Adkins, Brazil Brown (1835-1921)

ADKINS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/4/2016 at 01:06:09

Brazil Brown Adkins

Indianola Herald newspaper, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, Apr 12, 1917, p.3

B. B. Adkins, of Carlisle, was in the city [Indianola] on Wednesday to visit his sister, Mrs. Joe Blake. Mr. Adkins is eighty-two years old, served in the Tenth Iowa in the Civil War, was justice of the peace in Allen township for eighteen years and mayor of Carlisle for four years. Mr. Adkins told us he served on the jury in the “Tear Down” murder case in 1879. Mr. Adkins expects to go to Vicksburg to attend the reunion there this fall.