Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Carroll Co. CAPT. HENRY H. ADCOCK, a prominent farmer and stock grower of Carroll County, Ky., was born in Nelson County, Va., January 2, 1829, and is the sixth of a family of nine children born to Lawson and Nancy (Gevaudan) Adcock, natives of Virginia, who moved to Carroll County, Ky., in 1844, and settled where Henry H. Adcock now resides. Lawson Adcock died September 12, 1855, and his wife died March 4, 1879. Subject joined the late war in 1812, having previously had charge of home guards. He was commissioned by Gov. McGoffin, and served all through the Confederate war as captain about five years, receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war, at Mount Sterling; he returned to Carroll. January 4, 1866, he married Miss Annie I. Brown, daughter of Franklin and Mary (Garrott) Brown, a native of Carroll County. Five children blessed this union, viz: Leota, Forest, Frank B., John and Anderson. Capt. Adcock is a consistent member of the Baptist Church. Adcock Gevaudan Brown Garrott = Nelson-VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/carroll/adcock.hh.txt