Person:Elizabeth Wilkins (10)
Elizabeth Waller Wilkins
b.29 Jul 1903 West Virginia, United States
d.Jan 1979
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  1. Elizabeth Waller Wilkins1903 - 1979
  2. Maria D. WilkinsAbt 1907 -
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Name Elizabeth Waller Wilkins
Gender Female
Birth[1] 29 Jul 1903 West Virginia, United States
Census[2][6] 27 Apr 1910 Ashland, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States
Census[3][7] 5 Feb 1920 Wythe, Virginia, United States
Census[4][8] 26 Apr 1930 Wythe, Virginia, United States
Death[1] Jan 1979

Wilkins grew up in the small community of Piney at the southeastern foot of Sand Mountain. Her family owned the Homewood estate. Some of Elizabeth Wilkins’s primary contributions to regional art were her illustrations and maps for F. Bittle Kegley’s book,Kegley's Virgina Frontier. Wilkins also painted a pictorial map of Southwest Virginia under commission of Southwest Virginia Incorporated. The map was displayed in Southwest Virginia Incorporated’d promotional office, located inthe lobby of the George Wythe Hotel, for many years. You can see a copy of the 1938 map in this exhibit. Elizabeth Wilkins’s favorite subjects were landscapes. Wilkin’s lifelong friend, John M. Topham, collected them. In 1985, Topham donated the four framed gouache landscapes to the Wythe County Historical Society. He also donated her oil painted of Gibboney Hall, a mansion that was demolished around 1950. from Special Exhibit: Glimpses of Wythe County, New Exhibit at the Thomas J. Boyd Museum.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service)
    “Elizabeth Wilkins, b 29 Jul 1903, d Jan 1979, last residence 70130 (New Orleans, LA), last benefit 07024 (Fort Lee, Bergen, NJ), SSN 229-20-3062, issued Virginia.”.
  2. ↑ Ashland, Wisconsin, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Ashland, Ward 6, ED 7, sheet 7B, 220 St Cloud Street, dwelling 123, family 130, 27 & 28 April.
  3. ↑ United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625)
    Lead Mine Magisterial District, ED 190, Sheet 21A, dwelling 337, family 370, 5 & 6 February.
  4. ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
    Lead Mine Magisterial District, ED 99-8, Sheet 19B, dwelling 319, family 369, 26 April 1930.
  5.   Special Exhibit: Glimpses of Wythe County, New Exhibit at the Thomas J. Boyd Museum.
  6. ↑ 6, household of William Wilkins
  7. ↑ 16, household of William Wilkins
  8. ↑ 26, household of William Wilkins
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