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Elliott County’s Confederate Civil War Veterans By John A. Stegall johnstegall@hotmail.com . Used with permission of Mr. John A. Stegall. One installment in a series of articles Mr. John A. Stegall prepares and publishes in The Elliott County News, this article first appearing in the Friday, June 18, 1999 edition of said paper . Transcribed with permission from the author by Samone Ratcliff. on Nov 16, 1999.
Samuel S. Adkins: Records indicate that Samuel S. Adkins entered military service Oct
21, 1961, at West Liberty, Morgan Co, KY and was assigned to Co. B, Fifth Reg,t Inf., Ky., Vol.
By the end of his term of service, he listed as 2nd Lt. The term of service for this particular
Company was for one year, therefore, we may assume that this veteran was mustered out on Oct.
20, 1862.
I should point out that a Samuel Adkins entered military service on Oct 23, 1861 in
Prestonsburg, however, I cannot determine whether he was the Samuel S. Adkins who
volunteered on Oct 21 in West Liberty.
When the 1870 Elliott County census was taken Samuel S. Adkins was living in the
Martinsburg Precinct, in, or very near, the village by that name. Sandy Hook was listed as his
post office. When the census taker enumerated this particular family on Aug 18, 1870, Samuel
indicated that he was 32 years of age, and gave his occupation as “County Court Clerk”. His
wife, Abigail, was 28 years old, and their only child, John W., was 1 year old.
Morgan Co. KY marriage records show that a Samuel S. Adkins and Abigail Barker were
married on June 23, 1867. If the census record for 1860 is correct, Abigail was a daughter of
William and Jane Fraley Barker (Morgan Co. marriage records indicate that William Barker and
Jane Fraley were married Nov 15, 1831).
When the 1880 Elliott County census was taken, Samuel S. Adkins was not found living
in that county. In fact, he may have been a resident of the Redwine community in Morgan Co.
One of his descendants living in California a few years ago had this to say: “ Samuel Seaton
Adkins and Rebecca Abigail Barker Adkins, lived in and around West Liberty and Redwine,
probably following 1870. Samuel Seaton was wounded as a Rebel in the Civil War, spent time
in prison and eventually died of his wounds (1883). After the Civil War, as a teacher, he
apparently could handle pen and ink well enough to keep the county records for those elected to
such office as County Clerk. I am not too sure whether it was Morgan Co. or Elliott, maybe
both. After Samuel died, leaving “Aunt Abigail”, as she was regularly known, with six kids, she
married an Adams and lived in another community in KY”. (Morgan Co. marriage records do
not show a marriage record for Abigail and a Adams, therefore the marriage could have occurred
in Elliott Co., and if so, the record probably burned in the courthouse fire.) The descendent
continues: “Eldest son, John William Adkins, set out for Indiana in about 1890. My grandfather,
Robert Weaver Adkins, the second son, married Atlas Crisp at The Ridge in Oct of 1897, and
they began to have their eleven children before they and Abigail and the rest of her brood moved
to Clarence, Ill. and environs to join John William Adkins an the beginnings of his eleven
children”.
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