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/FBB.2ACE/758.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know where Wallins, Kentucky is, and I've never heard of a place by that name in Letche county Also, I had some of the sheriff terms as 5 years when they should have been for 4 years on the previous posting. At the start of the 1900's Adams was the most common surname in Letcher county. There were three different sets of Adamses at that time in letcher county. It is very possible that James E. Adams as sheriff was mentioned in some of the old newspapers.