James Milton Akins was the son of Melvina Akins by Tollison Atkinson. He was born in 1826 in Morgan Co., Georgia. On 11 June 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, a case was brought before the court holding Tollison Atkins liable for a bastardy bond:
"State of Georgia )
Morgan County )
July 11th, 1833. In appearing to the court that the bastard child of Melvina Akins may become chargeable to the county in consequence of the failure of its reputed father, Tollison Atkinson, to maintain and support it in pursuance to his bond given this county bearing date of 23 November, 1826, on motion of counsel of Melvina Akins, it is ordained that this said bond be issued on for the benefit of the said bastard child, and that the clerk in the court of the same to E.A. Nesbit, Esqr. For that purpose retaining a copy."
On 9 April 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, James M. Akins' mother, Melvina, married her cousin, John Brownfield, who was himself the illegitimate son of Melvina's aunt, Rachel Akins. This marriage did not last long however, and on 20 January 1834 Melvina's father, William Akins Sr., went to court and obtained guardianship of his grandson, James Milton Akins, raising him as his adopted son. Several years later on 4 November 1841 in Calhoun Co., Alabama, Melvina remarried to David Lee Rankin, the son of her cousin Elizabeth Akins and Robert Caldwell Rankin of Morgan Co., Georgia. James M. Akins married David Lee Rankin's younger sister, Lucinda Rankin, in 1850.
During the Civil War James M. Akins served as a Private in Company I, 19th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army. He appears to have been captured twice: First, either at or shortly after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and was exchanged in November 1862; second, at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863. He was transferred from Nashville Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Rock Island Illinois, on 8 December 1863. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for frontier service on 13 October 1864 at Rock Island Barracks, Rock Island, Illinois.
Sources: Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Alabama, NARA, M374 and "Confederate Graves Registry," Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org
"State of Georgia )
Morgan County )
July 11th, 1833. In appearing to the court that the bastard child of Melvina Akins may become chargeable to the county in consequence of the failure of its reputed father, Tollison Atkinson, to maintain and support it in pursuance to his bond given this county bearing date of 23 November, 1826, on motion of counsel of Melvina Akins, it is ordained that this said bond be issued on for the benefit of the said bastard child, and that the clerk in the court of the same to E.A. Nesbit, Esqr. For that purpose retaining a copy."
On 9 April 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, James M. Akins' mother, Melvina, married her cousin, John Brownfield, who was himself the illegitimate son of Melvina's aunt, Rachel Akins. This marriage did not last long however, and on 20 January 1834 Melvina's father, William Akins Sr., went to court and obtained guardianship of his grandson, James Milton Akins, raising him as his adopted son. Several years later on 4 November 1841 in Calhoun Co., Alabama, Melvina remarried to David Lee Rankin, the son of her cousin Elizabeth Akins and Robert Caldwell Rankin of Morgan Co., Georgia. James M. Akins married David Lee Rankin's younger sister, Lucinda Rankin, in 1850.
During the Civil War James M. Akins served as a Private in Company I, 19th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army. He appears to have been captured twice: First, either at or shortly after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and was exchanged in November 1862; second, at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863. He was transferred from Nashville Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Rock Island Illinois, on 8 December 1863. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for frontier service on 13 October 1864 at Rock Island Barracks, Rock Island, Illinois.
Sources: Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Alabama, NARA, M374 and "Confederate Graves Registry," Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org
James Milton Akins was the son of Melvina Akins by Tollison Atkinson. He was born in 1826 in Morgan Co., Georgia. On 11 June 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, a case was brought before the court holding Tollison Atkins liable for a bastardy bond:
"State of Georgia )
Morgan County )
July 11th, 1833. In appearing to the court that the bastard child of Melvina Akins may become chargeable to the county in consequence of the failure of its reputed father, Tollison Atkinson, to maintain and support it in pursuance to his bond given this county bearing date of 23 November, 1826, on motion of counsel of Melvina Akins, it is ordained that this said bond be issued on for the benefit of the said bastard child, and that the clerk in the court of the same to E.A. Nesbit, Esqr. For that purpose retaining a copy."
On 9 April 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, James M. Akins' mother, Melvina, married her cousin, John Brownfield, who was himself the illegitimate son of Melvina's aunt, Rachel Akins. This marriage did not last long however, and on 20 January 1834 Melvina's father, William Akins Sr., went to court and obtained guardianship of his grandson, James Milton Akins, raising him as his adopted son. Several years later on 4 November 1841 in Calhoun Co., Alabama, Melvina remarried to David Lee Rankin, the son of her cousin Elizabeth Akins and Robert Caldwell Rankin of Morgan Co., Georgia. James M. Akins married David Lee Rankin's younger sister, Lucinda Rankin, in 1850.
During the Civil War James M. Akins served as a Private in Company I, 19th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army. He appears to have been captured twice: First, either at or shortly after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and was exchanged in November 1862; second, at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863. He was transferred from Nashville Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Rock Island Illinois, on 8 December 1863. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for frontier service on 13 October 1864 at Rock Island Barracks, Rock Island, Illinois.
Sources: Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Alabama, NARA, M374 and "Confederate Graves Registry," Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org
"State of Georgia )
Morgan County )
July 11th, 1833. In appearing to the court that the bastard child of Melvina Akins may become chargeable to the county in consequence of the failure of its reputed father, Tollison Atkinson, to maintain and support it in pursuance to his bond given this county bearing date of 23 November, 1826, on motion of counsel of Melvina Akins, it is ordained that this said bond be issued on for the benefit of the said bastard child, and that the clerk in the court of the same to E.A. Nesbit, Esqr. For that purpose retaining a copy."
On 9 April 1833 in Morgan Co., Georgia, James M. Akins' mother, Melvina, married her cousin, John Brownfield, who was himself the illegitimate son of Melvina's aunt, Rachel Akins. This marriage did not last long however, and on 20 January 1834 Melvina's father, William Akins Sr., went to court and obtained guardianship of his grandson, James Milton Akins, raising him as his adopted son. Several years later on 4 November 1841 in Calhoun Co., Alabama, Melvina remarried to David Lee Rankin, the son of her cousin Elizabeth Akins and Robert Caldwell Rankin of Morgan Co., Georgia. James M. Akins married David Lee Rankin's younger sister, Lucinda Rankin, in 1850.
During the Civil War James M. Akins served as a Private in Company I, 19th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army. He appears to have been captured twice: First, either at or shortly after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and was exchanged in November 1862; second, at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863. He was transferred from Nashville Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Rock Island Illinois, on 8 December 1863. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for frontier service on 13 October 1864 at Rock Island Barracks, Rock Island, Illinois.
Sources: Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Alabama, NARA, M374 and "Confederate Graves Registry," Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org
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A Confederate veteran's military monument was placed in Carmel Cemetery, Cherokee Co., Alabama, in the 1990s for James M. Akins alongside the graves of his Akins relatives but he is buried in Jackson Co., Arkansas, where he moved after 1866.
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