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Jack Adams (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1817-01-02 d. 1890-01-21

Rockcastle County, Kentucky, merchant. Missouri native. Married to Lucy Hiatt Adams. Father of Celia Adams, Willis Adams, Jack Adams Jr., Lucy Adams, and Ida Adams. Merchant in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed William Proctor as a merchant in Rockcastle County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Rockcastle County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, p. 578-9.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, p. 206A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Mount Vernon, p. 35A.

"Capt. Jack Adams (1870-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #6123867, accessed September 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6123867.

Citation

Adams, Jack. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279884 (November 12, 2026).

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