John Akins Family - Family Histories

      John Akins married Iduma Elizabeth Jane Lawrey in Carroll County, Tennessee. They had six children:

     (1) Jacob (Jake);

     (2) Josephus, May 12. 1882, married (1) Hettie Crocker. One son, John, born November 20, 1906, married Annie Lee Baker, lived in Trezevant. When John was five months old, Hettie died. Josephus married (2) Edna Belle Fields, born February 12, 1881, the daughter of Elizabeth Acres (buried in Peora, Texas) and Irvin Washington Fields, on October 4, 1907 in Trezevant, Carroll County, Tennessee. They had four children, all born in Trezevant in a log cabin. In 1925, the family moved to Melvin, Texas, then to Waldrop where the children. attended school at Waldrop, Lohn and Santa Anna. They are:

       (2a) Nora, July 5, 1909, married Sheeley Cavin and they lived in and around Fort Worth until Sheeley was killed in an automobile accident, December 23, 1967, enroute to his nephew's wedding in Coleman.

       (2b) J. C., September 28, 1913-January 17, 1982 of a heart attack. He lived all of his life in Melvin.

       (2c) Wink, April 19, 1916, married Ruth Leady of Santa Anna, the daughter of Frank and Ethel Louise (Mauldin) Leady (see Thomas M. Coleman), lived in Melvin.

       (2d) Dorothy Louise, April 25, 1918, gradated From Santa Anna High School and married Jack Pershing Dillingham, November 18, 1938 (see Jack Dillingham). Dorothy helped Jack with farming and ranching until she took a job with a grocery store in Santa Anna. She also sold hamburgers across the street from the high school in Santa Anna and drove a school bus. Then she took a position with the Santa Anna National Bank, where she continues to work.

     (3) Sammie;

     (4) Elbert;

     (5) Franklin;

     (6) William Fair.

     Edna Belle had two brothers. Frank and Marvin Fields. After her mother's death, her father returned to Carroll County and later married Elnora Brown, a sister of Clint Brown, who lived near Brownwood.