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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. Censuses:
1820 US: Note: Ancestry.com boards reports a James Adair listed in Lawrence Co., Alabama. Two census returns are discussed, neither of which I have confirmed as being correct or variants of the same entry. The same board notes: "This James in Lawrence Co., AL is said to be the father of another John Adair and son of Joseph Jr., etc." -- if true he certainly would be a candidate for our James Adair.
James Adair (1,1,2,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0 2,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
James Adair (1,1,1,0,3,0,3,6)
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.
3. I am unsure as to which James Adair the following James may be but it may be this James. Per "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 14, p. 18, "Laurens District Estate Divisions 1825-1834":
"John Prayther decd real Estate. Joseph Dollar & Hannah his wife $82.50, vs William Dollar & Lyny his wife, $87.03, James Prayther, Archibald Prayther, Martha Prayther, Bryce Prayther, Nelly Prather, James Adair guardian, $261.11."
4. The following is a note from James' son John Adair per http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.adair/1433.1.1/mb.ashx various quotes circa 2003-4 (note the possibility that James may have had a wife prior to Rebecca that died a few weeks after John's birth:
A. "Ann McClure (who had the child by Alexander Adair), Elizabeth McClure (wife of Benjamin Wilson and mother of Margaret Wilson, who married John Adair, son of James Adair), and James McClure (father of Mary A. Bell, who married Stephen Braddock, son of Ann McClure and Alexander Adair) were siblings."
B. "The following web page on McClure, Braddock, Wilson, Adair mentions the above Alexander came directly from Ireland to Laurens Co. (1767)." [Kerry's note: I am aware of Alexander from other notes in Laurens Co., SC, but it is interesting to see him in a relationship with the same family as our John Adair.]
C. "Kentucky: A History of the State," Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885. Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY. [My note: The first part of this biography is confusing. The James Adair who was part of Marion's band was not of Laurens Co. nor was John's father James old enough to have served in the War of Independence, yet we are certain that this John is correctly placed due to the correlation of his birth date as compared with his tombstone and the LDS Temple records as reported by his cousins. John's father James may have had a previous wife before Rebecca if this account of John's mother's death is correct.]
"Graves Co.
"The Adair Family. The Adairs are among the oldest families of Graves County. They came originally from Ireland, and settled in one of the Atlantic States a number of years before the war of the Revolution. The family originally settled in South Carolina, where James Adair, grandfather of Turner Adair, distinguished himself in the war of Independence as a member of the celebrated Marion's band. Late in life he settled in Alabama, where he died about the year 1839 or 1840. His son, John Adair, was left an orphan, when but three weeks old, by the death of his mother. He made his home with the families of his aunt and grandfather, and at an early age was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, which he followed all his life. He was married in 1820 to Margaret Wilson, by whom he had thirteen children, whose names are as follows: James McConathy, Elizabeth, Jane, Turner, Martha C., Sarah A., James H., S.B., John P., Joseph B., Margaret P., Mary P. and Virginia P.
In the year 1830 Mr. Adair came to Graves County, Ky., and settled in Lynnville Precinct on the place where his widow now resides. He died June 4, 1878.
Turner Adair, third child of John Adair, and eldest member of the family now living, was born in 1825 in Lawrence [sic] District, S.C. He remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself, which occupation he continued until 1849, when he joined a company of young men as daring as himself, and made an overland trip to California for the purpose of engaging in mining. He participated in all the active scenes of that exciting period, and was fairly successful in his quest of fortune. He returned home in 1858, and at once resumed farming, which he still follows. Mr Adair has never married and at the present time lives with his mother on the old homestead."
D. "Elizabeth McClure Wilson [mother of Margaret (Wilson) Adair] is also buried in Graves Co, KY ... John and Margaret Adair are in Beech Grove Cemetery, perhaps Elizabeth is also..."
5. 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.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1770 - Bef 1840 (< 69 years)
