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Adam Jefferson Wilkins

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Nancy Elizabeth (Blackburrn) Wilkins

Alexander Hamilton WIlkins

Anna Luvica (Spangler) Wilkins

Andrew William Wilkins

Mamie Elizabeth (Wilkins) Adams

Mamie Elizabeth Wilkins Adams

Alice Wilkins & Alice Schubel Michigan 1913

Cindy, Lisa, Susan, & Sandy Lagun

Williams, Wilson, Wilkins, Wagner, Warstler, Wells; Kansas

G.T. Wilkins, Photographer Ft. Collins, CO

G.T. Wilkins, Photographer, Fort Collins, Co.

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In 1944, in the year that Earnest Wilkins was born, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1952, he was just 8 years old when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

In 1961, he was 17 years old when on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.

In 1988, at the age of 44 years old, Earnest was alive when on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb.

In 1996, in the year of Earnest Wilkins's passing, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.