James W. Wilkins

Birth Date

1801-11-15

Death Date

1885-02-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant. South Carolina native. Married to Eliza W. Wilkins. Father of Samuel M. Wilkins, Edward Wilkins, and Eliza W. Wilkins. Merchant in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Hopkins County commissioner of the common schools in 1853, 1859, and 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 246.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 26.
"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1859," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 182.
"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1854," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1855), 55.
"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year Ending December 31, 1861," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 131.
Find A Grave, "James W. Wilkins (November 15, 1801-February 28, 1885)," Memorial #59860797, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59860797 (accessed on March 20, 2017).

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