Adams-POWG-3\last - gslat
Subject: Adams-POWG-3\last
From: gslat
Date: December 28, 1999

ADAMS, H. HOPEWELL	1769-1847 	WASHINGTON

Horace Hopewell Adams, Jr. was born July 22, 1769 in Edgecombe County, 
North Carolina, the son of Hopewell and Elizabeth Adams of Edgecombe 
County. Hopewell Adams, Jr. married Nancy Manning, born April 10, 1783 in 
Edgecombe County, the daughter of Benjamin Manning, Sr. Hopewell and Nancy 
Adams had eleven children:

1. Pharaby	b. 7/21/1799, m. Wm. D. "Billy" Jordan, 1817.
	d. 1/11/1856.	b. 10,(10/1797, d. 1/22/1851.
2. James Aaron	b. 12/18/1801, m. Elizabeth Brown Hudson.
3. Elizabeth	b. 10/10/1803, m. Abijah Wiggins, moved to Henry County, Ala.
4. John W.	b. 7/30/1807,
5. Levy Arnold	b. 3/26/1810,
6. Benjamin	b. 5/16/1812, m. Ardelia Tanner, 3/7/I839. d. 11/12/1863.
7. Alsy	b. 8/3/1814., m. Thomas Jordan, 10/26/1840.
8. Nancy	b. 5/17/1816
9. Hopewell, III	b. 8/14/1818, m. 1) Julia Ann Amanda Mathis., d. 
4/23/1897, 2) Nancy Wiggins.
10.Jordan	b. 1/4/1823, m. Mary Susan Mathis.
11. Rebecca	b. 1/31/1824, m. 1) Wm. H. Tanner, d. 5/27/1907, 2) Heskial 
Newsome.

Hopewell Adams and his wife, Nancy, were members of Bethlehem Baptist 
Church at Warthen, Georgia. This church had as it's pastor, Nancy's 
brother, Rev. Benjamin Manning. They left this church to become charter 
members of Sisters Church when it was formed in 1824.
Nancy Manning Adams died June 15, 1842. Hopewell Adams died June 15, 1847 
near Warthen, Georgia.
Contributed by: Jean Adams Walker of Jesup, Georgia.

ADAMS, LASA (p. 1) : His wife, Orphalee, was born July 25, 1825.

ADAMS, LASA (p. 1): His son, Dennis Adams, was married March 26, 1868, in 
Hillsborough County, Fla., to Mrs. Emily Pollock.

ADAMS, WILLIAM R. (p. 18): (1) His name appears in the 1850 Census of Ware 
County as "Willoby" Adams, and in the 1860 Census of Coffee County as 
"Wiley" Adams. (2) His application for bounty land for services in the 
Indian War, was executed Sept. 30, 1850, in Clinch county (where he was at 
the time residing), and stated he was fifty years old; that he volunteered 
April 3, 1838, at "Troublesome" (now Statenville) and served under Capt. 
David R. Byran in his company of Lowndes County militia, and was honorably 
discharged there July 22, 1838, also that volunteered Oct. 25, 1838 for 
three months and served as a private under Capt. Byran. On April 17, 1855, 
his second application for bounty land was made under the Act of Congress 
approved March 3, 1855, and it set up service as a private under Capt. Wm. 
C. Newbern, Oct. 1837, to January 1838. Both applications were granted. (3) 
He and his wife had another son who was overlooked in writing the sketch in 
Vol. 1. His name was Willoughby Adams, born 1828, married Ann Harrell, 
daughter of Lovett and Susan Harrell of Coffee County.

ADAMS, MILES (p. 1).: (1) His daughter, Anna was born 1821, and married 
Anderson W. Miller in Irwin County, June 17, 1841. The latter's name was 
erroneously printed as "Mitchell". (2) Mrs. Adams, the widow, applied for a 
dowry April 23, 1844, out of land lots 181 and 199, Ist district Irwin 
County, located on the Ocmulgee River, according to Irwin County court 
minutes. These two lots were his home-place lands.

ADAMS, DENNIS - VOL.VII: There is no proof that his first wife was 
Elizabeth Cason.

ADAMS, LASA - VOL.l. He was a grandson of Colson Adams and wife, Rachel 
Cason Adams.

ADAMS, FRANK - VOL. IX: Child # 6, Mamie West (Adams) Smith, d. 3/2/1987, 
Bradenton, Fla. She is bur., Valdosta, Lowndes Co., Ga.,


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