This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins Atkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AJ.2ADIB/1985 Message Board Post: Found while researching my Ad(t)kins in Wisconsin... Filed with Iowa Co., WI, Register of Probate... ====================== Territory of Wisconsin Iowa County "Know all men by these presents that we Walter W. Adkins and Abner Adkins of the Territory of Wisconsin, do hereby constitute and appoint Hartford Anderson of Scott County Missouri to be our true and lawful attorney, for us in the settling up of our grandfather, Edward Adkins estate late of Pittsylvania County Virginia. ........... .......this 3rd day of April A.D. 1844" **** * No other references to family made **** ====================== Territory of Wisconsin Iowa County The Estate of Walter W. Adkins ... ...dated 5th day of August 1847 **** * No mention of family, heirs, etc. * The property in the estate was sold at auction **** ====================== So far as I can tell, I have no connection to this family. But would like info on Walters and Abners parents and siblings so can identify/match pieces I've collected. And I believe Abner/Abraham had a family, would like to know wife and kids. Please contact me directly, if this is your family. *