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John A. Adams

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John A. Adams, son of Jacob and Mary Townson Adams, was born April 20, 1792 in Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, No. Carolina and  died January 29, 1870 in Johnson County, Missouri.  He married Abigail Adams February 04, 1813 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.  She was born November 07, 1793 in Wilkes County, No. Carolina, and died June 23, 1849 in Johnson County, Missouri.  She was the daughter of Henry Adams and Susannah Mitchell.  He married Margaret Evans 1853 in Wilkes, North Carolina.  She was born May 02, 1813 in Wilkes, North Carolina, and died March 17, 1903 in Johnson County, Missouri.

John served in the War of 1812 under General Andrew Jackson. He served in the Seminole Creek Indian War.  He served between 1812-1813, Capt Martin's Company, North Carolina Militia.

John moved near Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri with his family around 1834.  He bought two land warrants in township 45 range 25 and built a house on section 11 (8 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 standing in 1972. (1)

In 1853 he returned to North Carolina and married his second wife, Peggy Evans, a woman who could neither read nor write.

His sons, Daniel, Abraham and George, lived on farms adjoining his. Tom located on a farm about four miles distant. That section of the country is still known by the name of "Adams Neighborhood". There is the Adams Cemetery and the Adams Schoolhouse, although the original old log schoolhouse is no more. All of his sons rest in the Adams Cemetery except Jackson and Hugh. Jane, who never married, is buried there.

When the Civil War broke out, George was the only son to join (most of the others were too old to join).  George died within a year of enlisting (having drown in a river) and left a widow and three children.  One of the children, Sarah/Sally, lived with John and Peggy.  John's sons were strong Union men, but his daughters had married men whose sympathies 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. (1)

(1) per Effie Adams' Journal