When Joan Elizabeth Adams was born on 6 November 1953, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, her father, Carl Lindal Adams, was 27 and her mother, Billie Lou Birkhead, was 25. She died on 18 November 2004, in Grove, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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1926–1980 Male
1927–2005 Female
1953–2004 Female
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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