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Mary Elizabeth Akins Runnels

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Birth	:	22 Sep 1847 Arkansas, USA
Death	:	1921 Lake County, California, USA
Burial	:	Lower Lake Cemetery, Lower Lake, Lake County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.9167200, -122.6055700
Plot	:	159 1st Addition
Inscription	:	"AT REST"
Description	:	Age 74? [Two of the letters, the "R" and "S", and a "4" have been picked loose and removed from this stone. Identity confirmed from cemetery records.] According to the Findgrave.com text on the memorial for her first husband, Hamlin Nelson Herrick, her full maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Atkins. Census records show that she was born in Arkansas and he in Kentucky. It is likely that they married in Kentucky about 1862, as they were living in Kentucky when their first child, Clara Herrick, was born in 1863. They moved to Lake County, California in 1864 and their second child, Hamlin... Read More	Age 74? [Two of the letters, the "R" and "S", and a "4" have been picked loose and removed from this stone. Identity confirmed from cemetery records.] According to the Findgrave.com text on the memorial for her first husband, Hamlin Nelson Herrick, her full maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Atkins. Census records show that she was born in Arkansas and he in Kentucky. It is likely that they married in Kentucky about 1862, as they were living in Kentucky when their first child, Clara Herrick, was born in 1863. They moved to Lake County, California in 1864 and their second child, Hamlin Webster Herrick, was born there in 1865. Mary was the mother of 6 children. Mary and Hamlin divorced between 1875 and 1880. Mary's marital status was listed as divorced in the 1880 Census. She was living with her 6 children on her farm in Lake County, CA. Her ex-husband, Hamlin, was living alone in a separate residence next door also showing his marital status as divorced. The 39 year-old Mary next married 52 year-old Martin Reynolds (of Van Buren County, Iowa)in Lake County on 6 October 1886. This apparently was his first marriage. His brother, James S. Runnels and wife Mary had been residents of Lake County for over 26 years. It is not known how long Mary and Martin's marriage lasted, but it apparently ended in a separation prior to 1900 without any children. In the 1900 Census Mary Runnels lists her marital status as "widow" and is living with her 31 year-old single son, Middleton, in Lake County. At the same time, her 2nd husband Martin Runnels is enumerated living with his brother James in the same county. In the 1900 census, Martin shows his marital status as "Married 13 years" and his occupation as farmer. To understand this "widow" issue for Mary, one needs to remember the social stigma of divorce in the Victoria era and quite often the term "widow" was use synomously with "divorce" and folks sometimes called them "grass widows". In 1920, Mary is living with another single son, Osian Herrick, in Lake County, California. She is listed as head of household and owner of her farm. She will die the next year. So far, there is no record of her second husband, Martin Runnels after the 1900 census. His brother James is still living, but is a widower, at the time of the 1910 Census. It is likely that Martin died in Lake County between 1900 and 1910 and did not have a permanent marker placed on his grave. Martin Runnels was a step-brother of my gg-grandmother Winnifred Andrews Wolverton. Her mother, Mary Davenport, was the second wife of Martin's father, John M. Runnels. Martin was John's son from his first marriage to Sarah Tillery in Tennessee in 1821. (Mary's bio submitted on April 28, 2014 by William D. Gorman, FAG Member # 47658044)

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Mary Elizabeth Akins Runnels's memorial is located at: Lower Lake Cemetery, Lower Lake, Lake County, USA.
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Mary Elizabeth Akins Runnels death on 1921 in Lake County, California, USA
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Latitude: 38.9167200
Longitude: -122.6055700

Family Members:

Parent

Middleton John Akins

(1823 - 1852)

Lucinda Rhudy Copsey

(1825 - 1911)

Spouse

Siblings

Augustus Middleton Akins

(1845 - 1922)

Permelia Emaline Akins Fealy

(1851 - 1918)

Martha Ann Akins Copsey

(1852 - 1943)

George Washington Copsey Sr.

(1866 - 1908)

Children

Ossian Revere Herrick

(1867 - 1959)

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