Mary (Evans) Adams (1795 - aft. 1850)

Born 1795 in North Carolina, United States

Wife of Hopewell Adams — married 5 Oct 1816 in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died after 1850 after age 55 in Texas, United States

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Biography

Mary was born about 1795 in North Carolina.

She married Hopewell Adams in 1816 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and they were parents of three children:

1. Elizabeth Caroline (Adams) Jacobs 1818-aft 1880
2. Joseph Ross Adams 1820-1888
3. Hopewell Hugh Adams 1825-aft 1860

Mary moved with Hopewell to Lawrence County, Alabama about 1821. (A deed filed that year in Edgecombe County, North Carolina gave Hopewell’s location as Lawrence County, Alabama.) She appeared as head-of-household in Lawrence County in 1830, with three children.

Mary arrived in Texas with her children by 31 Dec 1839 ^[1]and received a 640 acre Headright grant based on that date and her status as head-of-household. Her survey was made in Liberty County, adjoining the survey of her son Joseph R Adams. In 1847 she sold her grant to Matthew Cartwright. The property was originally in Liberty County, then in Sabine County, but by 1847 it was in San Augustine County, due to changes in county formation.

In 1850, she is living with her son Joseph’s family in San Augustine County. No record of her has been located after that date.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/116587444/person/262055072336/media/492ebe5c-7189-40f2-957c-862eaae04d59?_phsrc=Kzm5&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&albums=pg&showGalleryAlbums=true&tab=0&pid=262055072336&sort=-created

• *"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:QRV8-C7GQ : 10 March 2021), Entry for Hopewell Adams and Polly Evans, 5 Oct 1816; citing Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .

• 1830 United States Federal Census, Lawrence County, Alabama, [database on-line]. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. FHL film # 004410751 Image 517, Original data:Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Texas Land Grant, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/116587444/person/262055072336/media/b485657e-d2c6-4b2e-bf30-76a74e15eb33?_phsrc=Kzm3&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=2&albums=pg&showGalleryAlbums=true&tab=0&pid=262055072336&sort=-created

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLG-FSW : 23 December 2020), Mary Adams in household of Joseph R Adams, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm pu...