Father: Samuel ADAMS
Mother: Francis REID
Family 1 : Martha Florence HARKRIDER
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Notes:
| In 1870 Census
(from Diana Bradley) for Tellicounty Township, St. Francis County, AR (page
446), listed living in Thompson household, dwelling 83/84 as H. K.
Adams, a. 23, bp. NC. His brother, W. P. Watson and his family is
enumerated in the same census at dwelling 85/86. In 1880 Census, El Paso Township, White County, Arkansas as Hugh K. Adams, w, m, a. 31, bp. NC (both parents bp. NC) occupation: Dry Good store. Enumerated with wife, Martha F., w, f, a. 25, bp. AL (both parents bp. AL), and children: Fannie, daughter, w., f., a. 5, bp. AR (father bp. NC, mother bp. AL); William, son, w, m, a. 3, bp. AR (father bp. NC, mother bp. AL); Col? (David Cadmus?), son, w, m, 7/12 (Nov), bp. AR (father bp. NC, mother bp. AL). From biography of his son, H. K. Adams, in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1890): |
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| H. K. Adams, merchant at El Paso, Ark., and one of the leading
citizens of that city, was born in Rockingham County, N. C., January 29, 1846,
being the son of Samuel and Francis (Reid) Adams. Samuel Adams was a farmer by
occupation, and a native of Virginia, but most of his life was passed in North
Carolina. He [Samuel]was married in that State (where he had a fine farm), and died there in 1870 , at the age of sixty-three years. He was magistrate for a number of years, and an energetic, enterprising citizen, and in whatever place he resided that locality might well consider itself the better for his citizenship. His wife died in 1854. She was a sister of Ex-Gov. Reid, of North Carolina, and her mother was a lady of national fame, who had near relatives on the supreme bench of Florida. H. K. Adams is the fifth in a family of eight children, five of whom are now living: Fanny B. (wife of J. W. Thompson, teacher in the Edinburgh High School, in Cleburne County, Ark.), Henrietta (wife of W. P. Watson, a farmer of Monroe County, Ark.), Reuben (a teacher in Prattsville) and Frank R. (a printer, married, and residing in Texas.) Those deceased are: Samuel F. (who lost his life at the hands of raiders, in 1865), David R. (died in college at Madison, N. C., aged eighteen) and Annie E. (who died in infancy.) H. K. Adams was reared on a farm, receiving a good common-school education at the district schools, and at the age of twenty-one launched his bark and began life for himself. He had nothing with which to cope with the world but a stout heart and his wit, and though it was rather discouraging, he never lost heart, and as a natural result was successful. He began first as a clerk in a country store at Boyd's Mill, N. C. A year later he enlisted in Company E, Forty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, and served until the surrender, in May, 1865, participating in the battle of the Wilderness and numerous other skirmishes, but through his entire career was never wounded. At the battle of Spottsylvania he was taken prisoner and held at Point Lookout and Elmira, in all about six months. He was again captured on the retreat from Petersburg, a few days before the surrender of Gen. Lee, and carried to Point Lookout, and remained in prison six weeks after the close of the war. After this Mr. Adams returned to his native State and engaged in farming until 1869, then coming to Arkansas (St. Francis County) where he resided two years. His next move was to El Paso, and after tilling the soil some two years he was engaged as clerk for W. H. Grisard, a prosperous merchant, for several years. For two years he was with C. P. Warren, and at the end of that time (1884) formed a partnership with J. T. Phelps and J. C. Harkrider, under the firm name of Adams, Phelps & Co. A short time later Mr. Phelps sold his interest to the other gentleman, the firm name becoming Adams & Harkrider. Mr. Adams eventually purchased the entire stock, and after a time formed a partnership with B. A. Neal, whose interest he bought, and then Mr. J. T. Booth purchased an interest, and since that time the firm has been known as Adams & Booth. They are doing a splendid business, and carry a well-assorted stock of general merchandise. Being wide-awake merchants and eminently responsible they command the respect of the entire community. Mr. Adams was united in marriage June 7, 1874, to Miss Florence Harkrider, a native of Alabama and a daughter of W. H. Harkrider, a farmer and mechanic of White County. Their union has been blessed with ten children, six of them now living: Martha F. (born in April, 1875), William S. (born [p.127] in July, 1876, died in August, 1883), Hugh K., Jr. (born in March, 1878, and died in September, 1879), David C. (born in November, 1879), Dean (born in May, 1881, died in August, 1883), Eva E. (born in November, 1882), Horace E. (born in July, 1884), Sarah Florence (born in November, 1885, died in July, 1886), Myrtle I. (born in January, 1887), and Grace (born in February, 1889). Mr. Adams is giving his children all the advantages of good schools, and is determined that they shall have every opportunity for an education, regardless of expense. Himself and wife are members of the El Paso Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Adams is at present a member of the school board and a notary public. He has served his township as bailiff for a number of years. In addition to his mercantile business he owns a small farm, which is carefully cultivated and yields excellent crops. In his political views he is a Democrat, but not an enthusiast. |
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From the records of Grissard Cemetery, El Paso, Arkansas (located just off (east) of Highway 5, less than a half-mile south of the intersection of the Highway 5 and Highway 64, in section 33, Township 6 North, Range 10 West). It was listed May 10, 1975 by Cloie and Leister E. Presley and Imogene Rowe of the White County Historical Society (thanks to Terrie Tredway): |
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| Adams, H.K. – January 29, 1846 – September 23, 1902 | ||
Of particular interest here is that this individual from North Carolina was in the same battle and prison as E. A. Wright. About 40 years later in Arkansas, Hugh K. Adams' nephew, Benjamin Younger Watson, married E. A. Wright's granddaughter, Avelena Holland. There exists a Watson family bible according to Watson/Adams Family researcher, Diana Bradley, which lists a B. G. Wright and Elizabeth Wright and their date of death. It is unknown at this time if there is any connection between these Rockingham County, North Carolina Wrights and our Montgomery County Wrights. |
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