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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: Re: [INMONROE] Mrs. Adkins Visits Daughter
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:24:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: <F215OMv1PmKnk4JzQ8v00016b34@hotmail.com>


At 10:09 AM 10/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Would appreciate knowing if anyone can identify with this Mrs.
>ADKINS...sure wish that at least a first name had been used....is this the
>widow of Benjamin ADKINS (1808-1846) or someone else? She was Rachel
>WHITAKER ADKINS, his second wife.
>Bloomington (IN) Republican Progress, Jul 6, 1892, p. 3.
>
>Mrs. Adkins accompanied her daughter, Mrs. Ella Lynn, to her home at Yellow
>Springs, Ohio.

In the abstracts of the MONROE COUNTY INDIANA CENSUS --1880 there is one
Ella Adkins noted. She was 20 years old and living in the Bloomington
Township household of her parents, James and Martha Adkins. Perhaps this
is one and the same as the Ella who ended up in Ohio.

Randi

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