Brief Life History of Bluford
When Bluford Adams was born on 8 October 1865, his father, Abe Low Adams, was 47 and his mother, Gemima Adams, was 37. He married Mattie Lou Taylor on 30 September 1886, in Casey, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Liberty, Casey, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 26 March 1950, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in New Crown Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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- Blue Adams, "United States Census, 1930"
- Blue Adams, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Blue Adams, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1874
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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