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The Adkins Family of AlabamaUpdated May 22, 2009 | I am searching for the ancestry of Jesse Adkins born in North Carolina about 1806 and married to Catherine (Unknown). One of Jesse's sons William Riley Adkins started the first newspaper in Winston County Alabama called THE WINSTON HERALD. This was sometime after the civil war and the paper was continued by two more generations, George Adkins and Garnet Adkins.Garnett sold the paper in 1945. He later worked for the Birmingham New and Post Hearld.Any information about these or other Adkins individuals in Alabama would be appreciated.I would like to update the family to the present.The Adkins family legend has Jesse Adkins and his wife Catherine and children, along with several brothers going from North Carolina to Tennessee and then on to Alabama in about 1832.What we know of the early family that they were an adventurious group that prefered hunting to farming.My Great Grandfather, John Robert Adkins cut oak trees and made railroad cross ties and sold them to the railroad. In Summer he farmed planting potatoes, white sweet potatoes, and corn.The family had settled in Marion County Alabama because of the excelent hunting. They were a very self sufficient group of people. I am told that they first staked a claim to the land, then built a Corn Crib, which they lived in while clearing land and planting a crop. They later built a one room cabin with one fireplace. Still later they built a classic dogtrot clapboard house near a good spring of water.Two stories remain about my Great Grandfather John Robert.He once killed two turkeys with a single shot. His only problem was it was not turkey season and he liked to brag about his marksmanship.Eventually the county game officer heard about it and fined him $12.00 in the early 1900's.A lot of money at that time.Adkins are notorious for not knowing when to keep their mouth shut.The other story about John Robert involves the family Cow.He never milked the cow.That was Dolly Dera, his wife's job.Legend has it that even child birth did not get her out of this chore.Dolly had just had a baby and it came a big snow, the cowhad to milked so John Robert took the door off the cabin, laid it on the snow and lead the cow over to the door.Then he got Dolly in a straight back chair and carried her out and set her on the door so she could milk the cow.I am sorry but that should have been the day John Robert learned to milk the cow. Any early history is my search.John Adkins |
John Julian Adkins, Jr 200 Pecan Ave
Albertville,AL 35950 United States
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