Shiela,
It was so nice for you to take the time to respond to me personally – I know you must have very little time trying to answer all the posts and inquiries you get. I appreciate it very much.
I sent you another inquiry about your response to my inquiry of 8/19/2010 – You indicated you had a picture, or pictures – of James and Nancy Simpson Adkins, or son Amariah. They all were originally from Carroll County, Missouri but later Pulaski County, Missouri. I’m still trying to figure out how and why so many Adkins’s came to Carroll County before Missouri statehood (1820) – or at least before the first census I could find in 1840? I know the trail west out of St Louis came down what was called the Boones Lick Trace (reference to Daniel Boones grandson’s Salt Lick Mines near Arrow Rock in what is now Saline county, on or near the Missouri River), to a point that is now west of Columbia, Missouri in the middle of the state. It (the Trail) paralled the Missouri River, naturally.
Two of the local landmarks in the town of Carrollton, county seat of Carroll County today, are two cemetary’s called the “Big” and “Little Adkins” Cemetary’s. I have not been there yet but have talked to local people on the phone and apparently their are literally hundreds of Adkins’s buried their. I thought your readers may want to know this.
Thanks,
Stan Adkins