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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Lexie Elkins: Birth: ABT 1886. Death: ABT 1957

  2. Morton Elkins: Birth: ABT 1888.

  3. John R. Elkins: Birth: ABT 1893. Death: ABT 1948

  4. Steve Elkins: Birth: ABT 1898. Death: ABT 1953

  5. Person Not Viewable


Sources
1. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Owsley, Kentucky; Roll: M653_391; Page: 419; Image: 419; Family History Library Film: 803391
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;
2. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1870; Census Place: Precinct 3, Wolfe, Kentucky; Roll: M593_504; Page: 435B; Image: 294; Family History Library Film: 552003
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;
3. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1880; Census Place: Precinct 5, Wolfe, Kentucky; Roll: 446; Family History Film: 1254446; Page: 304B; Enumeration District: 117; Image: 0597
Author:   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;

Notes
a. Note:   RESEARCH STANDARD APPLIED
 • Researched by Timothy J. Barron, updated September 3, 2017
  James is my second great grand uncle. James was initially identified in the book Hollon and Related Families, published in 1958 by Clay Hollon. Page 51 lists James as a son of Jeremiah Elkins and Esther Richmond. The page lists the following information: “James B., born Ky. 1855, died 1937, age 82 yrs., married Sarah Rose.” Page 58 lists the following information: “James B. Elkins (9th child of Jeremiah and Esther) b. 1855 d. 1935, married Sarah Rose, who died 1937, had five children: (1) Lexie, b. 1886, d. 1957; (2) Morton, b. 1888; (3) John R (iii) b. 1893, d. 1948; (4) Steve, b. 1898, d. 1953; (5) Lulu, b. 1905.” The information has been subsequently supported via the records and documentation listed below.
  1860 CENSUS OF JAMES ELKINS
 • Researched by Timothy J. Barron, updated September 3, 2017
  The U.S. Census enumerated on August 14, 1860 shows James living with his parents in Owsley County, Kentucky. The following information was transcribed from the actual document: “James Elkins, age 4, male, born in Kentucky.”
  1870 CENSUS OF JAMES ELKINS
 • Researched by Timothy J. Barron, updated September 3, 2017
  The U.S. Census enumerated on August 5, 1870 shows James living with his parents in Wolfe County, Kentucky. The following information was transcribed from the actual document: “James Elkins, age 15, male, white, occupation: works on farm, born in Kentucky, attended school, can't write.”
  1880 CENSUS OF JAMES ELKINS
 • Researched by Timothy J. Barron, updated September 3, 2017
  The U.S. Census enumerated on June 4, 1880 shows James living with his parents in Wolfe County, Kentucky. The following information was transcribed from the actual document: “James B. Elkins, white, male, age 33, brother, single, occupation: works on farm, born in Kentucky, father born in Virginia, mother born in Virginia.”



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