Georgia   Biographies Baptist  William Dawkins Atkinson

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WILLIAM DAWKINS ATKINSON

     William Dawkins Atkinson was born in Greene county,
Georgia, on the 17th of November, 1818.  He was the third 
child of Lazarus and Mary E. Atkinson.  His paternal grand
father was a North Carolinian by birth, a soldier of the
Revolution, and a farmer by vocation; he settled in Greene
county at the close of the Revolutionary war...  His maternal
grandfather, William D. Lane, was a man of superior 
intellectual endowments and possessed of a liberal education
for his day.  He was a native of South Carolina, and settled
in Putnam county, Georgia, the latter part of the last century.
His vocation was that of a school teacher, but he was also a
minister of the Gospel of the Baptist denomination, and was
said to be an eloquent and persuasive preacher...  the Indian
war broke out, and on the 16th of June, 1836, young Atkinson
enlisted in a company commanded by Hon. William C. Dawson,
as Captain...
     In the year 1840, he left home to enter the Licka Academy
in Chambers county, near West Point, Georgia...
     He was thrice married.  His first marriage was to Miss Eliza
Jane Loyall, of Monticello, Georgia; the second to Mrs. Mildred
E. Crook, of Hamilton, Georgia, and the third to Mrs. Lydia
Gignilliat, of Marietta.  These were all women of intelligence 
and culture, eminently qualified for the useful position they
occupied.  The last still survives, and shared with her husband
the labor and suffering in the cause of the Master in Southern
Georgia.  He left six children, two by each marriage...
     Rev. W. D. Atkinson died in Blackshear, Georgia, on the 
17th of October, 1879, in his 61st year...  After funeral services
in the Blackshear Baptist Church...

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA:
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM AND PORTRAIT 
GALLERY OF BAPTIST MINISTERS AND OTHER GEORGIA
BAPTIST, 1881, Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Atlanta, GA, pp. 13-15.



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