Beckham County, OK - Eakins Family History
Saturday, 19 January 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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EAKINS, JAMES MONTGOMERY
(1918, Unidentified Article, Beckham Co, OK):
James Montgomery Eakins and his brother Noah Jones Eakins were born in
Kentucky and had lived in Arkansas and Texas before coming to Oklahoma.
James Montgomery "Jim" Eakins was born 4 September 1845.  He married Mary
Dialtha James about 1869.  She was the daughter of W. M. C. and Elizabeth
James.  To this union were born twelve children: Elizabeth Algenia, Noah
Wiley, Charles Blount, Susie Ann, James Robert, Jessie Oliver, Sam
Houston, Mildred Dialtha, Lola Grace, George Calvin, Nellie Jane and
Hattie F.
This Eakins family filed for homestead in February 1898 in Roger Mills
County, Oklahoma.