Irene Jane Harless (Adkins) - Who is Parker Adkins?

There's also this Parker Adkins who might be more plausible than Millington. He apparently married Mary Ledford on January 3, 1772, making Irene's c. 1775 birth likely. (See: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/adkins/5948/.) However, there was a Parker Adkins who married a Mary Lefon in 1792 (after Irene's birth) so I'm not sure if they're being confused.

https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=Adkins&amp...

Show her parents as either "unknown" or Parker Vincent Adkins, but we already know her birth date is really too late to have been his daughter, and that it had to be another Parker signing her bond. Was he necessarily her father though? Could have been a brother or uncle, right ?

It is possible that he wasn't her father, I hadn't thought of that. Though, we know she wasn't a brother of Parker Adkins since she's not listed in his father's will and she's definitely not the daughter of Parker V. I think that leaves Parker Adkins He's too young to be her father but he could have been her brother. I can't find any definitive source for his father's children though. Are there any other people named Parker Adkins at this time?

This one of Goochland (If I’m following correctly, the Atkins / Atkinson’s of Goochland are a different family & can be found in the Douglas Register). Frye Wife is associated with the Adkins though?

https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dbra...

And this one no parents of Halifax

https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hedg...

I think the Halifax Parker Adkins is an error. He's listed as Robert Adkins on other sites: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/halifax/vitals/marriages/marr-grms...

The Goochland Parker is just Parker V. He can't be born c. 1775 in Goochland if Littleberry is born 1767. I think they just got the location wrong.

I think we might be able to eliminate Militan as Parker Adkins. In this military record from Montgomery County, it list Militan with Parker Adkins and Parker Adkins Sr. (I'm assuming that Parker Sr. is Parker V. ) If the other Parker Adkins is the same person who signed Irene's certificate, which is possible, it means that it couldn't be Militan.
https://books.google.com/books?id=yS3cDVK9hR4C&pg=PA234&lpg...

So that’s indicating there’s another Parker Adkins in the picture.

OK, we think this other Parker Adkins is a brother of Irene, so far their father unknown. Bet there are other siblings.

I will move the Parker showing as her father to her brother, and a NN Adkins as their parent.

This might account for other children attributed to Parker V

Maybe look more at Jacob Adkins

It we postulate the Parker b 1763 is the one with the military record & also the singer of the bond for Irene’s marriage

There was a bad merge I just undid

Who was the husband of Mary Parker Adkins

There was also this Parker Adkins born around 1765

There's some confusion over dates here. This site (http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/adkins/5948/) has Parker Adkins born 1745 not 1765 and married in 1772. In this case he would be Irene’s father, not brother. She can't be his sister since his father’s will, William Adkins, survives from 1784 and doesn't list Irene as a daughter.(See source: http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/AdkinsFamily.html). If the 1745 date is incorrect, and the 1765 date is right, than we can eliminate him since he's would be too young to be her father. The only candidate for her brother would be Parker Adkins b. 1763. I think these two are the only possibilities for the signer, we just need to verify the dates.

More uncertainty. Many site have Parker Adkins b. 1745 marrying Mary Ledford as the son of William Adkins and Lydia. However, he's not listed in his father's will either. Does anyone have another source for his parents?

I was just going to say that! Ancestry.com has a son Moses for him. I'm going to disconnect Parker 1745 as son of William & Lydia

http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/AdkinsFamily.html

9. JACOB ADKINS (WILLIAM V., JOHN THOMAS, JOHN THOMAS, THOMAS, HENRY) was born Abt. 1725 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died Aft. 1791. He married JUDAH ? Abt. 1759 in Halifax County, Virginia.

Child of JACOB ADKINS and JUDAH ? is:
27....i....PARKER ADKINS, b. Abt. 1763, Franklin County, Virginia; d. May 11, 1857, Raleigh County, Virginia.

Mary Lefon, not Leford. And he's the same person as parker b 1763 it looks like - son of Jacob.

http://dgmweb.net/FGS/A/AdkinsParker-MaryLefon-MaryAnnWillis.html

Husband:  Parker ADKINS
Birth:  1763, Franklin Co., VA
Death:  5 Nov 1857, Raleigh Co., VA [now WV]
Father:  Jacob ADKINS
Mother:  Judah NONE

http://https://adkinsmetcalffamily.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/jacob-a...

Jacob Adkins

Spouses
Judah Md Adkins (1730)
Marriage: 1757 Halifax, Virginia
 
Mary Parker Bennett (1748)
Marriage: 1771 Virginia
 
Known Children (with Judah Md Adkins) 
Parker Adkins (1746 – 1857)
 
Known Children (with Mary Parker Bennett)
Sherod Adkins Atkins 1759 – 1816
Moses Adkins Atkins 1773 – 1839
Judy Adkins 1775 – 1870
Mary Adkins 1775 – 1840

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/o/w/Sheila-E-Powell/GENE8-0004.html#...

The first child of Thomas and Susanna McGriff, Margaret, married George Harless in 1801 in Knox County, Tennessee.George was the son of Henry and Charity Harless of Montgomery County, Virginia.His grandfather, Johan Philip Harless, had come from Germany in 1738 and settled on the New River about 1748.

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This Susannah Adkins is the as yet unverified daughter of Parker V & Mary, correct?

And her husband is first married to a Harless.

Margaret McGriff

Are we sure Irene / Jane wasn't a child of Original Parker???

Yes, most genealogies have Susannah as Parker V's child.
Irene can't be a child of original Parker since she's born too late and he was dead by her marriage. She's also not listed in most of his genealogies.
So it looks like Mary Lefon and Mary Ledford are the same. I had a marriage date of January 3, 1772 but this is so close to the other marriage date of January 3, 1792 that someone must have confused the years. So we should be able to eliminate her husband as Irene's father but he still could be her brother. I think this means that Parker b. 1763 is the only possibility for the signer, we just need to figure out the relationship.

Could Jacob b 1725 be her father ?

Yes, I think the only solution is that she's another child of Jacob and Parker is her brother.
I'm pretty sure that Parker Adkins is a duplicate of Parker Adkins. People confused Mary Lefon and Mary Ledford and 1772 with 1792 which resulted in a fake birth of c. 1745.
That seems to be the only Parker Adkins alive in 1797 for her marriage. Since he's too young to be her father, he's most likely her brother. And since we don't have a death date for Jacob, it's very possible that he died before 1797 so her brother witnessed her wedding.

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Can you write out in the overview for Irene / Jenny the argument for placing her as a daughter of Jacob ?

One of these Sherrods misplaced ?

Sherrod B. Adkins

Sherrod B. Adkins

I've added a note to her profile. Feel free to edit. Now we just need to figure out why Parker Adkins has five children born in the 1850s. This Parker L. Adkins also has a son named Cumberland Adkins though the dates don't match. Maybe his children were confused?

I think Cumberland may a floater, he’s reported here as clearly an error

http://dgmweb.net/FGS/A/AdkinsParker-MaryLefon-MaryAnnWillis.html

Parker's findagrave profile has a picture of his will. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91584609/parker-adkins. It lists eleven children, and none of the children with Mary Ann Willis. I think we can disconnect them but we'll have to figure out who their father was.

Well, Pooh. This is a different child list & no Irene.

This still works for Irene though since she's his sister, so she wouldn't have been in his will.