11 Tuesday Mar 2014
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Big Sandy Valley, Civil War, Culture of Honor, Harts, Lincoln County Feud, Music, Timber
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Al Brumfield, Appalachia, Blood in West Virginia, Brandon Kirk, Cain Adkins, feud, Green McCoy, Henderson Dingess, history, John W Runyon, Lincoln County, Paris Brumfield, West Virginia, writers, writing
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My name is Ronald Andrew Adkins. I am a descendant of Adkins and Brumfield from Lincoln County West Virginia. I have been told my great-great-great grandfather Lewis Adkins was one of the richest men in the county due to timber sales purchased by the railroad for coal mining. He married Emmazetta Brumfield and they had one son together, Sampson Adkins. Emmazetta helped raise the other children Lewis had from his first marriage. Sampson had to move to Union in Cabell county years later after an incarceration for a shootout with the Lucas brothers in his home. There seems to have been an altercation in the home on Christmas 1904 and Samp’s daughter Octavia Adkins, who was engaged to one of the Lucas brothers, was shot by the Lucas’. Samp Adkins retaliated by shooting the brothers after a heated gunfight.
Hi, Ronald. As you likely know, Emmazetta was a sister to my ancestor, Paris Brumfield. Paris appears as a character in my book, “Blood in West Virginia.” Over the years, I have spent considerable time researching the Ranger-area Adkins family, particularly Hansford Adkins. The Lucas brothers who were killed in Ranger were half-brothers to my great-grandfather, Winferd Lucas. I have heard several versions of the story of their deaths. I hope we cross paths sometime soon and can discuss these events in further detail.