Claiborne was born in 1860. Clayborne Harrison Adams was a carpenter. He moved to Texas to live with an uncle Barrick near the town of Chico, Texas likely around 1875 as a teenager.
When Kay Adams came to north Texas, he remembered seeing bison/buffalo hides stacked higher than a man's head in downtown Fort Worth, Texas from the great bison hunts of the plains.
other Children: Ruff E.E. Adams, Find A Grave Memorial# 85591745, William Floyd Adams,Patrick Elroy Adams, Richard Theodore Adams, Bertha Ella Adams, Ethel Jane Adams, Ruth Matilda Adams, Beulah Magnolia (Nola) Adams.