Person:John Adair (28)

!BIRTH:May have been born in Pickens County, Alabama.

From an email from Kerry Petersen, dated 13 Apr 06 comes the following information about John Wesley Adair.

Paul, the following is everything I know on Wesley and his two wives: RESEARCH_NOTES for John Wesley Adair: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Pickens Co., Alabama, roll 2, pages 111- 112. The first three related families all on the same page and the next four related families are on the next page: 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. 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1285 and family #1110 (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): Wesley Adair, 39, farmer, $150 real estate, $175 personal property, AL. Rebecca, 44, TN. Frances, 8, UT. 1870 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 412a, household 45, family 45 (related neighbors out of a total of 108 homes include the following heads of households: John Wesley Adair, Charles Searles, John Milton Adair, Valentine Carson, William Mangum, Jeremiah Stayner, and Samuel J. Adair): John W. Adair, 47, farmer, $500 real estate, $300 personal property, Alabama. Rebecca, 55, keeping house, TN. 1880 US: National Archives film T9-0036, p. 28D for St. Johns Village, Apache, Arizona: Wesley Adair, Farmer, Self M M W 59 AL Fa:unk Mo:unk Rebeca Adair, House keeping, Wife F M W 65 TN Fa:VA Mo:PA Note: Several Adairs listed as neighbors in Apache county. 1900 US: Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona, Roll 45, Book 1, page 28: Wesley Adair, b. Feb 1820, age 80, single, b. AL, fa. b. TN, mo. b. TN. Note: Living with Winnie Martin family and he is listed as Grand Uncle. Winnie is a widow and dau. of Frances Mangum (mother). Frances was born Oct 1843 in Mississippi of parents who were both born in Alabama. 2. Norma Ricketts in her book on the Mormon Battalion lists name as G. Wesley Adair. Is the G. a misinterpretion of a J? I have seen some renditions as George Wesley Adair. The official website <www.mormonbattalion.com> lists his name as Wesley Adair. Mexican War pension records show Wesley Adair. 1870 census has John W. Adair. 3. Sent information and my files Jan 2003 to Mark Staker of the Church History Museum. He is the LDS coordinator of the Mormon Battalion museum in San Diego. Also he said he would pass on word to the Mormon Battalion organization for a possible gravesite plaque. 4. >From Don and Carolyn Smith, one part of three writings of Samuel Newton Adair. [As to source, Carolyn referred me to Becky Hamblin [[email protected]] to try to locate the original of this; Becky in turn believes Collins Chapman in Mesa may have it since Collins' mother is the grandaughter who hand wrote it for Samuel]: "Luna, New Mexico, January 22, 1920. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know 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 was the oldest son of Samuel Jefferson Adair. Thomas Adair was the next oldest son. George Adair was next oldest son. John Wesley Adair was the youngest son and went with the Mormon Battalion in 1846. The girls names were Eliza Adair Price, Sally Adair Mangum, died on the plains in 1852. Mary Ann Adair Mangum married John Mangum." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Major autobiography with lots of references to Mangums, Richeys, and Adairs and their history by James Richey [see notes of James Richey for a couple of varying versions of his story] mentions his grandmother: [Appears she was probably baptized in 1844.]. The typographical errors are per the original: After staying with my friends a few days Itawamba County I went to Chickasaw Co. to where my Uncle Thomas Adair lived and preached to them the Gospel in that vicinity. I then returned home to my father's house in Noseuher County. After resting a while I started out in company with elder Daniel Thomas on preacjing tour. We went into the northwestern part of the state of Alabama on the Butteharhe River. From there we went to Itawamba in the state of Mississippi and preached to the people in the neighborhood of Where my relatives lived. A number of them belived and was afterwards baptized into the church. We then went to Chickasaw County in the state of Mississippe and preached into the church. The names of those that were baptized are as follows Thomas Adair and wife, John Mangum and wife, my grandmother, Seli Rebecca Adair and John Wesley Adair. After this I returned home and gave my attention to work of preparing to remove with my fathers friends to the city of Nauvoo in the State of Illiois to wich place we removed in the year of 1845. After we arrived in the City we had much sickness in the family. While I was gone up the river to help to bring down a raft for firewood. My oldest sister Rebecca was taken sick and died in my absence, which was a heavy blow to me as well as the rest of the family. In the course of the year my brother Robert and sister Martha Ann also died with malaria. In the course of the summer I returned to the State of alabama for my grandmother Rebecca Richey but her son kept her money from her so I failed in that part of my mission." 2. Mormon Battalion: a. Per the book "The Mormon Battalion, US Army of the West", by Norma Ricketts, G. Wesley Adair was a private in the Mormon Battalion, Company C, and as of March 1882 was a farmer in Arizona. He made it to California and was part of the Hancock-Los Angeles company of about 150 men who travelled up California's Central Valley to Sutter's Fort. Many went on to Salt Lake City immediately, but Wesley was one of the 105 who remained behind and worked for Sutter. Wesley contributed $10.00 to the purchase of two small decorated brass parade cannon from Captain John Sutter to take to the leaders of the Mormon Church. The cannon had been left behind in Moscow as the defeated Napoleon fled during the winter of 1812-13. Later the cannon were brought to Fort Ross in northern California, the Russian fur trade outpost. Sutter purchased the cannon from the Russians, along with other supplies, when the Russians closed Fort Ross. The two brass cannon, a four pounder and six pounder, were put on runners and carried in a wagon by the Holmes-Thompson company to Great Salt Lake Valley of which Wesley was a part. The group of 39 veterans and some others arrived between 24 Sep. and 6 Oct. 1848 in Salt Lake. It is not known where the cannon are today. (Possibility of them having being used for pile drivers at the St. George Temple site.) Wesley was one of thirty soldiers who later settled Arizona and contributed greatly to the colonization of Arizona. His nephew Benjamin Richey was also a private in the same company. b. LDS Journal of History, 1 May 1848: "May 1848, A number of Battalion brethren and others in Sacramento Valley, California, subscribed $512.00 and bought two brass cannons of Captain John A. Sutter, to be taken to the Great Salt Lake for the benefit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following are the names of the donors: [46 names listed including the following:] Wilford Hudson $20.00 Wesley Adair 10.00 Jacob M. Truman 15.40 c. FHL film 0471465 "Mexican War Pension Records" for Wesley Adair: p. 1: Index card for Wesley Adair, Mormon Batt'n Iowa Vols. (Mexican War.) Co. C. Private. Lists 7 card numbers. Number of personal papers herein: 0. p. 2: Muster in at Council Bluffs, July 16, 1846, for one year. p. 3: Company Muster Roll, Private Co. C, July 16 to Aug 31, 1846, not stated if present or absent. p. 4: Company Muster Roll, Private Co. C, Sept & Oct, 1846, not stated if present or absent. p. 5: Company Muster Roll, Private Co. C, Jan & Feb 1847, not stated if present or absent. p. 6: Company Muster Roll, Private Co. C, [unreadable] 1847, not stated if present or absent. p. 8: Company Muster Roll, Private Co. C, May & Jun 1847, not stated if present or absent. p. 9: Company Muster-out Roll, Private Co. C, appears on muster our roll date July 16, 1847 [location unreadable], last paid Feb 28, 1847. 3. Per "http://home.att.net/~edwardholliday/foolshollow.html": Adair, or Adairville, was a Mormon settlement established in 1878 in what was then Apache County of Arizona Territory. It was located about 3 miles NW of Show Low. This area became Navajo County on Mar. 21, 1895. Adair was founded by Wesley Adair and his brother Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr., and Thomas's wife Mary Vance. The Adair family built a home about one-fourth of a mile from Show Low Creek. Soon, other families came and settled in the valley. It was beautiful country but had a limited water supply. Many of the Adairs and other families left the area to move to Show Low and surrounding regions. All traces of Adair are gone except for Adair Cemetery which ironically has no one with surname of Adair buried there. Contact: Delbert Adair, Jr. at [email protected]. 4. Two monuments erected in Washington, Washington, Utah: a. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this is a mistake; should be Samuel Jefferson Adair], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W.Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were: [43 names listed "and others; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James." b. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for the purpose of grwoing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reocurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.] i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James. ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M. iii. 1861-62: [none]." 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. Robin Adair indicates he was a member of Major John Wesley Powell's 1871 expedition support. 7. >From the book "Nutrioso and Her Neighbors," by Nina Kelly and Alice Lee [bracketed notes by myself]: p. V: "Nutrioso has never been a large town, perhaps no more than 800 at any one time." [Photo of Nutrioso in 1896 is included with article.] p. 31: "Alpine is about 8 miles southeast of Nutrioso, elev. 8,000', at the head of the San Francisco River. It is on the SE side of the Continental Divide while Nutrioso is on the NW side of the watershed." p. 61: "John Wesley Adair (son of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca Brown Adair) b. 1820, TN; died May 1903, Nutrioso, AZ. He married Rebecca Mangum, (dau. of John and Rebecca Knowles Mangum) b. 1814, TN. They did not have any children. Rebecca (Becky) had three children by a previous husband, Joseph Adair (son of James and Rebecca Adair). John Wesley Adair was a member of the Mormon Battalion. He was a brother to Samuel Jefferson Adair. He marched from the Missouri River through Southern Arizona, to Los Angeles. After they came to Nutrioso, he would entertain the children by telling of his experiences in the Battalion and of the mobs in Nauvoo, Illinois." The children were: Joseph Newton, d. young. Rebecca Frances, m. Jeremiah Staynor. Lucinda, m. Orin Sherwood. pp. 222-223: "Judge George H. Crosby wrote a column in the St. Johns Observer for a time and among his articles was a lovely one on Nutrioso 40 years before. He called it Nutrioso As It Was." [Some quotes follow:] "Then there was George Adair, the best hunter of all those mountain settlements, and incidentally one who always knew all the community news. And Mrs. Lucinda Wilkins and Aunt Francis Mangum, who soon after, became widows and who have spent their lives caring for the sick -- both had hearts of gold." pp. 251-256: Hand drawn plot and block land map with the following comments: "Wesley and Rebecca Adair lived on 9-2, a one-room log house bouth from Lime Hamblin. Wesley had been in the Mormon Battalion. He lived 20 years in Nutrioso and died in 1903." 8. Mexican War Veteran files from FHL film 0480629 for “The National Archives, Mexican SC 7562, Wesley Adair, Private, Service: Battln. Iowa Mormon Vols, Can No. 102, Bundle No. 27.” File is 38 pages long. I summarize and keynote the pages as follows: 1. Pension case 7562. Pension results of the “Acts of Jan. 29, 1887 and Jan. 5, 1893” for survivors of the Mexican War. Name listed is Wesley Adair, Private, of Company C. of the Iowa Mormon Vols. Battalion. Administering agency originally was at Topeka than transferred to San Francisco May 7, 1877. Rate per month was $12 commencing Aug. 27, 1896. Certificate issued Sept. 5, 1896. 2. Bureau of Pensions Affidavit dated 21 Aug 1896 concerning consideration as to waiving transcript from assessment record. Notes also that based on the testimonies of claimant and two credible and disinterested witnesses that claimant has no real or personal property. 3. Affidavit of U.S. Pension Agency in San Francisco date 30 Jun 1903 to the Commissioner of Pensions advising that Wesley Adair is to be dropped due to death, May 5, 1903. Last payment of $12 was 4 Mar 1903. 4. Case summary page noting rate per month of $8 commencing 29 Jan 1887 with certificate issued 5 Jul 1887 in Topeka pursuant to the Act of Jan. 29, 1887. 5. Survivor’s Service Pension no. 12199 showing Wesley Adair living at Luna, Socorro Co., New Mexico, age 66, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 with discharge 16 Jul 1847. Receipted date was 14 May 1887. 6. Old War Invalid form no. 25373 for Wesley Adair of Springerville, Apache Co., Arizona Territory shows enlisting 16 Jul 1846 with discharge 16 Jul 1847. Application file 23 Aug 1884 and notes “alleges general debility.” Filed in Kansas City, MO. 7. Administrative notes of 10 Sep 1884 and 1 Jul 1886 with no pertinent info. 8. Affidavit dated 22 Apr 1895 to the Commissioner of Pensions showing Wesley Adair enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with discharge 16 Jul 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Also listed are stations of the Company service, which included 31 Oct 1846 near Sacora Mex., 28 Feb 1847 at San Louis Rey, 30 Apr 1847 at Pueblo Del Los Angeles, Cal., and 30 June 1847 at Ciudad de los Angeles. 9. Letter dated 20 Apr 1896 from the Bureau of Pensions to the Chief of Pension Records Office requesting confirmation that “the soldier was in Mexico, on the coast or frontier thereof, or en route thereto; 60 days.” 10. Title page: “Affidavit of Witness.” 11. Affidavit of Witness form by William Swapp dated 30 Apr 1887 at Socorro Co. New Mexico Territory stating that he has known Wesley Adair for 25 years, that he is at least 62 years of age, and that he enlisted in the company of Captain James Brown. He further attests that he served in the Mexican War at least 60 days based on “knowledge obtained… in conversing with Mexican veterans who had served with same Company with Wesley Adair and his general reputation as a Mexican veteran since I have known him.” The form further notes by William Swapp that Wesley Adair was born on or about “Eighteth” of Feb. 1821 at Green County, Alabama per facts obtained from Wesley Adair himself and that he believes “him to be a truthful man.” 12. Affidavit of Witness form by Jeremiah Stayner dated 30 Apr 1887 at Socorro Co. New Mexico Territory stating that he has known Wesley Adair for 30 years, that he is at least 62 years of age, and that he enlisted in the company of Captain James Brown. He further attests that he served in the Mexican War at least 60 days based on “knowledge obtained… in conversing with Mexican veterans who had served with same Company with Wesley Adair and his general reputation as a Mexican veteran since I have known him.” The form further notes by William Swapp that Wesley Adair was born on or about “Eightenth” of Feb. 1821 at Green County, Alabama per facts obtained from Wesley Adair himself and that he believes “him to be a truthful man.” 13. Affidavit dated 11 Aug 1896 and written in longhand not on a form: “United States of America, Territory of New Mexico, 5th Judicial District. Mex. [?] #7562, Co. C, Reg. Iowa Mormon Vols. Before me, W. S. George, a Commission. of the District Court of the U.S. of the Fifth Judicial District of New Mexico, personally came Wesley Adair - who upon his oath defeases and says: I am a Veteran of the United States born in the State of Alabama. I am seventy five years of age. I am unable to do manual labor of any kind for my living. I do not possess any real estate property. I do not possess any personal property in this World but my own clothing. I make my home at my married daughters house who are not able to support me and furnish actual necessities I need. I am a pensioner of Mexican War - my income which is ($8.00) eight dollars per month and which is my only income from any source whatsoever is not sufficient to provide for me board and clothing. I feel myself failing in strength yearly and since my 75 birthday in February 1896, I have become indeed too feeble to take proper care of myself without watchful assistance. So help me God. And I further swear that in making this my affidavit, the same was written down for me from my oral statements [cont. to p. 14] 14. [Cont. from p. 13] then and there made and in making the same I did not use, and was not aided or prompted by any written or printed statement or recital prepared or dictated by any person or persons whatever, but from my own words of mouth as stated to the officer before whom this affidavit is made. [Signed] Wesley Adair. P.O. address is Cooney, Socorro Co., N. Mex. [Legal language follows.] 15. Affidavit dated 11 Aug 1896 and written in longhand not on a form: “United States of America, Territory of New Mexico, 5th Judicial District. Mex. [?] #7562, Co. C, Reg. Iowa Mormon Vols. Before me, W. S. George, a Commissioner of the District Court of the U.S. of the Fifth Judicial District of New Mexico, personally came Jeremiah Stayner of Socorro Co., N. Mex., a citizen of the U.S. born in Utah, is 51 years of age, and Lee Stayner of the County of Socorro, N. Mex., a citizen of the U.S. born in State of California, is 30 years of age, who upon their oaths defease and say: I Jeremiah Stayner have known Wesley Adair for the past forty (40) years and I Lee Stayner have known Wesley Adair for the past twenty (20) years - and we know of his present condition of health and strength - we know he is a very feeble old man living with his married daughter house. He is 75 years of age, helpless as far as making a living is concerned and totally unable to perform manual labor of any kind. We know he has no means of support further than his present pension income. We know he has no real estate property and that he has no personal property but his personal effects such as his clothing. We know that he is a poor man depending upon his [cont. to p. 16] 16. [Cont. from p. 15] daughter’s family for support and we know that hey are poor people and we know he has no income of any kind from any source whatever but his pension of $8.00 per month as Mexican pensioner. We know these facts from a long standing acquaintance as neighbors and [???] with him many years ago. So help us God. And we further state that this our affidavit was written down for us from our oral statements then and there made to the officer who prepared in writing for us and in making the same we did not use or was not aided or prompted by any written or printed statement or recital prepared or dictated by any other person or persons whatever. [Signed] Jeremiah Stayner, Lee Stayner. Our post office address is Cooney, N. Mex., Socorro Co. [Legal language follows and continues next page.] 17. [Continuation of legal language from p. 16.] 18. Certificate of quarterly payments to be made on 4 Mar, 4 Jun, 4 Sep, and 4 Dec. Stamped 21 Jan 1888. Later stamped “Cancelled Jan 4 1897.” 19. Certificate from the Bureau of Pensions entitled “Survivor’s Pension” certifying Wesley Adair is entitled to a pension of $8.00 per month to commence on 29 Jan 1887. 20. A second copy of previous Certificate of quarterly payments to be made on 4 Mar, 4 Jun, 4 Sep, and 4 Dec. Stamped 21 Jan 1888. Later stamped “Cancelled Jan 4 1897.” 21. A copy of a typed letter dated 2 Sep 1930 from the W.D. Hill of the “Office of the Town Clerk, Miami, Arizona” to the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington D.C. stating: “I am writing you for information regarding scrip, the number of same being II5027 Issued to Wesley Adair, Of Capt. Brown Co. C Mormon Battalion, Mexican War. Dated Oct 2nd 1888. And Signed by John L Black. Is this scrip still outstanding? And If so is it still good for the amount of land called for, and on what class of land may it be used, Thanking you for an early reply.” Stamped received 6 Sep 1930 in the Pension Office. 22. Reply the previous letter dated 22 Nov 1930: “Receipt is acknowledged of your letter relative to the case of Wesley Adair. The records show that a bounty land warrant No. 115027 for 160 acres as provided under the Act of March 3, 1855, was issued to this soldier. The assignment and location of warrants are under the jurisdiction of the General land Office, and a request for information relative thereto should be addressed to the Commissioner of that office, Washington, D.C…” 23. A form cover entitled “Invalid Claim for Pension” stamp dated 25 Aug 1884 at the Pension Office. Note the word Invalid is not used not valid but as disabled. 24. Next page of same form stating Wesley Adair enrolled 16 Jul 1847 in Company C commanded by Capt. Brown and was honorably discharged at Los Angeles Cal. On 16 Jul 1847. He 64 years old, 6 feet 0 inches tall, light complexion, light hair, blue eyes. As far as a disability it states: “That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and to the line of his duty in Ariz. on or about the 15th day of Feby, 1847 from exposure during the service in the Mexican War [contracted?] general debility and has him in poor health ever since partly able to support his family.” His occupation since has been a farmer which he was also before his enlistment. It also states that he is now totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence from manual labor. Residence is noted as Springerville in Apache County of the Arizona Territory. Witnesses who signed 2 Aug 1884 with original signatures are Samuel J. Adair and James Richey. Wesley Adair also signs. 25. Additional legal language of the previous form again with original signatures of Samuel J. Adair and James Richey. 26. Form cover for “Application of Service Pension -- Mexican War” for Wesley Adair. 27. Next page is the claim page of the same form. Filed 15 Feb 1887 from Apache Co., Ariz. Territory, which is written over the scratched out Socorro Co. of New Mexico. Wesley Adair appeared in from of Wm. J. Dally, District Court Clerk. Wesley is noted as 67 years old living in Lima in Socorro Co. of New Mexico. His service information is the same as already reported above. It does add that he resided in Arizona 5 years, New Mexico 2 years, and 24 years in Utah. Notes his general debility and that he can’t perform manual labor. He has not been in any other military service. Notes that he was married at Washington City, Utah, Sept. 1858 to Rebecca Adair who is living. Notes also that he had previously applied for a pension and land warrant filed 7 Aug 1884. He states he was born in Green County, Alabama, that he is 64 years of age, and 6’-0” tall with light complexion, brown hair, and blue eyes. Current residence is Luna [Lima crossed out], Socorro Co., New Mexico. Original signatures of Wesley Adair and two witnesses, James Richey and William Holgate, are on the form. 28. Continuation of legal language for the same form. Does note that James Richey is 67 years old and has known Wesley for 60 years. Also states that William Holgate is 40 years old and has known him for 26 years. Both James Richey and William Holgate live in St. Johns, Arizona. They note that they saw him is Salt Lake after his discharge. 29. Form from the Bureau of Pensions instructing $2 to be withheld for Attorney’s fees. 30. Form “Increase - Mexican War Pension, Acts of Jan. 29, 1887, and Jan. 5, 1893 - Survivor’s Brief”. Declaration dated April 11, 1896, at Socorro Co., NM. Increases pension to $12 commencing Aug. 27, 1896. Notes that $8 pension started Jan. 29, 1887. 31. Form “Declaration of Survivor for Pension” noting that Wesley Adair was living in Luna, Socorro Co., NM as of 30 Apr 1887. Same standard information but does add: “marched from Counsel Bluff Iowa to Sandaago [San Diego] California defeated enimy at Tucson.” 32. Form cover sheet “Mexican War Service - Claim for Increase - Act of January 5, 1893.” Stamped received 11 Apr 1896. 33. Declaration for same form dated 14 Mar 1896. Resident of Graham, Socorro, New Mexico. Noted his is wholly disabled due to crippled ankle. He makes claim for $12 per month since he is destitute and $8 per month is insufficient. 34. Signature of Wesley Adair on previous form attested by Wm. Smith and Harry [Herriman?], both of Mogollon, Socorro Co., NM. 35. Form “Affidavit of Claimant’s Infirmity” dated 30 Apr 1887 at Socorro Co., NM, notes that Wesley Adair because of infirmity is unable to travel to nearest court and that the undersigned Justice of the Peace administered the appropriate oaths. 36. Form dated 23 Dec 1886 from the Surgeon General’s Office, Record and Pension Division, War Department noting that there are no records of Wesley Adair being treated in any hospital. 37. Letter from Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department dated 27 Dec 1886 at Washington D.C. stating that Wesley Adair shows on enlistment and muster out rolls; however, there are not good records for the dates between those dates showing his presence or absence. There are no regimental hospital records on file nor is there any evidence of any disability. 38. Letter from Pension Office to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army requesting any records of Wesley Adair being disabled by general disability on 15 Feb 1847 in Arizona. 9. A transcription of the letter from Brigham Young calling Samuel J. Adair on his mission to Dixie. The scribe for Brigham Young on this letter was a George Sims - he should have been called to a different job - his handwriting was atrocious. Here is our best shot at it. My guesses are in brackets. I asked several of the Archivists about some of the words and they couldn’t come any closer than I did. LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Call Number CR 1234/1, Reel 26, Box 18, Folder 4. Brigham Young outgoing correspondence: G. S. L. City Dec. 20, 1856 B. Young to Saml. Adair and others Dear Brethren, I am [sending] a note in regard to [receipt] of cotton, raisins and Indigo respectively as received. We are desirous of having these articles produced as we may for the use of the people of this Territory. We are not aware of any Indigo being harvest[ed] in the Territory or of any of the seed being brought. We should like, if you know of any, that you would inform us of the fact, or if you know where it could be obtained. We presume that plants of cotton seed can be purchased by the brethren South, who have been somewhat engaged in the business for the past year or two. In regard to your enterprise in this business it would please me to have you do so, but of course you are aware that it would become necessary for you to form the mission South. [Let] me refer you to Bro. Isaac C. Haight who will instruct you in regard to your starting therein, you may consider yourselves on this mission and make your assignments accordingly. I remain as ever your Bro. in the Gospel of Salvation. B.Y. Samuel Adair James Adair John W. Adair Thomas Adair William Mangum James Mangum Harrison Pierce John Norton Fazsen Waiel Utah County, U.T. Copied by George Sims - Clerk 10. Website http://info.lib.asu.edu/archives/azbio/adair.pdf: "John Wesley Adair, born at Pickens or Green County Alabama, Feb. 18, 1821. Married Rebecca ___ at Washington City, Washington, Utah, Sep. __, 1858. Enlisted at Council Bluffs, July 16, 1846, to serve one year as Private, Company C, Mormon Battalion; marched across what is now southern Arizona and was honorably discharged at Los Angeles, July 16, 1847. Returned it Arizona in 1880, and resided for a time at Showlow in Navajo County. The settlement of Adair, Navajo County was named for him. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, May 5, 1903, aged 82. Sources of information: Tyler, D. -- Concise History of the Mormon Battalion, 1881, pp. 121, 370. McClintock, J.H. -- Mormon Settlement in Arizona, Phoenix, 1921, pp. 21, 36, 281, (portrait). Barnes, W.C. -- Arizona Place Names, Tucson, 1935, p. 9. The Adjutant General of the Army -- Military Service Records. The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, May 27, 1903, p. 8, (obituary). [Obituary is included but I do not retranscribe since I have an original transcription below under the obituary notes.] Probate Court of Apache County; name of deceased: John Wesley Adair; address of deceased: Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; date and place of death: Nutrioso, Arizona, May 5, 1903; [no location marked under buried at:]; when and where born: Feb. 18, 1821, Pickens Co., Alabama. The pension records show Wesley Adair was born Feb. 18, 1821 in Green Co., Ala. Married Sep. 1858, Rebecca ___ at Washington City, Utah. They resided in Arizona five years, New Mexico two years, and Utah twenty-four years. He recieved a warrant for 160 acres of bounty land, 1855 and a pension of $1.00 per month from August 27, 1896 under the act of Jan. 5, 1893. He died May 5, 1903. Mex. S C 7,582. 922, Adair, Wesley, not born as George Wesley Adair." BIRTH: 1. FHL Film 2456: “Early LDS Church Membership Records for Nutrioso, Arizona”: Record of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nutrioso Ward, St. Johns Stake of Zion. Page 20 entries: No numbering but this group together: John Wesley Adair; father: Thomas Adair; mother Rebecca Brown; b. 18 Feb 1821 at Green Co., Alabama; first baptized Dec 1844 by James Richey; first confirmed Dec 1844 by J. Richey; ordained to 26 Quorum of Seventies Sep 1845 by William McBride; rebaptized Mar 1857 by Bp. Covington; reconfirmed 1857 by Harrison Pierce. Rebecca, father: John Mangum; mother: Rebecca Knowles; b. 10 Aug 1814 at Giles Co., Tennessee; first baptized Nov. 1845 by R? Mathews; first confirmed Nov 1845 by Gibson; rebaptized Dec 1847; reconfirmed Dec. 1847. James Mitchell Mangum; father: John Mangum; mother: Rebecca Knowles; b. 6 Jan 1820 at Springville, St. Clair, Alabama; first baptized 1844 by A. ?undin; first confirmed by Bryant Knowlin; ordained 3 May 1885 by Joseph Young into 17 Quorum Seventies; rebaptized 1848; reconfirmed 1848 by A. Covington. Rebecca Frances Mangum; father: John Mangum; mother: Mary Ann Adair; b. 10 Oct 1843 at Ettawamba, Mississippi; first baptized 14 Feb 1851; first confirmed 14 Feb 1851 by J.J. Bigler; rebaptized Jan 1876 by J. Hamblin; reconfirmed Jan 1876 by L. ?. Nuttall. Orson B. Arnold; father: Thomas Arnold; mother Hannah Brewin; b. 10 Feb 1857 at Sheephead, , England; first confirmed 6 Sep 1888 by Hyrum Chapman. 2. The date of 18 Feb 1821 at Green Co., Alabama is per Nutrioso LDS Ward Record and Mexican War pension applications as quoted above. Obituary and 1900 census use 18 Feb 1820. Even though the 1820 date fits in better with his siblings, the application with his signature would be a more prime source. I accordingly use the 1821 date. There is a possibility that even Wesley Adair could have been unsure of the exact year. There is no doubt in any of the records of the place being Green County, Alabama. MARRIAGE: 1. Wesley Adair's Mexican War Pension Application quoted above indicates marriage between himself and Rebecca Adair Sept. 1858 in Washington City, Utah. DEATH: 1. Per Delbert Adair [[email protected]] email of 23 Dec 2001: "Wesley Adair died 5 May 1903 in Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona Territory. I do not know where he is buried." 2. Church Chronology; A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint," Andrew Jenson, 1914, BYU Library BX8611.J36-1914, p. 16: [April 1903] Tues. 5.--John Wesley Adair, a member of the Mormon Battalion, died in Nutrioso, Apache Co., Ariz. He was born Feb. 18, 1820 in Alabama." OBITUARY: 1. "Nutrioso, Arizona. John Wesley Adair Dead. Pioneer and Veteran of the 'Mormon' Battalion. Special Correspondence. Nutrioso, Apache Co., Arizona, May 20. - On May 5, 1903, John Wesley Adair, died at his home here. He was born Feb. 18, 1820, in Pickings [Pickens] county, Ala.; became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about 184[? blurred]. Gathered with the Saints about voo [typo for Nauvoo] and acted as one of the minute men, being driven out from that city with the Saints. In 1846 Elder Adair joined the celebrated 'Mormon' battalion at his country's call, to fight against Mexico, marched from Council Bluffs to California on foot, and suffered the terrrible hardships incident to that notable journey; joined the Saints in Utah in 1848 and moved to Arizona in 1889. His life has been spent on the frontier; has been a very hard working man; always full of faith in the Gospel and he died at the age of 83. He was the last one of a large family to depart this life." Deseret Evening News, Wed., May 27, 1903, p. 8. ORDINANCES: Verified 24 Oct 2005 BAPTISM: Per Nutrioso LDS Ward Record quoted above. ENDOWMENT: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170577, ord. 982. SEALING TO PARENTS: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170587, p. 456. From website <<http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/tjadair/descendants.html>: Written by the son of George W. Adair and Miriam Billingsley, William Wallas Adair, April 1940: "The St. George Temple was dedicated in 1877 and that year father and his brothers went there to do work for their dead and to have their own sealings done. There was much misunderstanding by members regarding this work in the early days of the church and many mistakes were made. It seemed that they understood that they could not be sealed to their own father because he had not been a member of the church. So while I was on a mission in the St. George Temple in 1912 my sister Emaline sent me the records and I had all of father's brothers and sisters sealed to their own father and mother." SEALING TO SPOUSE: Harriet Williams: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 183374. Rebecca Mangum: Ordinance Index FHL film 1903753. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per website <http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/tjadair/descendants. html> 3 Jan 2002. ACTION: 1. Encourage Morm. Batt. group to dedicate a plaque. Follow-up: Sent info to Mark Straker at LDS museum Jan 2003. 2. Locate the portrait supposedly in McClintock, J.H. -- "Mormon Settlement in Arizona, Phoenix, 1921, pp. 21, 36, 281, (portrait)." I asked Rich. Bullock for help on this 12 Feb 2006. RESEARCH_NOTES for Harriet Cordelia Williams: 1. Several IGI entries show parents as Daniel Randall Williams and Mary Ayers, with proper birth, and a death date of 7 Nov 1907. Variant mother from 1937 entry is Electa Caroline Briggs. 2. Ancestral File shows Daniel Randall Williams b. 7 Aug 1802 at Lima, Livingston, NY; d. 3 Oct 1880 at Farmington, Davis, Utah and bur. in Farmington Cemetery. A. Two wives for him are shown: a. Mary Ayers, md., 1822 in Livingston Co., NY b. Electra Caroline Briggs, md. 13 Jan 1836 at St. Joseph Co., MI; b. 26 Jan 1805 at Castleton, Rutland, VT; d. 10 Nov 1889 at Big Cottonwood (Holladay), Salt Lake, UT; bur. at Farmington Cemetery. B. Additional siblings for Harriet are shown: a. George Oscar Williams, b. Abt 1825 and died young. b. Sarah Elizabeth Williams, b. Abt 1831 and died young. c. Various others from father's second wife. 3. Censuses: A. Various notes: a. Not with father's family in 1860 US in Farmington, Davis, Utah. b. Rufus Beach shows up in Utah in 1850 census for Great Salt Lake at age 54 from New York with a different wife Laura Ann, age 37 and 3 children ages 8, 3, and 1. BIOGRAPHY: 1. >From the book "Women of Faith and Fortitude": "Harriet Cordelia Williams Beach Adair Brooks Lasell (Lasella) Birthdate: 10 Nov. 1829 Ridgeway, Orleans, N.Y. DEATH: 26 Nov. 1907 Burlington Iowa Parents: Daniel Randall Williams Mary Allard Ayers William PIONEER: 24 Sep. 1847 Daniel Spencer Wagon Train SPOUSE 1: Rufus Beach MARRIED: abt. 1846 Council Bluffs, Iowa DEATH SP: 1850 CHILDREN: Aaron William, 27 Oct. 1847 SPOUSE II: Wesley Adair MARRIED: 8 Feb. 1849 SPOUSE III: Francis Wm. Brooks MARRIED: 27 Apr. (Jun) 1851 CHILDREN: Caroline, 9 Feb 1852 James Wilson, 18 Dec 1853 Clara Arabella, 29 Feb 1856 Annis Copp, 14 Feb 1858 Charles Edward, 26 Jan 1860 Francis Wm, 27 Mar 1862 Harry Edward, 2 Mar 1865 Frederick Hesford, 24 Dec. 1866 Mary Peasley, 11 May 1869 SPOUSE IV: James Lasell MARRIED: 4 Jun 1873 CHILDREN: Ruth Cordelia, 3 May 1876 Harriet Cordelia Willams was born in 1829 in the state of New York to Daniel and Mary Ayers Williams. She was the third of four children and the only one who survived infancy. The Williams family migrated to Grand Blanc, Michigan shortly after Cordelia’s birth and her mother died there. Daniel Williams married for a 2nd time in 1838 to Electa Caroline Briggs, a widow with two young daughters. They had three children. Cordelia shouldered a great deal of the responsibility of caring for her father’s second family. They were introduced to the Gospel and the entire family, including two step sisters, two half sisters and a half brother, joined the church and moved to Lee County, Iowa and then to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1843. At the age of seventeen Cordelia was camped with her family on the banks of the Des Moines River in Iowa. Opposite them, across the river, was another group of Saints including Rufus Beach, a wealthy tavern owner, his wife Laura Ann and two children. Harriet’s father knew Rufus in Nauvoo, and even though Rufus was three times her age, a plural marriage was arranged between them. Their honeymoon began traveling with the Saints to Winter Quarters in 1846. Rufus provided Cordelia with her own wagon and provisions, and they crossed the plains with the Daniel Spencer Company and arrived in Salt Lake 24 Sep 1847. Rufus began to build a log cabin, but not soon enough. A baby was born to them 27 Oct 1847, the second white child born in the Salt Lake Valley. They named him Aaron Williams Beach and it was said that he was born in a covered wagon on old Pioneer Square. Cordelia lived a colorful and prosperous life, marrying three more times after being widowed. She bore one child with her second husband, and he died at sea as they returned to the east. Nine children were born with her third husband. All of these children were born in Iowa except Caroline. She had one child born with her fourth husband. Cordelia was sealed to her second husband 8 Feb 1849 in Salt Lake City. She returned to the East where she met and married the third time-Francis William Brooks 27 Apr or Jun in 1851 at Warren Illinois. She was again widowed when he died 1 Apr 1869, a little over one month before her 9th child was born to them. She married a fourth time 4 Jun 1873 to James Lasell (or Lasella), at Burlington, Iowa. They had one daughter, Ruth Cordelia. James died Nov 1888. Harriet Cordelia survived her last husband by about 19 years. She died in Burlington, Iowa on 26 Nov 1907 at the age of seventy eight years." MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestral File indicates marriages as follows: Rufus Beach, 1846 "on the Plains near Ohio." Rufus Beach, b. 8 May 1795 at Roxbury Litchfield, CT to John Beach and Sarah Cole and d. 1850 in California. Other wives without dates show Laura Ann Gibbs, Nancy C. Aber, and Elizabeth J. Fosdick. One child is shown of the first marriage: Aaron Williams Beach, b. 27 Oct 1847 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; d. 19 Sep 1912 at Lincoln, Bonneville, Idaho; bur. 22 Sep 1912 at Iona, Bonneville, Idaho; md. Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, 14 Dec 1867 in Salt Lake City. Wesley Adair. Francis W. Brooks James Lasell DEATH: 1. Several IGI entries show a death of 7 Nov 1907 but without location. Ancestral file provides same date and a location of Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa. ORDINANCES: Verified 24 Oct 2005. BAPTISM: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170642, p. 79, ref. 3060. This baptism is relatively modern whereas she would have had to be baptized in her own lifetime since she had a sealing ordinance done in 1849. Proxies were Rufus Beach and Dorothy Sessions. ENDOWMENT: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170681, p. 804, ref. 21104. SEALING TO PARENTS: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 184727. Parents shown as Daniel Randall Williams and Mary Allard Ayers. Birthplace variant is Ridgeway, Orleans, New York. SEALING TO SPOUSE: Adair: Online Ordinance Index FHL film 183374. Notes birth as 10 Nov 1829 at "Richester, Monroe, New York". Spouses names shown are Westley Adair and Harriet C. Williams. Rufus Beach: 11 Mar 1939 ARIZO per Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170711, ref. 14526. Francis W. Brooks: 5 Aug 1999 IFALL per Online Ordinance Index. James Lasell: 5 Aug 1999 IFALL per Online Ordinance Index. RESEARCH_NOTES for Rebecca Francis Mangum: 1. Per citation below by Samuel Newton Adair, Joseph Adair was Samuel Jefferson Adair's cousin. 2. Ordinance index also shows sealings of Rebecca Mangum to James Mitchell Mangum in Aug 1859, Thomas Adair in abt. 1858, Gabriel Reynolds Coley in Apr 1858. I do not know what this is yet about. Also Ancestral File shows Rebecca Frances Mangum as a wife married abt 1857 to James Richey with no bio data on Rebecca nor connection to so far known Mangums. She does not appear with any bio info nor parents listed; the entry seems quite vague. There is no ordinance contemporaneous activity in the Ordinance Index which is unusual considering James Richey is clearly listed with temple marriages in the 1850's with his other two wives. It is very unlikely that James' Rebecca is the dau. of John Mangum, the only Rebecca Frances Mangum we know, because she is noted in Richey's autobiography as his sister-in-law married to Joseph Adair. Joseph Adair does not die until 1858. Rebecca shows up by 1880 census married Wesley Adair. None of the censuses with this Rebecca show her married to James Richey. 3. Per "California DAR Ancestry Guide" by the California State Society of the National Society of the DAR, 1976: Daughter of John Mangum, Revolutionary War private from South Carolina: "Rebecca, b. Aug 10, 1814; m. John Wesley Adair." 4. Pioneer Emigration: A. Per LDS Journal of History, 21 Jun 1847, listed in the pioneer company of James S. Holman, Capt., in Charles C. Rich's Guard organized 17 Jun 1847 and arrived in SLC 2 Oct 1847. In same company are several Adairs with ages and birth dates/places: Joseph, 41, 17 Apr 1806, Lawraceville, Lawrance, S.C. [probable cousin; Laurens Co.] Rebecca, 32, 10 Aug 1815, Giles Co., Tenn. [Rebecca Mangum, wife of Joseph.] Lucinda J., 6, 22 Oct 1841, Itewamly, Miss. [dau. of Joseph and Rebecc; Itawamba Co.] Geo. W., 29, 18 Mar 1818, Tennessee. Miriam, 20, 31 Jan 1827, Tennessee [wife of Geo.] Emaline R., inf., 1 Mar 1847, Mt. Pisgah, Iowa [dau. of Geo. and Miriam.] Also two Mangums: James, 27, 6 Jan 1820, Sinclair, Ala. Eliza Jane, 20, 11 Aug 1827, Greene, Ala. B. 18 Feb 2006 unpublished manuscript of Norma Ricketts on a book she is working on about the 1847 pioneer crossings: “The Charles C. Rich Company was the smallest company to leave from Winters Quarters during 1847. His company had three tens, a total of 126 people with 25 wagons. This company brought a cannon as well as artillery and ammunition, 25 kegs of black powder, the Nauvoo Temple bell, and a boat. The ammunition was ferried across the river. They left the outfitting post on the Elkhom River June 21, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 2, 1847. Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich wrote of the death of Jacob Weatherby, a member of the Abraham O. Smoot Company. Weatherby was wounded by a Pawnee Indian at the Platte River on June 19 two days before they left the Platte River. He was taken to the nearest tent, which belonged to the Rich Company and died the next morning. Weatherby was buried near the Elkhorn River at Camp Liberty on June 20. "We fixed him a bed and did all we conld to ease his pain. He suffered awful pain through the night and the next morning about nine o'clock his suffering ended in death." Promptly at 6 o’clock on the morning of June 21, the Rich Company fired a six-pound cannon, and the wagons started out following the first hundred. As the company left Fishing Slough June 25, Captain Rich's oxen became frightened and "partly fell on my son Joseph and hurt him considerably and came nigh killing him." The Spencer Company (Eldredge fifty) passed the Rich Company on June 28. A large party of Indians was followmg the companies, so Captain Rich fired the cannon twice. He noted in his journal that "all things were safe.” They reached the Platte River on June 29 and waited for some time. There were many wagons in line to cross. On July 2 they found the "Sow" cannon carried by Captain Hunter's company, abandoned on the trail with its carriage broken and tongue gone. The cannon's traveling gear was repaired and the cannon was brought along. A broken wagon axle delayed the company further. On July 9 the Rich Company overtook the Spencer and Hunter companies. (Continued in family notes)