Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/202 Surname: ADAMS, HOWES, TOLLEY, MACINTOSH, SHEPPERD, HAWK, CARDER ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Adams Family The most prominent of the pioneers of Trace Fork was Dr. Spencer Adams, who appears to have first come to this neighborhood in 1840, or a little earlier. He came, some say, from Ripley to Trace Fork, and it is related that he married on of four sisters, the father being dead, and the mother the owner of a five hundred acre tract of land, where he afterward lived. Sometime in the thirties, (probably), Dr. Adams was a candidate for the House of Delegates, but it was discovered after his election that he was ineligible, not being a freeholder, and his mother-in-law deeded him a portion of the Trace Fork land so he could take his seat in the Legislature. Later, he moved on to his land, where it appears he continued to reside until 1855. He had (someone told me) a son, Philip, who went to Racine, Ohio. There are two Adams children buried in the Howes plot in the old Sandyville graveyard, one in 1857, the other ten years later. The first, Amelia Adams, was born in 1830. The Adams and Howes families were connected, Howes having married an Adams as his second wife. Adams wife was, I believe, a Tolley, and Andy Adams, the Spencer merchant, and the wife of John A. Macintosh were his children. Dr. Adams was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and enjoyed an extensive practice on Sandy and Mill Creek waters. He lived for a short time in the house next the Shepperd place, and then built at the mouth of the run, below where Mr. Hawk now lives. When Smith Carder was first married, he lived for a year or two on Dr. Adams place. Uncle Eph Carder, who was born in 1837, lived with him, being a little fellow just big enough to run around and pick up walnuts, say four or five years old, which would make the date about 1842. He says he used to see Adams " 'most every day", and would judge him to have been somewhere in forty years old.