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Samuel Newton Adair

Male 1839 - 1924  (84 years)


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  • Name Samuel Newton Adair 
    Born 11 Dec 1839  , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 May 1924  Luna, Catron, New Mexico, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 18 May 1924  Luna, Catron, New Mexico, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1756  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Samuel Jefferson Adair,   b. 28 Mar 1806, , Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1889, Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Jemima Catherine Mangum,   b. 14 Sep 1809, , Warren, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1848, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 3 Dec 1829  , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F98  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Helen Gennett Brown,   b. 4 Apr 1845, Kirtland, Lake, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1933, Luna, Catron, New Mexico, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 15 Dec 1863  Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1840 US: Northern District, Itawamba Co., Mississippi, p. 136a:
      Samuel Adair, males: 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 30-40:1; females: 0-5:1; 30-40:1. No slaves listed.

      1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 78b, 13 Sep 1850, entry 217:
      Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, SC.
      Nancy, 39, VA.
      John, 18, AL.
      George, 15, AL.
      Samuel, 12, AL.
      Rufus, 7, MS.
      Mary, 13, TN.
      Robert, 7, TN.
      Benjamin, 5, TN.
      Jemima, 4, IA.
      Joshua, 1, IA.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return:
      Adair: Samuel 45, John M. 18, George 16, Samuel N. 14, Rufus A.B. 10, Jemima 6, Joshua 1. [Note Samuel appears recently separated from his second wife by the time of this census and she is living several pages away in the census under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice - once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy's marriage. Her fourth husband Evins O'Banion is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well. This confirms the fact that Samuel went west in June 1852 was not the immediate cause of their separation by this census in Sep. 1851. Also note that John and Permelia, his son-in-law and daughter, are living next door. Also the following related families are living as neighbors to each other in the county but several census pages away from Samuel: Thomas/Mary Adair, John/Mary A. Mangum, and William/Sarah Mangum. ]

      1852 Iowa: Pottawattamie County:
      Thomas Adair, 6, 4, 1, 1.
      Samuel Adair, 8, 3, 1, 1. Note also an Andrew Allen and a Jude Allen family is listed 7 and 8 entries below; Andrew Allen marries Samuel's separated wife after 1852 [Nancy did not go west, nor does Andrew Allen; Andrew's first wife Eunice who he separates from because he doesn't want to go west does go to Utah in same company as her children and Samuel in 1852. Jude's daughter Jane eventually marries Bishop John Stoker.]

      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:
      Samuel Adair
      Roxana "
      Ann "
      John M. "
      George "
      Jane "
      Newton "
      Rufus "
      Catherine "
      William "
      Joseph "
      Emily "
      Ezra T. "
      Joshua "
      Eliza J. "

      1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1292 and family #1116 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors):
      Jno. M. Adair, 25, farmer, $150 real estate, $200 personal property, AL.
      Eliza J., 24, MS.
      Emily J., 3, UT.
      Jno., 2, UT.
      Cyrus Mangum, 21, F. Labor, MS.
      S.N. Adair, 21, F. Labor, MS.

      1880 US: Concho Creek, Apache, Arizona, 11 Jun 1880, 153/156:
      S.N. Adir, 40, farmer, MS AL AL.
      Helen J., 35, OH VT VT.
      Chas. Newton, 15, UT MS OH.
      Hariete J, 13, UT MS OH.
      Byron A., 11, UT MS OH.
      Jesmmine J., 9, UT MS OH.
      Mary Virginia, 4, UT MS OH.
      Annie K., 1, UT MS OH.

      1900 US: Precinct no. 37, Socorro Co., New Mexico, p. 121a:
      Samuel Adair, b. Dec 1839, age 60, married 36 years, b. Mississippi, no listing for parents birthplaces, farmer.
      Jennett, wife, b. Apr 1845, age 55, married 36 years, 11 total children of which 10 are still living, b. Ohio, both parents born in Vermont.
      Byron A., son, b. Mar 1869, age 31, single, b. UT, MS, OH, unable to work.
      Mary V., dau., b. Feb 1876, age 24, single, b. UT, MS, OH.
      Annie, dau., b. May 1879, age 21, single, b. UT, MS, OH.
      Edna, dau., b. Nov 1881, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH.
      Josephine, dau., b. May 1884, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH.
      Thomas J., son, b. May 1884, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH.
      Marcus O., son, b. Oct 1886, age 13, single, b. NM, MS, OH.

      2. In early southern Utah history, Samuel is often referred to as Newton Adair.

      3. "List of Participants in Mountain Meadows Massacre," Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, Call# MS 6743:
      a. Handwritten list found in the bottom of a Pioneer's Family Trunk: "On the ground aiding or consenting to killing over 120 on Aug. or Sept. 14th or 15th, 1857"; list has 25 names but only of surnames alphabetically between A and K with "George Adair, Farmer" listed.
      b. A second, typed list: "Those who were involved with warrants issued by Judge John M. Cradelbaugh, March 1859"; list has 64 names many of which are duplicates of the handwritten list. Includes: "Samuel Adair, George W. Adair, John Mangum, James Mangum." Of the 64 names, 48 are from Lee, and 16 from Cradelbaugh. Cradelbaugh issued warrants for 38 men. So many men were involved from the surrounding area, coming and going, that an accurate list is impossible. In addition to the Mormons some 300 Indians participated.

      4. Children:
      a. Charles Newton, b. 13 Jan 1865, Washington, Washington, UT, m. Mary Elva Woolsey 19 Mar 1888, Thatcher, Graham, AZ, d. 16 Aug 1939 Eagar, Apache, AZ. [Mangum book says birth date was 13 Jan 1864.] From email of 26 Dec 2001 email of Norma Entrekin [nje@mindspring.com]: "Another story that I like, and I think that it illustrates the differences between than and now. From the book: 'Do You Remember Luna- 100 Years of Pioneer History- 1883-1983' (About the town of Luna, Catron County, New Mexico), p. 108, this is a story by Samuel's Gr. Granddaughter, about her father and grandfather, who were Samuel Newton Adair's son and grandson- Charles Adair and Byron Adair. The towns of Luna, New Mexico and Reserve, New Mexico are about 21 miles apart. 'Many local men had contracts to carry mail from Luna to Reserve. Mary J. Adair Sherwood tells the story of her father Byron Adair and Grandfather Charles Adair: My father carried the mail from Luna to Reserve. In bad weather, he went horseback. One day he was going in an old Model T Ford of Grandpa's and he was trying to get Grandpa to go with him. Grandpa told him 'No' and Papa kept coaxing. Papa said: "Come with me and I will give you a dollar for every time you have to push.' Grandpa replied: 'I won't push it to Reserve and back for a dollar.'"
      b. Harriet Gennett, b. 13 Nov 1866, Washington, Washington, UT, m. Owen Washington Clark 26 Nov 1884, St. George, Washington, UT, d. 18 Apr 1946, Cannonville, Garfield, UT.
      c. Byron Abraham, b. 9 Mar 1869, Washington, Washington, UT, d. 30 Apr 1933, Luna, Catron, New Mexico. [Mangum book says he was unmarried.]
      d. Jamima Jane, b. 29 Jun 1871, Washington, Washington, UT, m. William Clark Baldwin 6 Jul 1889, Luna, Socorro, NM, d. 8 Jun 1919, Taylor, Navajo, AZ. [Mangum Book shows name as Jemima Jane and death year as 1918.]
      e. William Orin, b. 12 Oct 1873, Washington, Washington, UT, d. 18 Jul 1876, Washington, Washington, UT.
      f. Mary Virginia, b. 23 Feb 1876, Washington, Washington, UT, m. John Henry Petty 24 May 1905, Luna, Socorro, NM, d. 4 Apr 1908, Luna, Socorro, New Mexico.
      g. Anna Catherine, b. 11 May 1879, Washington, Washington, UT, m. James Smith McFate 20 Apr 1904, Luna, Socorro, NM, d. 13 Jul 1916, Luna, Socorro, New Mexico.
      h. Sara Edna, b. 27 Nov. 1881, Erastus or Concho, Apache, AZ, m. William Shepherd Laney 8 Oct 1909, SLC, Salt Lake, UT, d. 12 Apr 1937, Luna, Catron, New Mexico. [Mangum book says birthplace was Concho, Apache, AZ; marriage date was 1 Oct 1909; died 11 Dec 1918 - looks like death dates got mixed up between her and her sister Olive Josephine.]
      i. Olive Josephine (twin), b. 28 May 1884, Erastus, Apache, AZ, m. Charles Ronald Stewart, 26 Nov 1906, Luna, Socorro, NM, d. 11 Dec 1918, Luna, Catron, New Mexico. [Mangum book says birthplace was Nutrioso, Apache, AZ and that she died 12 Apr 1937, which looks correct since their 8th child was born in 1922.]
      j. Thomas Jefferson (twin), b. 28 May 1884, Nutrioso, Apache, AZ, d. 1 Aug 1906, Luna, Catron, New Mexico.
      k. Marcus Owen, b. 8 Oct 1886, Luna, Socorro, New Mexico, m. Annie Lee Fuentis 21 Apr 1914 at Luna, Socorro, New Mexico, d. 8 Dec 1925 at Luna, Catron, NM.
      i. "Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 577: "Adair, Thomas Jefferson, an Elder who died away from home, filling a mission for the Church, was born May 28, 1884, at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, the son of Samuel Newton Adair and Helen J. Brown. His grandparents on his father's side were among the noted residents of Nauvoo, Illinois, and his grandparents on his mother's side were associated with the Church in Kirtland, Ohio, where his grandfather Brown assisted in the erection of the Kirtland Temple. His parents were among the early settlers in Apache County, Arizona, and were staunch Latter-day Saints. Thomas J. was baptized Sept. 1, 1892, by his father and was ordained successively to the offices of Priest and Elder. He was set apart for a mission to the Southwestern States April 1, 1904, and was appointed to labor in Arkansas, where he spent twenty-eight months as a faithful, energetic missionary. While thus engaged he contracted a disease and being released from his mission he started for home and arrived at St. Johns, Arizona, July 23, 1904[6?]. His parents who lived about seventy-five miles from St. Johns, were notified, but when they arrived at his bedside he was unable to travel further, and getting gradually worse, he died Aug. 1, 1906, at St Johns. Elder Adair was greatly respected by all who know him. He had received a good education, had attended the Stake Academy at St. Johns, and taken the missionary course prior to going on his mission. He was noted for his exceptionally energetic and lively disposition and ever showed the greatest loyalty and devotedness to the Church."
      ii. "Deseret Evening News," Tues., Aug. 7, 1906, p. 3, photo accompanies obituary: "St. Johns, Arizona. Gives Life for Cause of God. Elder Thomas J. Adair Dies on Way Home From Mission Field. Special Correspondence. St. Johns, Ariz., Aug. 2 - Elder Thomas J. Adair, son of Samuel N. and Helen J. Brown Adair, died here yesterday of typhoid malaria. Deceased was born in Nutrioso, Apache County, Ariz., May 28, 1884, his parents and a family of four children including a twin sister mourn his sad departure. Elder Adair was set apart for a mission to the Southwestern States April 1, 1904. Arkansas was his field of labor, where he spent 25 months as a faithful, energetic missionary. It was there he contracted the sickness that caused his death. He was taken down July 1 and soon afterwards his companion was also stricken down with the same disease. The president was notified, his companion was sent to Kansas City and Elder Adair was released to return home. He arrived in St. Johns July 23 and his parents, who live 75 miles distance from St. Johns at Luna N.M., were notified and arrived her on the 26th, but found their son not able to travel home. He was, however, at that time in a perfectly rational and conscious state of mind, and for a couple of days conversed somewhat with his parents upon his labors in the missionary field, and they rejoiced exceedingly in the success of their bright young son. Saturday evening the 28th his system showed a marked weakening and his mind passed into a delirious condition from the effect of the very high fever and so continued until his death. His brothers and sisters, who have not seen him yet, have been notified of his death, and as soon as they arrive the funeral service will be held in St. Johns, where his body will be interred. Young Adair was greatly respected in St. Johns, where he attended the stake academy and took the missionary course prior to going on his mission. He was noted for his exceptionally energetic and lively spirit, which also characterized his missionary life. The grand parents on his father's side were among the noted residents of Nauvoo in 1846 and the grand parents on his mother's side were in Kirtland in 1836. His grandfather Brown helped in the construction of the Kirtland temple. The parents of the deceased were among the early settlers of this part of Arizona and stanch Latter-day Saints. The young man has many relatives in Lehi, Salt Lake, and other parts of Utah. All join with the bereaved ones in ___ the death of the departed and feel that he is a noble servant of God whom He has called to another field of labor to continue his work of saving the souls of the children of men in another sphere."
      iii. "Improvement Era," Sep. 1906, p. 912: "Three young men engaged in the missionary field died in the early part of August. The first, Elder Thomas J. Adair, died in St. Johns, Arizona, August 1, on his way home to Luna, New Mexico, from a mission in the South Western States to which he had been called April 1, 1904. He labored in Arkansas, where he contracted typhoid-malaria which caused his death. He was the son of Samuel N. and Ellen J. Brown, and was born in Nutrioso, Apache, Co., Arizona, May 28, 1884. He was a good, energetic and lively spirit. He was buried in St. Johns."
      k. Marcus Owen, b. 8 Oct 1886, Luna, Catron, New Mexico, m. Annie Lee Fuentes 21 Apr 1914, Luna, Socorro, NM, d. 8 Dec 1925, Luna, Catron, New Mexico.

      5. The following was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title, I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Note that some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and his mother was is responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution:
      "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair:
      "Father: Thomas Adair; Mother: Rebeca Brown; Children:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair
      Fairby Adair
      Margaret Adair
      Eliza Adair
      Sally Adair
      Thomas Adair
      George Washington Adair
      Mary Ann Adair
      John Wesley Adair
      Laney Adair
      Father: Samuel Jefferson Adair; Mother: Jamima Mangum; Children:
      Rebeca Francis Adair
      William Jefferson Adair
      John Milton Adair
      George Washington Adair
      Pamelia Jane Adair
      Samuel Newton Adair
      Joseph Jasper Adair
      Rufus Columbus Adair
      Jamima Kathrine Adair
      Ezra T. Adair
      Father: Samuel Newton Adair; Mother: Helen Gennett Brown Adair; Children
      Charles Newton Adair
      Harriet Gennett Adair
      Byron Abraham Adair
      Jamima Jane Adair
      William Oran Adair
      Mary Virginia Adair
      Anna Cathrine Adair
      Sarah Edna Adair
      Olive Josephine Adair
      Thomas Jefferson Adair
      Marcus Owen Adair
      Sheldon Genealogy: Father: William Sheldon; Mother: Hannah Sheldon; Children:
      William Sheldon
      Sophrona Sheldon
      Sylvester Sheldon
      Harriet Sheldon
      Hannah Sheldon
      Brown Genealogy: Father: Abraham Brown; Mother: Harriett Sheldon Brown; Children:
      Newel Abraham Brown
      Harriet Amanda Brown
      Byron Welman Brown
      Austin Milton Brown
      Clinton Oran Brown
      Helen Gennett Brown
      Leveret Wesley Brown
      Thomas Adair - Married Rebeca Brown:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair - Born at Lawrence Co., South Carolina, March 28, 1806. Baptized by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 27, 1845. Confirmed by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 30, 1845. Ordained an Elder by Daniel Thomas, a High Priest by John Young in 1855. Married Jamima Mangum. Filled a mission to Southern Utah in 1857. Migrated Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois on Jan. 10, 1846. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, July 6, 1889.
      Fairby Adair - married Daniel Clark
      Margaret Adair - married William Richey
      Eliza Adair - married John Price
      Sally Adair - married William Mangum. Died of cholera on the Plains in 1852.
      Thomas Adair - married Fanny Rogers. Died at Showlow, Navajo County, Arizona.
      George Washington Adair - married Miriam Billingsley. Died at Orderville, Utah.
      Mary Ann Adair - born at Pickens co., Alabama, July 5, 1824. Baptized by James Richey, 1844. Confirmed by Daniel Thomas in 1844. Married John Mangum. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City. Died of asthma at Pahreah, Utah.
      John Wesley Adair - born in 1820. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. Was a member of the Mormon Battalion.
      Laney Adair - married John Winn."
      Jamima Mangum - married Samuel Jefferson Adair. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847.
      Rebeca Francis Adair - Born and died at Pikens County, Alabama.
      William Jefferson Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847.
      John Milton Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama. Married Eliza Jane Richey. Died at Lincoln County, Nevada.
      George Washington Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama, married Ann Chestnut. Died at San Juan, New Mexico.
      Pamelia Jane Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Married Charles D. Searle at Payson City, Utah in 1856. Died at Ashley, Uintah County, Utah about 1884.
      Samuel Newton Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi, Dec. 11, 1839. Baptized by Samuel Jefferson Adair, in 1847. Ordained an Elder by John Freeman. Ordained a High Priest by Apostle Erastus Snow, at Luna, New Mexico Nov. 24, 1885. Married to Helen Gennett Brown by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec. 15, 1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18, 1867. Patriarchal Blessing by Emer Harris. Filled Mission to Moqice [Moqui] Village - Went Nov. 1862. Returned on Jan. 10, 1863. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, May 16, 1925.
      Joseph Jasper Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847.
      Rufus Columbus Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Washington City, Utah, Aug. 2, 1858.
      Jamima Katherine Adair - Born at Des Moine, Iowa. Married to Frederick Rugg at Washington, Utah, Jan. 11, 1866.
      Ezra T. Adair - Born at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848."
      [Children of Samuel Newton Adair:]
      Charles Newton Adair – Born at Washington City, Washington, Washington County, Utah, Jan. 13, 1865. Baptized by Robert F. Goold Aug. 23, 1874. Confirmed by Samuel Newton Adair, Aug. 23, 1874. Married to Mary Elva Woolsey by William Johnson at Thatcher, Arizona March 19, 1888. Endowed at Arizona Temple Oct. 24, 1935. Migrated from Utah to Arizona, Nov. 11, 1879. Died at Eager, Arizona, Aug. 16, 1939.
      Harriet Gennett Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Nov. 13, 1866. Married Owen W. Clark at Salt Lake City Temple, Nov. 26, 1884.
      Byron Abraham Clark- Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, March 9, 1869. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel Newton Adair, March 6, 1884. Migrated from Utah to Arizona. Died at Luna, New Mexico April 29, 1933.
      Jamima Jane Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, June 29, 1871. Married to William C. Baldwin by Gilbert D. Greer at Luna, New Mexico. Died at Taylor, Arizona, June 8, 1919.
      William Oran Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Oct. 12, 1873. Died at Washington, Utah, July 18, 1876.
      Mary Virginia Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Feb. 23, 1876. Baptized by Lemuel A. Pace, May 1, 1884. Confirmed by Benjamin Noble, May 1, 1884. Married to John Henry Petty, May 24 ___, by Melvin Swapp at Luna, New Mexico. Endowd at St. George Temple. Died at Luna, New Mexico, April 4, 1908.
      Anna Catherine Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, May 11, 1879. Baptized by Samuel B. Tenney, Aug. 1, 1889. Confirmed by William H. Reynolds, Aug. 1, 1889. Married to James Smith McFate, April 21, 1904, by Amon McFate at Luna, New Mexico. Endowed at St. George, Utah. Died at Luna, New Mexico, July 13, 1916.
      Sarah Edna Adair - Born at Concho, Apache County, Arizona, Nov. 27, 1881, blessed by Samuel Newton Adair. Baptized to William H. Reynolds, June 5, 1890. Confirmed by Gilbert D. Greer. Married to William S. Laney by John R. Windsor at Salt Lake City, Oct. 8, 1909. Endowed at Endowment Room, Salt Lake Temple. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Dec. 11, 1918.
      Olive Josephine Adair - Born at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, May 28, 1884. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, May 28, 1884. Baptized by Samuel N. Adair, Sept. 1, 1892. Confirmed by M. H. Thompson Sept. 1, 1892. Married to Charles Ronald Stewart by J. J. Hale, at Luna, New Mexico, Nov. 26, 1906. Endowed at Mesa Temple, Mesa Arizona, May 24, 1928. Died at Luna, New Mexico, April 12, 1937.
      Thomas Jefferson Adair - Born at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona May 28, 1884. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, May 28, 1884. Baptized by Samuel Newton Adair, Sept. 1, 1892. Confirmed by M.H. Thompson, Sept. 1, 1892. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel N. Adair, Jan. 31, 1897. Ordained a Priest by Samuel N. Adair, Dec. 28, 1902. Ordained a Teacher by Samuel N. Adair, May 20, 1901. Endowed at Salt Lake City, 1904. March 21, 1904, left on a mission to Arkansas. Returned from his mission to St. Johns, Arizona, where he died Aug. 1, 1906. Thomas spent 28 months in the mission field in Arkansas. He became ill with typhoid malaria fever and was honorably released to return home. He only got to St. Johns, where he died.
      Marcus Owen Adair - Born at Luna, Socorro County, New Mexico, Oct. 8, 1886. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, Jan. 6, 1887. Baptized by Samuel N. Adair, Sept. 5, 1895. Confirmed by W. H. Reynolds, Sept. 5, 1895. Confirmed by W. H. Reynolds, Sept. 5, 1895. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel N. Adair, Dec. 28, 1902. Married to Anna Fuentes, April, 21, 1914, by A. J. Kent at Luna, New Mexico. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Dec. 8, 1926.
      Helen Gennett Brown- Born at Kirtland, Ohio, April 4, 1845. Married to Samuel Newton Adair, by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec. 15, 1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, June 18, 1867. Migrated from Ohio to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Jan. 11, 1933.
      Luna, New Mexico Sept. 15, 1919."

      6. FHL film 392631 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Samuel N. Adair, b. 11 Dec 1839 at Mississippi, parents Samuel and Jemima Adair. Blessing date 19 Feb 1856 at Payson, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch: John Young. Vol. 25, p. 198.

      7. Typescript "Washington City Cemetery, Washington, Utah," by Cuba Hall Lyle, St. George, Utah, 1986 describes the incompleteness and lack of vital records in early Washington: "...the lack of complete LDS Ward records (only 1880 - 1900 and 1907- 1940's) for the Cotton Mission which began in Washington in the spring of 1857. Consequently, many of the early dates, etc., shown are from family records or memories. The Washington City Offices did not keep death and burial records by location until 1961 when the new sections were platted. Old ward records, city records, LDS family group sheets, federal census records and the 1871 and 1881 school census records of Washington City have all played a part in this material, but, for documentation, some could be questionable. So many families moved on to greener pastures and had no way to leave permanent grave markers." On this list the following are included:
      Adair, Ann Catherine, b. 11 Apr 1844, d. 27 Mar 1863, parents are William Albert and Johanna Chesnut, spouse is George Washington Adair.
      Adair, Emily Jane, b. 2 Nov 1855, d. 1860, parents are John Milton Adair and Eliza Jane Richey.
      Adair, Olive P., b. 27 Nov 1864, d. 28 Nov 1864, parents are George Washington Adair and Emily Prescenda Tyler.
      Adair, Rufus Columbus, b. 9 Feb 1844, d. 2 Aug 1858, parents are Samuel Jefferson Adair and Jemima Catherine Mangum.
      Adair, William Orin, b. 12 Oct 1873, d. 18 July 1876, parents are Samuel Newton Adair and Helen Gennette Brown.
      Carson, Hannah Marie, b. 14 May 1864, d. 14 May 1864, parents are Valentine Carson and Hannah Waggle.

      8. The book "A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," by B.H. Roberts, 1930, various quotes about the Mountain Meadows Massacre:
      P. 174, footnote 18: Judge Cradlebaugh claims that while at Cedar City he 'was visited by a number of apostate Mormons,' who gave him 'every assurance that they would furnish an abundance of evidence in regard to the matter, as soon as they were assured of military protection.' 'While there,' he also said, 'I issued warrants on affidavits filed before me for the arrest of the following named persons: Jacob [Isaac C.] Haight, president of the Cedar City stake; Bishop John M. Higbee, and Bishop John D. Lee [Lee never was a Bishop...], Columbus Freeman, William Slade, John Willis, William Riggs, ___ Ingram, Daniel McFarlan, William Steward, Ira Allen and son, Thomas Cartwright, E. Welean, William Halley, Jabez Nomlen, John Mangum, James Price, John W. Adair, ___ Tyler, Joseph Smith, Samuel: Pollock, John McFarlan, Nephi Johnson, ___ Thornton, Joel White, ___ Harrison, Charles Hopkins, Joseph Flang, Samuel Lewis, Sims Matheny, James Mangum, Harrison Pierce, Samuel Adair, F.C. McDulange, William Bateman, Ezra Curtis, and Alexander Loveridge. (Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 3rd Session, Appendix, p. 123)."
      P. 178: "Later when some of the accused were before the secular court, and Lee was tried and found guilty, Sumner Howard, the prosecuting attorney, in closing his plea in the case against Lee, said: 'He had had all the assistance any United States official could ask on earth in any case. Nothing had been kept back, and he was determined to clear the calendar of every indictment against any and every actual guilty participator in the massacre, but he did not intend to prosecute any one that had been lured to the Meadows at the time, many of whom were only young boys and knew nothing of the vile plan which Lee originated and carried out for the destruction of the emigrants.' (Second Lee trial, 1876. Court Record, also Deseret News of Sept. 27th, 1876.)

      9. From an uncited book of which I have copies of p. 187: "Luna, in New Mexico, 12 miles east of Alpine, Arizona, was on the sheep range of the Luna brothers, who did not welcome the advent of the first Mormon families, those of the Swapp brothers and Lorenzo Watson, Feb. 28, 1883. Two prospectors had to be bought out, to clear a squatter's title... The first house was a log fort."

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Book "Savage and Saint" by Helen Bay Gibbons is the biography of Andrew Gibbons. Page 173 notes Samuel as part of a group of forty persons who had crossed the Colorado for a colonizing mission during the winter of 1873-4 to Moencopi Springs in Arizona under leadership of Horton D. Haight and John L. Blythe. The group was threatened by the Navajos and two of their number were taken captive. A rescue party was sent by instruction from Brigham Young by telegraph to John Young. They succeeded.

      2. 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], William 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 sunbonnets 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."

      3. "Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 577: "Adair, Thomas Jefferson [Samuel's son], an Elder who died away from home, filling a mission for the Church, was born May 28, 1884, at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, the son of Samuel Newton Adair and Helen J. Brown. His grandparents on his father's side were among the noted residents of Nauvoo, Illinois, and his grandparents on his mother's side were associated with the Church in Kirtland, Ohio, where his grandfather Brown assisted in the erection of the Kirtland Temple. His parents were among the early settlers in Apache County, Arizona, and were staunch Latter-day Saints. Thomas J. was baptized Sept. 1, 1892, by his father and was ordained successively to the offices of Priest and Elder. He was set apart for a mission to the Southwestern States April 1, 1904, and was appointed to labor in Arkansas, where he spent twenty-eight months as a faithful, energetic missionary. While thus engaged he contracted a disease and being released from his mission he started for home and arrived at St. Johns, Arizona, July 23, 1904[6?]. His parents who lived about seventy-five miles from St. Johns, were notified, but when they arrived at his bedside he was unable to travel further, and getting gradually worse, he died Aug. 1, 1906, at St Johns. Elder Adair was greatly respected by all who know him. He had received a good education, had attended the Stake academy at St. Johns, and taken the missionary course prior to going on his mission. He was noted for his exceptionally energetic and lively disposition and ever showed the greatest loyalty and devotedness to the Church."

      4. The book "Jacob Hamblin, The Peacemaker" by Pearson H. Corbett:
      pp. 206, 207: Orson Pratt, referring to the announcement made in the morning session said: "The following brethren have been called as missionaries to the Moquis. They are as follows: Jacob Hamblin of Santa Clara as President... Newton Adair of Washington... After the names were read the following outfit for each member of the foregoing list was subsequently prescribed: 76 pounds of flour or hard bread, 12 pounds of dried beef or bacon, 12 pounds of dried beans, 1 lb. of salt, 1 riding animal, 1 pack animal with pack saddle, 1 lasso, 1 pair hobbles - for each animal, 1 cup, 1 knife and scabbard, 1 tin plate, 1 revolver or light rifle, both if possible, with at least 12 rounds of ammunition and as much more as convenient, a comfortable supply of blankets, tea, sugar, coffee, molasses, and as many comforts as each person may deem necessary to make himself comfortable... The fourth expedition assembled at St. George the latter part of November. The purpose of the company, in addition to visiting the Mosques, was to explore a new route south of St. George as a means of shortening the distance to the Moquis Villages..."
      pp. 430-433, a tribute to Jacob Hamblin and his fellow companions: "The first man after Escalante to cross the Colorado River at the eastern end of the two-hundred mile gorge of Grand Canyon was Jacob Hamblin. He started from Santa Clara in 1858, and had to cross it in order to carry the Gospel to the Hopi Indians. He got the habit thus and went over nearly every year until his death in 1886, sometimes crossing at the west end of the Canyon, but usually at the east end, either at Lees Ferry or Padres' Crossing. He was the pathfinder of Northern Arizona, its Daniel Boone or Peary; and it is thanks to him that Utah settlements are now flourishing in Arizona around the headwaters of the Little Colorado, and the Gila, as well as in the Salt River Valley. It is also thanks to him that in the 70's men like Ivins, Jones, and Stewart went prospecting in Mexico and Texas and found locations of Mexican colonies. If you sit on the Canyon rim and don't think of Jacob Hamblin, you are absolutely without piety, you are as bad as a man who visits Mount Vernon and never gives a thought to Washington or who spends a day at Versailles and does no serious thinking of the vanity and value of kings like Louis XIV... The names of those men are utterly unknown to the vast majority of Americans; one seeks for them in vain in the pages of history of the nation; but they are deeply and permanently on the record of the pioneer days of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. James and Hamilton Pearce, Andrew S. Gibbons and his sons, Samuel N. Adair, Thales Haskell, Ammon M. Tenney, Lorenzo Roundy, Thomas C. and James S. Brown, Jens Nielson, Francello Durfee, and towering above all as an apostle, scout, pioneer and adventurer - Jacob V. Hamblin... Hamblin explored more than the Colorado River. He explored Las Vegas desert, the Dixie region and eastern Nevada. He was mediator of trouble between the Mormon settlers and the Indians. When the Indians would get on the warpath, the settlers would frantically send for Jacob Hamblin. He took George Adair and had a nightlong talk, which calmed them. He says, 'By talking with them a better influence came over them and the spirit of peace triumphed over irritation and a sense of wrong.'"

      5. The book "Utah's 'Dixie' Birthplace," by Harold P. Cahoon and Priscilla Cahoon, pp. 272-276, has a map and lists landowners as of the resurvey of 1873. Names are spelled as recorded. Relations included are:
      John M. Adair, blk. 15, lot 3. [SE corner of Main and 1st S.]
      John Price, blk. 34, lot 8. [SW corner of 2nd N and 1st E.]
      Wesley Adair, blk. 34, lot 10. [4th lot N on W side of 1st E halfway between 1st and 2nd N.]
      Samuel [J.] Adair, blk. 35, lots 1,11,12. [NW corner of 1st N and 2nd E.]
      Samuel N. Adair, blk. 35, lots 3,4. [2nd and 3rd lot N on E side of 1st E between 1st N and 2nd N.]
      Levi W. Hancock, blk. 41, lots 1,2,3,6. [Southern 2/3 of block between 1st and 2nd W and 2nd and 3rd N.]
      James Richey, blk. 34, lot 2. [NE corner of Main and 1st N.]

      6. From email of 26 Dec 2001 email of Norma Entrekin [nje@mindspring.com]:
      A. "Bishop William Henry Reynolds was called as Bishop of Luna Ward in 1895. He had been serving as counselor to Bishop Greer. Bishop Reynold's counselors were Samuel Newton Adair, and William Ferguson Brown."
      B. "Samuel [Newton's father] lived in Nutrioso, Arizona, with his son George W., and in Luna, New Mexico with his son Newton for the last years of his life. A book on Luna's history: "Do You Remember Luna, 100 Years of Pioneer History, 1883-1983".
      C. As quoted from the Mangum Book, pp. 681,682 [Kerry's note: this version is slightly doctored; see my transcription from the original notes in the next note below.]: "The History of Samuel Newton Adair dictated to his granddaughter, Mary Gennette Adair Chapman, tells us a little more about the Adairs: 'On January 10, 1846 at the age of six years, I, Samuel Newton Adair, moved with my parents to Nauvoo, Illinois. When the Saints were driven from their homes in Nauvoo, my family moved to Mt. Pisgah where we lived for one and a half years. Here my mother and three brothers died. In the fall of 1847 [this should probably be 1848 since he says his 3 brothers died at Mt. Pisgah which would include Ezra who died 26 Apr 1848] we moved from Mt. Pisgah to Council Bluffs, Iowa where we remained until 1852. During this summer we crossed the plains with a company of Latter Day Saints. We encountered many hardships. We left our homes, crossed the trackless plains and were traveling in regions inhabited only by Red Men and wild animals. This was done with the thought that we were going to a land where we could worship God according to the dictates of our conscience. We reached Payson, Utah late that summer. During the next summer, the Walker War broke out in Utah. A large number of towns were deserted, including Payson, and some completely destroyed. During this time I stood guard and answered the roll call. (Note: He would have been less than 14 years old.) In the summer of 1853 with a company of men, we went in the night to Allred to move the Saints to Manti. The Indians had driven off their teams, so they couldn't move without help. My father was called by President Brigham Young to the southern part of the state to raise cotton. We left our home in Payson in March 1857 and moved to the Rio Virgin, or Washington, in Southern Utah. Here we remained until the first of June when we returned to Payson. [Note: He was 17 and his father Samuel J. was 47 years old.) In April 1858 I was called with 59 other men to go west out into Nevada. Each morning when we left camp, we left a note with the date and direction we were going in a split stick which was stuck in the ground. This was done expecting the Mormon Church to follow immediately. Our Captain was W. H. Dame of Parowan, Utah. (note: Dame was one of the 3 that gave orders for LDS men to participate in the terrible tragedy called Mt. Mountains Massacre.] Here we found Indians that were so wild we had to run them down on horses to let them know we were their friends. When we caught them we took them to our camp and fed them. While camped by a large spring at the end of this valley, a man by the name of Daniel Ramson Low Rodes came to our camp with a letter from President Young, advising us to return to a suitable place and put in a crop. We returned to Meadow Valley, now called Panaca, Nevada, and put in some crops. We stayed there until peace was declared with the United States, and then were called home. We gave our crops to the Indians. We reached home June 30, 1858. My father and I took a trip to Payson and while there my brother, Rufus was killed accidentally with a pistol. [Note: some records say Rufus died at Winter Quarters, on Aug 2, 1847 at age 3 1/2; this would seem to contradict the other records, if correct.] We returned to Washington and remained there until the year 1860, then went to California and remained there until 1861. In November of 1862 I was called to Moqua Village with Jacob Hamblin and others. We remained there one week, and left three men, Joe McGould, Haskel Thales, [note: his correct name is 'Thales Haskel'], and Ira Hatch with the Indians. We took three Indians home with us. William Maxwell took them to Salt Lake City and brought them back again, then saw them safely across the Big Colorado and then home. I was married to Helen Genette Brown December 15, 1863. In June of 1864, Apostle Lorenzo Snow came to my house in southern Utah. He asked if my two brothers and I had been to the Endowment House and had our wives sealed to us. When we told him that we had not, he asked, "What is the reason?" I said it was too far for us to take our families in the winter, and if we went in the spring we would lose our crops. He said, "Let your crops go and come this spring." So we did. My wife and I were sealed by Heber C. Kimball. At this time Martin Harris came back into the Church, and we were at the meeting when he made his confession in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. [Note: Martin Harris was born in 1783, helped Joseph Smith with the Book of Mormon translation, was baptized on April 6, 1830. He mortgaged part of his farm for $3,000 to publish the Book of Mormon, and was excommunicated 1837. He never denied his testimony of the B. of M. He was re-baptized in 1870 and publicly testified of the B. of M. at that time. He died in 1875 after re-affirming his testimony.] We then returned to our homes, making the trip in wagons seven hundred miles. I was called at the April Conference in 1879 on a mission to Arizona. I sold my home in Washington and left with my family November 10, 1879. We settled in Concho, Arizona. In 1883 we moved to Nutrioso, Arizona and remained there until spring of 1885. We moved to Luna, New Mexico in April of 1885 and have remained here ever since. On November 24, 1886 I was ordained a High priest by Apostle Marion Lyman Snow and was set apart at the same time as Second Counselor to Bishop Henry Reynolds. I have had many trials, but they have never weakened my testimony. I was deputy Sheriff in Washington for years. I was a policeman from the time the town was chartered until I left." [Note: in "History of St Johns Arizona Stake: page 104, it says that William H. Reynolds was Bishop of Luna from 1895 to 1903, the first time. Also in "Do you Remember Luna - 100 years of Pioneer History - 1883-1983" also agrees with the date of 1895. Page 17: William Henry Reynolds was called Bishop of Luna ward in 1895. He had been serving as Counselor to Bishop Greer. Bishop Reynold's Counselors were Samuel Newton Adair and William Ferguson Brown. So this disagrees with Samuel Newton's dates above. Also, he says he came to Luna in 1885, but page 104 of St. Johns Stake book disagrees with him: 'By the end of 1883, or 10 months after the first settlers arrived, forty five families were living in the valley and four babies had been born. Among these families were the Braman O. Reynolds family, and William H. Reynolds family (unrelated), William Laney and his family, Willis Coplin, Samuel N. Adair family, David Lee family, and the H. B. Clark family..."]
      D. "In the book 'A History of the St. Johns Stake', p. 286, it says: 'Samuel Newton Adair and Helen Genett Brown came to Concho, Arizona in 1880 from Washington, Utah with their seven children. Later they moved to Nutrioso, Arizona and then to Luna, New Mexico. They were cattle people and ranchers. Three children were born there. The Adairs left their mark in the St. Johns Arizona Stake and many of their descendants are contributing to its growth and well being today."

      7. There are several versions of the above biography in circulation. Collins Chapman in Mesa provided me copies 19 Mar 2006 of the original handwritten biography done by his mother in Luna, New Mexico, Sept. 15, 1919. Collins' mother, Mary Genette (Nettie) Adair Chapman, is the granddaughter of Samuel. In the biography Collins prepared January 2006 of his mother, he relates the following verbatim from his mother concerning Samuel's autobiography: "Grandfather passed away after I returned from my mission. He was sick at the time, and that is when I went up and helped him write his life history. I sat right by his bed, and wrote his life history as he related it to me. Just a few months after that, daddy went up one morning to see him. he was setting up in his bed reading the Book of Mormon. Daddy sat there for a few minutes talking to grandmother in front of the fireplace. As they were talking, they heard just a little gurgle=, and before they got back to the bed in the corner where he was laying, he was gone." (He died May 16, 1924.) I have edited the notes to correct obvious capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors only:
      "Life History of Samuel Newton Adair. Samuel Newton Adair, son of Samuel Jefferson Adair and Jamima Mangrum. Borned at Itwamba Co., Miss., December 11, 1839.
      Baptized at the age of eight years into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Samuel Jefferson Adair at Mount Pisgah, Iowa in the year 1847. [Kerry's note: this should probably be 1848 since he says his 3 brothers died at Mt. Pisgah, which would include Ezra who died 26 Apr 1848.] Schooling commenced at Council Bluffs. I had very little schooling. On January 10, 1846, at the age of 6 years I moved with my parents to Nauvoo, Illinois. Here we were driven from our homes on account of our religion. We moved to Mt. Pisgah where we lived for one year and half. Here my mother and three brothers died. Because of this, my father couldn't go with the pioneers. In the fall of 1847 we moved from near Mt. Pisgah to Council Bluffs where we remained until 1852. In the summer we crossed the Plains with a company of Latter-day Saints in the 10th company with Gardner as our captain. We encountered many hardships. We had left our homes, crossed the trackless plains and was traveling in mountain regions inhabited only by Red Men and wild animals - but with the thought that we were going to a Land where we could worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. We pressed forward and reached Payson, Utah late that summer. That same year I went home with Levi W. Hancock, one of the seven Presidents of the Seventies. During that summer the Walker War broke out in Utah. A large number of towns were deserted including Payson and some completely destroyed. During this time I stood guard and answered the roll call. In the summer of 1853, with a company of men, we went in the night to Allred to move the Saints to Manti. The Indians had driven their teams off so they couldn't move without help. My father was called from Payson to move to Juab to strengthen that settlement there. We remained there until the year 1856. Was then released and moved back to Payson. Father was called by Pres. B. Young to the southern part of the state to raise cotton. We left our homes in Payson in March of 1857. We moved to the Rio Virgin in So. Utah. Afterwards the town was surveyed and named Washington. Here we remained until the first of June and then returned to Payson where my sister lived. My brother-in-law was called to go back on the Plains to help stop the U.S. Army who were coming to help kill the Mormons. I stayed with my sister until March 1858, then returned to So. Utah again." [End of page 1; I have not yet received the other pages from Collins.]

      8. Received from Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, 19 Mar 2006. It deals with Samuel's son Samuel Newton Adair, but it has many references to Samuel Jefferson's family as well:
      A. "Life Sketch of Samuel Newton Adair. Dictated to his granddaughter, Mary Genette Adair (Chapman), Luna, New Mexico, September 15, 1919. Editors note: Shortly after her return from her mission to the Northern States in 1919, Mary Genette assisted her grandfather in compiling this life sketch. At least four versions of this document exist. The differences in the various versions are minor, and are essentially identical in the areas of important names, dates and places. This record is essentially a copy of the history presently contained in the personal records of Mary Genette with several minor variations in chronology and tense.
      "I, Samuel Newton Adair, son of Samuel Jefferson Adair and Jamima Mangum was born at Itawamba County, Mississippi, December 11, 1839. On the 10th of January 1846, at the age of six years, I moved with my parents to Nauvoo, Illinois. While in Nauvoo we along with the other saints were driven from our homes on account of our religious beliefs. My family moved to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, where we lived for one and a half years. I was baptized at the age of eight years into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by my father Samuel Jefferson Adair at Mt. Pisgah, in the year of 1847. It was while we were living in Mt. Pisgah that my mother and three of my brothers died. On account of their deaths, my father at that time could not go on with the pioneers.
      In the fall of 1848, we moved from Mt. Pisgah to Council Bluffs, Iowa. It was here that my schooling commenced, with most of my schooling taking place in Council Bluffs. It was rather limited such that in my lifetime, I had very little schooling. We remained in Council Bluffs until the summer of 1852. At that time with a company of Latter-day Saints we crossed the plains. In the 10th Company with Gardner as our Captain, we encountered many hardships. We had left our homes, crossed the trackless plains and were traveling in regions inhabited by the red men and wild animals. With the thought that we were going to a land where we could worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience we pressed forward and reached Payson, Utah, that same summer. In the summer of the next year, I went home with Levi W. Hancock, one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventies, and remained the rest of the summer. During that summer the Walker War broke out in Utah, and a large number of towns were deserted and destroyed, including Payson. During this time I stood guard and answered the roll call all summer.
      During the summer of 1853, with a company of men, we went in the night to Allred to move the Saints to Manti. The Indians had driven their teams off so they could not move without help. My father was called from Payson, Utah County, to move to Nephi, Juab County, to strengthen that settlement on account of the Indians. He remained there until the year 1856. He was then released and we moved back to Payson, where we remained for the rest of the summer. My father was called by President Brigham Young to the southern part of the state to raise cotton. We left our home in Payson, in March 1857, and moved to the Rio Virgin, in southern Utah. Afterwards the town was surveyed and named Washington. Here I remained until the first of June at which time I then returned to Payson, to stay with my sister. My brother-in-law was called to go back on the plains to stop the U.S. Army who were coming to kill the Mormons. I stayed with my sister until March 1858, then returned to southern Utah.
      In April 1958, I was called along with 59 other men to go west on the White Mountain Expedition, into Nevada. We had 20 wagons with 5 animals and three men assigned to each wagon. Each morning when we left camp we left a note placed in a split stick then stuck in the ground. On the note we wrote the date and the direction we were going. The was done expecting the main body of the Mormon Church to follow immediately. Our Captain was W. H. Dame of Parowan, Iron County. We went into Meadow Valley, Nevada, and crossed over into the Pahranagat Valley. At the head of this valley we found the Indians so wild that we had to run them down on our horses to let them know we were their friends. When we caught them, they were taken to our camp and given something to eat.
      While camped at a big spring at the farther end of this valley, a man by the name of Daniel Rawson, and an older man, Lon Rodes, came to our camp with a letter from President Young advising us to return and find a suitable place to put in a crop. We returned to Meadow Valley, now called Panaca. Here we put in our crop, and stayed until peace was declared with the government of the United States. We were then called home. We gave our crop to the Indians and reached home June 30, 1958.
      Upon my return from the White Mountain Expedition, I was ordained an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John Freeman and Gabriel Cooley. In July, my father and I took a trip to Payson and while there my brother Rufus was killed accidentally with a pistol from the hands of Charles Hall. (Rufus Columbus Burleson Adair died August 2, 1858.)
      We returned to Washington and remained there until the year 1860, then went to California, and remained there until 1861. In November 1862, I was call on a mission to the Moquis Village, with Jacob Hamblin and others. We remained there one week, left three men: Jehiel McConnell, Thales Haskel and Ira Hatch with the Indians. We took three Indians home with us. William Maxwell took them to Salt Lake City, and brought them back again, saw them safe across the Big Colorado, and then went home. I arrived home from the Moquis Village, on the 10th of January 1963. During the remainder of that year, I stayed in Washington.
      I was married to Helen Genette Brown December 15, 1863, by Bishop Robert D. Covington in Washington, Washington County, Utah. I was a home missionary in the St. George Stake, for years. I had filled this appointment as a missionary, and 43 years later, I found myself in St. George, standing in the same pulpit, and the same building talking to the same people.
      In June 1867, Apostle Lorenzo Snow came to my father's house and asked if I and my two brothers had been to the endowment house and had our wives sealed to us. We told him no. He then asked the reason. I told him it was too far to take our families in the winter, and if we went in the spring, we would lose our crops. Then he said, "Let you crops go and come this spring." We all went, received our endowments, and had our wives sealed to us. My wife and I were sealed by Heber C. Kimball. At this time Martin Harris returned to the Church and made his confession. I and my wife were present when he made his confession in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. We then returned to our home. We made the trip in wagons, traveling over 700 miles. (Editors note: Adair Family Records show that Samuel Newton and Helen Genette were sealed in the Endowment House, June 18, 1867. Jensen's LDS Church Chronology gives Martin Harris' return to Utah as August 30, 1870. No reason is known for this discrepancy.)
      For several years, I attended a series of meetings given by Church Priesthood Leaders called, "The Schooling of the Prophets." Admittance to these meetings was by invitation from the Bishop. I still have a card called "The Theological Lectures," that was signed by Brigham Young which was handed to me by my Bishop, Robert D. Covington.
      I was deputy sheriff in Washington County, Utah, for years under David H. Cannon. I was constable in the precinct of Washington City, Washington County, for many years. I had permission from the governor of Utah, to act in that position. I was policeman form the time the town was chartered until I left. I had a commission from the mayor of the city to act in that position.
      My next mission was to Arizona. I was called at the April conference in 1879. I sold my home in Washington City, and left with my family the 11th day of November 1879, and settled at Concho, Arizona. In 1883, I moved to Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. I remained there until the spring of 1885, and when land come into the market, there were thirteen of us on 160 acres, and the town was a part of that. Benjamin Brown was the only man of the thirteen that was able to buy us out. Our Bishop, Benjamin Noble, advised us to sell out to him so he could enter the land and secure it. When my land was gone, and part of my children had crossed the line over into New Mexico, I went with them. We arrived in Luna, New Mexico, in April 1885, and have remained here ever since.
      I was ordained a high priest by Apostle Erastus Snow and Marion Lyman at Luna, New Mexico, and set apart as second counselor to Bishop Lorenzo Watson, and remained his counselor as long as he was Bishop. I was then set apart as first counselor to Bishop Henry Reynolds, and remained as long as he held that position. I was home missionary in the St. John's Stake, for years and tried to fill every appointment. I was set apart as home missionary by David K. Udall at Eagarville, Arizona. I am still in Luna, and have had many trials but they have never weakened my testimony in regards to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have lived in Luna, for 34 years. It is now a thriving Mormon Community. I will be 80 years old on December 11, 1919.
      Samuel Newton Adair died May 16, 1924. His wife Helen Genette Brown died January 11, 1933."
      B. "Addendum to Life History Sketch of Samuel Newton Adair, Luna, New Mexico, January 22, 1920.
      I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I now about my father's folks. My grandfather on father's side was named Thomas Adair. He married Rebecca Brown. He lived at Lawrence County, South Carolina, in 1806. My father Samuel Jefferson Adair was his oldest son. Thomas Adair was the next oldest son. George Adair was the next oldest son. John Wesley Adair was the youngest son, and went with the Mormon Battalion in 1846. The girl's names were: Eliza Adair Price, Sally Adair Mangrum who died on the plains in 1852. Mary Ann Adair Mangrum married John Mangrum.
      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 Mangrum and he married Rebecca Noles, so my grandmother's name was Rebecca Mangrum. My grandfather Mangrum 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 of 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 Mangrum. They were all my uncles and aunts. Joseph Mangrum married Emilene Hanner, William married Aunt Sally Adair, John Mangrum married Aunt Mary Ann Adair, and James Mangrum married Jane Clark, my father's niece. I don't know who Uncle Cyrus Mangrum 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."
      C. "Letter Written by Samuel Newton Adair to his Daughter Harriet Genette Clark. March 17, 1907, Luna, New Mexico.
      a. (Edited Version)
      "Samuel Newton Adair's father, Samuel Jefferson Adair, was born 28 March 1806 in Laurens County, South Carolina. Samuel Jefferson Adair's family joined the Church in 1845, in the state of Mississippi. They left Mississippi on 10 January 1846, and came to Nauvoo, and were driven out with the rest of the Saints. We went to Mt. Pisgah, there my father buried his wife Jamima Mangum and three boys, William Jefferson, Joseph Jasper and Ezra T. This was in the state of Iowa.
      We came to Utah, in 1852, crossed the plains 1,033 miles in one wagon with one yolk of oxen and one yolk of cows. There was eight of us and everything we had to eat or wear was in that one wagon. My father's family stopped in Provo, that first year, and in the spring moved to Payson, Utah County, Utah. In 1853, the Indian War began, called the Walker War. The Indians killed one of the Brethren Alexander Trell. That day I started with Levi W. Hancock to Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. We barely escaped being killed by Indians. I lived with Levi Hancock all summer, and stood guard at night and guarded the cattle in the daytime to keep the Indians from stealing them. I drove a team from Manti, to Spring City, to bring the Saints back as the Indians were trying to kill them. Next year my father was called with others to move to Nephi, Juab County, Utah, to make a settlement. While here at Nephi, Brigham Young came to have a peace talk with Walker the Indian Chief, who was camped on Chicken Creek, 16 miles south of Nephi. He asked for enough men to go with him to be safe. My brother John was one of the men asked to go. President Young talked and plead with Chief Walker to live in peace, but he just laughed. President Young told him he would wither and die, and in less than a year, he did die a mere skeleton.
      In the spring of 1858, I was called to go to Dixie, in Southern Utah, and a few days later was called to go on what was called the White Mountain Mission. There was sixty men called. The object was to find a place for the Mormons to move, as the Government had an Army on the way to destroy them. While we were gone, that good