Just an observation concerning the repeated questions folks have had on this blog for the 7 Years I’ve been following and participating, asking “why” would various branches of the family move here or there for what seems no good reason, ie; to Oklahoma, James and Nancy and family to Bloodland after decades in Carroll County?, etc.
The answer that always seems to ultimately appear is, “money”. Money and “land”. Oklahoma promised vast riches in the oil fields. James and Nancy packed up their family and all they owned after living for 40 years in Carroll County and moved to Bloodland for land, free land. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the homestead act, offering free 160 acre tracts to families willing to improve the land. In 1870 James and Nancy Adkins decided 160 acres of flat bottom land sounded better than 40 acres of rocky and craggy land along the bluffs above the Missouri River. and packed up everything they owned and all their kids and headed south to Pulaski County.
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