Mathias (Wilkin) Wilkins (abt. 1816 - abt. 1886)

Born about 7 May 1816 in Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Magdalena (Miller) Wilkin — married before Jun 1840 in Virginia, USA

Husband of Dorothy C (Shireman) Combs — married 8 Mar 1866 in Hardy Co., West Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died about 28 Jan 1886 at about age 69 in Lost River, Hardy Co., West Virginia, USA

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Biography

Mathias Wilkin was born in May 1816 in Virginia. He is the son of Joseph Wilkin and Sarah Snyder.

1820 census -- Hardy Co., Virginia, USA

Name: Joseph Wilkens

Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Hardy, Virginia

Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820

Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1 (Mathias, Moses)

Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 (Joseph)

Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 (Catherine)

Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 (Sally)

Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1

Free White Persons - Under 16: 3

Free White Persons - Over 25: 2

Total Free White Persons: 5

Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 5^[1]

He married(1) Magdalena Miller prior to 1840 (source needed).

1840 census -- Hardy Co., Virginia, USA

Name: Matthias Wilkins

Home in 1840: Hardy, Virginia

Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (Mathias)

Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 (Magdalena)

Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1

No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1

Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2

Total Free White Persons: 2

Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 2^[2]

1850 census -- Hardy Co., Virginia, USA

Mathias Wilkin, age 34, male, , farmer, $1000 real estate, born Virginia, cannot read/write; Magdalene Wilkin, age 47, female, , born Virginia; Harriet Wilkin, age 9, female, , born Virginia; Dolly Wilkin, age 8, female, , born Virginia; Elizabeth Wilkin, age 6, female, , born Virginia; Harrison C Wilkin, age 2, male, , born Virginia; Pharoah Wilkin, age 18, male, , farmer, $65 real estate, attended school^[3]

1860 census -- Hardy Co., Virginia, USA

Mathias Wilkin, age 45, male, , farmer, $2500 real estate, $850 personal property, born Virginia; Magdalene Wilkin, age 47, female, , born Virginia; Harriet Wilkin, age 19, female, , born Virginia, attended school; Dorothy Wilkin, age 18, female, , born Virginia, attended school; Elizabeth Wilkin, age 15, female, , born Virginia, attended school; Harrison Wilkin, age 12, male, , born Virginia, attended school; Felix Wilkin, age 9, male, , born Virginia, attended school; Lionel Wilkin, age 4, male, , born Virginia, attended school;^[4]

He married(2) Dorothy Shireman 8 March 1866 in Hardy Co., West Virginia.^[5]

1870 census -- Lost River, Hardy Co., West Virginia, USA

Mathias Wilkins, age 55, male, white, farmer, $2500 real estate, $1000 personal property, born Virginia; Dortha C Wilkins, age 21, female, white, keeping house, born Virginia; Harrison Wilkins, age 21, male, white, carpenter, born Virginia; Lioen Wilkins, age 16, male, white, born Virginia, farm laborer, attended school, cannot write; Sallie Wilkins, age 5, female, white, born West Virginia; Julia Wilkins, age 3, female, white, born West Virginia; Solomon S Wilkins, age 9/12 (Sept), white, male, born West Virginia;^[6]

1880 census -- Lost River, Hardy Co., West Virginia, USA

Mathias Wilkin, white, male, age 65, married, farmer, born Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; DC Wilkin, white, female, age 31, wife, married, keeping house, pregnant, born Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Solomon S Wilkin, white, male, age 11, son, single, works on farm, attended school, cannot read/write, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; OJ Wilkin, white, male, age 8, son, single, attended school, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Wheeler D Wilkin, white, male, age 7, son, single, attended school, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Mary C Wilkin, white, female, age 5, daughter, single, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Cora S Wilkin, white, female, age 3, daughter, single, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Anne E Walker, servant, white, female, age 18, single, servant, attended school, born West Virginia, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia^[7]

According to his gravestone, he died in January 1886 in Lost River, West Virginia. He is buried in Wilkins Cemetery in Lost River, West Virginia,^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLY-WCX : accessed 20 June 2021), Joseph Wilkens, Hardy, Virginia, United States; citing p. 1196, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 137; FHL microfilm 193,696.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHB9-9G5 : 2 March 2021), Matthias Wilkins, Hardy, Kay, Oklahoma, United States; citing p. 112, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8D7-26B : 12 April 2016), Matthias Wilkin, Hardy county, part of, Hardy, Virginia, United States; citing family 490, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M41H-HCB : 18 February 2021), Mathias Wilkins, 1860.
5. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FTQW-CBM : 11 February 2018), Matthais Wilkins and Dorothy C. Sheriman, 08 Mar 1866; citing Hardy, West Virginia, 101, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 815,361.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ4V-Y7V : 29 May 2021), Matthias Wilkins, 1870.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RL-RDW : 20 February 2021), Mathias Wilkin, Lost River, Hardy, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 37, sheet 94C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,403.
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/45820535/mathias-wilkins : accessed 02 July 2021), memorial page for Mathias Wilkins (7 May 1816–1 Jun 1886), Find A Grave: Memorial #45820535, citing Wilkins Cemetery, Lost River, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Ruth (Wilson) Lowell (contributor 47305255) .