Samuel Adams (1805 - 1850)

Born 5 Jun 1805 in Halifax, Virginia, United States

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Died 27 Feb 1850 at age 44 in Saline, Arkansas, United States

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Preceded by 2nd Governor Archibald Yell

Samuel Adams Acting Governor of Arkansas 1844

Succeeded by 3rd Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew

Biography

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[This biography is taken mainly from Ref ^[1]. The interested reader is also referred to Wikipedia^[2] for other information, and Samuel Adams in Encyclopedia of Arkansas]^[3]

Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia, on 5 June 1805, the son of Sylvester and Rebecca (Boyd) Adams.

Samuel married Rebecca May, a daughter of Capt. John May on 16 December 1824. Samuel and Rebecca had four children that lived to maturity, John D., Jesse M., Martha Isabella, and Collin.

In 1830 Samuel Adams and a number of relatives moved to Johnson County in the Territory of Arkansas where he soon became a prominent politician. He represented his county and district in each branch of the legislature several times. He was president of the Senate several times. He was elected State treasurer and became the state’s governor in 1844. He moved to Little Rock which became his home.

His wife Rebecca died in 1840, and in 1842 he married Mrs. Catherine A. Fagan, a widow. There were no children born to them, however.

Gov. Samuel Adams died 27 February 1850 while on a visit to a plantation he owned in Saline County, Arkansas. He is buried in Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Chappell, Phil E., A Genealogical History of the Chappell, Dickie, and other Kindred Families of Virginia, Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, Kansas City, Mo., 1900, pp. 348-50. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE993757, accessed October 2016
2. ↑ Samuel Adams on Wikipedia
3. ↑ Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Samuel Adams (1805–1850) https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/. Accessed 27 Feb 2021.
4. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 7421625
5. ↑ "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJC-7KW : 6 November 2014), Samuel Adams, Saline county, Saline, Arkansas, United States; citing line 2, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,549,731.