... Elijah and Polly (Hankins) Kidwell. ... The mother was born in New Jersery in 1798, and was the daughter of William Hankins, who was a native Scotland. He immigrated to Tennessee at the close of the Revolutionary war, and settled Greene County on Roaring Fork of Lick Creek. She was a pious Christian lady, and died in l862. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. ...