Brief Life History of Gibson Lee
When Gibson Lee Adams was born on 25 August 1862, in Texas, United States, his father, Isaac Gibson Adams, was 41 and his mother, Lucinda Casbeer, was 14. He married Georgia Stroud about 1882, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Burnet, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 10 January 1931, in Comanche, Texas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States.
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- Gip Adamas in household of Gip Adamas, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gibson L. Adams - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Gibson Lee "Gip" Adams
- Gibson Lee Adams, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865 · Juneteenth (Slaves Were Freed)
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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.
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