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/1473.1 Message Board Post: I can tell you about Hiram Adkins and his family. He was my GGGuncle. Jesse and Catherine Adkins were his parents and my GGGgrandfater. He had the first livery stable in Cullman and was the 2nd sherriff of Cullman. His brother William Riley Adkins had the first newspaper in Winston Co. Alabama. His brother Samuel was my GGGrandfather. I am John J Adkins, Jr.