Person:John Adams (282)

The record of John Adams' family was taken from the Family Bible of John Adams, youngest son of Jacob Adams. John was born in North Carolina on April 20, 1792. He served in the War of 1812-13 in Captain Martin's Company, North Carolina Militia. He married Abigail Adams on February 4, 1813. In 1834 he emigrated with his family from North Carolina to what is now Johnson Co., Missouri, eight miles southeast of Warrensburg. He built a good-sized, L-shaped house of white oak logs, one and a half stories high, where he lived until his death. A part of this house was still in use a few years ago. In 1853, he returned to North Carolina and married his second wife, Peggy Evans, a woman who could neither read nor write. He was stricken with paralysis about a year before his death. All the children settled around there or moved farther west. Daniel, Abraham and George lived on farms adjoining their father John's farm. Tom located on a farm about four miles distant. That section of the country still goes by the name of the Adams neighborhood. There is the Adams Cemetery (Adams Burying Ground), and the Adams Schoolhouse, although the original old log schoolhouse is no more. Descendants of the fifth generation, but not bearing the name of Adams, live in a house on the identical spot where Grandfather John built. All of his sons rest in the Adams Burying Ground except Jackson and Hugh. One of the daughters, Jane, who never married, is buried there. In 1846, Jackson and Hugh crossed plains and mountains in the same caravan, and settled in Oregon. Later Jackson moved to Tulare, California where he spent part of his time as a Sunday School class leader, or Methodist exhorter, when ministers wee scarce. Hugh moved from his first location somewhere near the Columbia River, where he died. George enlisted as a Union solder in the Civil War and died within a year, leaving his widow and three children. His brothers were too old for the Army. They were strong Union men; but the girls had married men whose sypathies were with the South. After the war, when things were too "hot" in Missouri, Margaret's family moved on to Texas. All of Susan McCrary's folks except one brother and herself, had Southern leanings, not always openly expressed, but understood. Feeling ran very high for years in Missouri and Kansas over the War, and families were divided. (Source unknown; but probably from James Linn Adams). John's grave marker is of solid granite stone, but wife Abigail's is only sandstone. She is listed as a consort rather than wife. She died long before John, but had raised most of her family since she died at age 59. John's second wife, Peggy Evans is also buried in the Adams family cemetery. The Adams Cemetery outside of Warrensburg, MO., is on the original land belonging to old John and Abigail and then Daniel. John's second wife adopted a little girl, and the land became the property of that little girl when she grew up. The Adams schoolhouse: It appears that sometime in the early 1900's the school and well seemed to be the source of typhoid fever and the school was burned and the well filled in. Abigail may have been a first or second cousin of John. No record of children by the second wife, Peggy. This information was given by Mrs. Paul M. Toycen, RR #2, Box 221, New Auburn, WI, 54757 in Jan. 1990. Much of the information was taken from communicaion with Mildred Adams, daughter of Dr. James L. Adams of Morgan, MI, in 1953, now in possession of Mrs. Toycen. John served in the War of 1812-13, in Wilkes Co., NC. He served in Capt. Martin's Company, North Carolina Militia. He also served in the Seminole Indian War in Capt. Martin Cox's North Carolina Militia. In 1834 he emigrated with his family from North Carolina to what is now Johnson Co. MO., eight miles southeast of Warrensburg. He built a good-sized L-shaped house of white oak logs, one and a half stories high, where he lived until his death. A part of this house was still in use a few years ago. In 1853 he returned to North Carolina and married his second wife, Peggy Evans, a woman who could neither read or write. Peggy Evans Adams was born May 2, 1813, and died near Warrensburg, MO., March 19, 1903. John was stricken with paralysis about a year before his death, June 29, 1871. Marriage to Abigail also given as January 25, 1813. John bought two land warrants in Twnshp 45, R 25, built house on Sec. 11. "Among the early settlers who came to this township (Warrensburg, Mo.) previous to the year 1840, we mention the following names, Elijah McCrary, John Adams, Adram Adams, Calvin Adams, etc." (Hist. of Johnson Co., Mo., 1881. K.C. Hist. Co.)