Comment on Adkins by Stan Adkins

Sheila and Gina,
Well, by now you guys hopefully have seen the emails and pics sent to you from Roberta and myself concerning our recent trip to Carrollton to meet Glen Hill (descendant of Joseph), and our trip to the genealogy center Glen runs and the Big Adkins Cemetary.
It was an extraordinary trip and there will be more pics to come. I bought several Carroll county history books, the earliest published in 1882. They tell every detail of the counties history, who fought on each side of the Civil War, the battles they were in, killed, captured, and so on. Several Adkins played critical roles in the Mormon Wars as well in 1833. For example When the pioneers were driving the Mormons out of the town of DeWitt, Roland Adkins, who had the only mill in the eastern part of the county, supplied the militia with meal from his mill everyday during the 10 day seige, and fought in the action as well. George, Wm., and John all played a role in the events and Em. and George were both members of the first grand jury of the county, as John was a member of the 2nd grand jury 6 mo’s later. There is much, much more but that’s a glimpse of what can be found in these books. I wanted to say thank you again to you, Gina, and my dear cousin Roberta for all you three have done in helping me to discover the family I never knew I had and helping me to connect to my great and wonderful heritage. It would not be an overstatement to say our family truly makes up part of the sinew, muscle and spirit that has made our country great. God bless, Stan Adkins.