Comment on Adkins by Ethel

Parker and Elijah Adkins are my direct ancestors,
I haven’t seen on any records that Elijah changed his last name to Atkins to Adkins.
There is a record that shows Elijah born 1771 or 1772, and not 1764 or 1765.
He married Nancy Hunter February 1790 in Virginia.
In 1831 Elijah appears in Tennessee.
Elijah is not with Nancy in the 1840 census, but I believe she is with her Daughter in Tennessee then.
Richard, Lewis and Nancy Atkins, we the Family believe are children of Morris Atkins of Grainger Co., Tennessee, and not Elijah’s.
Morris possibly being the Son of the Older Richard Adkins, Parker’s Brother.