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William Floyd ELKINS is a son of Overton and Nancy Furguson (Estep) Elkins, who
lived here at the formation of Lincoln county, and he was born in Cabell county May 2, 1856. December 2~, 1872,
the Rev. John Stephens joined in wedlock W. F. Elkins and Sarah, daughter of Alexander and Matilda Farley Dolton.
Mrs. Elkins died October 15, 1875, leaving one child, Sylvanus, born October 9, 1873. In Lincoln county, July
13, 1876, Elizabeth Dennison Estep, daughter of Corbin and Bithenia Crocket (Elkins) Estep, became the wife of
William Floyd Elkins, and to them one son has been given: William Overton, born July 25, 1880. Elizabeth D.
Elkins was born in Lawrence county, Kentucky, January 25, 1861, and came to Lincoln county with her parents in
1867. Richard Elkins, great-grandfather of William, came to the mouth of Big Hart creek, in the year 1816, and
settled there, raising a large family of children, who are scattered throughout Hart Creek district. William
Floyd Elkins is a farmer in this district, owning 45 acres of land on Fourteen-mile creek, 20 acres of which
is cultivated. The land is well timbered and coal and iron ore abound quite largely, and there is upon the
farm a lead mine, which makes the land more valuable. His post-office address is Fourteen, Lincoln county,
West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.