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