When Joseph Burgess Adams was born on 22 February 1872, in Hickory Valley, Winn, Louisiana, United States, his father, John Cheasmond Adams, was 28 and his mother, Mary Melvina Lawrence, was 26. He married Lucy Magdalene Thornton on 8 November 1893, in Winn, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Winn, Louisiana, United States for about 50 years and Sikes, Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He died on 30 May 1955, in Winnfield, Winn, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 83.
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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.
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