p 85 - [Children of Benjamin Chinn Adams and Caroline Blanks]
... Charles Lynch Adams was born in 1838, and in 1872 married Miss Lelia Tardy, of Virginia, who was also his kinswoman through the following line: Her mother was Sallie William Ward, who married Samuel C. Tardy. And Sallie William Ward was a daughter of John Ward and Tabitha Walden, and a granddaughter of William Ward and Mildred Adams, and this Mildred Adams was the daughter of Penelope Lynch and Captain Robert Adams, Jr., of the Revolution. ...