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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The use of early LDS St. George temple records in 1877 raises the possibility of another son to Joseph2 besides Thomas3 (who on the basis of royal land grants to his father may have beenn born in 1777). I propose an additional son—possibly James3 Adair, born 4 Aug 1770 before Thomas. This is a bit tricky for a couple of reasons, but still a distinct possibility. Let me explain.
One of the enduring research problems on the Utah Adair line for many decades was the ancestry of LDS member Joseph Adair, who the rest of Thomas3's children often identified as "cousin," and who I will for now call Joseph4 (presumably of a fourth generation due to his matching age to Thomas3’s children). Since the whole ancestral tree is quite short at this point, the possible relationship is limited to only three generations including that of the original brothers James1 and Joseph1. Joseph4 has non-disputed and documented birth and death dates/locations of 11 Apr 1806 (Laurens) and 20 Apr 1858 (Southern Utah), but his ancestry beyond the names of his parents was never provided by any of these records or his descendants. He married Rebecca Mangum, which is an early allied family to this line of Adairs stretching back to before they joined the LDS Church in the South. In fact, Rebecca Mangum's siblings Jemima, William, and Mary Ann all married Thomas3's children Samuel Jefferson Adair, Sally Ada Adair, Mary Ann Adair.
In an email to me dated 2 May 2016, Shawn provided the results of auto-sominal genetic testing for two documented descendants of Joseph4 Adair and Rebecca Mangum. Both suggested descendancy through James1 and his son Joseph2 Adair as well as genetic ties to other siblings of Joseph2. The tests were done on Don Crow and Derek Wethington.
Having seemingly established the first two generations of Joseph4 Adair by genetics, we now turn to a different direction to locate the missing third generation. The following set of temple ordinances were done in the same St. George Temple after this mystery Joseph4's death by his daughter Rebecca4 Francis Adair (1852-1908), who married Jeremiah Stayner in 1868 and was subsequently "sealed in marriage" to Stayner as a couple in the St. George Temple on 28 Nov 1877. The day before, 27 Nov., she was joined by her distant cousin John Wesley4 Adair, who was the brother of Samuel Jefferson4 Adair and the son of Thomas3. John Wesley was also now her stepfather since he married her mother Rebecca Mangum, Joseph4 Adairs's widow after Joseph's 1858 death of her father. Since temple ordinance work is gender specific (the patron doing the vicarious ordinance must be the same gender as the deceased individual receiving the ordinance), Rebecca's first ordinance was for an Elizabeth Adair, whose birth date matched exactly that of Rebecca's father Joseph4 -- thus making Joseph4 and Elizabeth twins. In that ordinance, Rebecca listed her relationship simply as "relative" rather than "niece." The next ten sequential names were on her husband Jeremiah Stayner's ancestry (of no consequence to us), then the work on her direct line of Adairs continued per the following with her stepfather acting as proxy on her behalf for her line. Of course, he is also more distantly related as "cousin." The data is listed by individual, date of temple work, proxy, FamilySearch.org film-page-ordinance number, birthdate, and stated relationship as given by the proxy:
Adair, Elizabeth; 11/27/1877; Stayner, Rebecca Frances Adair; 170845-18-285; b. 11 Apr 1806; Relative.
Adair, Joseph; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-296.
Adair, James; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-297; b. 4 Aug 1770; Gr. Nephew.
Robbins, Alexander; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-298; b. 2 Sep 1793; Second Cousin. [Most likely the husband of either Elizabeth Adair or another unnamed Adair sibling to Elizabeth.]
Adair, John; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-299; b. 13 Nov 1796; Second Cousin.
Adair, Allen; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-300; b. 17 Mar 1798; Second Cousin.
Adair, William; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-301; b. 15 Nov 1804; Second Cousin.
Adair, James Newton; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-302; b. 11 Nov 1812; Second Cousin.
Focusing first on those marked "Second Cousin," they are all male and most likely all brothers (and one brother-in-law) of the same Elizabeth done by Rebecca in this batch. The sequential grouping of the birth dates of those surnamed Adair (1796, 1798, 1804, 1806, 1812) also seem to confirm this close familial relationship. Having already concluded that mystery Joseph4 Adair, the only LDS member of this family group, was the twin of Elizabeth, we can then also add him to this family. These specific individuals would then be then be the immediate uncles and aunt of Rebecca, who was the daughter of Joseph4. This being the case, it would have been more helpful if the temple had recorded her relationship to Elizabeth as "niece" rather than the more ambiguous "relative."
When John Wesley assisted Rebecca that day, he would technically have been Rebecca's second cousin if Rebecca is positioned in the prirme "self" spot. Modern relationship charts with a grid of cousinship and how many times removed is a relatively modern innovation, but it does not seem to have been in use in 1877, so "second cousin" at that time was more in the sense of a shared direct line, but with a couple of more or less degrees of separation. Without making too fine a distinction, we can assuredly state John Wesley4 and his cousin Rebecca5 were related as branches in the same tree, and that the connection was at least two generations before John Wesley's generation. The St. George names, judging from their birth years, were most likely the same fourth generation as John Wesley, making Rebecca the fifth generation. For John, as a so-called "second cousin," this then only allows James1 Adair or his son Joseph2 Adair as the connecting generation to mystery Joseph and his daughter Rebecca (presumably 4th and 5th generations respectively).
The ancestral line of John Wesley4, along with his brother Samuel Jefferson4 Adair, is well documented as James1, Joseph2, and Thomas3. We now turn our attention to the ancestry of mystery Joseph4 (and now also of his siblings established above). The LDS Church has a practice in which a senior churchman known as a Patriarch lays his hands upon the head of a church member and pronounces a blessing which anticipates the recipient’s future. It is a practice originating in the Old Testament when Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Israel did the same upon their children. Only one such blessing is generally received in a lifetime after which the blessing is recorded into the annals of the Church. However, Joseph4 received three such blessings. For each blessing, he was required to provide his birth information and parentage. This is the summary of what he reported (see FHL film 392631 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index"):
A. Joseph Adair, b. 11 Apr 1806 at South Carolina, parents James and Rebecah Adair. Blessing date 2 Jan 1848 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
B. Joseph Adair, b. 11 Apr 1806 at Laurens, South Carolina, parents James and Rebecca Adair. Blessing date 18 Feb 1856 at Payson, Utah.
C. Joseph Adair, b. 11 Apr 1806 at Lawrence District, South Carolina, parents James and Rebecca Adair.
From this, we can prove the next earlier generation for Joseph4 and his siblings is James3 and Rebecca as parents. From the St. George Temple list, we have determined the eldest child of this couple was John Adair, born in 1796. Assuming an average marriage age of about 25 for the father, James3 would have been born circa 1771. In the list of St. George temple names listed above, there were two outliers in Rebecca5’s tree that have not yet been discussed. Though not absolutely proved, the second of these two St. George names, James, born in 1770, is then most likely the same man as James3:
Adair, Joseph; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-296.
Adair, James; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-297; b. 4 Aug 1770; Gr. Nephew.
Joseph, the other of the two individuals above, is more cryptic since no relationship was recorded. He could possibly be a brother of James3, or even Joseph2. In the latter case, his ordinance would have been an unintended repeat of what had already been done several months earlier on 14 Feb 1877 by John Wesley’s brother Samuel Jefferson4 Adair.
Although the identification of James3 Adair as a potential son and grandson of Joseph2 and James1 appears sound with the use of LDS temple records and DNA matching, some issues remain unresolved:
- John Wesley4 Adair identified himself as a “Gr. Nephew,” which is interpreted to be “Grand Nephew.” If absolutely correct, James3, who was born in 1770, would then be the unlikely sibling (and not a son) to John's grandfather Joseph2 Adair, b. abt. 1745. Additionally, there is already another different James, b. 1752, who married Hannah ___ and had a large progeny of children, who has been identified and accepted as a brother to Joseph2. Considering the large discrepancy in the birth dates of our James3 (b. 1770) vs. Joseph2 (b. abt. 1745), they being siblings is unlikely. This being the case, then James3 would be the brother (or at least of the same generation) of John Wesley4’s father Thomas3 (b. 1771/1777). This then would make James3 the uncle of John Wesley Adair and not the grand-uncle of John Wesley. So, in this case, the reported relationship in the LDS record would have to be considered in error. Possibly, since the LDS temple work that day was on behalf of Rebecca5 (Adair) Stayner, who was the granddaughter of James3, and since John Wesley4 was acting as proxy on James3’ behalf as a nephew, the reported dual relationship may have been shorthanded by the temple recorder as a blended “Gr. Nephew.”
- Another issue is an 1804 recorded land deed in which Joseph2 refers to his son Thomas3 as his “eldest” son. (Laurens Co., SC, Deed Book H, page 22; in 1806, Thomas and his wife Rebecca Brown Adair sell this same tract.) Thomas was born in either 1771 or 1777 (depending on which varying documentation is used, but most likely 1777 based on land grants issued to Joseph2 and his sons after 1771 but before 1777). James3, if his birth date was correctly reported in the LDS temple record was born in 1770, would be the eldest son, not Thomas3. One could say that James3 may have died before the 1804 deed leaving Thomas as the eldest, but James continued to live in Laurens Co. until at least 1806 when mystery Joseph4 was documented being born there. One solution may that Thomas3 was in fact born earlier, say 1771, and that James was born later, say 1772 to 1775 (when he would have been 21).
One last thing to consider is the past historical research concerning mystery Joseph4 Adair, his father James3, and Joseph3 (the potential brother to James3 identified without a birth date in the LDS temple records discussed above):
- Most pre-1990 LDS genealogies include a Joseph3 Adair as a sibling to Thomas3 Adair, but they do not list any James3 as a sibling. They also list three sisters: Sarah/Sally, Jenny, and Suffiah. These early genealogies seem to be copied from two LDS family genealogists: Delta Hale's book on John Mangum and Ellen Cherry records of the 1950s, neither of whom gave any proof for the names except for Thomas, whose line she descended from.
- Early Laurens County Records as analyzed by the thorough local researcher Mildred Brownlee only established one documented child for Joseph and Sarah: Thomas, named as their eldest in the 1804 land transaction. On the other hand, Brownlee, in her study of Laurens County censuses, noted that the 1790 census for Joseph establishes a possibility of up to seven children for Joseph2 and Sarah which allows for the possibility of additional siblings for Thomas3. The fact that one son was named as eldest shows there was at least two or more sons.
- George Addison Mangum, the brother of Delta Hale, was also a researcher of this family. He gave his research to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, where it was microfilmed and can be seen on film 2056025. One of the pages he includes (of which I have a copy) is a family group sheet prepared in the mid-1960s by Miriam S. Adair Covington. She apparently looked at the same St. George temple records that I did since she prepared the group sheet exactly as I proposed above. Like myself, she also assumed a separate child, who she called Miss Adair, as the spouse of Alexander Robbins. She assumed all of their births were in Laurens Co., SC, which I also suppose. She, however, did not recognize that Elizabeth Adair had for a twin the mystery Joseph4, who was not identified in the temple records with the other siblings. Without this crucial link, Miriam did not realize that separate documents proved his parents were named James and Rebecca, which would make them parents of all the children. She also mistook the birth year James3 as 1790 and not 1770, perhaps due to mis-transcribing the recorder’s handwriting. With these two mistakes, she then erroneously assigned James3 as an older brother to Joseph4 and Joseph3 (the one without the birth date in the temple records) as the father of the family instead of James3. To verify that it was Miriam who made the mis-transcription and not myself in regards to 1770 vs. 1790, I confirmed that Family Search's Ordinance Index also showed the date as 4 Aug 1770.
- Who were then did she know that Joseph4 parents werewhich nor that varied from me by listing Joseph3 (instead of James3) as the father of the group with his parents in turn being Joseph2 and Sarah. As for James3, I believe she misread his birth year as 1790 in then completes their temple endowments and sealings to their parents in the London, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City temples from 1965 to 1967. She does make one change listing James3 Adair who I have born in 1770 as the oldest sibling of the group with a birth in 1790. Could it be that I transcribed the date wrong; however, Family Search's Ordinance Index also shows the date as I saw it as 4 Aug 1770 - it needs to be reviewed again. Perhaps Miriam assumed the date was entered wrong at the temple? She does list the 1790 date for the 1960s endowment and parent sealing. In regards to the 1770/1790 transcription error for James3, it would be good to once again look at the original temple record to confirm that date.
- The cousin relationship between mystery Joseph4 and Samuel Jefferson4 is further corroborated by the following family information provided by Samuel Newton5 Adair, the son of Samuel Jefferson4 Adair (who was the son of Thomas3 Adair and grandson of Joseph Adair2 who married Sarah ___). He states: "Luna, New Mexico, October 7, 1919. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know about my mother's folks ... Rebecca Mangrum [six] married Joseph Adair, my father's cousin."
Summary: The proposed scenario of Joseph2 Adair, son of James1 (the historian) having an additional son named James3, b. 4 Aug 1770, besides the already known son Thomas3 is very likely in light of the LDS St. George temple records. However, if the 1770 birth date of James3 was reported correctly to the temple recorder, then the conflict with Thomas3 being listed as the “eldest” in his father’ needs to be resolved. This also assumes that Potter's DNA analysis is correct, but in an email to me dated 3 May 2024, Potter explains the limitations of what he has done so far with DNA:
"Our earlier DNA analysis made use of autosomal DNA. We explain the challenges of using autosomal DNA for a project like ours in our book. I do believe that we discovered small autosomal DNA segments that Adair descendants inherited from James and Eleanor Adair, and some of those segments showed Native American ethnicity when examined with several tools on GEDMatch. However, Lois and I ultimately concluded that the reliability of this evidence did not meet our standard for convincing proof. By comparison to Y-DNA analysis, autosomal DNA analysis seems squishy -- like the difference between analyzing digital data and analyzing analogue data. Both can be persuasive, but we were more comfortable citing the simple "yes" or "no" results that can be derived from Y-DNA testing. I hope this helps explain our thinking. We do not discount our earlier autosomal DNA conclusions, but we were not comfortable citing autosomal data as evidence in a work like our recent publication."
Unfortunately, Joseph 4 had no male descendants that survived childhood, so there is no possibility of the more conclusive Y-DNA analysis.
One research direction might be to relook at land grants in Laurens County that would help sort prove James3 Adair.
2. Samuel Newton Adair in his quotation as follows indicates that Joseph Adair is the cousin of his father Samuel Jefferson Adair. From Don and Carolyn Smith from one of three part writings of Samuel Newton Adair. [When asked who has the original of this, Carolyn referred me to Becky Hamblin [bhamblin79@hotmail.com] to try to locate the original of this; Becky in turn believes Collins Chapman in Mesa may have it since Collins' mother is the granddaughter who hand wrote it for Samuel. It has not yet been located by Becky. The following is one of the three parts [see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full quotation]: "Luna, New Mexico, October 7, 1919. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know about my mother's folks. My grandfather's name was John Mangum and he married Rebecca Noles, so my grandmother's name was Rebecca Mangrum, my grandfather Mangum was a revolutionary soldier with General Morgan (one of his minute men). He was taken prisoner with a lot of other men by the British soldiers and they set them on a log and split their heads open, all but my grandfather's and he had some kind of varmint skin cap on and that and the skull stopped the force of the sword and it glanced off and cut his ear nearly off and they turned him lose. He married after the war was over as stated above. Their children are: Cyrus Mangrum, Joseph Mangrum, John Mangrum, William Mangrum and James Mangrum. The daughter's names were: Jeney Mangrum, Gemima Mangrum, Rebecca Mangrum, and Lucinda Mangum. They were all my uncles and aunts. Joseph Mangrum married Emiline Hanner, William married Aunt Sally Adair, John married Aunt Mary Ann Adair, James Mangrum married Jane Clark, my father's niece. I don't know who uncle Cyrus Mangum married. Jeney Mangrum married George Crawford, Gemima Mangrum married Samuel Jefferson Adair, my father. Rebecca Mangrum married Joseph Adair, my father's cousin. Lucinda Mangrum married James Richey, my father's nephew." [Samuel Newton Adair says Rebecca Mangum married Joseph Adair, my father's cousin. If true and they were first cousins, this would mean his father is a brother of Thomas Adair - father of Samuel Jefferson Adair. Joseph Adair who married Rebecca reported his father as James, which means that Thomas has a previously unknown brother named James.]
3. Pioneer Emigration:
A. Per LDS Journal of History, 21 Jun 1847, listed in the pioneer company of James S. Holman, Capt., in Charles C. Rich's Guard organized 17 Jun 1847 and arrived in SLC 2 Oct 1847. In same company are several Adairs with ages and birth dates/places:
Joseph, 41, 17 Apr 1806, Lawraceville, Lawrance, S.C. [probable cousin; Laurens Co.]
Rebecca, 32, 10 Aug 1815, Giles Co., Tenn. [Rebecca Mangum, wife of Joseph.]
Lucinda J., 6, 22 Oct 1841, Itewamly, Miss. [dau. of Joseph and Rebecca; Itawamba Co.]
Geo. W., 29, 18 Mar 1818, Tennessee.
Miriam, 20, 31 Jan 1827, Tennessee [wife of Geo.]
Emaline R., inf., 1 Mar 1847, Mt. Pisgah, Iowa [dau. of Geo. and Miriam.]
Also two Mangums:
James, 27, 6 Jan 1820, Sinclair, Ala.
Eliza Jane, 20, 11 Aug 1827, Greene, Ala.
B. 18 Feb 2006 unpublished manuscript of Norma Ricketts on a book she is working on about the 1847 pioneer crossings:
"The Charles C. Rich Company was the smallest company to leave from Winters Quarters during 1847. His company had three tens, a total of 126 people with 25 wagons. This company brought a cannon as well as artillery and ammunition, 25 kegs of black powder, the Nauvoo Temple bell, and a boat. The ammunition was ferried across the river. They left the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River June 21, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 2, 1847.
Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich wrote of the death of Jacob Weatherby, a member of the Abraham O. Smoot Company. Weatherby was wounded by a Pawnee Indian at the Platte River on June 19 two days before they left the Platte River. He was taken to the nearest tent, which belonged to the Rich Company and died the next morning. Weatherby was buried near the Elkhorn River at Camp Liberty on June 20. "We fixed him a bed and did all we could to ease his pain. He suffered awful pain through the night and the next morning about nine o'clock his suffering ended in death."
Promptly at 6 o'clock on the morning of June 21, the Rich Company fired a six-pound cannon, and the wagons started out following the first hundred. As the company left Fishing Slough June 25, Captain Rich's oxen became frightened and "partly fell on my son Joseph and hurt him considerably and came nigh killing him."
The Spencer Company (Eldredge fifty) passed the Rich Company on June 28. A large party of Indians was following the companies, so Captain Rich fired the cannon twice. He noted in his journal that "all things were safe."
They reached the Platte River on June 29 and waited for some time. There were many wagons in line to cross. On July 2 they found the "Sow" cannon carried by Captain Hunter's company, abandoned on the trail with its carriage broken and tongue gone. The cannon's traveling gear was repaired and the cannon was brought along. A broken wagon axle delayed the company further. On July 9 the Rich Company overtook the Spencer and Hunter companies.
When the company arrived in buffalo country, Captain Rich shot three and the pioneers were glad to add the meat to their meager food supply. Sarah Rich wrote it was "very dangerous traveling through this country, but we were preserved from serious accident. It was a grand sight to see these herds of wild animals, thousands in a group, racing across the prairies. The fear was that they might attack us in their flight."
The company passed Chimney Rock, Nebraska, on August 1 and reached Fort Laramie, Wyoming, August 5. They traded some horses for oxen and cows. Travel was difficult because of the heat and dust. Mary Rich, who drove a wagon with another woman, wrote: "We did so well that we had our teams ready for travel at the appointed hour every day after
that until we arrived in the Valley, as regularly as the men did. We did not grieve or mourn over it, we had some very nice times when the roads were not so bad. We could make the mountains ring with our songs... we rejoiced that we were going to the Rocky Mountains where we would be free to practice our religion."
They traveled through the Black Hills with steep slopes and a shortage of water and stopped on August 13 to dig for water in a dry river bed. On August 21, the company reached the Upper Ferry of the Platte River. Their teams were very weak and an occasional ox died as the company crossed the alkali flats.
On August 26, when four oxen died, Captain Rich left behind the two boats and a wagon, stripping the wagon of its iron parts. John Taylor visited their camp and asked for extra oxen. His company had experienced the death of many oxen. Captain Rich gave him one yoke of oxen.
On an alkali desert, the Rich Company cut blocks of bicarbonate of soda from Saleratus Lake. Later in Salt Lake Valley this soda was used in making bread.
They began ascending the South Pass and reached the Continental Divide on August 31. The company noted wind, rain, and snow over the 7,000 foot pass. On the west side of the mountain there was plenty of grass and water. On. September 2 they met a small group, including eight apostles, returning to Winter Quarters from Salt Lake Valley. Several nearby companies halted and joined in a meeting with the apostles. The officers for the Salt Lake Stake were chosen, with Captain Rich as a counselor in the stake presidency, to be ordained later.
On the west side of the mountain grass and water were plentiful and the teams grew stronger. They stopped a couple of days for the birth of John President Porter on September 4. At the Big Sandy, the company lost another ox, but made steady progress to Fort Bridger, arriving September 16.
The company was slowed by several wagons with broken axles: one in Echo Canyon September 24, another in East Canyon and another a day later. They crossed Big Mountain on September 30. Captain Cherry of the first ten upset a wagon. The company became spread out as it traveled down the canyons. Captain Rich's mother, Nancy O'Neal Rich, became seriously ill. After passing Little Mountain, the Rich Company resumed the proper order and arrived in Salt Lake Valley, October 2.
Nancy O'Neal Rich, mother of Captain Rich, died October 5 in Salt Lake Valley and was buried beside the wife of Jedediah Grant, who had died on Big Mountain a few days earlier. Two babies, Catherine Frost (Sept. 16) and William Harker (Sept. 26) were born in Echo Canyon, Utah. The number after each name indicates age at time of departure from Winter Quarter.
Charles C. Rich Company, Captain. [Adair family in the company:]
Adair, Emaline Rebecca, infant Born: March 1, 1847
Adair, George Washington, 27
Adair, Joseph, 41
Adair, Lucinda Jane, 6
Adair, Miriam Jane Billingsly, 20
Adair, Rebecca Mangum, 32
Mangum, Eliza Jane Clark, 19
Mangum, James Mitchell, 27
C. Per 21 Feb 2002 website : "Charles C. Rich's Guard; Charles C. Rich, Captain; Organized June 17, 1847; Arrived in Salt Lake Valley October 2, 1847; Second Ten; James S. Holman, Captain:
Adair, Joseph
Born: 17 April 1806 in Lawrenceville, South Carolina [old maps show modern Laurens was Lawrenceville.]
Son of James Adair and Rebecca.
Married: to Rebecca Mangum
Died: 20 April 1858
Adair, Lucinda Jane
Born: 22 October 1841 in Itawarda [Itawamba] County, Mississippi
Daughter of Joseph Adair and Rebecca Mangum."
4. Those "called" and listed in the Deseret News of Nov. 16, 1850 of Salt Lake City: "Names of Company and their outfit for Little Salt Lake. Presidents of the Mission: George A. Smith and Ezra T. Benson. Members: [117 listed including] Joseph Adair, Levi W. Hancock, Joseph Horne. Little Salt Lake was the Iron Mission at Parowan and Cedar City. Name appears in same context in the book "A Trial Furnace, Southern Utah's Iron Mission" by Morris A. Shirts, p. 425, where a list of all participants from various sources is given for the original colony for the time period Dec. 1850 - June 1851. Book lists Joseph Adair only in the first source noted below but not the others which makes one wonder if he ever followed through on the call since he is not listed in the other sources and since he is in Utah County for the 1850 census which I believe was taken until spring of 1851. The book cites 5 sources confirming Joseph's involvement: (1) the call list noted above; (2) names of persons over 14 years of age, on 21 Dec 1850, gone to Iron county, led by Elder George A. Smith, who were already underway for the Iron Mission per the Deseret News, 11 Jan 1851; (3) "Names of Pioneers who came to Parowan under the leadership of Apostle George A. Smith...," listed in Henry Lunt's diary, giving male members of the company by name, with the number of women and children summarized; (4) "Elder's Quorum List," a hand-written list of names dated 9 Feb 1851, listing many of the male members of the Iron Mission, their current ages and priesthood callings [LDS Church Archives]; (5) 1851 Utah Census begun 12 may 1851 [FHL film 25540].
5. Censuses:
1830 US: Pickens Co., Alabama, pages 111-112. The first three related families are all on the same page, the next four related families are on the next page, and James Adair (with son Joseph) is on p. 129:
Thos. Peeks, males 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
John Mangum, males 5-10:1; 10-15:2; 15-20:1; 60-70:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
Cyrus Mangum, males 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 15-20:1.
Saml. Carson, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1; 80-90:1.
Saml. Adair, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1.
Thos. Adair, males 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1.
Daniel Clark (next door), males 0-5:1; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 20-30:1.
James Adair, males 0-5:2; 15-20:1; 20-30:2 (Joseph b. 1806); 60-70:1 (James); females 15-20:1; 20-30:2; 60-7-:1 (Rebecca); no slaves listed even though several neighbors have slaves.
1840 US: Northern District, Itawamba Co., Mississippi, related families from full survey of county census:
P. 136a: Samuel Adair, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 30-40:1. No slaves listed.
P. 144a: John Mangum, males 15-20:1; 70-80:1; females 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1. No slaves listed.
P. 150a: Joseph Adair, males 30-40:1; females 20-30:1. No slaves listed.
P. 156a: Thomas Adair, males 20-30: 1; females 0-5: 1; 15-20:1. No slaves listed.
P. 157a: William Mangum, Jr., males 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1. No slaves listed.
1850 US: Utah County, Utah, Roll M432_919, p. 135:
Joseph Adair, 44, M, Farmer, SC.
Rebecca, 35, F, TN.
Lucinda J., 9, F, MS.
Thomas, 3, M, IA.
Margaret W., 1, F, Deseret.
Mary Adair, 23, F, TN. [This appears to be Mary Reynold already married to Joseph before sealing same year in Dec.; I'm unsure of census date.]
Lorenzo Allen, 44, M, Laborer, GA.
The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Payson City, p. 6:
Joseph Adair
Rebecca "
Lucinda I. "
Rebecca F. "
Joseph N. "
Margaret I. "
6. Joseph and Rebecca had several children including a daughter named Rebecca Francis Adair born in Utah in 1852. Many other researchers incorrectly confuse this daughter with the daughter of Samuel Jefferson Adair who was born in Alabama in 1836 and died a year later. These incorrect reports show a marriage to Jeremiah Stayner but some also show a death date of 1848 which would make her married before she died at age 13, which seems unlikely. Also incorrectly shown are other ordinance entries showing unreasonably dated marriages in Alabama years after the family moved to Nauvoo and to the West in 1846. Jeremiah Stayner did in fact marry Rebecca Francis Adair, but she was the daughter of Joseph Adair and Rebecca Francis Mangum. When Joseph died in 1858, his wife Rebecca soon married John Wesley Adair, the Mormon Battalion veteran. Rebecca, the daughter, followed her mother and stepfather and always lived nearby. For this conclusion, consider the following:
a. Ordinance index does report a marriage sealing at the St. George temple on 28 Nov 1877 per film 170579, 431 which is troubling in that the sealing would have been done contemporaneously to her living siblings who would have had first hand knowledge of their sister. There does not appear to be a record of Rebecca in Utah nor a record of an Iowa death with her siblings. If she had not died young in Alabama, she would have been too young to have remained there and not have gone to Nauvoo with her family.
b. See citation above for 1856 Utah census showing Rebecca as a daughter in James' family.
c. Note her marriage is reported per website ; "Early Marriages (1862-1919) in Washington County, Utah: Male and Female Surname Indexes," compiled by Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D: "Jeremiah Stayner, residing Hebron, Wash., UT and Francis Adair, residing Hebron, Wash., UT, lic. and mar. 1868 at Hebron, Wash., UT, number GS 026l,037. [No ages given.]"
d. The Washington, Washington, Utah census for 1870, entry 46, does report the following family living next door to John W. and Rebecca Adair (ages 47 and 55 respectively:
Jeremiah Stayner, 25, farm laborer, $250 real estate, $200 personal property, IL.
Frances, 18, keeping house, UT.
Catherine, 1, UT.
e. Per Online Ordinance Index: 28 Nov 1877 marriage sealing at SGEOR between Jeremiah Stayner, b. 09 Jun 1845 Davis, Stephenson, Illinois, and Rebecca Frances Adair, b. 10 Apr 1852 Provo, Utah, Utah, per FHL film 170579, p. 431.
f. Per Online Ordinance Index: 28 Nov 1877 child sealing of Jeremiah Wesley Stayner, b. 30 Apr 1876 Washington, Washington, Utah and died 05 Jan 1877, to his parents Jeremiah Stayner and Rebecca Frances Adair Stayner with proxy of Joseph Jesse Stayner for deceased son per FHL film 170583, p. 46. Note middle name of Wesley.
g. The St. Johns Village, Apache, AZ 1880 census, pg. 28D, shows living next door to Wesley and Rebecca Adair (born AL and TN):
Jeremiah Staynor, 32, IL, Unk, Unk
Frances, 28, UT, AL, TN.
Catherine, 11, UT, IL, UT.
Joseph, 7, UT, IL, UT.
g. Per one entry in Online Ordinance Index, Frances may have died 20 Mar 1908 at Clifton, Greenlee, Arizona.
7. Parentage possibilities of Joseph per Colleen Gwynn [cghistree@msn.com] email of 8 Jul 2005:
a. "James Adair in Pickens County [p. 255 of 1830 census]: there is a male the age of Joseph 1806 but the rest of the family makeup not sure about since there is a male 60-70 and also a female 60-70 in the house. Then 2 males under 5 with one male 15-20 and two 20-30. Then one female 15-20 and two females 20-30. There are various combinations that can result as far as how it really is and what is speculation meaning more than one family in the household like one, two or three families. And the 60-70 ages ... is he "James" head of house or living with head of house "James"..." [Kerry's note: Thos. Adair is also on this census on page 221 - with two pages per listing, this makes Thomas and James about 450 names apart out of about 11300 people in the county. Sam'l Adair, who we know to be Thomas's son, is onlythree names apart from Thos.]
b. "A combined land ownership shown in Pickens Co., Alabama: James and Joseph Adair 10/18/1834 T19 R16 S34 80 Acres. Then each of them on this same date have one other property individually. But Thomas Adair not until another year later. Of the Adair names we have seen and worked with these are the names with the earliest activity in Pickens."
c. "I may put myself out on a branch that I have to crawl back to the trunk eventually. But in the meantime, at this point, using the census data Laurens County, S. C. and Pickens County, Alabama and also properties in Pickens County, Alabama - I'm inclined to suggest that "Joseph 1806" may be the son of James who is residing in Pickens County, Alabama 1830 census. His age is right and I believe Joseph's family is living with James. According to data in my binder no Joseph was listed separately in the 1830 census Pickens County, Alabama. I need to do some more but there is where I am this evening after getting the results of the 1810 census Laurens County, S. C. in your email. Thanks so very much! It still supports my recent beginning feelings." [Kerry's note: The following is the what I found in the referenced 1810 census for Laurens Co., South Carolina: five Adairs are found in a total of 72 pages as follows; page numbers represent which page in 72 the entry is found. All age numbers are single digit except one (13). I am not sure which 1810 Adairs these fit exactly:
P. 25, Wm. Adir, 001103010002
P. 58, Elisha Adear or Adiar, 32011101100 (13)
P. 58, Benja. Adir, 021011020102
P. 59, Jas Adir, 100102001000
P. 60, Jas Adir, 200102001000]
8. FHL film 2056025 "George Addison Mangum Collection" has several family group sheets. One shows this Joseph Adair as the son of James and Rebecca Adair and indicates source as "Taken from film of Early Provo Church records; Early Church Information Files; Patriarchal Blessings." Date of birth shown as 11 Apr 1806, that he was an Elder, married to Rebecca Mangum. Shows two baptisms: 28 Nov 1847 and 14 Dec 1855; members were often rebaptized in the early days of the Church and these dates appear to be probably rebaptisms.
9. Excerpt of letter copy received by email from Rowland Hinton [hinton12@isp.com] 1 Jan 2006:
"30 Jan 1972, Dear Mr. Price...
"...I have record of five children for Joseph Adair and Rebecca Mangum. Lucinda Jane born 24 Oct 1841 at Itawamba, Miss. Married before March 1859 to Benjamin Brown Crow, then deserted her husband and family and church and joined the "wicked at a gentile camp." Her husband was called on the carpet for putting her in the way of temptation and he later came before the meeting of the church and confessed his sins and asked forgiveness which he received. Joseph Adair had a son Thomas, born about 1847 in Iowa who shows up in the 1850 census in Utah, but not in the 1860 census. Possible someone found his grave and assumed that it was Thomas Adair who married Rebecca Brown, thence the death date of 1856??? Joseph Newton was born 4 Aug 1849 in Salt Lake City to Joseph Adair and he died 23 May 1851. Next a Margaret W. born about 1850 in Utah, and last Rebecca Frances born 10 Apr 1852 at Provo and died 20 Mar 1906, married 8 Mar 1868 to Jeremiah Stayner. After Joseph Adair died, Rebecca Mangum Adair married (2) John Wesley Adair, son of our Thomas and Rebecca (Brown) Adair as his second wife. As near as I can find out, John Wesley Adair had no children by either of his two marriages. I find the same given names cropping up time and time again. These may give a lead to the ancestry of our Thomas Adair. On the following sheet I am going to try to list some of these names & their parents & see if I can get a pattern. [No accompanying sheet with the copy given me. KP.]"
10. Email 2 Aug 2006 from Kathy Petersen, a descendant of Joseph and Rebecca : "I know absolutely nothing about his background outside of what you have (and most of it I probably got indirectly from you.) Lucinda had twelve children from several different husbands and my gggrandma was not raised by her, but I've always been interested to find out her story. I have quite a bit of information on her life, but very little on her parents.
Here's my line (in a nutshell). Lucinda Jane Adair married Benjamin Brown Crow in 1858 (presumably in Southern Utah.) They had five children but the middle three died in Clover Valley NV in a plague of some type around 1865-1866. My ancestor Lucinda Jane (Jane) Crow was born in 1867 in Hebron, Utah and then Lucinda left BB Crow for a lumber merchant named O.P. Sherwood. He had brothers who, I think, married Adair women later on. BB Crow took the baby from Lucinda and OP and took her to be raised in California by his relatives. She had very little contact with her mother after that, but did visit her in California at least once.
I know that her sister Rebecca Frances (Frances) married Jeremiah Stayner in 1868 or 1869 in Hebron. They all left Hebron together that spring or summer (against counsel) and headed back towards Clover Valley. Wesley and Becky went too. Lucinda was excommunicated that summer for leaving her husband and BB disfellowshipped for "taking his family to live among the Gentiles and exposing them to temptation." (This info is in the Hebron Ward Records which are handwritten and very hard to read.)
Lucinda lived in Pioche with OP and had several children with him, then married (?) a guy named William Throp and moved to California around 1879 – first Monterey county then Fresno. They had at least two daughters together.
I can surmise that Joseph had a good relationship with his daughters because they both named their first sons after him."
11. Information per the "George Addison Mangum Collection," FHL film 2056024, concerning Jeremiah Stayner from a family group sheet prepared by Cecil Curtis Stayner, 320 W. Whittier, Tracy, CA, from the records of Joseph Jesse Stayner:
Father: Jeremiah Stayner, b. 9 Jun 1845 to Jesse Stayner and Sarah Catherine Greenhall or Greens, d. 2 Aug 1918 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona., bapt. in the church, end. 28 Nov 1877.
Mother: Rebecca Francis Adair, b. Apr 1852 at Provo, Utah, d. 20 Mar 1908 at Clifton, Gral., Arizona, parents Joseph Adair and Rebecca Mangum.
Children:
Rebecca Catherine (Kate), b. 18 Nov 1868 at Washington, Utah, d. Oct 1931, m. Frank Bates.
Joseph Jesse, b. 5 Jun 1872 at Washington, Utah, d. 24 Nov 1929, m. Lemira May Maxwell 24 Aug 1899.
George Franklin, b. 1874 at Washington, Utah, d. Jul 1959, m. Sarah Olive Mangum.
Jeremiah Wesley, b. 30 Apr 1876 at Washington, UT.
Benjamin, b. 20 Jan 1885 at Nutrioso, AZ, m. Rosie Cook.
Isabel, b. 1887 at Nutrioso, d. 28 Feb 1937, m. Charley Higgins.
References:
a. 027435 Washington, Utah Ward Records/Members #761.
b. 1870 Utah Census.
c. St John's Arizona Ward Record.
12. Email from Lucinda Dennis dated February 15, 2011: "Joseph died on 1858 in Washington County. I have not be able to find his grave. I have looked everywhere. An interesting piece of information: in 1851 Joseph had his left hip branded – I don't know about you but that sounds painful to me – this recording can be found in a book called: "Record of Recorded Marks and Brands"; came out in December of 1874, Salt Lake City. The reason for this recording was [for] the widows or sons of persons who [had] died since their marks or brands were recorded. Joseph's name is on page 1 in this book, which can be found at a family history center library."
Lucinda may have misinterpreted the comment and it may mean simply that his "livestock" were branded on the left hip.
13. Note: ten names of the first men to Dixie were among Adairs, Mangums, Richeys, and Prices who were all interrelated by marriage. Excerpt taken from book "Under Dixie Skies," a history of Washington County, Utah [similar accounts are found in the books "I Was Called to Dixie" by Andrew Karl Larson, 1961, p. 67 and "A History of Washington County, From Isolation to Destiny," by Douglas D. Alder and Karl F. Brooks, pp. 28, 29]: "(Samuel Adair) In keeping with Brigham Young's policy of making the Church self-sustaining, a company was called to settle on the Mill Creek (which is now part of Washington Co.) primarily for the purpose of raising cotton. What should be more logical than to send men who had had experience in cotton culture? A number of converts who came from the South were accordingly called to go into what was later known as Utah's Dixie. Two groups went in the spring of 1857. The first group, consisting of ten families under the leadership of Samuel Adair [apparently, Robert D. Covington and Samuel J. Adair were the leaders of two groups, who were called to the 'Cotton Mission'], left Payson, Utah on the 3rd of March and arrived at the site of what was subsequently called Washington on the 15th day of April. They camped near the river on a piece of land later designated as the "Sand Plot," but on the advice of Amasa Lyman, who was passing through on his way from San Bernardino to Salt lake City, they moved up to the place where the town now stands. The second company [under Covington] left Salt lake City early in April and camped on the 5th of May at the Samuel Adair Spring, on the east side of the valley, just a short distance north of the present US highway 91. The following were members of the two original companies and others who settled at Washington in 1857. Robert D. Covington, Harrison Pearce, James B. Regran [or Reagan], Willam B. [or R.] Slade, Joseph Smith, William Hawley, John Couch Sr., John Couch Jr., John Mangum, James [B.] Wilkins, Alfred Johnson, John W. Freeman, James D. McCullough, William H. Crawford, Umpstead Rencher, Balus Spouse [or Sprouse], James Richie [or Richey], Samuel Adair, Oscar Tyler, George Spencer, Jr., J. Holden, Joseph Adair, Joseph Hatfield, William Dameron, Preston Thomas, William Fream, George [W.] Adair, [Samuel?] Newton Adair, John Clark, Thomas W. Smith, Simes [or Sims] B. Matheny, Stephen and William Dugas [or Duggins], William J. Young, Enoch Dodge, John Price, and Robert Lloyd. William Darby Cooper was also an early settler. [Bleak, 'Annals of the Southern Utah Mission,' p. 34, the heads of the families listed by Bleak also include in addition to those above: Upstead Rencher, George Hawley, John Hawley, John Adair, Thomas Adair, J. Holden, William Mangum. Later research by Harold Cahoon of the Washington City Historical Society has added the following names to the original settler list: Newton L.N. Adair [Samuel Newton Adair?], John W. Clark, James Nichols Mathews, Gabriel R. Coley, and John D. Lee.] The trial that the settlers of Washington, in Washington Co., were to endure were probably the most discouraging and severe of any of the early settlers of Utah. When Robert Gardiner passed through the town on his way to settle in St. George in December 1861, he reflected that of all the trials he had to endure, the prospect of his wives and children one day looking like the poor malaria plagued creatures he saw in Washington was what appalled him most of all. He says in his journal: 'Here we found some of our old neighbors who received us very kind but the appearance of these brethren and their wives and children was rather discouraging. Nearly all of them had the fever and ague or chills as they called it in this country. They had worked hard and worn out their clothes and had replaced them from the cotton they had raised on their own farms which their women had carded, spun, and wove by had, colored with weeds. Men's shirts, women's dresses and sunbonetts were all made of the same piece; and their clothes and their faces were of the same color, being a kind of blue, as most everyone had the chills. This tried me more than anything I have had seen in my Mormon experience thinking that my wives and Children, from the nature of the climate, would have to look as sickly as those now around me.' This coupled with the trouble and struggle they had trying to build a dam in the Virgin River for irrigation purposes, which was washed out every spring, made the life of the saints that settled Washington probably the most trying of any early settlers." The book "History of Washington County" adds: "Their new home was to be called Washington, as determined in advance by Brigham Young and his counselors. Its location was also fixed – the benchland overlooking the Washington fields. The town was located near several fine springs which have favored the community above others in Dixie. The fields likewise provided a lush expanse of farmland. Washington appeared to have advantages over other communities, but this did not prove to be so. Those broad fields were formed by ancient floods; and modern floods would haunt Washington – not the town but the irrigation projects. And the springs created marshes. There insects would spread malaria. So the Washington Saints were spared little; their plight, fighting malaria and rebuilding washed-out dams, would equal, if not surpass, the tests their neighbors encountered."
14. Two monuments erected in Washington, Washington, Utah:
A. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this was a mistake and has since been corrected to Samuel Jefferson Adair], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W.Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were:
[43 names listed "and others; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James."
B. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for the purpose of growing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reocurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.]
i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James.
ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M.
iii. 1861-62: [none]."
15. LDS Family History Library book 976.185H2j "Early Settlers of Pickens County, Alabama," by James Dolphus Johnson, Jr, 1992, is a very helpful analysis of land holdings in the said county. It locates the associated families of Adair, Mangum, and Richey in close proximity to each other. The book provides an alphabetical listing of each land holder and the grant date, location, and size of their land holding, its location. This township is typical at 6 miles by 6 miles with each section being 640 acres or one square mile. There are a total of 36 sections arranged in a grid of 6 x 6 with number 1 being the top right with the count going right to left than dropping down one row and going left to right and so forth with no. 36 being the bottom right corner. I rearrange the following listing by survey township so that the associations can be seen in the various families:
A. Township 20, Range 15. The bottom center of this township incorporates the north part of the settlement of Carrollton. We also find "Hebron Church" in the township's center (sect. 16). On modern maps, Highway 35 travelling north of Carrollton rough splits this township east and west.
a. Samuel Adair has two properties. This is Samuel Jefferson Adair who goes to Utah:
i. S9 (Section 9), 9/30/1836, 40 acres (SE corner of SW 1/4 section).
ii. S15, 1/31/1836, 40 acres (SW corner of SW 1/4 section).
b. Joseph Adair has two properties adjoining each other. He is just north of Samuel Adair's first listed property and just west of James Adair's property. Joseph is Samuel Adair's cousin who also goes to Utah. James is most likely Joseph's father who does not go to Utah. Note also he also owns two other properties outside of this Township -- one with his father James and one individually (see B(a) and D(a):
i. S4, 11/21/1836, 40 acres (SE corner of SW section 1/4).
ii. S9, 9/26/1836, 40 acres (NW corner of NW section 1/4).
c. James Adair has two properties adjoining each other. He is just just east of Joseph Adair's property. James is most likely Joseph's father and he does not go to Utah with Joseph. Note also he also owns two other properties outside of this Township -- one with his son Joseph and one individually (see B(a) and C(a):
i. S3 and S4, 11/1/1837, 40 acres each adjoining each other (S3: SW corner of SW section 1/4; S4: SE corner of SE section 1/4).
d. Thomas Adair has one property which adjoins the separate property of Furley Clark and R.(Rebecca?) Adair who are his daughter and wife. Thomas and Furley do not go to Utah, but Rebecca does:
i. S20, 11/10/1835, 40 acres (SW corner of NE 1/4 section).
e. Furley Clark and R. Adair. This would be daughter and mother: Fairby or Pherrely Adair who married Daniel Clark and Rebecca (Brown) Adair, wife of Thomas Adair. The land adjoins Thomas Adair. Rebecca goes to Utah but "Furley" does not:
i S20, 11/28/1834, 160 acres (SW 1/4).
f. John Mangum. His family goes to Utah but he does not. This would be John Mangum "the Patriot." He is just south of Samuel Adair's land in S15. His land directly adjoins that of son William Mangum, son Cyrus Mangum, and son-in-law Austin Hudgins (marries Nancy Mangum). He is just northwest of land of another son-in-law Thomas Peeks (marries Elizabeth Mangum):
i. S22, 9/23/1834, 80 acres (N half of SW 1/4 section).
g. William Mangum, the oldest son John Mangum (the "Patriot") from his third marriage. William marries Sally/Sarah Adair and moves to Utah. His land adjoins the land of his father, his brother Cyrus, and of his bro.-in-law Austin Hudgins. Both pieces of his land adjoin each other. Note also he also owns another property outside of this Township (see E(a)):
i. S21, 7/1/1835, 40 acres (both this and the next piece form the S half of SW 1/4 section).
ii. S21, 2/20/1836, 40 acres.
iii. S22, 10/23/1834, 80 acres (W half of NW 1/4 section).
iv. Note that no date is given but he also is granted 80 in S14 of a separate township (T24, R3).
h. Cyrus Mangum, son of John Mangum (the "Patriot") from his second marriage. Cyrus does not go to Utah and he and his family are found in the 1850 US Census remaining in this same area; however, he eventually moves to Moulton, Lavaca, Texas where he dies. His land adjoins land of his father, his brother William, and of his bro.-in-law Thomas Peeks:
i. S22, 1/25/1836, 80 acres (W half of SE 1/4 section).
ii. S27, 2/27/1830, 80 acres (E half of NE 1/4 section).
i. Thomas Peeks, son-in-law of John Mangum (the "Patriot") and husband of Elizabeth Mangum, John's dau. from his first marriage. Thomas does not come to Utah and he remains in this area for the rest of his life. He is found here in the 1850 census and his wife alone in the 1860 census. His land adjoins bros.-in-law Austin Hudgins and Cyrus Mangum:
i. S27, 11/19/1835, 80 acres (I am unsure in which order the three parcels fit into the map; however, all the land is found in two spots on the map: 40 acres SW corner of SE 1/4 section and a L-shaped piece of 120 acres including W half of NE 1/4 and SE corner of NW 1/4).
ii. S27, 6/17/1836, 40 acres.
iii. S27, 9/4/1832, 40 acres.
iv. S21, 9/25/1844, 40 acres. (This is not land he owned but he acts as Trustee for Nancy E. Bryant, who does not appear related to him.)
j. Austin Hudgins, son-in-law to John Mangum (the "Patriot" and husband to Nancy Mangum, John's dau. from his first marriage). Austin and Nancy remain in the area for the rest of their lives and are found in the local censuses. He had several parcels of land all in close proximity to bros.-in-law Thomas Peeks, Cyrus Mangum, and William Mangum. Rather than trying to sort each parcel out on the map and aligning them to the following acquisitions (many of which added to existing land), I summarize his total holdings as follows: 160 acres NE 1/4 S28, 80 acres W half NW 1/4 S27, 80 acres W half SW 1/4 S27, 120 acres SE 1/4 S27 (SW corner of 40 acres in this 1/4 section owned by Thomas Peeks), 80 acres E half SW 1/4 S26, and 40 acres NE corner NE 1/4 S35:
i. S22 & 35, 2/20/1855, 120 acres. (Note author erroneously identifies this as Range 16, but maps show it correctly as Range 15.)
ii. S28, 2/20/1855, 80 acres.
iii. S26, 6/4/1832, 40 acres.
iv. S26, 2/25/1835, 40 acres.
v. S27, 2/27/1830, 80 acres.
vi. S27, 11/19/1835, 80 acres.
vii. S27, 8/3/1836, 40 acres.
viii. S27 & S28, 10/29/1836, 160 acres.
B. Township 19, Range 16. This township has the small town of Ethelsville at its center. Ethelsville is about 15 miles NW of Carrollton and closer to the Mississippi State line. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
a. Joseph and James Adair (joint owners). This is most likely Joseph and his father James. They both separately own land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(b) and A(c) above). James also owns individually land in Township 21, Range 17 (see C(a) below) for which the date of grant is the same:
i. S34, 10/18/1834, 160 acres (NE 1/4).
C. Township 21, Range 17. This township has the small town of Pickensville on its Eastern boundary and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. Pickensville is about 11 miles W of Carrollton. The land borders the western shore of the modern lake Aliceville Lake. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
a. James Adair. This is most likely James, the father of Joseph. James also owns land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(c) above) and Ethelsville in Township 19, Range 16 (see B(a) above):
i. S22, 10/18/1834, 80 acres (E half of NE 1/4). (Note this date is the same as the grant on the Ethelsville parcel.)
D. Township 22, Range 17. (The author identifies this Township erroneously as 20, but the land map confirms it as Township 22.) This township has the small town of Memphis, AL, on its center and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. Memphis is about 13 miles SW of Carrollton. The land borders the western shore of the modern lake Aliceville Lake. It is only about 5 miles south of Pickensville. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
a. Joseph Adair. This is most likely the son of James. Joseph also owns land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(b) above) and Ethelsville in Township 19, Range 16 (see B(a) above):
i. S3, 10/18/1834, 80 acres (E half of SE 1/4). (Note this date is the same as the grant on the Ethelsville parcel.)
E. Township 24S, Range 3W. This township has the small village of Cochrane near its eastern boundary and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. It is about 18 miles southwest of Carrollton:
a. William Mangum. William is the son of John Mangum (the "Patriot"). This parcel is in addition to land William Mangum owned near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(g) above):
i. S14, no date, 80 acres (W half of NE 1/4).
F. Township 21 & 22, Range 16. Township 21 includes the eastern half of Pickensville on is western side. Township 22 would be the next township south of township 21. William Richey's property would be currently in Pickensville. Even though in the same county, the Richeys at this point of time were not in a township with any of the other associated families since they were about 8 miles away slightly southwest from the main grouping just north of Carrollton. William was of course married in 1820 to Margaret Adair, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Brown) Adair. I do not include the physical locations of these parcels within the section in which they occur. The brother-in-law of William, Neal Tilletson who married Martha Richey, is also found in this county:
a. Robert Richey. Father of William, James, and David. Only William went to Utah along with Robert's wife Rebecca (Belton) who died on the trail to Utah:
i. S32 (TWP 21), 1/31/1825, 160 acres.
ii. S5 (TWP 22), 1/12/1825, 160 acres.
b. William Richey. He came to Utah:
i. S7 (TWP 21), 9/17/1833, 40 acres.
c. James Richey. He is found here in the 1850 Census with wife and two children:
i. S8 & S9 (TWP 21), 8/13/1833, 80 acres.
c. David Richey. He is found here in the 1850 Census with extensive family (Census entry may be misspelled as Didama Adair):
i. S7 (TWP 22), 12/31/1833, 40 acres.
G. Miscellaneous notes:
a. I looked for both Moses Pearson and any Carsons associated with the family and found no listings in this book.
b. There are other Adairs in Pickens County and they are listed in the book. They include Wyman (or Weyman) Adair with five parcels with date range of 1832-1834 in Township 20, Range 16, and in Township 21, Range 16. Also included is William Adair with one parcel dated in 1836 for Township 22, Range 14. These may be distant cousins of our Adairs, but not ones with which there is a documentary association at this time.
c. This study was undertaken with the goal of confirming the relationship of Joseph Adair with a father named James Adair as is established by Joseph Adair's LDS Patriarchal Blessing in which Joseph names his parents as James and Rebecca Adair. The close relationship found in these particular land records confirm this relationship especially since they also owned land together. There is one caveat, however, and that is that Joseph had a younger brother named Joseph Newton Adair who was born 11 Mar 1812 (Joseph was born 11 Apr 1806). There is the possibility that the James in the land deeds could be the brother and not the father, however, I don't believe this is the case. The 1830 US Census places James Adair and his family in Pickens County with him and his wife being aged 60-70. To be listed in the census he would have had to have had property. There is only one James Adair listed in the census and the younger James Newton Adair may be the male listed in the census that is age 15-20.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Major autobiography with lots of references to Mangums, Richeys, and Adairs and their history by James Richey [see his notes for transcription] speaks of his relatives: "I left the crop that I had planted with my Father's family, there were only two of us, my wife and myself. Some of my relatives had come on from Pisgah in the company of Charles F. Rich and family on their way to the west. The names of our relatives are as follows: Joseph Adair and wife, Rebecca, sister of my wife; [Note: this is our Aunt Rebecca Mangum who married Joseph Adair and also Thomas Adair, according to Mangum book.) James Mangum and wife; George Adair and wife; [George Adair the brother of Samuel Jefferson Adair] and a lad by the name of Harvey Cla**(?) and also my sister Emily. We left Winter Quarters and went out into a river called the Horn and where people were organized into com
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1806 - 1858 (52 years)
