Brief Life History of David Thetford
When David Thetford Adams was born on 10 July 1884, in Juniper, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, his father, David Edward Adams, was 32 and his mother, Caroline Henrietta Lind, was 26. He married May Elvina Thompson on 1 October 1911, in Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1900 and Central, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1920. He died on 25 October 1923, in Miami, Gila, Arizona, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Central Cemetery, Central, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- David T Adams, "United States Census, 1920"
- David T Adams, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
- David Thilford Adams, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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Newspaper Report of David Adams' Death
On Thursday, October 25, 1923, a Miami, Arizona newspaper reported the following: DAVID ADAMS ACCIDENTLY KILLED IN LIVE OAK MINE News of the accidental death of David L. [sic, should have been a T.] A …
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