum this past weekend. Williamson, Wood, Thomas, Cash, Townsend, Robertson, but I will start with the one below. I’ve already searched the people and they were quite interesting.
Inside rock wall, covered with periwinkle, irises, and rambling rose
About 20 graves marked by fieldstones
These below are hand-carved soapstone not from this area. I have seen similar tombstones in Floyd and Carroll co, VA. They are usually from late 1700s.
1. Mary CLACK / Consort of / James Clack (In line with a grave marked by fieldstone, assumed to be James CLACK)
2. Mary DICKINS / Consort of / Robert Dickins (In line with a grave marked by fieldstone, assumed to be Robert DICKINS)
3. John ATKINSON
4. MRs ATKINSON / Consort of / John Atkinson /
5. Frances MOORE (very faint) / _____ (cannot read, assume รขโฌลwife ofรขโฌย ) / Jessy Dickens
[Replacement stone] Frances Moore / wife of / Jessie Dickens / Nov 5, 1775 / Mar 1819
6. [Replacement stone] Jessie DICKENS / Married รขโฌโ Frances Moore / Dau of / Gen Stephen Moore
7. [Replacement stone] In memory of / Amy Sally Dickens SMITH / Dau of / Griselda & Henry Smith / Nov 9, 1823 / Jun 24, 1824
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Bill….. you should recognize Jessie Dickens fron the Person co marriage bonds book. Robert is his father, and the consort to James Clack is his sister, Mary. Griselda is also a sister.
James Clack is of particular interest ๐
Bill….. search world family tree, then I’ll post what I got from heritage books. I will say that Robert got 10,000 acres by marrying the right woman ๐
Ken,
Did you ever find anything more on these Atkinson’s? My Adkin’s (according to an Ancestry tree were Atkinson’s) Just curious…
My Adkin’s…
Squire Adkins
Born: 1818
Kentucky, USA
s/o
James W Adkins
Born: 1785
Montgomery,,Virginia,USA
Died: 1870
Pike,,Kentucky,USA
Nancy Agness Bishop
Born: 1795
Wythe,,Virginia,USA
Died: 1870
Pike,,Kentucky,USA
s/o
James Atkinson
Born: 1747-04-03
,,Virginia,USA
Died: 1837-04-14
Mary unknown Atkinson
Blessings,
Shirley
Hey Shirley,
Sorry it took so long to find this question…(I don’t always read my email notifications if I’m coming to the forums anyhow.;-)… I was a little behind on posts. I agree that Atkins and Atkinson are probably the same origin and they are all over ndn VA. They are almost always found with other known or suspected VA/NC ndns. Can’t cobble together any specific lines yet but the overview of mixed blood migration from VA to NC is becoming much clearer.
I can’t remember the exact link, but it should be pretty easy to find. Not too long ago I found some photos of, if I remember right, various Chikahominy natives. These were taken too late to be from my Adkins line, but I did find one of the children in a photo named Littleberry Adkins. I still believe that the Chickahominy and our Adkins line had some sort of connection. I have read where the Fry line (another ancestral line of mine that is connected with the Adkins) does too. But I have yet to pin anything down outside of similar names and locations. I do know that my earliest known Adkins ancestors lived on the James/Powhatan river and can be traced across Virginia into western West Virginia from various documents and things.
There has got to be a connection of some sort, but as Jack Adkins stated, the Adkins are really hard to track down.
I take what I said back…
Actually there was no Littleberry Adkins in the photograph. But I will explain what is interesting in a bit from the photos. I just need to cross reference and make sure what I post is accurate before I do. Here is the link to the photos that have quite a few Adkins named from the Chickahominy tribe/Virginia tribes…
http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/lrainville/VAIndiansExhibit/online-exhibit.html
Dreaminghawk wrote: Hey Shirley,
Sorry it took so long to find this question…(I don’t always read my email notifications if I’m coming to the forums anyhow.;-)… I was a little behind on posts. I agree that Atkins and Atkinson are probably the same origin and they are all over ndn VA. They are almost always found with other known or suspected VA/NC ndns. Can’t cobble together any specific lines yet but the overview of mixed blood migration from VA to NC is becoming much clearer.
I know there are many Adkins and variants…this group, as Steve-o knows as well is really hard to pin, because of this fact.
I don’t know if you have noticed, but many of these families start out in one place…go their separate ways and meet up again in another. However, all these areas are common ground:)
Shirley
Steve-o wrote: I take what I said back…
Actually there was no Littleberry Adkins in the photograph. But I will explain what is interesting in a bit from the photos. I just need to cross reference and make sure what I post is accurate before I do. Here is the link to the photos that have quite a few Adkins named from the Chickahominy tribe/Virginia tribes…
http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/lrainville/VAIndiansExhibit/online-exhibit.html
Steve, thanks for the link, can’t believe I haven’t come across this one…the photos are wonderful:)
I haven’t really been working on any particular line…but more so how the lines connect and interconnect. It is amazing when you look at these families, where they started…and where they part…and come together again…makes me wish I had a time machine:)
Shirley
Here is what makes these photos interesting to me…
C.S. Rafinesque wrote in one of his books, “Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky” from 1824, that Opechankanough was actually an adopted Shawnee. He states that Wahun-Sanacoc adopted him into the tribe and that Opechan took over as chief when Wahun-Sanacoc died.
Now I do know that the Adkins had strong connections to the Shawnee, and possibly were of Powhatan stock prior to my line’s connection to them. I alos know that Rafinesque’s Wallum Ollum is questioned and debated heavily among the native tribes. So this would/could be considered as not very accurate concerning the Shawnee adopted into the Powhatan.
But I have read a vestry report where a William Adkins/Adkinson went to Cockoeske, queen of the Paumunkey, for medical assistance from a Virginia fort he was in. So there is room to actually consider Rafinesque’s writings on this subject as factual.
So there still is alot to sort through, but definite clues can be found concerning the Adkins line. It is just coming up with some sort of time-line of events, plus finding quite a few more pieces of the puzzle, to nail down just what was going on between the Adkins and the Powhatan. There appears to have been a definite connection, but finding this connection is, so far, “evasive” at best.
Dreaminghawk;11592 wrote: Bill, to answer your questions, my main purpose in posting this was to be sure these folks had a thread at Saponitown. If you have time, census info on these families would be welcome. I also haven’t yet connected this John Atkinson to the original settlers or determined who his wife was.
Becky and I have discovered an amazing number of original settlers remains in the last few weeks. It continues to amaze me that they almost all come out of eastern Va and almost all are families suspected of being mixed before they leave Va.
I will start threads on the Wood and Thomas families when I get the time.
I have James Atkinson b.1747 VA m. Mary UNK…his son James b. 1785 Giles, VA m. Nancy Agness Bishop, his son Squire b. 1818 KY m. Mary Anderson, his daughter Celia Adkins b. 1844 m. John Floyd Baldwin (of Elisha Balden)…just curious if this could be the same line?
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