| Husband's Name | . . . | Wife's Name |
| John Adkins/Atkins | Mary (Maiden Name Unknown) | |
| Born 1682 in London, England | ||
| Died 1763 in Lunenburg, Virginia | ||
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| Francis Atkins, Sr. | ||
| Born 1708 in Virginia | ||
| Died 1798 in Lyndburg Co., Virginia | ||
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| Francis Atkins, Jr. | Jane (or Jean) Yeldell | |
| Born 1738 in Lundburg Co, Virginia | Born in Abbeville District, SC | |
| Died 1818 in Prosperity, Newberry Co., SC | Died 1818 in Prosperity, Newberry Co., SC | |
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| Thomas Atkins | Eva (or Eve) Feltin (or Fellmon or Feltman) | |
| Born in Prosperity, Newberry Co., SC | Born in Prosperity, Newberry Co., SC | |
| Died in Cedar Springs, Abbeville Dist., SC | Died in Cedar Springs, Abbeville Dist., SC | |
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| Henry Atkins, Sr. | Sarah Dendy | |
| Born about 1806 in Abbeville District, SC | Born about 1815 in South Carolina | |
| Died in Alabama | Died in Alabama | |
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| John Thomas Atkins |
John Thomas Atkins:
Born November 6, 1845 in South Carolina
Died January 31, 1914 (Age 68, Calhoun, Alabama)
A Corporal in the Alabama II Corps. Confederate States of America
John was a teenage Confederate Civil War Soldier. He was a Corporal in the Alabama II Corps C.S.A. In the last year of the Civil War (1865), he was wounded in a battle near Chattanooga, Tennessee and he earned the Purple Heart Medal.
On March 28, 1867 John married his first wife, Martha Holllingsworth-Atkins: July 9, 1849 to Dec. 9, 1889.Annie Atkins married a Mr. C. G. Kershaw and they had a son, Royce G. Kershaw. In 1964 John’s grandson, Royce, voluntarily cleaned up Union Cemetery and then he started a Trust Fund for its perpetual care.
John's first wife, Martha, died in 1889 but John lived another 25 years.
In 1891, John Thomas Atkins married his second wife, Rosa Jane Lester-Atkins: Oct. 24, 1864 to Aug. 18, 1947.John died in 1914 and he is buried at Union United Methodist Church Cemetery between Anniston and Gadsden, Alabama with his first wife and their four children.
John's second wife, Rosa Jane Lester-Atkins, lived to the age of 83 and she is buried in the “Atkins” plot at Four Mile United Methodist Church between Anniston and Jacksonville, Alabama.
As a teenage Confederate Civil War Soldier, John carried a New Testament Bible with him during the Civil War and he still owned that same Bible when he died at the age of 68. John was a man of faith, courage, and integrity. If you are one of John's descendants, then you probably inherited those family traits.