Bio: Zacheus F. Adkins, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Zacheus F. Adkins is of Georgian nativity, the year of his birth being 1846,
but since he attained his eighth year he has been a resident of Louisiana,
being brought thither by his parents, Columbus and Ginsey (Alexander) Adkins,
the former born in South Carolina, in 1818, and the latter in Georgia in 1825. 
The paternal grandfather, Zacheus Adkins, was in all probability born in the
State of Virginia, as was also the mother's father, Hiram Alexander.  Zacheus
Adkins, whose name heads this sketch, was educated in the schools of this
parish, and at the early age of nineteen years he was united in the bonds of
matrimony to Miss Mollie McKinzie, a daughter of Lady McKinzie, and they have
reared a worthy family of seven children: Ula G., Eddie E., George W., Alice
m., Lena A., John F. and T. Abbie.  Mr. Adkins has been engaged in the milling
business since 1869, and the work which he does has been remarkably
successful, the patronage which he has attracted to this place for milling
purposes being steadily on the increase.  If close application and study of
the wants of his customers will serve to make a permanent success, Mr. Adkins
has most assuredly deserved the success which has attended his efforts.  He
has at all times endeavored to please and keep with other institutions of a
like nature, and in this he has succeeded admirably.  In addition to his mill,
he owns a valuable and well-tilled plantation of 240 acres.  He has always
been a stanch supporter of Democratic principles.

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