ABRAM ADKINS, farmer, P. O. Beetown; born in 1843 in Morgan Co., Ky.; was a son of Joseph and Nancy Adkins; came to Wisconsin in 1845, and located near Lancaster, where he resided for ten years; then to Iowa Co., Wis., where he lived four years; returned to Grant Co. again in 1878, located near Beetown. Married in 1870, to Miss Serena Campbell, a daughter of Harrison Campbell; has four children - Flora L., Thomas C., Frank L., Lulie G.; was Road Overseer one term; was Constable one term in the town of Woodman; has 50 acres of land, valued at $1,000. Enlisted in the 5th W. V. I., Co. I, afterward Co. B; was a scout under Gen. Sheridan eighteen months; marched with Lee as a spy the day before his surrender, and took back to camp a rebel prisoner; he served three years and four months. Politics, Republican.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.