This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Van Pelt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/9432 Message Board Post: Looking for information on Hiram W. Adams, lived in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn mid-1800s. Died before 1870, probably relatively young. Married Mary Van Pelt circa 1850s. Known children : Jane (c1855), Hiram Minard (1858), Mary (c1863), William (c1866). Mary Van Pelt Adams died in 1879 and is buried in The Evergreens in Brooklyn. Hiram Sr. is elsewhere. Hiram may have been born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. His son Hiram M. Adams (1858-1918) is my great-grandfather.