Iola Ruth Wilkins

Notes:

Source: Ricki Wilkins, granddaughter

He went by multiple aliases:
* Jasper Daniel Wilkins
* J. Dan Wilkins
* John Dan Wilkins

He deserted his wife and children in 1922 in Chicago. Subsequently, the children became wards of the State of Illinois. The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society has been very helpful in detailing the events occurring to this family and the children. Most were put into foster homes and most remained in limited contact into their adulthood. Many, despite the hardships of the Great Depression, multiple foster homes or orphanages, rose above their humble beginnings and became productive, contributing members of society. There are several stories of several of these children overcoming these poor odds and becoming successful business people and/or parents.

Daniel Emerson Wilkins was reported to be living in or near Dekalb County, AL with another family in 1952 with a son, Douglas, who "was not an orphan". No further information is known to date.

Daniel married Jessie Boyles Nov 1909, Kansas City, MO. Jessie (daughter of John Boyles and Julia A. TATE) was born 24 Jun 1891, Cooper Co. MO; died 24 Sep 1976, Loveland, Larimer Co. CO. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Jessie Boyles
Age: 8
Birth Date: Jun 1891
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1900: Saline, Cooper, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Boyles
Father's Birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Name: Julia Boyles
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri

Notes:

His military service was in the " War between the States" (Civil War) from 1861 to June 14, 1865. He was in Company "F", Elliott's Regiment, Jackman's Brigade, Shelby's Division.

He was buried in a cemetery designated for Confederate Soldiers in Kirksville, MO on September 30, 1921. (This information comes from a Certified Copy of the Original Certificate of Death, Missouri State Board of Health).

He fought in the following battles: Paris, Boonville, Vera Cruce, Baterville, Brurswiek. He applied for admission to the Confederate Home of Missouri at Higginsville, MO sometime around 1907. His application states he had a "lame arm" and he suffered from Catarrh. (This information comes from his Application for Admission to the Confederate Home of Missouri, at Higginsville, MO, and other Confederate Home Records. Not sure of the spellings of the battles).

An Excerpt from W. F. Johnson's "History of Cooper County", 1919

The George B Harper Camp No. 714 United Veterans of the Confederacy was organized in the City of Boonville Aug. 17 1895 with the following roster of attending veterans:

Robert McCulloch, B F Bedwell, J L Campbell, A M George, F M Davis, J C Berry, Jan Halley, H. Allen, James Posell, E I Smith, J H B Street, T B Simmons, Amos O'Neal, R A KIrkbride, W E Toler, O F Arnold, W W Trent, J E Fairchild, J W Williams, Isaac Henry, J M Givens, A W McFarland, Eph Simmons, A L Zollinger, John M Boyles, J H Zollinger, R E Howlett, W H Eades, J A Howard, A G Dinwiddie, John Heplin, Dr. H H Miller.

CENSUS RECORDS

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: John Boyles
Age: 58
Birth Date: Mar 1842
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1900: Saline, Cooper, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Julia Boyles
Marriage Year: 1876
Years Married: 24
Father's Birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Household Members:
John Boyles 58
Julia Boyles 43
Stanly Boyles 15
Lesley Boyles 17
Owen Boyles 11
Jessie Boyles 8
Elonzo Boyles 5

John married Julia A. TATE. Julia (daughter of Jahiel Douglas TATE and Sarah Price) was born 13 May 1857, Sherrill, Texas Co. MO; died 31 Jan 1926, Chicago, Cook Co. IL. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The state of Missouri was torn by differing politics during the Civil War. Julia A. Tate married John M. Boyles who fought for the Confederacy. Her older sister, Louisa A. Tate married William T. Tally who fought for the Union and was eventually imprisoned by the Confederacy at Andersonville, GA.

On Julia Death Certificate from the Department of Health - Division of Vital Statistics, State of Illinois, there appear to be some errors. It states that her father was John Tate and that she was born in Boonville, MO. This seems to be incorrect. Other documentation indicates that her father was Jahiel Douglas Tate and that she was born in Sherrill, Texas County, MO. The informant on the Death Certificate was her son, Stanley Boyles.

Source: "The History of Cooper County", by W. F. Johnson, 1919.

The Tate Families of Southern States, Updike and Metzel, 1972

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Julia F Tate
Age in 1860: 3
Birth Year: abt 1857
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1860: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Gender: Female
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
J D Tate 40
Sarah Tate 37
John A Tate 18
Laura Tate 15
Lorenza D Tate 13
Marica Tate 10
Philander Tate 7
Silas Tate 5
Julia F Tate 3
Sharill Tate 1 month

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Julia Boyles
Age: 43
Birth Date: May 1857
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1900: Saline, Cooper, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: John Boyles
Marriage Year: 1876
Years Married: 24
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother: number of living children: 7
Mother: How many children: 8
Household Members:
John Boyles 58
Julia Boyles 43
Stanly Boyles 15
Lesley Boyles 17
Owen Boyles 11
Jessie Boyles 8
Elonzo Boyles 5

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Julia Boyles
Age in 1910: 53
Birth Year: abt 1857
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1910: Kansas Ward 14, Jackson, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Mother
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Household Members:
Leslie Boyles 26
Mattie Boyles 19
Julia Boyles 53
Owen Boyles 22
Alonzo Boyles 15

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Julia Boyles
Age: 62
Birth Year: abt 1858
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1920: Dover, Lafayette, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Inmate, Missouri Confederate Home
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes


Died:
Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Name: Julia Boyles [Julia Tate]
Birth Date: 1857
Birth Place: Booneville, Missouri [Texas Co. MO]
Death Date: 31 Jan 1926
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 3 Feb 1926
Cemetery Name: Evergreen
Death Age: 69
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: W
Gender: Female
Street Address: 2618 Montgomery
Father Name: John Tate [Jahiel Tate]
Father Birth Place: Booneville, Missouri
Mother Birth Place: Booneville, Missouri
Spouse Name: John Boyles
FHL Film Number: 1877730

Notes:

Notes for JAHIEL DOUGLAS TATE:

Texas County, Missouri was formerly Ashley County. Texas County was organized February 14, 1845 from Shannon and Wright Counties. The new County was named for the Lone Star State. Houston, the county seat, was named for General Sam Houston, the "hero" of San Jacinto. Townships in the county are Boone, Burdine, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Current, Date, Jackson, Lynch, Morris, Ozark, Pierce, Piney, Roubidoux, Sargent, Sherrill, and Upton. The Texas County courthouse was destroyed during the Civil War, it burned on February 12, 1881 and again on December 14, 1930.

Information from "History of Cooper County", by W. F. Johnson, 1919 and "Tate Families of Southern States", by Metzel and Updike, 1972.

Douglas and Sarah (Price) Tate, the former of whom was born in Warren County Tenn., and the latter in Jackson County ALA., who came with their family to Sherrill Township., Texas County, Missouri in 1852 and settled on a farm in Texas County where they spent the remainder of their lives. Douglas Tate and wife were the parents of 11 children of whom Louisa Tally was the fourth in order of birth.

The names and ages of children born in Warren County, TN were confirmed by the Warren County, TN 1850 Census. On that Census it indicates that he was a farmer whose land was worth approximately $300.

He married his second wife, Rachael C., a widow with three daughters. E., b. 1855; Harriett McLaughlin, b. 1860 AR and Adaline McLaughlin, b. 1862, AR. These children were listed in the Sherill, Texas County Census of 1870, pg 479-34 and 1880, pg 368-272.

Douglas and Rachael had two additional children, Thomas J. Tate, b. 1871 and Emma Tate, b. 1874 in Sherrill Township.

Information from "Texas County Missouri Heritage, Volume II" Submitted by Nellie Gatchel

In 1859, Jahiel bought land in Sherrill Township of Texas County as did his son James A. Jahiel's brother, Elgan was living in Texas County during the 1850 Census.

CENSUS

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Douglass Tate
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1814
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850: District 2, Warren, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 266
Household Members:
Douglass Tate 36
Sarah Tate 26
James A Tate 11
John A Tate 7
Louisa A Tate 5
Lorenza D Tate 2
America M Tate less than 1 year

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: J D Tate
Age in 1860: 40
Birth Year: abt 1820
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
J D Tate 40
Sarah Tate 37
John A Tate 18
Laura Tate 15
Lorenza D Tate 13
Marica Tate 10
Philander Tate 7
Silas Tate 5
Julia F Tate 3
Sharill Tate 1 month

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: J D Tate
Age in 1870: 57
Birth Year: abt 1813
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1870: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
J D Tate 57
Rachel Tate 48
America Tate 19
Lorenzo Tate 21
Philander Tate 18
Newton Tate 15
Julia Tate 13
Shirrell Tate 10
E Mcglaughlin 15 [stepson]
Harriet Mcglaughlin 11 [stepdaughter]
Adaline Mcglaughlin 7 [stepdaughter]

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Jahiel D. Tate
Age: 65
Birth Year: abt 1815
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1880: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Rachel C. Tate
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Jahiel D. Tate 65
Rachel C. Tate 50
Loranzo D. Tate 30
Harriott Mclaughlin 20 [stepdaughter]
Adaline Mclaughlin 18 [stepdaughter]
Thos. J. Tate 9
Emma Tate 6

LAND RECORDS

Land Patents were issued to Jahiel Duglass Tate:

NWSE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 40 acres - December 1, 1853 Doc. # 15054, Bureau of Land Management

NESW Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 80 acres - August 1, 1860 Document #38701, Bureau of Land Management

SENW Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - (same)

SWNE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 40 acres - August 1, 1860 Document 38408, Bureau of Land Management

N1/2NE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 80 acres - August 1, 1860 Document 37885, Bureau of Land Management

Jahiel married Sarah Price. Sarah was born 1824, Jackson Co. AL; died aft. 1860, Texas Co. MO. [Group Sheet]