THE WILKINSON AND HANKLA TREE (Note: The symbol (&) is to be read "who married.") W. Owen Wilkinson came from Virginia along with a cousin who was an ancestor of Royal. Owen was married to Kathleen Franklin and to this union were born Edmond & Nancy Lee Ford and later Elizabeth Beard; Madison (Matt) & Harriett Farris. To Ed and Nancy Lee Ford were born Owen, Nick, Bunk, Pauline, Rome, Clem, Kate, Willie, Nelle, and Minnie. To his last wife were born Paul, Bob, Lora, Matt, Eddie, and Lillie. Clem married Florence Whipp (children: Hershell, Gertrude, Beatrice, Lula, and Albert). Willie married Mary Whipp (children: Alice and Nannie). Rome married Jane Sanders (children: Arthur, Elizabeth, Marie, Lela, Cecil, and Ada). Kate married Dink Wilkinson; Belle & Lawrence Brown; Minnie & Wess Sanders. The other line of the Wilkinson family begins with Nathan and Brooker, half brothers to Royal, and Royal Wilkinson & Jane Bowman. To this union were born Tom & Nannie Workman; George R. (Hawk) & Laura Givens; Bill & Ann Wright; Winston (Dink) & Kate Wilkinson; Polly & William Hankla; George & Lizzie Bowman; John E. went to Texas. To Tom and Nannie Workman were born Sam, Alma, Ruth, George, and Wince. To Hawk & Laura Givens were born Mae and Lucille. To Bill & Anna Wright were born Lige, Daisy, Lena, Bet, Laura, Royal, Kate, and Henry. To Polly who married William Hankla were born Harvy, Anna, Jim, Royal, Ernest, Willie, and Rupert. Joe, a brother to Royal, married Mary Catherine Bransom. To this union were born Jodie who married Ada True (children: Rita, Ethel, Floyd, Billie, Lowell, and Ancil). Fannie, sister to Jodie & Jim Chelf. Her sister Laura married E. E. Allen. Shell, son of Joe and Mary C. Bransom, married Myrtle Allen. To this union were born Claude and Tom. To his second wife was born Ralph who married Fay Price; John Brooker married Clare Chelf, to this union were born Ruby, Opie, Mary, Bernal, Francis, Jim, and Nannie who married Scott Lynn. John, who was distantly related to Owen and Royal, married Elvira Bowman (children: Ernest & first a Kennett and later Ellen Morgan; Wince & Edna Murphy, son: Stanley; Oscar who married Panie Whitney; Sally & Clay Godby). Clay was a son to Oscar. Luvina & S. E. Jeffries was daughter to Ernest, as was Deva and brother Earl.