THE ADKINS FAMILY REUNION
Reunion Fees Due
ADKINS FAMILY REUNION 2025
JULY 11,12 ,13 – HOUSTON, TEXAS
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday July 11th, 2025
3pm—7pm: Guest Check-In – Embassy Suites Houston Downtown – Houston, TX
1515 Dallas Street, Houston, Texas 77010
7pm—10pm: Meet/Greet (appetizers served) – Home of John and Mesica Tucker
Saturday July 12th, 2025
6:30am—10:30am: Free Made-to-Order Breakfast – Embassy Suites
11am—4pm: Family Free Time in Houston. *We will share activities soon*
6pm—10pm: Banquet (All-White Attire, catered dinner) – Emancipation Park
Sunday July 13th, 2025
6:30am—9am: Breakfast for Guests and Check Out – Spring Hill Suites
11:30am: Worship – Wheeler Baptist Church (Dr. Cosby and Rev. Dr. Johnson, pastors)
Post-Church Family Brunch – Location to be Determined
FAMILY LODGING
Hotel – Embassy Suites Houston Downtown
$190 per night w/Code CES-90E
Click Below to Make Reservations by June 11, 2025 (No Exceptions)
https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/thetuckerfamilyreunion2025/
TRAVEL
George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
Located 23 miles from downtown Houston.
Houston Hobby Airport (HOU)
Located 7 miles from downtown Houston.
REUNION COSTS
$85.00 per adults. $60 for Seniors over 70 and Children btw 5 yrs old and 12 yrs old .
This covers meals, Banquet shelter, T-shirts, misc.
REUNION FEES due - May 15, 2015 (No exceptions)
CashApp us at $AdkinsFamilyReunion
OR
Makes Checks/Money Order payable to Erica Muhammad
Mail to: Erica Muhammad, 217 Lasseigne Street, Pontiac MI 48341 by MAY 15
Please indicate who you’re paying for and t-shirt size. For example, Sam Adkins – 1 Senior – Medium, Val Adkins – 1 Adult - Large, Lisa Adkins - 1 Child - Small
THE ADKINS GENEALOGY and HISTORY
Henry Clay Adkins was born enslaved on the plantation of Rev. Aaron Adkins in Warren County, Georgia in 1845 to the union of the enslaved mulatto Sallie Wynne Adkins and the free-born mulatto Anderson Johnson. Henry's mother, Sallie Wynne, was willed by her white father (Clement Wynne) to his niece Frances Wynne Adkins (she was married to a schoolteacher named Isaac Adkins - the son of Rev. Aaron Adkins. ) Henry's father, Anderson Johnson, was also born in Warren County and was the son of a white woman named Jane Shelton Johnson.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, Henry Clay Adkins was freed from Rev. Aaron Adkins and moved to Taliaferro County. It's there he married Jane Meadows on December 30, 1866. Jane was one of the oldest daughters of the enslaved mulatto George Meadows and the enslaved Black woman Martha Fluker.
Henry Clay Adkins and Jane Meadows Adkins had several children: Lucious Adkins (born 1867 and married Anna Ora Peek); Adella Adkins (born 1869 and married Thomas Hardin); Ida Adkins (born 1871 and married Elbert Harris); Joshua Anderson Adkins (born 1872 and married Zenobia Tilman); Henry Adkins (born 1873 and married Mary Rhodes); Linton Thomas Adkins (born 1875 and married Mary Green);
William Graves Adkins (born 1876 and married Savannah Sanders); Joseph Adkins (born 1878).
Lucious Adkins, Adella Adkins Hardin (and her husband Thomas Hardin), Joshua Anderson Adkins, William Graves Adkins, and Joseph Adkins migrated to Jefferson County, Alabama before the year 1900 to work in the Reader's Iron Ore Mines near Birmingham. Lucious and Joshua left the mines to attend Morehouse, but Lucious was called back to Crawfordville to work the family farm. Joshua moved on to Madison, Wisconsin. William Graves stayed and married in Bessemer, Alabama. Adella and Linton migrated to Youngstown, Ohio. Linton eventually moved from there and died in Chicago.
We are their descendants.
2025 Reunion Officers
Keith J. Adkins, President
Kristi Singletary, Vice-President
Alsha Adkins Jones, Secretary
Erica Sebastian Muhammad, Treasurer
GALLERY
Please email us your family photos! We'd like to add them to our Adkins family gallery.