--- title: Ancestry of Patrick Mahomes (Part II) description: Ancestry of Patrick Mahomes (Part II) image: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/patrick-mahomes-headshot-300x225.jpg --- # [Vita Brevis A resource for family history from AmericanAncestors.org](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # Ancestry of Patrick Mahomes (Part II) [February 08, 2023](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/ancestry-of-patrick-mahomes-part-ii) [African American History](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/african-american-history), [Texas](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/texas), [Famous Figures](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/famous-figures), [Sports History](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/sports-history), [Current events](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/current-events) [Christopher C. Child](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/cchild) [![Patrick Mahomes](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/patrick-mahomes-headshot-300x225.jpg?width=300&height=225&name=patrick-mahomes-headshot-300x225.jpg)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/patrick-mahomes-headshot.jpg) Photo courtesy of the Kansas City Chiefs. Two years ago, I wrote a post about [some of the maternal ancestors of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/02/super-bowl-surprise/), using research I had begun the previous year after his team’s Super Bowl victory. The post followed some of his white mother’s ancestry from Texas back to New England, showing distant kinships to three U.S. presidents. Readers asked about his African American ancestry through his father, and I referred them to [Rich Hall’s website](https://famouskin.com/ahnentafel.php?name=149028+patrick+mahomes), which provided some additional information. This year, with two Black head quarterbacks squaring off in the Super Bowl for the first time in history, Lindsay Fulton asked me if I could provide further information about Mahome’s paternal ancestry. Later this week, we’ll publish a separate piece from Sarah Dery on [the ancestry of Jalen Hurts](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/the-ancestry-of-jalen-hurts/). Rich Hall’s tree adds Mahomes’s four paternal great-grandparents, three great-great-grandparents, and his patrilineal great-great-great-grandparents, Cuma/Que Homes/Mahomes and his wife Nellie Adkins. The surname Adkins was of interest to me. A [recent post ](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2022/11/booties-from-chief-blackhawk/)by Michael Dwyer discussed the New England couple, Chief BlackHawk (born Robert Harvie Clark) and his wife Princess Snow Feather (born Captola Adkins). Both born in Virginia, I noticed Captola was a second cousin (twice over) and third cousin to John Dandridge Adkins (1890-1989), who is the great-grandfather of my first cousins’ wife. I have been able to trace this Adkins family, of African and Native American descent, back to early 18th-century Virginia. Unfortunately, I was not able to do the same for Nellie (Adkins) Homes/Mahomes, but I’ll tell you what I found. The Adkins family of Smith County, Texas is first found listed in the [1870 census ](https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/71037809:7602)with the head of household as Arnold Adkins, aged 45, farm laborer, born Alabama, with $200 valued of personal estate. Following Arnold is May, 44, born in Alabama; Jacob, 21, born in Mississippi; and Dennis (17), Nellie (14), Anderson (10), Albert (9), and Henry (4), all born in Texas. [![Image of 1870 census](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1870-census-patrick-mahomes.png?width=991&height=503&name=1870-census-patrick-mahomes.png)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1870-census-patrick-mahomes.png) An intriguing clue provided on [WikiTree ](https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:1860_Slave_Schedule%2C_Smith%2C_Texas%2C_Kendrick&public=1|*1860)indicates that the Adkins family was enslaved by Isham Kendrick (1795-1865) of Smith County. This page abstracts the [1860 slave schedule ](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSZ-9HWK)and notes which enslaved people are members of the Adkins family, with one four-year-old female alleged to be Nellie. I have not been able to independently verify if the Adkins family were enslaved by Isham Kendrick. In his will dated [25 April 1864 ](https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/782376:2115), he specifically mentions two individuals as his human property—Mariah and her oldest son Bob—and wills their ownership to his wife Nancy. Isham’s will was written during the Civil War but after the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared freedom for individuals enslaved in Confederate-controlled areas. He died 16 August 1865, two months after [General Order No. 3 ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3)enforced the Proclamation in Texas (the event which is celebrated on Juneteenth). His will was probated in September 1865, but records do not include any language referring to the legality of his human property. Nellie Adkins appears next in [1880 ](https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7266108:6742), with her husband Cuma Homes—a laborer, aged 26, born in Alabama—and their four children, including their five year old son Wilburn, whose [1950 death certificate ](https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/8056683:6742)lists his father as Que Mahomes. I have not found Nellie or Cuma/Que after this census, although Nellie’s widowed father Arnold Adkins (1825-1901) is enumerated in the [1900 census ](https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/71037809:7602)in Lindale, Smith County, between his sons Anderson and Jacob. The Mahomes family remained in Smith County through the birth of Patrick Mahomes. Wilburn Ben Mahomes (1875-1950), worked as a farmer; his son William Pierce Mahomes (1910-1976), is listed as a farmer in the censuses and an employee of Tyler Pipe in his [obituary ](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117804989/obituary-for-w-p-mahomes/); his son Johnny Wayne Mahomes (b. 1947) worked for an oil company. His son, the baseball player [Pat Mahomes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mahomes) (b. 1970), although born in Brazos County, Texas, likewise attended school in Lindale, and his son Patrick Mahomes (b. 1995) was born in Tyler, Smith County. Thus, Patrick Mahomes’s paternal ancestors have lived in Smith County for seven generations, through at least the 1850s. I should point out that I have not watched a football game in many years. The Chiefs are the team closest to my mother’s home state of Kansas, and the Eagles play in Philadelphia where my father was born. So, similar to my [genealogical connections to countries that played in the recent World Cup ](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/01/trace-amounts/), I have divided loyalties. ### Share this: - [mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/ancestry-of-patrick-mahomes-part-ii](mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/ancestry-of-patrick-mahomes-part-ii) - - - More - - ![Christopher C. Child](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Chris_Child_Jan25.jpg) ## About Christopher C. Child Chris Child has worked for various departments at American Ancestors since 1997 and became a full-time employee in July 2003. He has been a member of American Ancestors since the age of eleven. He has written several articles in American Ancestors, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and The Mayflower Descendant. He is the co-editor of The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton (American Ancestors, 2011), co-author of The Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts (Newbury Street Press, 2011) and Ancestors and Descendants of George Rufus and Alice Nelson Pratt (Newbury Street Press, 2013), and author of The Nelson Family of Rowley, Massachusetts (Newbury Street Press, 2014). Chris holds a B.A. in history from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Areas of expertise: Southern New England, especially Connecticut; New York; ancestry of notable figures, especially presidents; genetics and genealogy; African-American and Native-American genealogy, 19th and 20th Century research, westward migrations out of New England, and applying to hereditary societies. Chris has lectured on these topics and edits the genetics and genealogy column for American Ancestors.[View all posts by Christopher C. 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