Comment on Adkins by Stan Adkins

In the Carroll County History indexes, (stapled paper booklets), it shows the three generations of William, Joseph, and John. I know there was a brother John who died in Ky. before the family came to Missouri, but who is this elder John in Missouri about the same age as William and Joseph in the history book?
Maybe I should go back and make sure it doesn’t say he had died, but it has all his kids, grandkids. Grt. grandkids???????