John Drura Askins
1837 - 1913 (75 years)
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Name John Drura Askins Birth 24 Apr 1837 Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA 
Gender Male Death 30 Jan 1913 Florence County, South Carolina, USA Burial #73018116 Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery, Sardis, Florence County, South Carolina, USA 
Siblings3 brothers and 4 sisters Half-siblings2 half brothers (family of Robert T. Askins and Ann Hewitt) Half-siblings1 half sister (family of Robert T. Askins and Martha Jane Steel) Person ID I28 Askins Last Modified 31 Oct 2023
Father Dr. Robert T. Askins, b. 18 Mar 1800, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA d. 14 Jun 1863, Florence County, South Carolina, USA (Age 63 years) Mother Sarah Jane Pilkington, b. 14 Jan 1805, Marion Dist.,South Carolina, USA d. 21 Mar 1846, Florence County, South Carolina, USA (Age 41 years) Marriage 18 Mar 1820 Florence County, South Carolina, USA Family ID F23 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Sarah Susannah Ann Revell, b. 27 Aug 1839 d. 19 Apr 1859 (Age 19 years) Children 1. Sarah Pilkington Askins, b. 29 Dec 1857 2. Susannah Ann Askins, b. 2 Apr 1859 d. 2 Apr 1859 (Age 0 years) Family ID F22 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Oct 2023
Family 2 Frances R. Coutney, b. 10 Mar 1844, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA d. 4 Apr 1892, Sardis community Darlington District, South Carolina, USA (Age 48 years) Children + 1. Joseph John David Askins, b. 11 Feb 1864 d. 31 Oct 1893, Cartersville, Florence County, South Carolina, USA (Age 29 years)+ 2. Robert Barney Askins, Sr., b. 5 Dec 1865 d. 8 Mar 1913 (Age 47 years) + 3. Samuel Ezra Askins, b. May 1868 d. 15 Nov 1921 (Age 53 years) 4. James W. Askins, b. 11 Nov 1870 d. 18 May 1872 (Age 1 year) 5. Albert Heywood Askins, Sr., b. 20 Dec 1871 d. 16 Dec 1957 (Age 85 years) + 6. Minto Kelley Askins, b. 28 Dec 1873, Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA d. 6 Mar 1958, Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, USA (Age 84 years)7. Frances Askins, b. 21 Jan 1876 d. 4 Jul 1918 (Age 42 years) + 8. Eula F. Askins, b. 7 Jan 1878, Florence County, South Carolina, USA d. 28 Apr 1936, Florence County, South Carolina, USA (Age 58 years)9. Elizabeth Askins, b. 11 Jul 1879 d. 27 Sep 1880 (Age 1 year) 10. Daisy B. Askins, b. 1881 d. 28 Oct 1884 (Age 3 years) 11. Theresa Askins, b. 1 Aug 1881 d. 13 Nov 1905 (Age 24 years) 12. Hoyt Neil Askins, b. 3 May 1887 d. 12 Jun 1936 (Age 49 years) 13. Rebecca Askins, b. 1890 d. 1890 (Age 0 years) Family ID F14 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Oct 2023
Family 3 Emma Kennedy, b. Apr 1860, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, USA d. 9 May 1933, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA (Age 73 years) Family ID F90 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Oct 2023
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John Drura Askins (1827 - 1913)
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John Drura Askins was born 24 April 1837 in Darlington District, South Carolina, a son of Dr. Robert T. Askins and Sarah Pilkington Askins, and died on 30 January 1913 in Florence County, South Carolina, at almost 76 years of age. He is buried in the cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Sardis, South Carolina. Although his parents lived in an area that was in Darlington District at the time of his birth, John Drura Askins lived his entire life in what today would be Florence County.
John Drura Askins was married three times, and he had at least sixteen children.
He married Sarah Susannah Ann Revell on 13 February 1856. She was a daughter of Stephen and Jersua Revell and she had been born on 27 August 1839. She died on 19 April 1859. Together they had two children: Sarah Pilkington Askins ( 29 December 1857, date of death unknown) and Susannah Ann Askins ( 2 April 1859 - 6 March 1859).
After the death of his first wife, John D. Askins married Frances Courtney, born 10 March 1844 to Ezra and Isabella Courtney of Darlington District. Frances Courtney Askins died 4 May 1892 and she is buried next to John Drura Askins in the cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Sardis, South Carolina. John Drura Askins and Frances Courtney Askins were married about 1862 and during the thirty years they were married they had at least fourteen children
John Drura Askins enlisted in the Confederate Army 1 April 1862 along with two of his brothers: William P. and Robert Evander. He served as a private in Company E of the Third (Palmetto) Battalion of South Carolina Light Artillery under Lt Colonel E.B. White. The unit was assigned to Battery Wagner on Morris Island off the Charleston harbor, and remained on that island until it was evacuated in 1864, during which John D. Askins was wounded slightly in the head. [The bombardment of Morris Island by the Union Army was, up to that time, the heaviest in history. For 58 days, fewer than 1,000 Confederates held off more than 11,000 Union troops and artillery, and the Union fleet.] His unit moved to Aresenal Hill in Columbia, South Carolina where he was reported present in December 1864 and likely remained until the city was evacuated on 16 February 1865.
After the death of his wife Frances Courtney Askins in 1892, John Drura Askins married Emma M. Kennedy. She had been born in April of 1860. John Drura Askins and Emma M. Kennedy had no children.