-----Original Message----- From: Grace S. Green <glsgreen@alltel.net> To: Jim Lee <jimlee@beachlink.com> Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [GAELBERT] Hiram Gaines Adams and Faith Ann Dickerson >What is the URL for Mark Mann's Gaines web page? > >Grace S. Green >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Lee <jimlee@beachlink.com> >To: GAELBERT-L@rootsweb.com <GAELBERT-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 4:38 PM >Subject: [GAELBERT] Hiram Gaines Adams and Faith Ann Dickerson > > >> Mona, over in Mississippi, asked for my source on the marriage of JOHN >>CUNNINGHAM ADAMS and FAITH ANN DICKERSON, and on their son HIRAM GAINES >>ADAMS (1839--1910). >> While he does make some errors, John McIntosh's "History of Elbert >>County 1790--1936" is my usual starting point. While some editions of his >>book are not indexed, fortunately mine is. I have in the huge ADAMS >family, >>JOHN C. ADAMS m. MISS DICKERSON, 1833. He also has JAMES ADAMS JR. >>(Revolutionary Soldier) b. October 18, 1753, d. 1835, m. June 19, 1772, >JANE >>CUNNINGHAM, b. abt .1756. JAMES ADAMS (Senior) is shown as having married >>CECILY FORD in 1751. JAMES ADAMS SR. is shown as a son of ROBERT ADAMS d. >>1740, m. MOURNING LEWIS. >> The McIntosh book was apparently assembled from the personal >>recollections of people still living in Elbert County in the 1930s. If >>there were no members of a family still living in Elbert County, he had to >>rely on courthouse records. It is still a valuable book. >> One source is Jim Roach, jhr@earthlink.net who has done a lotof >research >>on the Dickerson family. >> Mark Mann today referred us to his excellent web site, >>brave@ourfamilies.net which takes HIRAM GAINES ADAMS through his marriage >to >>PARTHENA JANE FRANCES PAYNE KEZIAH BLAKE SEYMOUR and their eight >>ldren. --Jim Lee >> >> >> >