Comment on Adkins by Stan Adkins

Sheila,
I see a lot about the Ohio branch of the Adkins clan, and I see a lot about the bunch that went to Oklahoma – but I don’t know or see any information that might explain why or when a very large contingent (my branch) of several extended Adkins families came to Carroll County Missouri pre 1840 (earliest state census shows there were several large Adkins families already there) Can you help – and where and why – exactly did these clans come to Carroll County from Kentucky? Also, it seems during the Civil War some members (James Adkins, father of Amariah) headed to south central Missouri (Pulaski County) where they may have been more Adkins. I hope you can help?