Notes for Daniel 'Little Dan' ADKINS Lived at Millard, Kentucky, and at times at Fords Branch, Kentucky. Was of short
stature and sported a long white beard down to his belt! Very piercing blue
eyes. He was a great practical joker. Martha Adkins Slone relates an incident to
bear this out. 'Little Dan' had caught a large rat at the mill. He skinned it and
left it with two of Martha's sisters, telling them it was a squirrel. He told the
women that he had to go to Pikeville but would return early in the afternoon and
they could then cook the 'squirrel', and all three of them would eat it. He stressed
the point that the women were to wait until he returned, knowing full well that
they would prepare the meal as soon as he was out of sight. Sure enough, when
'Little Dan' returned from Pikeville, the women had already cooked and eaten the
'squirrel'! When they were convinced that the 'squirrel' was in fact a large rat,
they were both sick for days and neither of them could ever eat squirrel
again. 'Little Dan' did another eccentric thing; he built his own casket [coffin]
and stored it in his barn loft until it was needed and used at his death. [55]
One might question the dates, Little Dan is shown as marrying at just 10 years of
age, although there are examples of child marriages elsewhere in this Adkins
community. [Webmaster]
Family notes for Daniel 'Little Dan' ADKINS and Mary 'Polly' PRATER Daniels p.18.
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