Samuel M AdkinsAge: 80 years1857–1937
- Name
- Samuel M Adkins
- Given names
- Samuel M
- Surname
- Adkins
 Birth | May 8, 1857 18 22 |
 Birth of a brother | Zachariah Taylor “Zebb” Adkins February 28, 1859 (Age 21 months) |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
 Census | August 28, 1860 (Age 3 years) |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 3 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Birth of a sister | Cordelia “Delia” Adkins calculated 1865 (Age 7 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Stephen Atkins 1866 (Age 8 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Nancy Adlay “Nan” Adkins March 3, 1867 (Age 9 years) |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Birth of a brother | Warham Eastey Adkins July 4, 1869 (Age 12 years) |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 11 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Census | June 4, 1870 (Age 13 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Walter William Adkins May 26, 1874 (Age 17 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 20 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Birth of a sister | Lillie Rebecca Adkins calculated 1879 (Age 21 years) |
| Census | June 14, 1880 (Age 23 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Millie Rector March 4, 1885 (Age 27 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Nancy Chandler March 1, 1890 (Age 32 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 40 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Death of a mother | Rebecca Needham July 22, 1909 (Age 52 years) |
| Death of a father | Henry Adkins April 12, 1915 (Age 57 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 58 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 59 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 60 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a brother | Zachariah Taylor “Zebb” Adkins September 12, 1922 (Age 65 years) |
| Death of a sister | Nancy Adlay “Nan” Adkins 1925 (Age 67 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 72 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Death of a sister | Lillie Rebecca Adkins after 1935 (Age 77 years) |
 Death | December 2, 1937 (Age 80 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Henry Adkins Birth: March 13, 1839 27 25 — Powder Springs, Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: April 12, 1915 — Lincoln Park, Knox, Tennessee, United States |
| mother |
Rebecca Needham Birth: May 30, 1834 43 32 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: July 22, 1909 — Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States |
|
Marriage: July 28, 1856 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States |
|
|
9 months himself |
Samuel M Adkins Birth: May 8, 1857 18 22 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: December 2, 1937 |
|
22 months younger brother |
Zachariah Taylor “Zebb” Adkins Birth: February 28, 1859 19 24 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: September 12, 1922 — Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States |
|
7 years younger sister |
Cordelia “Delia” Adkins Birth: calculated 1865 25 30 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: November 26, 1960 — Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States |
|
2 years younger sister |
Nancy Adlay “Nan” Adkins Birth: March 3, 1867 27 32 — Powder Springs, Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: 1925 — Clark, Arkansas, United States |
|
2 years younger brother |
Warham Eastey Adkins Birth: July 4, 1869 30 35 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: April 16, 1938 — Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States |
|
5 years younger brother |
Walter William Adkins Birth: May 26, 1874 35 39 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: May 25, 1942 — Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States |
|
6 years younger sister |
Lillie Rebecca Adkins Birth: calculated 1879 39 44 — Grainger, Tennessee, United States Death: after 1935 |
Samuel M Adkins has 0 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (0)
| Census | 1860 United States - Census transcript - Henry Adkins - Household
Rutledge Granger, Tennessee
Other Adkins on page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1870 United States - Census transcript - Henry Adkins - Household
Powder Springs Granger, Tennessee
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - Henry Adkins - Household
Dist. 14 Granger, Tennessee
|