Richard: Thank you for the prompt reply RE. the Adair family. Jesse Franklin Adair died 14 April 1931 at Galena, Jasper County, Missouri. His death certificate is No. 14591 and is on-line at the Missouri Archives website. Louisa (Kendall) Adair's Death Cert. is also available at the same web site (No. 9144). Louisa died 11Mar 1930. Both are buried just across the MO. state line in Kansas. I found five children of Jesse and Louisa: James S. b 22 September 1876; d. 19 July 1948 (Jasper Co., MO.); Harry W., b. 19 Feb 1878, d. 5 March 1952 (Jasper Co., MO.); Luther b. 14 May 1884, d. Jasper Co., MO.; Martha, b. abt 1890 (Iowa); Phylander, b. abt 1897, not sure where. Jesse and Louisa were married at Garden Grove, Decatur County, Iowa on 30 Sept 1875 per the Decatur county Iowa marriage records. It appears the family was in Decatur County until sometime in the 1890's after which they moved to Jasper County, Missouri, near Zincite (Now Bellville I believe). They lived there for about years: i.e. the rest of their lives. Finally, in case you are interested, Louisa was the daughter of James S. & Elizabeth Ammermon Kendall. She was born in Indiana. There is a biography of James Samuel Kendall, father of Louisa on this Decatur County Website. If there are any photographs of Jesse & Louisa Adair extant, I would like to have a copy. Most likely they would be in Missouri I would think. Happy Holidays, John Kendall On Dec 21, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Albright wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:41 PM, John Kendall wrote: > >> Sorry Rick I cannot help you with the Bright/Wood puzzle. However, I >> have a clarification question for you. Louisa Kendall Adair was >> married to Jesse Franklin Adair, a son of james Barton Adair. Was >> the Robert Adair you mentioned in your note the Father of James >> Barton Adair? >> John Kendall > > ------------------- > John, > I knew Jesse Franklin Adair was married to Louisa S. ------ > (about 1876) but I did not know her maiden name, so thank you very > much for that information. Do you have a death date/place for > Jesse? I show him born in the spring of 1850 in Mercer Co., MO. > I confirm that his parents were James Barton Adair and > Elizabeth Savin Newlin, natives of IN and TN, respectively. James > died in 1907 but for his wife I only know I last found her in 1885. > I have 14 children identified for James and Elizabeth Adair. I > connect via their son Thomas B. Adair, 1851-1924, who married Naomi > Ruth Wood, 1853-1946, on 9 Nov 1879. Thomas and Naomi had no > children. Naomi was a daughter of Henry Wood and Nancy Daft (my > direct ancestors via Nancy's sister Mary Ann Wood Bright). > James Barton Adair, father of Jesse and Thomas, was a son of > Robert "Robin" Adair and Margaret Speers. I last worked on the > Adairs in 2002, so I'm not sure if I researched Robert and Margaret > as all these are collateral lines for me. > I also connect to the Adairs through Ina Leathel Wood who > married Mr. Alma Curtis "Doc" Adair in 1912 and sister Enva Wood > who married Arthur Milo "Toots" Adair in 1917. And, John Wesley > Wood, father of Ina and Alma, who married Sarah Elizabeth Adair as > his wife #2 in 1889. And I may have overlooked another one or two > Adair cousins <gg>. I've been researching my family since 1954. > I glad to share more info or clarify anything above that seems > to not make sense. Rick, Merced, CA > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IADECATU- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message