Son of Bub Adkins, born August 10, 1884, Andrew provided for his family as a tenant farmer. Originally from Cabell County, West Virginia, he brought his wife, Mary Frances Horton, also of Cabell County, and his growing family from early beginnings in Cabell County's Milton and Putnam County's Clymer's Creek, to Cuckleburr Creek (now called Two Mile Creek by Eden's Fork) and Little Sandy Creek in Kanawha County. At one point, the family lived in a small white wood slat house across Little Sandy Creek from the road. The house remains standing and in use today, although it has been moved back from the creek somewhat to avoid the periodic floods that inundate the valley from time to time.

Andrew spent some of his Sundays preaching at a Charleston area Apostolic church, after driving the team in from the family homestead. One of the places he is said to be buried, is in the yard of a church in the Chandler's Branch Road area. This is close to one of the family's earlier homes on Cuckleburr Creek (now called Eden's Fork), and is also close to the Chandler's Branch home of his son and daughter-in-law, Virgil and Dorotha. As he was at home on Chandler's Branch when he departed this realm on February 28, 1931, it is the most likely place. However, his death certificate gives another location, and his obituary gives yet another. One or two other locations have been given as well, and the mortuary's records were destroyed by fire. An unnamed brother came to the funeral from St. Albans, and took the family Bible with him afterward. Hopefully, family members somewhere will know for sure where he was laid to rest, and it can be recorded and a proper stone placed if one is not already there.