This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AJ.2ADIB/2489.1.1.1.1.2.2 Message Board Post: AN ARTICLE ON THE ADKINS FAMILY: From: "Now and Then" put out by the Landmarks Commission and Historical Society, dated Fall - 2001 Vol. 12-Clay Co., WV In it was an article "Recollections of an Old Man," by William Kyle about 1928. I do not think the Adkins family was among the first setters of Buffalo, but they have been here a long time and have muliplied almost like the Israelites in Egypt. I am sorry to say I cannot tell where they came from. I recall that when I was a small boy, William Adkins came to my father's to buy some breadstuff. He was then an old man. He came ontoo the field whre my father was reaping wheat and made known his wants. Corn was scarce, but father went to his threshing floor and threshed and cleaned a half-bushel of wheat for him. I remember how he examined the wheat, tried to pinch the grains with his thumbnail, said it was very firm and then put it in his linen sack. Mr. Adkins had a large family of boys, most of whom were men at that time. I saw several of them in later years. I think Franklin was the oldest, then came Haram, Isam, Nathan and William, "(Snuffing Billy as he was called on account of a sniffing habit he had contracted)." Uncle Maurice who lived on Lillys Fork was also one of the boys. Many people now living remember him and some of his odd sayings. So far as I know he outlived all the rest of the family which was a very large one. I think some of them moved to Coal River years ago. Frank, the oldest son lived and raised his family on Lilly Fork of Buffalo. His oldest son was named Maurice but was generally know as "brother". He married a daughter of George Nicholas. Two of the boys married daughters of Uncle Tom Deal, Linton & Harrison - These were Frank's sons- They were uneducated, of a very spiteful disposition and never forgot an injury. They were fond of coon hunting and valued their coon dogs very highly. If a man killed one of their dogs, he might expect to lose a cow or horse in the near future. Some things happened sometimes, but they were never able to get any proof against them.