Jeremiah Burson Adcock MD (1848 - 1882)

Born 24 Jan 1848 in Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Lurena Frances (Abbett) Adcock — married 9 Sep 1869 in Tallapoosa, Alabama, USA

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1882 at age 34 in Union, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Dr. Jeremiah Burson Adcock was born January 24, 1848 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama and was the fourth child of John Skinner Adcock [1815-1884] and Judith Ann Evans [1822-1891]. He adopted the nickname of “James.”

At the age of fourteen he sold, and signed a receipt for, a rifle to the Confederate Army. At the age of 16, he served in Captain Bird Ford's Mounted Infantry Randolph Reserves (Home Guard) as a 2nd Corporal.

On September 9, 1869 he married Lurena Frances “Fannie” Abbett also of the Tallapoosa area. He had been raised a Methodist, but Fannie's father was a Baptist preacher and he became a Baptist for the rest of his life. They began married life in Walnut Hill, Tallapoosa, Alabama.

The following year he and Fannie joined a wagon train which took them to Union Parish, Louisiana. During the trip his first child, John Berry Adcock, was born.

In 1877 he graduated from National University of Arts and Sciences, Medical Department, St. Louis: American Medical College as a doctor of allopathy. He and his family lived in Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana where he practiced medicine and owned a pharmacy. He and Fannie had four boys and one girl.

On November 9, 1882 he died suddenly at the age of thirty-four while returning from seeing a patient out in the country, and was buried in the Farmerville area and a tombstone erected, according to his granddaughter Maggie Adcock Austin. To date no tombstone has been found for him.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5H-76L : 12 April 2016), Jeremiah B Adcock in household of John Adcock, Tallapoosa county, Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States; citing family 252, 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:MHDN-G6X : 13 December 2017), Jeremiah B Adcock in entry for John S Adcock, 1860.
• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:29F2-YZK : 15 October 2017), Jeremiah B Adcock and L Francis Abbott, 09 Sep 1869; citing Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,302,446.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2S-QXF : 7 June 2019), J B Adcock, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDXK-X9V : 14 August 2017), James B Adcock, 1st Ward, Union, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 84, sheet 390A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,473.

Acknowledgments

• Jay W, GEDCOM file submitted by James 'Jim' Williams, jim99w@embarqmail.com. Imported on 28 May 2012. . See the Changes page for the details of edits by Jay and others.
• WikiTree profile Adcock-245 created through the import of Land.ged on May 29, 2012 by Joe Willis Jones. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Joe Willis and others.