Born about in Raleigh, West Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Willis
and Sarah Plumley
Wife of
Parker Adkins
— married
5 Mar 1851 in Raleigh, Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth (Adkins) Smith and Cumberland Adkins
Died
at about age 63
in Union City, Lincoln, West Virginia, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jul 2015
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Biography
Mary Ann Willis Adkins was born in September, 1823. She was a daughter of James Willis and Sarah Plumley. She married as Parker Adkins' second wife on March 5, 1851 in Raleigh County, West Virginia. She was sixty years younger than her husband. I have been able to identify two children from this marriage; Elizabeth and Sarah Anne. Mary Ann became a widow about six years later.
Mary Anne was eligible for a widow's pension due to her husband's service in the War of 1812. Her pension application file is very large due to one of her lawyers was investigated and charged with fraud.
Mary Ann was living with her daughter and son-in-law Sarah Anne and Sylvester Plumley when she died on January 14, 1887. Sarah said that her mother had been ill when members of the family contracted measles and she showed symptoms of measles and died, so she thought, of the combined effects of both.
Sources
- Fold3.com War of 1812 Pension file for Mary Ann Willis Adkins widow of Parker Adkins
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~3.12%
Hope (Plumley) Heller
:
23andMe
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~1.56%
Birdie Adkins :
23andMe, GEDmatch m23400 [compare]
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~1.56%
~1.56%
Jeanette Perry :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Glenda Adkins :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Anonymous McComas :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Pattie (Breed) Plummer-Everett :
23andMe, GEDmatch GC2400098 [compare], yourDNAportal PAT81fe5c83
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JH9960318 [compare], Ancestry member maeverettsews
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Merry (Burgess) Hanning :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch H197904 [compare], Ancestry member MECEHANNING
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H197904 [compare]
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~0.78%
Jackie Eplin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PU1190697 [compare], Ancestry member eplind
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~0.78%
B Abshire :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch HZ9290839 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Sandy Lovejoy :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #446912
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I do not believe that it is a certificate of Mary's father but rather her brother Mathias. The wording indicates that because it states that Mary is a daughter of Sally Willis and if Matthies was truly her father it would be worded "my daughter" and not "the daughter of Sally Willis". It was common for another close relative to sign the document if the father had already passed which would also mean that Mary's father would have died "Before 9 Jan 1851". It also gives a nickname of "Sally" to Mary's mother.
edited by Pattie (Breed) Plummer-Everett