Ruby May (Hanson) Adamson (1910 - 2004)

Born 26 Aug 1910 in Perry's Landing, Brazoria County, TX

Ancestors

Wife of John Quincy Adamson — married 20 Aug 1927 in Perry's Landing, Brazoria County, TX

Descendants

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Biography

LaMay was born in 1910. She was the daughter of Douglas Hanson and Alma Slade. She passed away in 2004 and is buried near her parents and her husband in West Columbia, Texas ^[1]

For most of her adult life LaMay lived in East Lansing Michigan with her husband John Quincey Adamson. For several decades the Adamson's owned a summer home on Drummond Island Michigan, which she adored.

LaMay was an avid genealogist. In 1956 she published a family history, "Cherry Tree Notes" and, until his death in 1992, she collaborated with Harris Bateman on his series of booklets. Her nephew Smitty Smith, the profile manager of this site, has inherited a voluminous collection of research, letters, photos, documents, etc. on the Hansons, Slades, Weemses, Gilliams and related families linked to Brazoria County, Texas.^{[2] [3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #175980446
2. ↑ Adamson, LaMay, "Cherry Tree Notes, the Parson's Seed in Texas", East Lansing, Michigan, mimeographed, 1956.
3. ↑ Adamson, LaMay, "The Slade Family For the Weems-Cayce Family Reunion Held at Gatesville Texas on Sunday, May 3, 1970," a 20 page typewritten manuscript in possession of Smitty Smith. It was probably photocopied and distributed at the family reunion.

• Bateman,Harris, Bateman Family Genealogy, Tulsa, OK: private printing, 1979. Page 33.