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Subject: [MOCLAY] Edward V. Adkins
Date: 30 Jan 2002 18:33:10 -0700

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Surnames: Adkins
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EDWARD V. (yclept "calhoun") ADKINS
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Liberty).
Mr. Adkins is well recognized as one of the neatest and most enter­prising young fanners of the county. He is a man of thorough collegiate and university education, and is qualified for almost any business where intelligence, culture and energy are required, but has adopted farming and handling stock as his calling entirely from choice, preferring a free and open and independent life of a farmer to that of all others. In his farming operations he has brought his education and good taste to bear the same as he would have done in any other pursuit. He has a good place, large enough for his present purposes, and keeps it in the best of condition. His home and household and all its surroundings are in keeping with the general appearance of his farm, the credit for which is principally due to his refined and excellent wife, who is even more particular than her husband to have everything in presentable order. Mr. Adkins was born in this county May 19, 1845, and was a son of D!
owning 0. Adkins, a well known and highly respected citizen of the county, who came here from Kentucky as early as 1832. Mr. Adkins, Jr., was reared on his father's farm (his father being a successful stock dealer as well as a prominent farmer), and given the best cf educational advantages as he grew up. From the com­mon schools he went to William Jewell College and then to Mount
College, thence to Sidney College, Iowa, and from there to the State University of Missouri, where he completed his general education. Afterwards he took a commercial course at a business college in Lafayette, Ind., where he was honorably graduated. Returning from Indiana he at once engaged in farming in this county, which he has ever since followed. His farm contains 228 acres. November 8 1882, he was married to Miss Susie H. Williams, a daughter of John Williams, of Shawnee Mission, Kas., but formerly from Marshall Mich. She was an invalid at the time other marriage, and survived her wedding day only a week more than a month. Her remains were buried in the cemetery near where Mr. Adkins now resides. She was a lady of singular sweetness and gentleness of disposition, and of a presence and bearing that won all hearts. But Death loves the shining mark, and in the morning of her life his cold and pulseless finger pointed her out for the grave— she was no more. While lo!
ved ones here have sustained a sad bereavement by her loss, heaven has been made brighter by her sweet, gentle spirit. Mr. Adkins was married to his present vvife September 15, 1883. She was a Miss Emma E. Pence, a daughter of Capt. W. H. Pence, and a lady worthy in every way to occupy the place she does in the affection of her devoted hus­band. Mr. Adkins has not neglected the information to be had from travel, but has visited in different parts of the country no less than 17 States. After all the country he has seen he is satisfied there is no place like Clay county for a home. " There is no place like home."

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