George Beattie Atkins (1879 - 1946)

Born 19 Nov 1879 in Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Laura Elizabeth (Prickett) Atkins — married 26 Aug 1903 (to 20 Jan 1946) in Bristol, Washington County, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1946 at age 66 in Frostproof, Polk County, Florida, United States

Biography

George Beattie Atkins was born on 10 or 19 Nov 1879 in Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, the third of four known children and the second of three sons of Zachariah T. Atkins and Nancy Adelaide "Nannie" Beattie Atkins, who had married on 23 Apr 1875.

On 26 August 1903, at the age of twenty-three, he married Laura Elizabeth "Gladese" Prickett in Bristol, Washington County, Virginia.

They moved to Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, in 1907. George was an accountant with Swift & Company and by 1910 was working as cashier for a packing house.

Gladese's brother Jamie visited them in Texas when the children were small and reported that George was good to help Gladese with the babies, changing diapers and the like, but that Gladese was a constant complainer.

By the time of World War I, they had moved to Oklahoma City, where George was Assistant Superintendent for an insurance company and where they rented a house or apartment. By this time they had four sons -- the older two, George Taylor, 14, and Ralph, 13, were working as helpers for a candy company. George registered for the draft in 1917 in Oklahoma City.

Eventually they returned to Texas. In later years, George began running around with other women, and at her sons' urging, Gladese left him and got a divorce and George left Texas and moved to Florida. In a subsequent census she is reported erroneously as a widow.

George died of unknown causes in Frostproof, Polk County, Florida in 1946 at the age of sixty-seven.

Citations

Acknowledgments

• Atkins-2243 was created by Patricia Hickin through the import of PRICKETT-WBF 4 gens desc n spouses children parents 20150104.ged on Jan 4, 2015.

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