THE ADKINS FAMILY REUNION

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Family Yard and Bake Sales

Saturday, June 1, 2024

9am - 6pm

Details: We ask that family members all over the country organize a yard sale at their homes, churches, etc. You can have an individual yard sale at your home or you can invite other family members to gather at one location and sell items there. We're also encouraging family members to sell fresh, homemade baked goods (if you are a great baker) at the yard sales.

We just ask that each family donate 50 percent (or more if you like) of your yard sale proceeds to the Adkins Family Reunion Fund.

And just so we're clear: if a few different families gather in one location, we're asking that each family either donate 50 percent of your individual family's proceeds OR ALL of the families at that location can put 50 percent of their proceeds together and donate.

Why are We doing this: Our general fund is low and this is a way to bring family together for an important cause. AND you can get rid of household items you no longer need.

***Your donations from the Yard Sale WILL NOT be counted towards Reunion Fees for 2025 Family Reunion in Houston.***

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ADKINS FAMILY PICNIC

Saturday, July 13, 2024

12 noon - 6 pm

Winton Woods - Raccoon Lodge Shelter

Cincinnati, Ohio

Details: Bring your own food and drink. A few grills are available. ALL ARE WELCOME - even you out-of-towners.

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Welcome to the Adkins Family Reunion website.

We are the descendants of HENRY CLAY ADKINS and JANE MEADOWS of Taliaferro County, Georgia. Other family names include Peek and Frazier.

The Adkins Family is dedicated to the Christian legacy of the previous generation. As a family, we strive for unity and compassion, celebrate accomplishments, have fun, show respect, and memorialize our late family members.

2025 REUNION OFFICERS

Keith J. Adkins, President

Kristi Singletary, Vice-President

Alsha Adkins Jones, Secretary

Erica Sebastian Muhammad, Treasurer

Check back for updates on our 2025 Reunion.

THE ADKINS GENEALOGY and HISTORY

Henry Clay Adkins was born enslaved on the plantation of Rev. Aaron Adkins in Warren County, Georgia in 1845 to the union of the enslaved mulatto Sallie Wynne Adkins and the free-born mulatto Anderson Johnson. Henry's mother, Sallie Wynne, was willed by her white father (Clement Wynne) to his niece Frances Wynne Adkins (she was married to a schoolteacher named Isaac Adkins - the son of Rev. Aaron Adkins. ) Henry's father, Anderson Johnson, was also born in Warren County and was the son of a white woman named Jane Shelton Johnson.

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Henry Clay Adkins was freed from Rev. Aaron Adkins and moved to Taliaferro County. It's there he married Jane Meadows on December 30, 1866. Jane was one of the oldest daughters of the enslaved mulatto George Meadows and the enslaved Black woman Martha Fluker.

Henry Clay Adkins and Jane Meadows Adkins had several children: Lucious Adkins (born 1867 and married Anna Ora Peek); Adella Adkins (born 1869 and married Thomas Hardin); Ida Adkins (born 1871 and married Elbert Harris); Joshua Anderson Adkins (born 1872 and married Zenobia Tilman); Henry Adkins (born 1873 and married Mary Rhodes); Linton Thomas Adkins (born 1875 and married Mary Green);

William Graves Adkins (born 1876 and married Savannah Sanders); Joseph Adkins (born 1878).

Lucious Adkins, Adella Adkins Hardin (and her husband Thomas Hardin), Joshua Anderson Adkins, William Graves Adkins, and Joseph Adkins migrated to Jefferson County, Alabama before the year 1900 to work in the Reader's Iron Ore Mines near Birmingham. Lucious and Joshua left the mines to attend Morehouse, but Lucious was called back to Crawfordville to work the family farm. Joshua moved on to Madison, Wisconsin. William Graves stayed and married in Bessemer, Alabama. Adella and Linton migrated to Youngstown, Ohio. Linton eventually moved from there and died in Chicago.

We are their descendants.

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