William Adams

Birth Date

1798-02-07

Death Date

1888-02-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary A. Bright Adams. Father of William C. Adams, Sarah G. Adams, Georgetta Adams, John Q. Adams, and Jesse D. B. Adams. Owned twenty enslaved persons in 1850. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in 1860. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 36.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 2-3.
Find A Grave, "William Adams (Birth-Death)," Memorial #89299846, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89299846 (accessed April 11, 2017).

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