Individual Details

While as teens, William Joseph "Billy Joe" Adkins, Jr., Jefferson Bachus Bowen, and Edmund Fergusson followed an Irish peddeler on a road through Wayne at night. They robbed and killed him and a Davis woman found the body the next day when her horse threw her to the ground. Apparently, she was bought off and sent out "west". The incident never implicated the three men. However forty years later, while on his supposed deathbed, Edmund confessed his role and fingered his companions. When word got to Jeff Bowen he went behind the family log house and slit his throat with a straight razor. Edmund lived but Billy Joe moved to Kentucky for a brief stay. Jeff Bowen's obituary stated he committed suicide because of money problems.

Birth	8 Nov 1817	Cabell County, West Virginia
Marriage	2 Apr 1840	Arminta Adkins

Spouse	Arminta Adkins (1821 - )
Child	Susanna M. Adkins (1841 - )
Child	William Elias Adkins (1843 - )
Child	Polly E. Adkins (1845 - 1912)
Child	Dicy Ann Adkins (1846 - )
Child	Enos "Witcher" Adkins (1847 - )
Child	Parazade Adkins (1849 - 1854)
Child	Louise Adkins (1853 - 1854)
Child	Leander "Leean" Adkins (1856 - )
Child	Harrison Adkins (1860 - )
Child	Clista Adkins (1861 - 1942)
Child	Nancy Adkins (1864 - )

Father	William Joseph "Sleepy Billy" Adkins Sr. (1785 - 1866)
Mother	Magdalene Bowen (1787 - 1859)
Sibling	John "Blackhead" Adkins (1807 - 1876)
Sibling	Enoch C. Adkins (1809 - 1860)
Sibling	Elizabeth "Betty" Adkins (1811 - )
Sibling	Mary Levon "Molly" Adkins (1813 - 1890)
Sibling	Nancy Barrett Adkins (1815 - 1880)
Sibling	Lemach Adkins (1819 - 1877)
Sibling	Tillman Crockett Adkins (1822 - )