INELKHAR-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: #1 [INELKHAR-L] Re: WILKINSON surname [ckimes ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from INELKHAR-D, send a message to INELKHAR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:20:54 -0500 From: ckimes To: INELKHAR-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <37111236.FB61622F@mvillage.com> Subject: [INELKHAR-L] Re: WILKINSON surname, ca 1900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow! Didn't know the mention of the WILKINSON surname would reap this many replies; no wonder the name is seen frequently in relation to the locality. Felicia wrote: > > My g grandfather was Charles (Charlie) Wilkinson. While the family > lived in Koscuisko Co early on, at about the turn of the century they > moved to Elkhart and remained there. My g grandmother divorced him > sometime in the period of your inquiry. He was a nightwatchman. He > was b. 1863, d. 1938 in Los Angeles and is buried in Elkhart. What > I don't know is if he was ever remarried. My ggrandmother Frances Drake > Wilkinson Clark was though. > The Charles Wilkinson you mentioned seems a little old to be the right Charles, but it's possible Anna married someone 22 years older than she was! My Anna (Horein) Wilkinson was the youngest daughter born to Christian and Caroline Horein of Madison Twp; her birthdate - 10 October 1885. From family hearsay, she seems to have spent many of the latter years of her life alone; perhaps because her husband died much earlier or they were divorced. All that is known is what an elder relative remembers - visiting Anna in the 1940's; she remembers no man. Milt wrote: > > I find a fair number of Wilkinsons in the late 1800's in Elkhart Co., > but I don't find matches to your information. Specifically, I don't > find any record of marriage of Wilkinson and Horein or births of > children, etc. And, some what out of wack is the following which may be > relavent. In St. Joseph Co., Indiana the following death was recorded > at apparently too early a date to match: > > Wilkinson, Anna M., Female, Age 66, Died Dec 6, 1890, Born in Germany. > All I know of Charles and Anna (Horein) Wilkinson is that Anna was from Madison Twp, St. Joseph Co, IN and the couple spent the early years of their marriage away from this area. Family knowledge of the couple is limited to the fact they had a son and a daughter that were both still living when family history records were published in 1969. To date, I've not been able to find a marriage record, but "The Mishawaka Enterprise" ran an obit for Anna Wilkinson who died 29 October 1963 and the S.S. Death Index lists she died in Indiana. This matches the info our family has. Maybe with these details, someone will note a match! Thanks, Cindy Note: For those in St. Joseph and Kosciusko Co, we just started a discussion of the WILKINSON surname on the Elkhart Co email list; am sending a copy of this post to these lists since these folks also had connections to these counties. If anyone in any of these counties recognizes any of these folks, please contact Cindy Kimes at