Mary Adkins

Mary Adkins

• Gender: Female
• Born: 12 Sep 1735 Place: Goochland Co, VA 1, 2, 3
• alt birth as 5 Sep 1735 Jamestown Colony, Goochland Co, VA alt birth as 12 Oct 1735 Richland, Goochland Co, VA
• Died: Abt 1820 Place: Bowen's Creek, Beech Fork, Cabell Co, VA 1
• Buried: unmarked grave at mouth of Bowen's Creek (is right at the county line between Cabell County and Wayne County) Bowen's Creek, Beech Fork, Cabell Co, VA
• Father: William Adkins, Sr. (Abt 1690 - Abt 1774)
• Mother: Elizabeth Parker (Abt 1695 - betw 1735-1736)
• Partners: 1) (perhaps) Jacob Stover, Jr. (Abt 1717 - Est 1780-1789) 2) (perhaps) Mr. Oxford

Family

http://adkinshorton.net/getperson.php?personID=I5395&tree=ah

DNA evidence suggests that Jacob Stover, Jr. was the father of Mary's children (him being at least the most likely candidate).

• It is unclear why Mary's children bore the Adkins name.

Children of Mary and Jacob:

1. David Adkins (Abt 1754 - Abt 1832)
2. Mark Adkins (Abt 1756 - 1778)
3. Christina Adkins (5 Jan 1759 - 1822)
4. John Adkins (Abt 1763 - Yes, date unknown)
5. Sherrod Adkins (2 Mar 1765 - 12 Jan 1854)
6. Nancy Adkins (Abt 1767 - 18 Jan 1846)

DNA results suggest that the father of Mary Adkins' son, Jacob, was an Oxford.

• It is unclear why Mary's children bore the Adkins name.

Children of Mary and Mr. Oxford ( - )

1. Jacob Oxford Adkins (Abt 1761 - 09/200/1857)

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Daughter of William Vincent and Elizabeth Parker

Mother of David

http://www.geocities.com/deb41457/Adkins.html

Individual Record

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/PRF/individual_record.asp?re...

Mary is the head of a large family in Southwestern Virginia. They are known as the "Royal Line". Records on Mary are few and far between. There is no documentation for the name of her husband or when she married. Long held oral family tradition says she was the common law wife of the Earl of Oxford. This has led to much speculation and more than one fervently believed story handed down among Mary's descendants. We do know she had six children and all of them used the surname Adkins. Although no proof or documentation was provided the first written account for Mary and her descendants was published in 1955 in a booklet compiled by Golza B. Adkins for the Adkins family reunion. One section is titled, "The Royal Branch of Adkinses" from "Information Received from May Adkins Tabor." It says: "Jacob Oxford was the son of an English Earl who came to America as an English tax collector. He met and by common-law marriage lived with Mary Adkins who was of Scotch descent and of the same ancestral line of people as Mary, Queen of Scots...." The account goes on to give details of Marys life and her children. This story has circulated in the Adkins family for years but thus far no proof of its accuracy has been found.

[Note: Virginia has never recognized common-law marriage. - Maven]

Note: Mary ADKINS was born in 1735 in Goochland County, Virginia. She died between 1814 and 1820 in Cabell County, Virginia. Mary Adkins is the mother of almost all Adkins descendants of Southwestern West Virginia. With most family researchers her descendants make up the so-called "Royal Line." This Royal Line theory comes from the family oral tradition that Mary was the common law wife of a descendant of the Earl of Oxford. According to the tradition, he deserted Mary and her children during the Revolutionary War and returned to England. Because the family name of the person that held the title 'Earl of Oxford' during the mid 1700's was Harley it was assumed by almost all researchers that this man's name was Jacob Harley. Mary Adkins is buried in an unmarked grave on Beech Fork at the mouth of Bowen's Creek." Mary married (common law) Jacob Harley, son of (unknown) in Virgin1a, (Jacob Harley was born about 1730 in England.) The children were David Adkins (Patriot) b. 1754, Mark Adkins, John Adkins, Christina Adkins, Jacob Adkins, Sherrod Adkins Sr, Nancy Adkins.

Death about 1820 (Age 84 years) Beech Fork, Wayne, West Virginia, USA

Note: Historical note: The western part of the state of Virginia (1776–1863), whose population became sharply divided over the issue of secession from the Union and in the separation from Virginia, formalized by admittance to the Union as a new state, West Virginia in 1863.

Burial about 1820 (on the date of death) Wayne, West Virginia, USA

Note: Mary d. ca. 1820 in Cabell Co. She is buried in an unmarked grave on Beech Fork at the mouth of Bowen's Creek.

Mary Adkins
BIRTH
12 Oct 1735
Goochland County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
unknown
Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Beech Fork Cemetery
Wayne County, West Virginia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196136387/mary-adkins