I saw your posting of your ADAMS family decendents, posted on rootsweb on 5 Jun 2005. I was just doing ADAMS research in Lewis Co. when I ran across your listing. I have no known connection to this family, but I would like to establish one. Maybe we can help each other. What I know. I have a Peter A. HALL, a gggg grandfather, married a Mahala ADAMS on 24 Jan 1832 in Lincoln Co. KY. He was born about 1811 in VA and she was born about 1807 in KY. I have followed this Peter HALL family fairly carefully from Kentucky to Johnson Co., MO where he died in 1885. Mahala made it only to Lewis Co., MO where she died between 1840 and 1842. Peter A. HALL married twice after that. His second wife, Malinda CHANDLER was born, married, and died in MO (not sure whether she died in Lewis or Johnson Co., MO. He married his third wife Mariah T. (COCKERELL) STOVALL on 4 Oct 1846 in Johnson Co., MO. Two of Peter A. HALL's oldest children have listed he and Mahala ADAMS as their parents on their death certificates. I have possibly good information on the parents and ancestors of Peter, but I am searching for Mahala's. Peter and Mahala HALL named their first born son Charles, born in 1835 in KY. Their second son was named James Pendleton HALL after the ADAMS' next door neighbor in Lincoln, Co. KY, James PENDLETON. In the 1830 Census I found: 1830 Census: Location: Not stated, Lincoln Co., KY Surname Name Male Female Tot Adams Charles Jr. 1m5/10, 1m30/40 1f0/5, 1f5/10 4 Note: I found Charles Jr. on the previous page of the census from Charles Sr.. They were all close together. It appears that he lost his wife as there was no older woman listed. He had one male slave and one female slave. 1830 Census: Location: Not stated, Lincoln Co., KY File Location: Ancestry.com Image 39 of 82, Page 351 Surname Name Male Female Tot Adams Benjamin 1-0/5, 1-30/40 2-0/5, 1-30/40 5 Adams Charles 1-0/5, 1-5/10, 1-15/20, 1-50/60 1-0/5, 2-15/20, 3-20/30, 1-30/40, 1-50/60 12 In 1831 Charles ADAMS married Nancy SMITH on March 2 1831 in Lincoln Co., KY. I believe that he had been previously married to Lucinda LUNCEFORD on 29 Jan 1822 in Lincoln Co., KY. I got this information in Lincoln Co. and their book on "Lincoln County Marriage Register, 1781-1908". It is also in book form at the Dallas Public Library. I have copied the early A's out. 1840 Census: Location: Not stated, Lewis Co., MO File Location: Ancestry.com Image 57 of 58; Page No. 201 Date of Census: 1840 Surname Name Males Females Tot Hall Peter A. 1m0/5, 1m5/10, 1m15/20 1f0/5, 1f30/40, 6 Adams Charles 1m0/5,2m5/10,1m10/15,1m40/50; 1f10/15, 1f30/40 6 Note: There is a goof on Peter’s age. Peter appears to be elsewhere if the 15/20 year old male is Jesse DOAKS. Since the total is six persons, maybe the scribe forgot to add the older male of the group, Peter. One in the family in Agriculture with no slaves. There is a Charles ADAMS on the same page about 3 families away. It looks as if he remarried. He might be a brother of Mahala. In 1841 Peter A. HALL purchased land from the Bureau of Land Management in Lewis Co., MO. The land was 40 acres in the NESW parcel of Block 12 of Section 60-N and 7-W from the 5th Prime Meridian. Charles ADAMS purchased over 240 acres in the same section, but different blocks in Lewis County, starting in 1835 until 1839. Peter A. HALL moved on to Johnson Co., MO before 1846 as he was there when he married and in the 1850 Census. Now, what I think. I think that Mahala and Charles ADAMS are brother and sister of Charles ADAMS, Sr. I have no proof. It is mostly because the two families were together in KY and they were together for a period in MO, Peter and Mahala named their first child Charles, and after too much coincidence of origins. To carry this further, I think that they are the children of Charles ADAMS, III who died on 18 Jan 1835 at Goshen, Lincoln Co., KY. He was buried in the Wooley Cemetery also known as Boone Cemetery. He was listed as being 75 years old. The cemetery is on the farm of Neal Boone, thus the name of Boone Graveyard. It is in the Goshen Community near the Goshen Christian church (Lat: 37° 33' 19"N, Lon: 84° 35' 00"W). You have to park near the house and walk to the right about a mile. The cemetery is on a bluff overlooking the Dix River. Watch for the road and creek. That is the only way in. This Charles had married his second wife, Mary DAWSON, in about 1830 in Lincoln Co., KY. After that assumption it leads you to a book called "Adams families of southeast Kentucky" by Dorothy A GRIFFITH, pages 65 to 68. The book is digitally available on line via Family Search Library or LDS site. I would like to find some information relating Mahala and Charles ADAMS or find a connection to their parents. Jay Frank Dallas, TX