Emma Frances Adams

Brief Life History of Emma Frances

When Emma Frances Adams was born on 4 June 1912, in Mississippi, United States, her father, James Dillard Adams, was 33 and her mother, Nettie Columbia Moore, was 24. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Woodard David Herrington. She lived in Jones, Mississippi, United States in 1950. She died on 6 May 2009, in Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Sharon, Jones, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Woodard David Herrington
1905–
Emma Frances Adams
1912–2009
James David Herrington
1930–2015
Frances Jeanette Herrington
1937–2021

Sources (9)

  • Emma Herrington, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Emma Adams Herrington, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Emma Herrington in entry for James W Or J Adams, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

World Events (8)

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1916 · Mississippi State Sanatorium for TB is Established

The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.

1939 · First Oil Well in Mississippi Located in Yazoo County

Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.

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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