Posted on: Coffee County Alabama Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Al/Coffee/10442 Surname: adams ------------------------- hi bill; i find two benjamin adams on the 1860 coffee county census and they lived in close proximity of each other. one was benjamin e adams. the other was benjamin adams wife named mary ??. they lived on the pea river in section 22 twnshp 6-n range 21-e . benjamin e adams lived sec 32 t6 n range 21 -e. . ben e was south of ben and mary . the area was about six miles n.w. of present day new brokton and about 6 miles n.e of elba in coffee county. the benjamin withe wife lucretia was in one of the older covington county census also. the benjamin e adams shows up in the 1870 geneva county census living in the city of geneva. the benjamin adams with wife mary ?? and his kids are the ones im intrested in. thier eldest child was named catherine 11 yrs old in 1860 is probably our gt-grand mother. she named her eldest son after the two grandfathers. joel benjamin. she also named her father as benjamin (bengemond) on her widows civil war pension application abd states she was born in coffee county, al. joel