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 Abt 1759 - 1830 (~ 71 years)
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| Name |
Spencer James ADAMS [1, 2] |
| Birth |
Abt 1759 |
Louden Co., VA  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
12 Oct 1830 |
Selma, Dallas Co., AL [3] |
| Person ID |
I7874 |
Rootballs |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
John Hobbs ADAMS, Sr., b. Abt 1727, Stafford Co., VA d. Abt 1804, Roaring River, Wilkes Co., NC (Age ~ 77 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Ann CAUDILL, b. Abt 1732, Fairfax Co., VA d. Abt 1803, Roaring River, Wilkes Co., NC (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Marriage |
Abt 1746 |
Fairfax Co., VA [3] |
| Family ID |
F114 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Nancy IRVIN, b. Abt 1770 d. Aft 1830, Selma, Dallas Co., AL (Age ~ 61 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1795 |
Wilkesborough, Wilkes Co., NC [4] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F3042 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Family 2 |
Nancy Ann CAUDILL |
| Children |
| | 1. John A. ADAMS, b. Abt 1780 d. Abt 1861, Dallas Co., AL (Age ~ 81 years) [Natural] |
| | 2. Benjamin ADAMS, b. Abt 1785, Prob. Wilkes Co., NC [Natural] |
| | 3. Jane ADAMS, b. Abt 1787, Rowan Co., NC d. Abt 1860 (Age ~ 73 years) [Natural] |
| | 4. William ADAMS, b. Abt 1790 [Natural] |
| | 5. Elizabeth Ann ADAMS, b. Abt 1791, Wilkes Co., NC d. Abt 1853, Cedar Co., MO (Age ~ 62 years) [Natural] |
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| Family ID |
F1792 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Family 3 |
Ann ?, b. Abt 1760 d. Abt 1795, Roaring River, Wilkes Co., NC (Age ~ 35 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1778 |
Dobson, Surry Co., NC [4] |
| Family ID |
F3041 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
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| Notes |
- 1."Spencer was a prominent farmer, minister, and businessman. He lived in the Traphill area of Wilkes Co. as early as 1784 and was very active in religious, political and business activities in the county for the next twenty years.
Sometime before 1803, he went to eastern Kentucky and ran a series of revival meetings in the Regular Baptist churches there. He returned to Wilkes Co. where he organised a wagon train, and in the fall of 1803, with his family, his brothers John and Benjamin, their families and some of his neighbors, set out for Kentucky. They went by way of the Holston and Clinch Rivers to Pound Gap, Virginia and turned left down to the north fork of the Kentucky River where they camped. A big snow fell that night, and after a conference they decided to settle there.
Shortly thereafter, Spencer was appointed a Magistrate and later a deputy sheriff. He was a Captain in the War of 1812 and in 1817, was elected high sheriff of Floyd Co., Kentucky. He was a real estate and livestock dealer. He also served as pastor of Indian Bottom church, the Sandlick church and the Castlewood church in Russel Co., Va.
In 1821, he sold his holdings in Kentucky and with his sons and sons-in-law moved to Dallas Co., Alabama. In Alabama, he acquired a large amount of land and slaves. He disposed of his slaves in his will, which was probated in 1830, giving each of his children two. The rest of the slaves were not to be sold out of the Adams family." - Heritage of Wilkes Co., p.79.
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5.Spencer is also listed as a founding member of Indiam Bottom church in Blackey, Ky. Refer to http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyletch/articles/ib_church.htm.
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| Sources |
- [S218] Mrs. W.O. Absher, editor, Heritage of Wilkes Co. 1982, (Name: The Wilkes Genealogical Society, Inc.;), p.79.
- [S117] Dorothy A. Griffith and Robert E. Parkin, Adams Families of Southeast Kentucky, (Name: (c)1986;), p.60.
- [S275] Seymour, Wallace.
- [S143] Caudill, B.K.
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