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/lMB.2ACI/541.1570.1 Message Board Post: don't know if this will help you or not. In 1957 went to Careyville Tenn. to see husbands grandfather who was 92. On the wall of his house was a tin type picture of settlers around a conestoga wagon, I commented on it and "grandpa" said oh yes I was born on a wagon train..........so here he was back in Tenn. He also contended that the name Adkins should be spelled with capital A and K and that it was of german ancestry. There are a number of AdKins around Careyville and La Follette Tenn......maybe some one from there could help you more...........(ps. not only was he back in Tenn. but that is where he raised his family, and they were coal miners).