Archibald Stewart Adams

Brief Life History of Archibald Stewart

When Archibald Stewart Adams was born on 15 June 1820, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, his father, Archibald Clinton Adams, was 39 and his mother, France McClure Dryden, was 30. He married Mary Abbarilda Smith on 9 August 1860, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Robberson Township, Greene, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Franklin Number 2 Township, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 7 February 1880, in Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mount Comfort Cemetery, Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Archibald Stewart Adams
1820–1880
Mary Abbarilda Smith
1841–1906
Marriage: 9 August 1860
Valetta Ann Adams
1862–1935
William Adams
1865–

Sources (6)

  • Stephen Adams, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860"
  • A. S. Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Archibold S Adams, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

1833

Historical Boundaries: 1833: Greene, Missouri, United States

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .

Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.

History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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