Sources: Grave marker; the Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881 - 1974; the 1880 United States Federal Census; the Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805 - 1967; and Leonard and Paulette Horton (1996), "In Memory of You, An Educational Legacy".
Parents and Siblings
Nelson Leon Adams was born on October 29, 1876 to Nelson and Sophia Showers Adams. According to the 1880 Federal Census, the Nelson family was living in Whistler, Mobile County Alabama and consisted of the following household members: Nelson Adams (age 36), head of household, Sophy (Sophia), his wife; sons Hiram (age 15) and Nelson Leon (age 3); and daughters Jane (age 7), Rosa (age 7), and Minnie (age 2).
Family Life
Nelson Leon Adams married Dora Woods in Mobile, Alabama on January 19, 1899, and later moved to Plateau, Alabama, where they raised their seven children, Irene (1899), Lucille (1901), Iona (1903), Essie (1905), LaDresta (1907), Clifton (1908), and Nelson (1915).
Nelson was a businessman primarily dealing in real estate where he built as well as rented homes along with his son Clifton. He was also a community leader and was heavily involved in the political, educational, civic and religious life of Mobile County. During the 1940s he was in charge of a voting precinct in Mobile County; was chairman of the Deacon Board of the Yorktown Baptist Church; and organized numerous fraternal organizations in the Plateau Community. He was also chairman of the committee that purchased the first piece of land for the improvement of what was to become the Mobile County Training School.
He died at the age of eighty-four in Plateau, Alabama and was interred in Old Plateau Cemetery. His daughters pursued teaching careers; his son Nelson was a school principal in Florida and his son Clifton followed in the footsteps of his father pursuing a career in business.
The Nelson Leon Adams Middle School, located in Saraland, Mobile County, Alabama, was named in his honor and dedicated September 17, 1967.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
Parents and Siblings
Nelson Leon Adams was born on October 29, 1876 to Nelson and Sophia Showers Adams. According to the 1880 Federal Census, the Nelson family was living in Whistler, Mobile County Alabama and consisted of the following household members: Nelson Adams (age 36), head of household, Sophy (Sophia), his wife; sons Hiram (age 15) and Nelson Leon (age 3); and daughters Jane (age 7), Rosa (age 7), and Minnie (age 2).
Family Life
Nelson Leon Adams married Dora Woods in Mobile, Alabama on January 19, 1899, and later moved to Plateau, Alabama, where they raised their seven children, Irene (1899), Lucille (1901), Iona (1903), Essie (1905), LaDresta (1907), Clifton (1908), and Nelson (1915).
Nelson was a businessman primarily dealing in real estate where he built as well as rented homes along with his son Clifton. He was also a community leader and was heavily involved in the political, educational, civic and religious life of Mobile County. During the 1940s he was in charge of a voting precinct in Mobile County; was chairman of the Deacon Board of the Yorktown Baptist Church; and organized numerous fraternal organizations in the Plateau Community. He was also chairman of the committee that purchased the first piece of land for the improvement of what was to become the Mobile County Training School.
He died at the age of eighty-four in Plateau, Alabama and was interred in Old Plateau Cemetery. His daughters pursued teaching careers; his son Nelson was a school principal in Florida and his son Clifton followed in the footsteps of his father pursuing a career in business.
The Nelson Leon Adams Middle School, located in Saraland, Mobile County, Alabama, was named in his honor and dedicated September 17, 1967.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
Sources: Grave marker; the Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881 - 1974; the 1880 United States Federal Census; the Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805 - 1967; and Leonard and Paulette Horton (1996), "In Memory of You, An Educational Legacy".
Parents and Siblings
Nelson Leon Adams was born on October 29, 1876 to Nelson and Sophia Showers Adams. According to the 1880 Federal Census, the Nelson family was living in Whistler, Mobile County Alabama and consisted of the following household members: Nelson Adams (age 36), head of household, Sophy (Sophia), his wife; sons Hiram (age 15) and Nelson Leon (age 3); and daughters Jane (age 7), Rosa (age 7), and Minnie (age 2).
Family Life
Nelson Leon Adams married Dora Woods in Mobile, Alabama on January 19, 1899, and later moved to Plateau, Alabama, where they raised their seven children, Irene (1899), Lucille (1901), Iona (1903), Essie (1905), LaDresta (1907), Clifton (1908), and Nelson (1915).
Nelson was a businessman primarily dealing in real estate where he built as well as rented homes along with his son Clifton. He was also a community leader and was heavily involved in the political, educational, civic and religious life of Mobile County. During the 1940s he was in charge of a voting precinct in Mobile County; was chairman of the Deacon Board of the Yorktown Baptist Church; and organized numerous fraternal organizations in the Plateau Community. He was also chairman of the committee that purchased the first piece of land for the improvement of what was to become the Mobile County Training School.
He died at the age of eighty-four in Plateau, Alabama and was interred in Old Plateau Cemetery. His daughters pursued teaching careers; his son Nelson was a school principal in Florida and his son Clifton followed in the footsteps of his father pursuing a career in business.
The Nelson Leon Adams Middle School, located in Saraland, Mobile County, Alabama, was named in his honor and dedicated September 17, 1967.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
Parents and Siblings
Nelson Leon Adams was born on October 29, 1876 to Nelson and Sophia Showers Adams. According to the 1880 Federal Census, the Nelson family was living in Whistler, Mobile County Alabama and consisted of the following household members: Nelson Adams (age 36), head of household, Sophy (Sophia), his wife; sons Hiram (age 15) and Nelson Leon (age 3); and daughters Jane (age 7), Rosa (age 7), and Minnie (age 2).
Family Life
Nelson Leon Adams married Dora Woods in Mobile, Alabama on January 19, 1899, and later moved to Plateau, Alabama, where they raised their seven children, Irene (1899), Lucille (1901), Iona (1903), Essie (1905), LaDresta (1907), Clifton (1908), and Nelson (1915).
Nelson was a businessman primarily dealing in real estate where he built as well as rented homes along with his son Clifton. He was also a community leader and was heavily involved in the political, educational, civic and religious life of Mobile County. During the 1940s he was in charge of a voting precinct in Mobile County; was chairman of the Deacon Board of the Yorktown Baptist Church; and organized numerous fraternal organizations in the Plateau Community. He was also chairman of the committee that purchased the first piece of land for the improvement of what was to become the Mobile County Training School.
He died at the age of eighty-four in Plateau, Alabama and was interred in Old Plateau Cemetery. His daughters pursued teaching careers; his son Nelson was a school principal in Florida and his son Clifton followed in the footsteps of his father pursuing a career in business.
The Nelson Leon Adams Middle School, located in Saraland, Mobile County, Alabama, was named in his honor and dedicated September 17, 1967.
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
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