This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AJ.2ADIB/2139.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I have been unable to find any information on Solomon Adkins before 1850. The 1850 census says he was born in Tennessee, but many of the Adkins clan came to Tennessee from North Carolina.