I live in carter co TN and know some Adams.If you would send me info on them I can poke around ------Original Message------ From: Carol Blazzard Sender: lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com To: lovelace@rootsweb.com ReplyTo: lovelace@rootsweb.com Subject: [LL] Fw: Lovelace/Adams Sent: Nov 10, 2010 3:02 PM I am searching for more information about Nancy Lovelace who married Jesse Adams in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1795. They later moved to Carter County, Tennessee. I have seen on Rootsweb a list of their children. The first one listed is Jesse who I believe is my 2nd great grandfather. Does anyone have more information about this family? There are so many Jesse Adams from NC and I have had 15 years of trying to single out which one is my Jesse. I do not know Jesse Jr's wife's name so therein lies my dilemma. Does anyone know anything about this family? Thanks for any help Carol Blazzard cgblaz@moscow.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

I live in Carter Co, TN and know some Adams.If you would send me info on them I can poke around. Ed Lovelace Thank you so much for your offer. I'll tell you as much as I know and also, what I speculate. My grandmother, Eliza C. Adams (Johnson) born 1878, left a note saying her father was James A. Adams of Greene Co., Tennessee and his father was Jesse Adams. I know for sure that James A. was born in 1845. Some census records say he was born in NC and some say TN. I find James A. and Jesse Adams on tax rolls of Greene County, TN throughout the 1860's.except when they were both gone and serving in the Civil War (James - for the Union; Jesse - for the Confederacy). I have never found James and Jesse together on any 1850 or 1860 census (and I've looked at every state). The reason I think Jesse Adams Jr (son of Jesse Adams and Nancy Lovelace) is my Jesse is because he is in Carter County Tennessee.in the 1830's which is close to Greene County, TN. There are marriage records of Jesse Adams to Ruci Nave in 1832, Carter County. (There is speculation that Ruci died in childbirth.) Then in 1834 there is a marriage record of Jesse Adams to Frances Redmon. (I have not been able to learn any more about this union.) The other Carter County record I have found is of a divorce of Jesse Adams and Zuriah Adams in 1849. I really thought that this could be my Jesse because that would explain why I could not find Jesse and James together on an 1850 census because Jesse had abandoned his family. So then I used the census index to find any Zuriah in Carter County. I came up with Zuriah Isabella Buck. I checked her on the 1860 and 1870 census and she was living with her father's family but there was no James listed on the census. I don't think she would have given up her son after a divorce, but it is a possibility. So this is what I've learned and thought about over the years of research. Hope it isn't too confusing. Thanks for any help at all, Carol Blazzard cgblaz@moscow.com