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Albert M. ADKINS, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in the late war, in 1862,
and bravely did he fight for Virginia and her rights. He served in the Confederate army, was taken prisoner
and held ten months. Mr. Adkins was born in what is now Lincoln county, West Virginia, August 27, 1844. His
parents are Lewis and Melcena (Hunter) Adkins. In Lincoln county in 1868, Albert M. Adkins wedded Casby J.
Lambert, who was born in Tazewell county, Virginia, in 1843, and whose parents, Jeremiah and Sarah (Hedrick)
Lambert, settled in Lincoln county in 1868. A. M. Adkins is one of the farming population in Laurel Hill
district, dealing to some extent in lumber, and is the possessor of 400 acres of land, situated on Fourteen-mile
creek. A portion of the land is cultivated, and the rest is heavily timbered with oak, poplar, pine and walnut,
and coal and iron ore are found in abundance. Any mail for Albert M. Adkins may be addressed to Fourteen,
Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.