Francis Clayton ATKIN

                      30 SEPT.1899 M. WM. L COOK, PORTSMOUTH,OHIO.
1900 soundex--Wm.L.Cook b. Jan.1836 age 64 -W.Va.----Lizzie Mar.1859 age 41 Ohio --living in Washington twsp.Scioto,Ohio
                  

                      9 MAY 1886,M. JOSEPH B. GOODRICH. OF SCIOTOVILLE,OHIO AT HOME OF HER PARENTS.  JOS. B. DEC. 17,1856,D.JAN.27,1921.  HAD 10 CHILDREN.
CORR. FROM 2 GRANDDAUS. Mrs.Everett L.Clover(Mildred )of37 Geneva Dr. Muscatine,Ia.52761,Shirley Ferrebee Peterson (Mrs.Elmer) Dixie Rynearson,box 124,Sitka Alaska,99835(Mrs.James)
Dixie remembered visiting Norman and Frank in "Redlands" actually RedBluff.when she was about 5. Said she remembered the terrible heat and when the men returned from town unloaded 100#hunks of ice which they loaded on the  ground and she sat on one and her "Mrs Clean"mother had a fit as it was to be used for drinks,food and such.  She said Frank was a huge man tall and heavy.and had terrible choking spells when he ate. She also gave me Shirley's brother Joe Ferebee,Nelson Neb. ( It may be her father)  She also said her gr.uncle Walter was in Sitka on a cruise in 76.   In obituary in 1940 she had 3 sisters living in Ohio and 2 bros. living in Ca.
                  

                   Unable to find in records although Minervas obit.states in 1940 that she has 3 sisters living in Ohio
                  

                   Info. from Thomas Atkin of Kansas City Mo. descendant
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index,1763-1900
                  

                   Uncle Frank had wife Edith Wood cook, M. 3 Dec. 1888 Scioto Co. Ohio.  I am not sure what happened to her but the wife he had in Ca. was named Belle.  Belle had a dau. Lena from a former marriage.  Lena had one son named Walter.  They lived in the Philipines. Belle may have been buried in Red Bluff.
Portsmouth dir. 1897 showed 2 daus. Minnie and Nellie living with mom and dad----1899 dir. showed no children.
Frank is in 1894/5 dir. as a salesman, With fam. he is a policeman.
1900 soundex Wayne twsp.;Frank Adkins b. Dec.1864 age 32  b. Ohio
Edith Mar. 1868 age 32 b.Ohio---Minnie dau. Apr.1889 age 11---Avenal dau. Oct.1892 age 7--Sunday Adkins age 70 b.1829 in Ohio (May be another family)

1920 census(16 Jan. 1920) Richfield Precinct,Corning Twsp.Corning Twsp. Corning rd. shows Francis C. Atkin age 52 b. Ohio Parents b. Ohio ,widowed?

Conrad remembers his Uncle Frank as a large man, friendly and good to him.  He remembers loading a truck with watermelons when he was age 10, with Uncle Frank.  He remembers it being a model T  ford truck that had a crank.
This could have been the old schoolbus as Boyd said he later turned it into a flat bed truck.  Frank grew watermelons   to sell.

Dewayne and Pat remember him as grouchy to his wife. , chewed tobacco and had deadly accuracy in spitting.
Dewayne remembers having to climb an old oak tree trying to catch an owl that kept Uncle Frank awake and the tree being full of ants.
Boyd remembers him driving a ModelT bus type car for a school bus that had a "cut out" on  the exhaust he could use to let the kids hear him when he was getting close to their house.
In the 1930 census He is living with wife Isabelle.  He is living a few houses from Ruth and Wayne.  He dies in 1940 and haven't found what happened to Belle.
                  

                      M. 24 DEC.1888,WM.F. MIDDAUGH.
Unable to find in census records.
                  

                   Remembrance of Pat Atkin,grandaughter of Norman.  "My grandfather was sort of an old hermit or loner.  He  lived between Richfield and Corning on 10 acres with no near neighbors.  He lived in a house with no running water or indoor plumbing.  The out house was a considerable distance from the house.  I'm not sure if he had electricity but I dont think he did,because I remember oil lamps.  His bed was quite sway backed and he didnt believe in sheets and pillow cases.  I don't remember much about his clothes but I don't think they were changed very often.  He always had several goats and an assortment of chickens,ducks etc.  The goats were used for meat and milk and maybe he sold some.  Once in a while he would take a load of chickens and ducks to RedBluff to China town to sell to the Chinese.  How they communicated I'll never know but they seemed to come to an agreement on price.  He only took me and Dewayne with him once and after he sold the chickens and ducks he took us to a Chinese store and bought us some chinese candy.. That was the only time that I ever remember him giving us anything.  He never showed any affection  to us but I know he loved us.  He ate lots of rice,with loads of sugar and goats milk.  That is all I ever remember eating when we visited him, which was seldom except when grandma would come home for a few days.  It seemed she never stayed very long.  She was loving and sang us all kinds of songs and told us storys.  We usually got to stay overnight.  One time  grandpa decided to raise bullfrogs so he enclosed a small pond with hog wire, I suppose to keep predators out.  he proceeded to stock the pond with bull frogs and they all escaped with in a few days.  So that is about the way I remember grandpa.  I clearly remember the day the car fell on him.   Grandma happened to be home or he might have laid there for days , before someone found him.  Pat also remembers that he always  ate rice with goatsmilk and lots of sugar on it.  This is also what he fed the kids.

Another Norman Byron Atkin is found in Deleware Co. N.Y. a son of John W. b. 1816. This Norman is  25 in 1880 census.

In 1920  census Twsp.17, Kern Co. Norman B. Atkin age 47, boarder,b. 1872,Ohio working as boiler washer
Also in calif. death records.