From Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas by the Godspeed Publishing Co., 1890 Mempstead County, pg 388, which has been enhanced to include links for the family members, when possible:
"William Adams is one of the prosperous planters of Noland Township, and owes his nativity to Washington County, Ga., where he was born on July 17, 1825, a son of Harmon and Fannie (Hodges) Adams. The father was born in North Carolina, in 1800, and reared on a farm in that State. After reaching years of discretion, he chose that occupation as his calling in life, and followed it with marked success until his death. He was married in Washington County, Ga., in 1823, to Miss Fannie Hodges, a native of Georgia, born in 1790, and their marriage was blessed with two children, the subject of this sketch being the elder, and Lizzie. The father was a soldier in the Indian War. He passed from life in 1873, in full communion with the Baptist Church. His wife died in Georgia in 1844. The marriage of our subject occurred in Pike County, Ark., in 1846, to Miss Mary A. Smith (Smyth), daughter of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (McClure) Smith, and they became the parents of ten children - five sons and five daughters - nine of whom survive. They are John S., William H., Thomas J., James H., Robert T., Sarah E. (the wife of Samuel Gee, a prosperous merchant at Prescott), Margaret J. (wife of James Purtle, a well to do farmer of this county), Mary F. (wife of William Cannon, a successful farmer, also of this county), and Lucrine [Lula]. When the late war was at its height, Mr. Adams enlisted (in 1863) in Company C, Nineteenth Infantry, and served his cause faithfully until the close of the war, when he returned to his home and resumed his farming operations, in which he has since successfully continued. He owns a valuable farm of 440 acres of good farming land, well improved and under an excellent state of cultivation, and raises cotton and corn principally. He believes in the doctrines of the Baptist Church, of which denomination he is an honored member."
The 1910 Census shows William and Mary, with grandchildren Edna and Otis (children of Lula Landers), in Clyde, Callahan County, Texas.
A Probate Case File in the Court of Callahan County, Texas, June Term, 1911 reads:
"Now comes your petitioner, Mary A. Adams, and respectfully shows to the court that she resides in Callahan County, Texas; that William Adams is dead; that he died at Clyde, in Callahan County, Texas, on the 19th, day of April A.D. 1911; that the said deceased was at the time of his death a resident of Callahan County, Texas."
"William Adams is one of the prosperous planters of Noland Township, and owes his nativity to Washington County, Ga., where he was born on July 17, 1825, a son of Harmon and Fannie (Hodges) Adams. The father was born in North Carolina, in 1800, and reared on a farm in that State. After reaching years of discretion, he chose that occupation as his calling in life, and followed it with marked success until his death. He was married in Washington County, Ga., in 1823, to Miss Fannie Hodges, a native of Georgia, born in 1790, and their marriage was blessed with two children, the subject of this sketch being the elder, and Lizzie. The father was a soldier in the Indian War. He passed from life in 1873, in full communion with the Baptist Church. His wife died in Georgia in 1844. The marriage of our subject occurred in Pike County, Ark., in 1846, to Miss Mary A. Smith (Smyth), daughter of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (McClure) Smith, and they became the parents of ten children - five sons and five daughters - nine of whom survive. They are John S., William H., Thomas J., James H., Robert T., Sarah E. (the wife of Samuel Gee, a prosperous merchant at Prescott), Margaret J. (wife of James Purtle, a well to do farmer of this county), Mary F. (wife of William Cannon, a successful farmer, also of this county), and Lucrine [Lula]. When the late war was at its height, Mr. Adams enlisted (in 1863) in Company C, Nineteenth Infantry, and served his cause faithfully until the close of the war, when he returned to his home and resumed his farming operations, in which he has since successfully continued. He owns a valuable farm of 440 acres of good farming land, well improved and under an excellent state of cultivation, and raises cotton and corn principally. He believes in the doctrines of the Baptist Church, of which denomination he is an honored member."
The 1910 Census shows William and Mary, with grandchildren Edna and Otis (children of Lula Landers), in Clyde, Callahan County, Texas.
A Probate Case File in the Court of Callahan County, Texas, June Term, 1911 reads:
"Now comes your petitioner, Mary A. Adams, and respectfully shows to the court that she resides in Callahan County, Texas; that William Adams is dead; that he died at Clyde, in Callahan County, Texas, on the 19th, day of April A.D. 1911; that the said deceased was at the time of his death a resident of Callahan County, Texas."
From Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas by the Godspeed Publishing Co., 1890 Mempstead County, pg 388, which has been enhanced to include links for the family members, when possible:
"William Adams is one of the prosperous planters of Noland Township, and owes his nativity to Washington County, Ga., where he was born on July 17, 1825, a son of Harmon and Fannie (Hodges) Adams. The father was born in North Carolina, in 1800, and reared on a farm in that State. After reaching years of discretion, he chose that occupation as his calling in life, and followed it with marked success until his death. He was married in Washington County, Ga., in 1823, to Miss Fannie Hodges, a native of Georgia, born in 1790, and their marriage was blessed with two children, the subject of this sketch being the elder, and Lizzie. The father was a soldier in the Indian War. He passed from life in 1873, in full communion with the Baptist Church. His wife died in Georgia in 1844. The marriage of our subject occurred in Pike County, Ark., in 1846, to Miss Mary A. Smith (Smyth), daughter of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (McClure) Smith, and they became the parents of ten children - five sons and five daughters - nine of whom survive. They are John S., William H., Thomas J., James H., Robert T., Sarah E. (the wife of Samuel Gee, a prosperous merchant at Prescott), Margaret J. (wife of James Purtle, a well to do farmer of this county), Mary F. (wife of William Cannon, a successful farmer, also of this county), and Lucrine [Lula]. When the late war was at its height, Mr. Adams enlisted (in 1863) in Company C, Nineteenth Infantry, and served his cause faithfully until the close of the war, when he returned to his home and resumed his farming operations, in which he has since successfully continued. He owns a valuable farm of 440 acres of good farming land, well improved and under an excellent state of cultivation, and raises cotton and corn principally. He believes in the doctrines of the Baptist Church, of which denomination he is an honored member."
The 1910 Census shows William and Mary, with grandchildren Edna and Otis (children of Lula Landers), in Clyde, Callahan County, Texas.
A Probate Case File in the Court of Callahan County, Texas, June Term, 1911 reads:
"Now comes your petitioner, Mary A. Adams, and respectfully shows to the court that she resides in Callahan County, Texas; that William Adams is dead; that he died at Clyde, in Callahan County, Texas, on the 19th, day of April A.D. 1911; that the said deceased was at the time of his death a resident of Callahan County, Texas."
"William Adams is one of the prosperous planters of Noland Township, and owes his nativity to Washington County, Ga., where he was born on July 17, 1825, a son of Harmon and Fannie (Hodges) Adams. The father was born in North Carolina, in 1800, and reared on a farm in that State. After reaching years of discretion, he chose that occupation as his calling in life, and followed it with marked success until his death. He was married in Washington County, Ga., in 1823, to Miss Fannie Hodges, a native of Georgia, born in 1790, and their marriage was blessed with two children, the subject of this sketch being the elder, and Lizzie. The father was a soldier in the Indian War. He passed from life in 1873, in full communion with the Baptist Church. His wife died in Georgia in 1844. The marriage of our subject occurred in Pike County, Ark., in 1846, to Miss Mary A. Smith (Smyth), daughter of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (McClure) Smith, and they became the parents of ten children - five sons and five daughters - nine of whom survive. They are John S., William H., Thomas J., James H., Robert T., Sarah E. (the wife of Samuel Gee, a prosperous merchant at Prescott), Margaret J. (wife of James Purtle, a well to do farmer of this county), Mary F. (wife of William Cannon, a successful farmer, also of this county), and Lucrine [Lula]. When the late war was at its height, Mr. Adams enlisted (in 1863) in Company C, Nineteenth Infantry, and served his cause faithfully until the close of the war, when he returned to his home and resumed his farming operations, in which he has since successfully continued. He owns a valuable farm of 440 acres of good farming land, well improved and under an excellent state of cultivation, and raises cotton and corn principally. He believes in the doctrines of the Baptist Church, of which denomination he is an honored member."
The 1910 Census shows William and Mary, with grandchildren Edna and Otis (children of Lula Landers), in Clyde, Callahan County, Texas.
A Probate Case File in the Court of Callahan County, Texas, June Term, 1911 reads:
"Now comes your petitioner, Mary A. Adams, and respectfully shows to the court that she resides in Callahan County, Texas; that William Adams is dead; that he died at Clyde, in Callahan County, Texas, on the 19th, day of April A.D. 1911; that the said deceased was at the time of his death a resident of Callahan County, Texas."
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