Botkins Family
This family can be traced to Virginia. where, about the middle of the last century, Thomas Botkin was born. He married Elizabeth Devincks. They raised a family of eight children. James Botkin, one of the above, was born in Virginia in 178?, and married Mary McCray about 1808. In 1812 he entered the army and served his term of enlistment. There were born to him by this marriage thirteen children. His wife died in 1844. He afterward married Rebecca Elliott. By this marriage there were eleven children—making in all twenty-four children by both marriages. In 1847 Mr. Botkin moved to Shelby County, but remained but one year, then moved to Illinois; was there four or five years, then returned to Shelby County, where he died in 1855. Sarah A. Wise was the twelfth child by the first marriage of James Botkin. She lived with her father until the time of her marriage. In 1853 she returned to Shelby County, where she. has resided since that time. Her family consists of four children, viz., Celina, Mary Frances, Anna, and Tracy J.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883