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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Roger Atkinson, of "Mansfield", Dinwiddie Co., VA.
John Atkinson never married.
Thomas Atkinson was Bishop of the Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and consecrated to that high office in St. John's Chapel, New York, October 17, 1853. The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Trinity College, hartford, and that of doctor of laws at Cambridge, England. He was a man of large brain and large heart, and he impressed all who saw him with his sincerity; he believed what he taught, and he practiced what he preached. As a pulpit orator he was distinguished for keen powers of analysis, sound logic and cogent reasoning. In early life he studied law in Winchester, as a member of Judge Tucker's law class, was a fellow student there with Henry A. Wise, late governor of Virginia, and practiced this profession for nine years, and had attained a prominent position at the bar when his mind turned to a sacred calling. He died at his home in Wilmington, NC, January, 1881, in his seventy fourth year, greatly mourned. (Source: "History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley", pp. 560-561).
Dr. Robert Atkinson, of Baltimore, MD.
Col. John Wilder Atkinson, of Wilmington, NC.