Re: Elkins Family from Cannon Co., TN
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Re: Elkins Family from Cannon Co., TN
Diane Lowe 4/29/03
Nancy J. Elkins born 1865 to Murphy Gabriel Elkins looks like the only candidate I find for John L. Prater's wife. However, there could be some confusion. Nancy's father was the Murphy Gabriel Elkins born 1835 to William & Salina Elkins. If he is, as he appears to be, John L. Prater's father-in-law, he would be the second Murphy Gabriel Elkins in John's immediate family. Another Murphy Gabriel Elkins was born 1848 to Edmund S. and Paralee (Estes) Elkins. As the brother of Louisa/Eliza (they were pronounced alike then and sometimes get recorded as one name in one census or record and the other in a different record) J. (Elkins) Prater, he was John L. Prater's uncle. These two Murphy Gabriel Elkins' and Louisa/Eliza J. (Elkins) Prater were almost surely first cousins as William and Edmund are assumed to be among the extensive and confusing list of offspring of Gabriel Elkins. Among the brothers of William and Edmund was Murphy Gabriel Elkins born 1814.
My personal connection to the Prater/Elkins family is complicated. Mary L. E. (I believe the initials stand for Louisa Elizabeth, since she was known in the family as Eliza and her firstborn was named Louisa) Prater was the first wife of my great grandfather, Hugh B. Phillips. Mary was born in 1842 to Nathan L. Woods and Kessiah Prater. As Nathan and Kessiah did not marry until 1844, Mary married under the name of Prater, although censuses show her as a Woods. Kessiah Prater was a sister of Moses Prater. Hugh B. Phillips' second wife, my ancestor, was Mary Belle Fowler, daughter of Jacob B. & Martha Virginia (Elkins) Fowler and granddaughter of Thomas Elkins 1803 - 1864, brother of Edmund and William and Murphy Gabriel Elkins and more than a dozen others.
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