MARY J. ADKISSON (1836-1907) married (1857) Thomas L. Roberts (1834-) who was the son of Brashear Roberts. Thomas fought in the Civil War, and was a Deacon in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Lawnville. Their children were: Absolom B. (1858), married Annie Childress; Margaret (1862), Rebecca J. (1866) married Sheriff Richard S. Ladd; Thomas O. (1867), Sarah A. (1870) married (1887) Henry Marion Hedgecock; Laura Ann (1871) married (1892) George M. Graham; Yerby Adkisson (1874) married (1904) Myrtle Graham; Dixie (1875) married Charles Wyatt; Susan William (1878) married (1896) William Thomas Hedgecock; Mattie (1881)