Matthew Adams (1799 - 1889)

Born 20 Feb 1799 in Christian, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Pryscilla (Wolf) Adams — married 23 Dec 1817 in Hopkins Co., Kentucky

Descendants

Died 8 May 1889 at age 90 in Ireland, Coryell, Texas, United States

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Biography

Matthew Adams

BIRTH 20 Feb 1799

DEATH 8 May 1889 (aged 90)

BURIAL Sycamore Cemetery Levita, Coryell County, Texas, USA

Father: Robert Adams b: ABT 1760 in Kentucky died in Independence or Izard Co., AR in 1825

Mother: Sarah Unknown who died in Izard Co. AR in 1803

Married Priscilla Catherine Wolf b: ABT 1795 in Asheville, Rowan, North Carolina. Matthew married about age 18.^[1] He and his wife were the first white settlers on the White River. He was a member of the Arkansas Territorial Commission and the first judge of Izard County, Arkansas.

In 1851, Matthew and Catharine migrated to the San Antonio area before settling in Goliad County in the 1860s and 1870s. So they were in TX before the Civil War.

Matthew's brother John Adams married Pryscilla Catharine Wolf's sister Mary Ann Wolf. John and Mary Ann Adams did not come to TX but died in what was then Izard Co., AR but now know as Baxter Co., AR and are buried in the historic Wolf Family Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ See Wolf House Historian Volume 1 April 1989 #2 Pages 4-10.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #51130953

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21S-YW6M : 22 July 2021), Matthew Adams and Caty Wolf, 23 Dec 1817; citing Marriage, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 554,916.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M678-WF4 : 20 December 2020), Mathew Adams, Marion, Marion, Arkansas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (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:MXFX-GJ8 : 18 February 2021), Martha Adams, 1860. Goliad, Texas, United States (Martha is a male born in 1797 in KY)

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLR-K6D : 29 May 2021), Mathew Adam, 1870. Goliad County, Goliad, Texas, United States

Acknowledgments

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