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Notes for Samuel Richard DANIELS

When Samuel Richard DANIELS left his wife Louisa MAY, he took his three children with him to be brought up by his second wife, Elizabeth ADKINS. [55]

Family notes for Samuel Richard DANIELS and Louisa MAY

Daniels, p.138.

When Samuel Richard DANIELS left his wife Louisa MAY, he took his three children with him to be brought up by his second wife, Elizabeth ADKINS. [55]

Notes for Elizabeth ADKINS

After separating from her husband Samuel DANIELS, Elizabeth moved her family to Letcher County KY in 1889 to be near her brother, Peter. She lived there about 10 years before moving back to Pike County KY. She lived on the farm of Peter ADKINS, until she bought a small farm in 1898. She sold this farm in 1899 and moved back to Pike County in the same year.

I do not know a great deal about my grandmother, Elizabeth, other than what has been related to me by my parents. She died in 1922, in the year I was born.

Elizabeth was not a real attractive woman, and as my grandfather Sam said, "she was not a good looking woman, but a very good one." Sam and Elizabeth separated before my father was born and he was raised by Elizabeth along with several other children. Apparently, all had a very hard life.

Elizabeth was a very religious woman and quite outspoken and well educated for a woman in the time period she lived. She hated Abraham Lincoln with a passion, blaming him for the war that resulted in the deaths of three of her brothers. She was very strict on her children and was very liberal in her administration of punishment. My father, Peter, grew up in this atmosphere and was even more critical and abusive than his mother, Elizabeth.

He told me that when he was a very young man, he became obsessed with the desire to "pick the banjo" or "banger" as he called it. In spite of his continuous requests to his mother to get him a banjo, she always denied his requests with the statement that "she never knew or heard of a banjo picker that had a full corn crib".

In addition to her own children, Elizabeth helped or did raise three other children that Samuel had fathered by his first wife, Louisa MAY, prior to his marriage to her. We will include these in the list of her children , as she practically raised them. Elizabeth is buried in the Winright Adkins Cemetery at Winright KY, along with her father, brothers and children. [55]

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