Levi Adkins

Constituent member of Bethel Baptist Church. Pastor from 1849-1865.

• (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8CZ-TQ3 Name: Levi Adkins Event Type: Pension Military Unit Note: Pvt Capt Richard Marshall's Co Tenn Mil Spouse's Name: Elizabeth George Affiliate Publication Title: Index to War of 1812 Pension Application Files Affiliate Publication Number: M313 Affiliate Film Number: 1 GS Film number: 840431 Digital Folder Number: 4596529 Image Number: 00451

Citing this Record: "United States War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8CZ-TQ3 : 6 December 2014), Levi Adkins, ; citing military unit Pvt Capt Richard Marshall's Co Tenn Mil, NARA microfilm publication M313 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 840,431.

Elizabeth GEORGE, born 04 Mar 1795 in Stokes Co, NC; died 20 Mar 1879 in Andersonville, Anderson Co, TN. She was the daughter of Travis GEORGE, Sr. and Diana GREER.

Notes for Levi ADKINS:

Levi Adkins and Elizabeth members of Hinds Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Anderson County in the early 1800's. Levi was received in 1821 and in 1822 he was appointed a delegate to the association. Also in 1822 Elizabeth was received by experience. However, in June of 1824 he and Elizabeth were part of the church dismissed as a group to form Mt. Hebron Baptist Church in Knox County.

From "Our Union County Heritage, Volume 2" by Kathleen George Graves and Winnie Palmer McDonald, p. 10. Article entitled, "The Adkins Family", by Ralph Adkins.

Levi ADKINS was a well-known Baptist minister. He was one of the organizers of Bethel and Red Hill Churches in Anderson County and of Milan Baptist Church in Union County. Licensed to preach by Bethel Church in 1842, he served as its pastor from 1849 until 1865, shepherding a reported membership of 119 in 1853. He was the first pastor of Milan Baptist church and was moderator of the Clinton Association 1864-1869. He also pastored Bethany and Graveston Churches. He died on March 20, 1887, in Anderson, Tennessee, at the impressive age of 93, and was buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery in Norris, Tennessee.

(bio, birth location provided by Dave #49271810)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 18 2019, 2:57:04 UTC