My husbands family comes from Butler county,KY. His grandfather was John Henry Adkins (married Nancy Cardwell) and his great grandfather was Samuel Adkins (married Mary Polly Phelps). Family tradition is that they are Cherokee descent and are part of the Eastern Band that avoided the removal and fled to the mountains. Someone in an earlier post asked about the Adkins from around Charles City Va. We came across a host of Adkins in an old Chickahominy Tribe cemetary. Several of the chiefs had been Adkins.
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