Silas Newton Adams (1808 - 1887)

Born 1808 in Pendelton District, South Carolina

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Died 1887 at about age 79 in Black Creek, Etowah, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Silas was born in 1808. He married Lucinda Brock, daughter of Hiram Brock and Elizabeth Harris. He passed away in 1887.

Sources

• Likely to be him: 1830 Laurens co., SC:

Silas Adams, 1 M 20-30, 2 F under 5, 1 F 15-20, 1 F 20-30.

• 1840 De Kalb co. AL census.:

ADAMS, Silas, 1 male under 5, 2 males 5-10, 1 male 30-40, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 40-50.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHP1-ZZ3 : 12 April 2016), Silas Adams, De Kalb county, De Kalb, Alabama, United States; citing family 137, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHDR-MCZ : 13 December 2017), Silas M Adams, 1860.

• 1866 AL state census, Cherokee co: Silas Adams, living next door to James Wright and near Thomas Adams. He has 2 males under 10, 1 male age 10-20, 3 males over 20, 2 females over 20 years of age.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHVT-TPC : 12 April 2016), S N Adams, Alabama, United States; citing p. 1, family 4, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,506.

Living next door is what appears to be Silas and Lucinda's son, D. Thomas] ADAMS, wife Nancy, and several children. Just past them is a bunch of BROCK relatives.

From David Grays research of SC. Adams: Silas as born in Pendelton District, His Father Charles was part of the family of Adams that settled there. Silas married Lucinda Brock in Old Buncombe County NC. (now most likely Transylvania Co.)

• Story per Thelma Gray Adams;

author of "Descendants of Silas Adams and Wilder Gray " c. 1975. Self published. "Silas and Lucinda traveled to West Virginia then came to Willstown in Wills Valley Alabama shortly before the Cherokee Removal. They lived 3 miles south of Collinsville in the Will's Valley until the children were all about grown. They bought the farm on Black Creek after that, and were living there during the War of 1860. He sold his farm to Bill Gray for about $600. "Silas was going to the hardware store to get nails for a tenant house, walked out of the front door, down the stairs and fell dead in the yard."

Research Notes

There are some sources of a Silas Brock in North Carolina: showing interests in land in Watauga County, NC. in 1873, 10 acres on Baird Creek and 1880, 5 acres on Baird Creek, Watauga, NC. This may be another person or a purchase made speculatively if it was indeed the same person.

Silas Adams on Familysearch.org is associated both in Alabama and another family in Massachusetts so some relationships are dubious.