Asa Wilkinson
David Ginnings Wilkinson
David Nathaniel Wilkinson

Asa and Elizabeth Dykes Wilkinson

FATHER
Name: Asa Wilkinson
Birth Date/ Place: abt 1805/ South Carolina
First Spouse's Name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Dykes
Marriage Date/ Place: 09 Dec 1827
Second Spouse's Name: Sarah Grimes
Marriage Date/ Place: by 1871
Occupation/ Military Service: Primitive Baptist Preacher & Farmer; CSA soldier
Death Date/ Place: abt 1871-1872/ near Old Texas, AL
Father's Father(Name and Birthdate): possibly Archibald Wilkinson of Pike Co., AL or John Wilkinson of Barnwell Co., SC
Click this link to see a descendancy report on the children of ? Wilkinson, the father of Asa, Samuel, Greenberry, and Martha

MOTHER
Name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Dykes
Birth Date/Place:abt 1814
Death Date/Place: near Old Texas, AL
Mother's Father (Name and Birthdate): Nathaniel Dykes
Mother's Mother (Name and Birthdate): Temperence Jeter

CHILD 1
Name: Martha Ann Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 22 December 1828
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CHILD 2
Name: Jonathan Pinkney Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 17 February 1831
Spouse's Name: Cora Snowden
Marriage Date/Place: 10 Nov 1880
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CHILD 3
Name: Nancy Matilda Wilkinson 1-16-1830
Birth Date/Place: 16 January 1830
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CHILD 4
Name: David Ginnings Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 21 April 1836
Spouse's Name: Sarah Haseltine Byrd
Marriage Date/Place: 14 Jan 1855
Death Date/ Place:18 Nov 1911

CHILD 5
Name: John Daniel Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 6 October 1840
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CHILD 6
Name: James Madison Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 6 December 1842
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CHILD 7
Name: Mary Ann Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 6 April 1845
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CHILD 8
Name: Henry A Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 27 February 1848
Spouse's Name: Jincy J Feaster
Marriage Date/Place: 27 August 1865
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CHILD 9
Name: Temperence E. Wilkinson [called Elizabeth on the 1860 census]
Birth Date/Place: 13 December 1850
Spouse's Name: George W. Pugh
Marriage Date/Place: 14 Nov 1868
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Notes: Asa's known siblings:
Click this link to see a descendancy report on the children of ? Wilkinson, the father of Asa, Samuel, Greenberry, and Martha

1. Greenberry Wilkinson born Abt. 1814, lived in SC - CSA-; died . Bef. 05 Oct 1845, Barbour Co., AL. He married Lavina (or Luvina) Dykes

2. Martha Wilkinson born between 1814-1815 died 20 June 1895, Louisville, Barbour Co, AL. She married Wallace Tew about 1828 and had 13 children.

3. Samuel Wilkinson born 11 Sept 1816 in South Carolina, died November 1912; he is buried in Wilkinson Cemetery in Barbour Co, AL. He married Elmira Tew about 1836 and had 8 children.

Notes on Asa Wilkinson
Asa appears with his son, David G. Wilkinson, on an 1864 muster roll for Captain S. H. Dailey's Company, 1^st Class Militia Home Guard (Composed of beats no. 5, 11, & 12 Monroe Co, AL) Asa mustered in with a gun, David G. without.

Written 06 December 1953:

The name of Wilkinson is likely of Saxon origin. In History the name is noticed as early as the fifth century among the Nomads [should be Normans] of Normandy. The name was associated With Charlemagne whose armies roamed the open plains of Europe many years later. The Wilkinsons were still on the move in 1066 when William the Conqueror marched into the British Isles and took over the Angles. Throughout the history of Great Britain, the name is mentioned here and there. When General Wellington met Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815 at least one officer under the British flat was named Wilkinson. During the American Revolutionary War in 1776, General Washington had men of that name fighting under him.

It would be my guess that our branch of the family tree trickled into the Western World about the year 1650, thirty years behind the first Pilgrims/ I have good reason to believe they settled in Pennsylvania, and that at least some of them were of the Quaker Faith. The cold climate of the North, plus the love of independence drove some Wilkinsons farther south. Following the frontier which moved south and west, some of the clan drifted into what is now the Carolinas. There in South Carolina we meet Asa Wilkinson. In the past hundred and fifty years, Asa's descendants have multiplied to a staggering figure. Both living and dead, the number runs into many thousands. That's a lot of kin.

This is the record of the Asa Wilkinson clan beginning around 1800. The record was copied from the family Bible of my uncle, Levi Wilkinson [grandson of Asa Wilkinson] who was born, Nov 4, 1879, and at the age of 74 is living in Frisco City, Alabama. Uncle Levi Wilkinson was a member of a family of eleven children of which one was my father, David Nathaniel Wilkinson. From that recording besides Uncle Levi, there is only one of the eleven children living, who is Uncle Jerry Walter Wilkinson, age 87, born March 12, 1866, and now residing in Alabama, some forty miles distant from Uncle Levi.

For this record, we all be forever indebted to Uncle Levi, since he and I seem to be the only two of the entire clan who have any interest in such matters.

Signed Arthur Francisco Wilkinson

This twelfth month and sixth day, nineteen hundred and fifty three AD

[Copied from the Bible: Note parts in parenthesis ( )were added by Arthur F. Wilkinson; notes in brackets [ ] added by Kendrick Harmon.]

Asa Wilkinson was born in South Carolina about 1805 (the first name of the parents are unknown). In 1825, while still single, he located in Barbour County, Alabama.

ASA WILKINSON AND BETSY DYKES: On December 9, 1827, Asa Wilkinson married Betsy Dykes (an Ala. girl) and settled in Alabama. From this union were born nine children. One of whom was my father David Ginnings Wilkinson, fourth child born April 21, 1836 (which incidentally, is the date of the Battle of San Jacinto, when the Republic of Texas won its independence from Mexico).

From this union nine children were born:
Martha Ann Wilkinson 12-22-1828
Jonathan Pinkney Wilkinson 2-17-1831
Nancy Matilda Wilkinson 1-16-1830
David Ginnings Wilkinson 4-21-1836
John Daniel Wilkinson 10-6-1840
James Madison Wilkinson 12-6-1842
Mary Ann Wilkinson 4-6-1845
Henry A. Wilkinson 2-27-1848
Tempins S. Wilkinson 12-13-1850 [called Elizabeth on the 1860 census]
[1860 census also shows a daughter/granddaughter? named Francis born 1855? ]

DAVID GINNINGS WILKINSON AND SARAH H BYRD: On January 14 1855, David Ginnings Wilkinson (my grandfather) married Sarah H. Byrd, daughter of Mose Byrd (born January 9, 1838).

From this union were born eleven children:
John Elbert Wilkinson 12-22-1855
James Pinkney Wilkinson 9-2?-1857
[Elizabeth born 1858, see 1860 census, is not listed in the Bible]
Sarah Ann Wilkinson 4-13-1861
David Nathaniel Wilkinson 11-16-1862
Jerry Walter Wilkinson 3-12-1866
Martha Elizabeth Wilkinson 1-31-1868
Moses Lafayette Wilkinson 7-7-1869
Elmira Elora Wilkinson 2-13-1873
Ida Laurence Wilkinson 11-13-1874
Mary Angeline Wilkinson 3-31-1877
Levi Asa Wilkinson 11-4-1879 [Arthur's Uncle to whom the Bible belonged]

Grandfather David and wife settled on a farm near Pineapple, Alabama. [a community named Old Texas] He became a Hardshell Baptist Preacher and at the age of seventy-five, in 1911, he fell dead from a heart attack while preaching from the pulpit.

My father, David Nathaniel Wilkinson, fourth child of the third generation herein mentioned was born during the Civil War.

DAVID NATHANIEL WILKINSON and DORA FRANCISCO MIDDLETON

In 1863 [actually 1883] David Nathaniel Wilkinson married Dora Francisco Middleton. This couple settled on a farm near Pineapple, Alabama. In 1890 they moved to Sabine Parish, Louisiana near the town of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. In 1910 they [David & second wife and family] moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas. David Nathaniel was a dirt farmer and a Deacon in the Missionary Baptist church. In 1899 at the age of thirty three, my mother, Dora, died from blood poisoning set in from miscarriage.

DAVID NATHANIEL WILKINSON and SADIE PHILLIPS:

In 1900 my father married Sadie Phillips of Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It is notable that my father was married to each wife a little more than sixteen years. During each marriage there were six children- three girls and three boys to each set. Of the twelve children to this date, 1953, all are living except one, Viola (feb.20,1890-1934). The eldest of the twelve children is now sixty nine: the baby girl, Dora, is 40 years old.

[end of records by Arthur F. Wilkinson]

There was another Asa Wilkinson in Butler Co, Alabama, grandson of Micaijah Wilkinson of Amite Co., MS. He married Rebecca Fleming, had a daughter named Tempy and a son named David. The widow, Rebecca Fleming Wilkinson married Dr Garrett. Her daughter Tempy married the son of Dr Garrett. Her son David was born in 1840; consequently, he is too young to be the husband of Elizabeth Dykes (married in 1855). Also there is substantial evidence that Asa married Sarah Grimes after Betsy's death. For both Asa and Rebecca to remarry, they would have to be divorced AND he was a Primitive Baptist Preacher. The Asa of Amite Co, Mississippi was the son of Asa, Sr. born in 1795 (well documented date), who would have been 10 when our Asa was born. Though a book, published in 1953, ties our Asa Wilkinson to the Amite County clan, I believe the evidence is overwhelmingly against such an assumption. I believe there were two Asa Wilkinsons living in Alabama in the middle 1800s.

Asa Wilkinson moved to Monroe Co, AL around 1852-53

1860 Census, Burnt Corn, Monroe Co., AL Page 84b & 85 enumerated 1 September 1860.

1870 Census, Beat No 11, Monroe Co., AL Page 572 enumerated 17 August 1870

David G. and Sarah Haseltine Byrd Wilkinson

FATHER
Name: David Ginnings Wilkinson
Birth Date/ Place: 21 April 1836/ Clopton, Dale Co[on the border], GA
Marriage Date/ Place: 14 Jan 1855
Occupation/ Military Service: Farmer and CSA soldier
Death Date/ Place:18 Nov 1911
Father's Father's Name: Asa Wilkinson
Father's Mother's Name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Dykes

MOTHER
Name: Sarah Haseltine Byrd
Birth Date/Place: 9 January 1839
Death Date/Place: 28 December 1908
Mother's Father (Name and Birthdate): Moses Byrd
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CHILD 1
Name: John Elbert Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 22 December 1855
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CHILD 2
Name: James Pinkney Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 2? September 1857
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CHILD 3
Name: [Elizabeth see 1860 census, is not listed in the Bible]
Birth Date/Place: approximately 1858
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Death Date/Place: Probably died as a child

CHILD 4
Name: Sarah Ann Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 13 April 1861
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CHILD 5
Name: David Nathaniel Wilkinson
Birth Date/ Place: 16 November 1862
First Spouse: Dora Francisco Middleton
Marriage Date/ Place: 1883
Second Spouse: Sarah Ann Phillips
Second Marriage Date: 15 April 1900
Death Date/ Place: 24 October 1917

CHILD 6
Name: Jerry Walter Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 12 March 1866
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CHILD 7
Name: Martha Elizabeth Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 31 January 1868
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CHILD 8
Name: Moses Lafayette Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 7 July 1869
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CHILD 9
Name: Elmira Elora Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 13 February 1873
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CHILD 10
Name: Ida Laurence Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 13 November 1874
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CHILD 11
Name: Mary Angeline Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 31 Mar 1877
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CHILD 12
Name: Levi Asa Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 4 November 1879
Spouse's Name: Daisie Carilla Walters
Marriage Date/Place: 23 January 1901 in Monroe Co., AL
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Notes:

Two days after his nineteenth birthday, David Ginnings married Sarah Byrd. He appears with his father, Asa Wilkinson, on an 1864 muster roll for Captain S. H. Dailey's Company, 1^st Class Militia Home Guard (Composed of beats no. 5, 11, & 12 Monroe Co, AL) Asa mustered in with a gun, David G. without; David N. would have been 2 years old at the time. He became a Hardshell Baptist preacher and at the age of 75, in 1911, died from a heart attack while preaching in the pulpit.

Marriage record:
Wilkinson, David G. Byrd, Sarah 1855, Jan 16
Wilkinson Asa Feagin, NP, T.E. At home of Moses Byrd.

This means David G Wilkinson married Sarah Byrd on 16 Jan. 1855. Asa Wilkinson signed as security, and Notary Public, T.E. Feagin performed the ceremony in the home of Moses Byrd.

1860 Census, Burnt Corn, Monroe Co., AL Page 85a enumerated 1 September 1860.

1870 Census, Beat No 11, Monroe Co., AL Page 572 enumerated 17 August 1870

1880 Census Old Texas, Beat No 11, Monroe Co., AL Page 16 enumerated 11 June 1880

David Nathaniel and Sarah Ann Phillips Wilkinson

FATHER
Name: David Nathaniel Wilkinson
Birth Date/ Place: 16 November 1862/ Old Texas, Monroe Co, OR Pineapple, Wilcox Co, AL
First Spouse: Dora Francisco Middleton
Marriage Date/ Place: 13 March 1883
Second Spouse: Sarah Ann Phillips
Second Marriage Date: 15 April 1900
Occupation/ Military Service: Farmer, Operated a peanut thrasher, Deacon in Melrose Baptist Church
Death Date/ Place: Wed, 24 Oct 1917/ Melrose, Nacogdoches Co, TX
Burial Place: Melrose Baptist Church Cemetery, Melrose, Nacogdoches Co, TX
Father's Father's Name: David Ginnings Wilkinson
Father's Mother's Name: Sarah Haseltine Byrd

MOTHER
Name: Sarah Ann Phillips
Birth Date/Place: 15 August 1868 in Rankin Co., Mississippi
Death Date/Place: 13 May 1940 in Nacogdoches Co., TX
Mother's Father (Name and Birthdate): Alfred Phillips
Mother's Mother (Name and Birthdate): Rebecca Ross

CHILD 1
Name: Stephen Lafayette Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 6 October 1884 in Alabama
Spouse's Name: Georgia McPherson
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Death Date/Place: 19 February 1975

CHILD 2
Name: Lorena Adrena Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 8 July 1887 in Alabama
Spouse's Name: Clarence Edgar Dyes
Marriage Date/Place: 4 December 1903
Death Date/Place: 20 January 1973

CHILD 3
Name: Viola Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 20 February 1890
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Death Date/Place: 10 June 1934

CHILD 4
Name: David Cleveland Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 3 September 1892 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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Death Date/Place: 1 November 1956

CHILD 5
Name: Ida Francis Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 26 February 1895 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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CHILD 6
Name: Arthur Francisco Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 24 February 1898 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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Death Date/Place: 8 July 1960

CHILD 7
Name: Margie Lee Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 29 October 1901 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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CHILD 8
Name: Marvin Nathaniel Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 22 March 1903 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
Spouse's Name: Grace Clementine Hill
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Death Date/Place: 1988

CHILD 9
Name: Lora Estelle Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 15 July 1904 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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CHILD 10
Name: Willie Elbert Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 21 February 1906 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana
Spouse's Name: Esther Garrett
Marriage Date/Place: 22 November 1924
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CHILD 11
Name: Alton Ellis Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 23 March 1911 Shady Grove, Nacogdoches Co., TX
Spouse's Name: Lucy Vivian Price
Marriage Date/Place: 28 July 1927 in San Augustine, TX
Death Date/Place: 5 June 2001

CHILD 12
Name: Dora Rebecca Wilkinson
Birth Date/Place: 11 November 1913
Spouse's Name: Jesse Bryant Holt
Marriage Date/Place: June 1927 in Nacogdoches Co., TX
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Notes: David Nathaniel Wilkinson grew up in Old Texas, Alabama. His father was a Hardshell Baptist Minister and a veteran of the Civil War. In 1883 David Nathaniel Wilkinson married Dora Francisco Middleton and settled on a farm near Pineapple, AL. In 1890 they moved to Sabine Parish, LA near the town of Pleasant Hill. David and Dora had 6 children: Stephen Lafayette, Lorena Adrena, Viola, David Cleveland, Ida Francis (Fanny) and Arthur Francisco. In 1899 Dora died from blood poisoning set in from a miscarriage. In 1901 David Nathaniel married Sadie, Sarah Ann Phillips. David and Sadie had 6 children: Margie Lee, Marvin Nathaniel, Lora Estelle, Willie Elbert, Alton Ellis, and Dora Rebecca. In 1910 David and Sarah moved to Melrose in Nacogdoches Co, TX. In 1917, David Nathaniel Wilkinson died in an accident, the details are given in the newspaper story on the next page. He was a Deacon at Melrose Baptist Church.

David Nathaniel's daughter, Dora later told her daughter about it; though she was only 3 at the time, she remembered someone coming to the house to get her mother (Sadie) and they took a shortcut across a field and creek, he had been brought up to the house, (very close to where it happened) and was lying on the porch. According to her, the team of mules were very young and were inexperienced with a machine that rattled. The family had begged him not to do it because of the danger, but he would not listen

1910 Census Sabine Parish, LA Ward 7, SD 6, ED 109, sheet 15 B

1920 Census Nacogdoches Co, TX Justice Princint 3, page 2B Enumerated January 5-6, 1920

1930 Census Nacogdoches Co, TX Justice Princint 3, page 16B-17A

Marvin Nathaniel Wilkinson

Birth Date/ Place: March 22, 1903 in Pleasant Hill,LA
Father's Name:David Nathaniel Wilkinson
Mother's Name: Sarah Ann Phillips Wilkinson
Spouse's Name: Grace Clementine Hill Wilkinson
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Known Medical History:
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Death Date/ Place: March 22,1988
Burial Place: Woden, Nachadoches Co., TX

Notes: 3 of 4 Children still living