When Adam Singley was born about 1800, in Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Singley, was 40 and his mother, Martha Sibella Kinard, was 37. He married Mary Magdalena Bundrick about 1829, in Newberry, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Greene, Alabama, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 January 1873, in Hale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 73.