Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:18:10 To: Leadingham Paul From: Melissa Miller <mhmiller@bright.net> Subject: ELIZABETH ADKINS DARRELL: THIS WAS A PART OF AN ARTICLE THAT I SENT TO PAUL LEADINGHAM---I TRIED TO POST IT AGAIN BUT I JUST CAN'T GET IT TO WORK. IF YOU THINK THAT IT WILL BE OF ANY INTEREST TO ANYONE---PLEASE POST IT FOR ME. THERE IS A LOT MORE ON THE ADKINS FAMILY, ALL THE WAY BACK TO ENGLAND AND 1530. I'VE ALREADY TYPED IT FOR PAUL BUT IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE IT, I WOULD BE GLAD TO SEND IT TO THEM OR HAVE SOMEONE POST IT. MELISSA THE DAUGHTER OF ISAAC AND POLLY LUSK ADKINS: ELIZABETH ADKINS WAS BORN ON 19 NOV. 1825 IN TAZWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ISAAC AND POLLY LUSK ADKINS. AS A YOUNG CHILD OF 10 YEARS ELIZABETH WOULD MIGRATE ALONG WITH HER PARENTS INTO THE CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY AREA, SETTLING IN GRANT, KENTUCKY AN AREA OFF OF WILLIAMS CREEK IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. LIVING NEAR THEM ON WILLIAMS CREEK ROAD WAS THE FAMILY OF THOMAS SEXTON GALLION, WHOSE SON, JONATHAN, WOULD MEET ELIZABETH AND FALL IN LOVE. THERE IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY ELIZABETH WOULD MARRY ON 5 OCT. 1843 TO JONATHAN GALLION. JONATHAN GALLION WAS BORN ON 25 OCT. 1822 ON LICKING RIVER, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, BEING A SON OF THOMAS SEXTON GALLION AND RUTH WATSON (JONATHON'S FATHER, THOMAS GALLION, WAS IN REALITY NAMED THOMAS SEXTON, BUT WAS USING THE ALIAS NAME OF GALLION WHEN JONATHAN WA BORN, LEAGALLY CHANGED NAME FROM SEXTON TO GALLION IN 1845 THE SEXTON BLOODLINE IS OF IRISH DESCENT. JONATHAN MIGRATED TO CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY WITH HIS PARENTS AND FAMILY BY 1840 AND SETTLED ON WILLIAMS CREEK ROAD, ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF GRAYSON, KENTUCKY. JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH ADKINS GALLION BEGAN THEIR FAMILY LIVING ON THE CROSSROADS OF WILLIAMS CREEK AND STRAIGHT CREEK ROAD IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. DURING 1860 AND 1868 JONATHAN WAS APPOINTED ROAD SUPERINTENDENT FOR WILLIAMS CREEK ROAD, HE ACTUALLY BUILT AND HELPED TO MAINTAIN THIS ROAD. ELIZABETH AND JONATHAN HAD ELEVEN CHILDREN ALL BORN ON WILLIAMS CREEK ROAD THERE IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THEY WERE: 1. WILLIAM "BILLY" GALLION BORN 24 SEPT. 1844 DIED 19 JAN. 1917 MARRIED 27 AUG. 1869 ELIZABETH EASTHAM. 2. AMERICA "MERK" GALLION BORN 18 NOV. 1847 DIED 16 FEB. 1920 MARRIED DANIEL HOLLINGSWORTH. 3. MARY "DUNG" GALLION BORN 30 APRIL 1852 4. THOMAS "TOM" GALLION BORN 27 APRIL 1855 MARRIED FIRST JANE MAYS; AND SECOND RENE ISOM AND THIRD DRUSA GILLIAM. 5. RUTHA "RUTH" GALLION BORN 24 MARCH 1856 DIED 1 MARCH 1878 MARRIED JOHN PENNINGTON. 6. HENRY GALLION BORN 1859 AND DIED 15 APRIL 1861. 7. CAS GALLION BORN 1858 MARRIED RENA WILLIAMS. 8. JOHN GALLION BORN 1859 DIED AFTER 1899; MARRIED ANNIE GALLION BORN 1860 DIED 8 JULY 1888 MARRIED JOHN HAMMONDS. 9. ALFRED GALLION BORN 1865; DIED 3 JAN. 1926 MARRIED LOUISE ADKINS. 10. ANDY GALLION BORN 1869; DIED 2 JULY 1935 MARRIED FERBY JOHNSON WHEN ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1869, JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH WOULD OBTAIN A LAND GRANT THERE ON ROCKHOUSE FORK ROAD IN WHAT IS NOW WEBBVILLE, KENTUCKY. JONATHAN WOULD SPEND TIME IN ELLIOTT COUNTY PREPARING THE LAND AND BUILDING A LOG CABIN (ON WOLF-PEN ROAD) DURING THE 1870'S. ON 16 APRIL 1872 JOHATHAN GALLION WOULD PURCHASE 223 ACRES OF LAND ON WOLF-PEN ROAD (JUST 2 MILES FROM ROCKHOUSE FORK ROAD WHERE HE OWNED LAND FROM THE LAND GRANT) AND JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH ADKINS GALLION AND FAMILY WOULD RELOCATE THERE. JONATHAN OWNED OVER 400 ACRES OF LNAD WHICH ALL WAS LOCATED IN WEBBVILLE, ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JONATHAN WOULD RELOCATE ONLY A MILE DOWN WOLF-PEN ROAD TO IT'S END WHERE HE BUILT ANOTHER HOME. THIS LOCATION ON WOLF-PEN ROAD (NOW CALLED GALLION BRANCH ROAD) STILL BELONGS TO DESCENDANTS OF JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH'S. THE "CAS GALLION CEMETERY" (GALLION FAMILY CEMETERY) IS ALSO LOCATED NEAR THE HOMESITE. JONATHAN GALLION SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE CUTTING TIMBER FOR THE THEN E.K. RAILROAD, HE MADE RAILROAD TIES, HE WAS ALSO A FARMER. JONATHAN GALLION WOULD DIE ON 8 OCT. 1889 THERE IN WEBBVILLE, KENTUCKY AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH ADKINS, WOULD PASS AWAY IN 1904. TOGETHER THEY ARE BURIED IN THE CAS GALLION CEMETERY. -- Darrell Smith dsmith@mis.net