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Thomas Jefferson Adair

Male 1814 - 1890  (76 years)


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  • Name Thomas Jefferson Adair 
    Born 31 May 1814  , , Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 19 Sep 1890  Show Low, Apache, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried of Adair Cemetery, Show Low, Apache, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1413  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Thomas Adair,   b. 25/25 Oct 1771/1777, , Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1858, , , Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Brown,   b. 3 Nov 1784, , Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1846, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married Abt 1803  of Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F883  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Frances Rogers or Rodgers,   b. 22 Apr 1818, , Franklin, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1847, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years) 
    Married 26 Jan 1836  , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Ann Adair,   b. 13 Jun 1837, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Apr 1861, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F877  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Vance or Vancel or Vancil,   b. 27 Sep 1820, , Saint Clair, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1918, Pine, Gila, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years) 
    Married Abt 1847  Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F879  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1830 US: Pickens Co., Alabama, pages 111-112. The first three related families are all on the same page, the next four related families are on the next page, and James Adair (with son Joseph) is on p. 129:
      Thos. Peeks, males 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
      John Mangum, males 5-10:1; 10-15:2; 15-20:1; 60-70:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
      Cyrus Mangum, males 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 15-20:1.
      Saml. Carson, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1; 80-90:1.
      Saml. Adair, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1.
      Thos. Adair, males 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1.
      Daniel Clark (next door), males 0-5:1; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 20-30:1.
      James Adair, males 0-5:2; 15-20:1; 20-30:2 (Joseph b. 1806); 60-70:1; females 15-20:1; 20-30:2; 60-7-:1; no slaves.

      1840 US: Northern District, Itawamba Co., Mississippi, related families from full survey of county census:
      P. 136a: Samuel Adair, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 30-40:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 144a: John Mangum, males 15-20:1; 70-80:1; females 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 150a: Joseph Adair, males 30-40:1; females 20-30:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 156a: Thomas Adair, males 20-30: 1; females 0-5: 1; 15-20:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 157a: William Mangum, Jr., males 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1. No slaves listed.

      1850 US: Madison Co., Iowa, 7 Oct 1850, family 881:
      Thomas Adiar, 34, farmer, OH. [Misspelled Adair.]
      Mary, wife, 28, IL. [Mary Vancel his second wife.]
      Cyntha, 12, AL. [Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle; birthplace most likely in error.]
      Maryann, 12, AL. [Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      Thomas, 2, IA. [Son of Thomas and Mary Vancel.]
      James, 8, Mississippi. [Son of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      John, 7, IL. [Son of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.]
      Hannah, 6, IL. [Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.]
      Emma, 5, Mississippi. [Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      Jonathan Davis, 22, laborer, Upper Canada.
      Alexander Davis, 20, laborer, Upper Canada.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Cynthia, John and Hannah are all children of the first marriage of Mary Vancel to Jacob Waggle. Mary A., James, and Emma are children of Thomas' first marriage with Frances Rogers. Thomas and Aaron are children of Thomas and Mary Vancel. Census return:
      Adair: Thomas 36, Mary 37, Mary A. 14, Cynthia 14, John 11, James 10, Hannah 9, Emma 6, Thomas 2, Aaron L. 0. [Note next door neighbors are the William/Sarah Mangum and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]

      1852 Iowa state census for Pottawattamie County:
      Thomas Adair, 6, 4, 1, 1. (Listed as next door: Samuel Adair, 8, 3, 1, 1.)

      The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Payson City, p. 9:
      Thomas Adair
      Maria "
      Mary Ann "
      James "
      Hannah "
      Emma "
      Thomas "
      Aaron Adair
      Frances "
      Moroni "
      Samuel J. "
      Alma "
      Sarah "
      Adam "
      Frances "
      John "

      1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 26 Jul 1860, p. 1036, household 1260, family 1099 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors):
      Tho's Adair, 46, farmer, $350 real estate, $300 personal property, IN.
      Mary, 40, IL.
      James, 19, MS.
      Emma, 15, MS
      Tho's, 12, IA.
      Aaron, 9, IA.
      Frances, f., 7, UT.
      Moroni, 4, UT.
      Mary, 2, UT.

      1880 US: Show Low Creek, Apache, Arizona, FHL film 1254036 (National Archives Film T9-0036), p. 19D (note: Brother Samuel J. Adair and family listed as a neighbors):
      Thomas Adair, farmer, 66, AL AL AL.
      Mary Adair, 60, IL VA PA.
      Moroni, single, 25, UT AL VA.
      George, 11, UT AL VA.

      2. The following is a small excerpt of a larger listing (see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full transcription), which was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title - "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair" - I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel Newton Adair himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and Collin's mother was responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated it to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution:
      [A.] "Father: Thomas Adair; Mother: Rebeca Brown; Children:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair
      Fairby Adair
      Margaret Adair
      Eliza Adair
      Sally Adair
      Thomas Adair
      George Washington Adair
      Mary Ann Adair
      John Wesley Adair
      Laney Adair"
      [B.] "Thomas Adair – Married Rebeca Brown:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair - Born at Lawrence Co., South Carolina, March 28, 1806. Baptized by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 27, 1845. Confirmed by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 30, 1845. Ordained an Elder by Daniel Thomas, a High Priest by John Young in 1855. Married Jamima Mangum. Filled a mission to Southern Utah in 1857. Migrated Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois on Jan. 10, 1846. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, July 6, 1889.
      Fairby Adair - married Daniel Clark
      Margaret Adair - married William Richey
      Eliza Adair - married John Price
      Sally Adair - married William Mangum. Died of cholera on the Plains in 1852.
      Thomas Adair - married Fanny Rogers. Died at Showlow, Navajo County, Arizona.
      George Washington Adair - married Miriam Billingsley. Died at Orderville, Utah.
      Mary Ann Adair - born at Pickens co., Alabama, July 5, 1824. Baptized by James Richey, 1844. Confirmed by Daniel Thomas in 1844. Married John Mangum. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City. Died of asthma at Pahreah, Utah.
      John Wesley Adair - born in 1820. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. Was a member of the Mormon Battalion.
      Laney Adair - married John Winn."

      3. The book "Alabama and Mississippi Connections, Historical and Biographical Sketches of Families on Who Settled on Both Sides of the Tombigbee River, by Judy Jacobson, 1999, viewed on the website Ancestry.com contains a good history of the settlement of this area with the counties of Greene, Pickens, and Tuscaloosa in Alabama and counties of Noxubee and Itawamba in Mississippi. Alabama opened for settling after the American victory in the War of 1812 and Mississippi opened up in the 1830s with various Choctaw Indian treaties. This book contains a very good history of these areas as well as genealogies on the Adair, Mangum, Carson, and Richey families. Most of these genealogies are copies of standard LDS Ancestral File; however, the following is new information: "After his son's birth, Thomas Adair and his family followed the northern route into Alabama - through Tennessee, stopping at Maury/Rutherford County. He was listed along with William Adair as a juror in Pickens County, Alabama, circa 1824. A Rebecca Adair and a Fereby Clark were granted land in Sec 22 T20 R15W in Pickens County, Alabama, on November 28, 1834. On November 10, 1835, Thomas Jefferson Adair received land in nearby Sec 20 T20 R15W. His son Samuel was granted eighty acres of land in Sec 9 and Sec 15 T20 R15W in 1836. James and William Adair received land in other townships and ranges. A Joseph also received land in T20 R15W like the Adair of this genealogy... From Alabama, the family moved west into Itawamba County, Mississippi by 1839..."

      4. Major autobiography with lots of references to Mangums, Richeys, and Adairs and their history by James Richey with copy in possession of Kerry Petersen mentions his uncle [see James Richey notes file for a second and slightly different version of this story - this version is uncorrected typographically]: "After staying with my friends a few days Itawamba County I went to Chickasaw Co. [1844] to where my Uncle Thomas Adair lived and preached to them the Gospel in that vicinity. I then returned home to my father's house in Noseuher [Noxubee] County. After resting a while I started out in company with elder Daniel Thomas on preacjing tour. We went into the northwestern part of the state of Alabama onthe Butteharhe River. From there we went to Itawamba in the state of Mississippi and preached to the people in the neighborhood of Where my relatives lived. A number of them belived and was afterwards baptized into the church. We then went to Chickasaw County in the state of Mississippe and preached into the church. The names of those that were baptized are as follows Thomas Adair and wife, John Mangum and wife, my grandmother, Seli [Sarah] Rebecca Adair and John Wesley Adair. After this I returned home and gave my attention to work of preparing to remove with my fathers friends to the city of Nauvoo in the State of Illiois to wich place we removed in the year of 1845. After we arrived in the City we had much sickness in the family. While I was gone up the river to help to bring down a raft for firewood. My oldest sister Rebecca was taken sick and died in my absence, which was a heavy blow to me as well as the rest of the family. In the course of the year my brother Robert and sister Martha Ann also died with malaria. In the course of the summer I returned to the State of alabama for my grandmother Rebecca Richey but her son kept her money from her so I failed in that part of my mission."

      5. Deseret News, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2 Apr 1856: "Report of the Twenty-first Quorum. The following is a list of the names of the members of the quorum, with their residence as far as known.
      Presidents. [7 individuals listed including Stephen Hales, G.S.L. City.] Members. [Many members including Thomas Adair and *John Mangum of Nephi City.] The quorum meets on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in each month, at 6 o'clock p.m, at the residence of David Wilkin, 17th ward, and every member residing in this city is requested to attend punctually. Those members whose names have a star attached to them, are requested to send their genealogies to the clerk immediately, which must contain the following items, viz: when and where born; including town, county and state; father's and mother's names; when baptized, and by whom; when ordained, and by whom; also present residence. O. F. Mead, Clerk."

      6. A transcription of the letter from Brigham Young calling Samuel J. Adair on his mission to Dixie. The scribe for Brigham Young on this letter was a George Sims - he should have been called to a different job - his handwriting was atrocious. Here is our best shot at it. My guesses are in brackets. I asked several of the Archivists about some of the words and they couldn't come any closer than I did. LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Call Number CR 1234/1, Reel 26, Box 18, Folder 4. Brigham Young outgoing correspondence:
      G. S. L. City Dec. 20, 1856
      B. Young to Saml. Adair and others
      Dear Brethren,
      I am [sending] a note in regard to [receipt] of cotton, raisins and Indigo respectively as received.
      We are desirous of having these articles produced as we may for the use of the people of this Territory.
      We are not aware of any Indigo being harvest[ed] in the Territory or of any of the seed being brought. We should like, if you know of any, that you would inform us of the fact, or if you know where it could be obtained.
      We presume that plants of cotton seed can be purchased by the brethren South, who have been somewhat engaged in the business for the past year or two. In regard to your enterprise in this business it would please me to have you do so, but of course you are aware that it would become necessary for you to form the mission South. [Let] me refer you to Bro. Isaac C. Haight who will instruct you in regard to your starting therein, you may consider yourselves on this mission and make your assignments accordingly.
      I remain as ever your Bro. in the Gospel of Salvation. B.Y.
      Samuel Adair, James Adair, John W. Adair, Thomas Adair, William Mangum, James Mangum, Harrison Pierce, John Norton, Fazsen Waiel
      Utah County, U.T.
      Copied by George Sims - Clerk"

      7. Note: Ten names of the first men to Dixie were among Adairs, Mangums, Richeys, and Prices who were all interrelated by marriage. Excerpt taken from book "Under Dixie Skies," a history of Washington County, Utah [similar accounts are found in the books "I Was Called to Dixie" by Andrew Karl Larson, 1961, p. 67 and "A History of Washington County, From Isolation to Destiny," by Douglas D. Alder and Karl F. Brooks, pp. 28, 29]: "(Samuel Adair) In keeping with Brigham Young's policy of making the Church self-sustaining, a company was called to settle on the Mill Creek (which is now part of Washington Co.) primarily for the purpose of raising cotton. What should be more logical than to send men who had had experience in cotton culture? A number of converts who came from the South were accordingly called to go into what was later known as Utah's Dixie. Two groups went in the spring of 1857. The first group, consisting of ten families under the leadership of Samuel Adair [apparently, Robert D. Covington and Samuel J. Adair were the leaders of two groups, who were called to the 'Cotton Mission'], left Payson, Utah on the 3rd of March and arrived at the site of what was subsequently called Washington on the 15th day of April. They camped near the river on a piece of land later designated as the "Sand Plot," but on the advice of Amasa Lyman, who was passing through on his way from San Bernardino to Salt lake City, they moved up to the place where the town now stands. The second company [under Covington] left Salt lake City early in April and camped on the 5th of May at the Samuel Adair Spring, on the east side of the valley, just a short distance north of the present US highway 91. The following were members of the two original companies and others who settled at Washington in 1857. Robert D. Covington, Harrison Pearce, James B. Regran [or Reagan], Willam B. [or R.] Slade, Joseph Smith, William Hawley, John Couch Sr., John Couch Jr., John Mangum, James [B.] Wilkins, Alfred Johnson, John W. Freeman, James D. McCullough, William H. Crawford, Umpstead Rencher, Balus Spouse [or Sprouse], James Richie [or Richey], Samuel Adair, Oscar Tyler, George Spencer, Jr., J. Holden, Joseph Adair, Joseph Hatfield, William Dameron, Preston Thomas, William Fream, George [W.] Adair, [Samuel?] Newton Adair, John Clark, Thomas W. Smith, Simes [or Sims] B. Matheny, Stephen and William Dugas [or Duggins], William J. Young, Enoch Dodge, John Price, and Robert Lloyd. William Darby Cooper was also an early settler. [Bleak, 'Annals of the Southern Utah Mission,' p. 34, the heads of the families listed by Bleak also include in addition to those above: Upstead Rencher, George Hawley, John Hawley, John Adair, Thomas Adair, J. Holden, William Mangum. Later research by Harold Cahoon of the Washington City Historical Society has added the following names to the original settler list: Newton L.N. Adair [Samuel Newton Adair?], John W. Clark, James Nichols Mathews, Gabriel R. Coley, and John D. Lee.] The trial that the settlers of Washington, in Washington Co., were to endure were probably the most discouraging and severe of any of the early settlers of Utah. When Robert Gardiner passed through the town on his way to settle in St. George in December 1861, he reflected that of all the trials he had to endure, the prospect of his wives and children one day looking like the poor malaria plagued creatures he saw in Washington was what appalled him most of all. He says in his journal: 'Here we found some of our old neighbors who received us very kind but the appearance of these brethren and their wives and children was rather discouraging. Nearly all of them had the fever and ague or chills as they called it in this country. They had worked hard and worn out their clothes and had replaced them from the cotton they had raised on their own farms which their women had carded, spun, and wove by had, colored with weeds. Men's shirts, women's dresses and sunbonetts were all made of the same piece; and their clothes and their faces were of the same color, being a kind of blue, as most everyone had the chills. This tried me more than anything I have had seen in my Mormon experience thinking that my wives and Children, from the nature of the climate, would have to look as sickly as those now around me.' This coupled with the trouble and struggle they had trying to build a dam in the Virgin River for irrigation purposes, which was washed out every spring, made the life of the saints that settled Washington probably the most trying of any early settlers." The book "History of Washington County" adds: "Their new home was to be called Washington, as determined in advance by Brigham Young and his counselors, Its location was also fixed - the benchland overlooking the Washington fields. The town was located near several fine springs which have favored the community above others in Dixie. The fields likewise provided a lush expanse of farmland. Washington appeared to have advantages over other communities, but this did not prove to be so. Those broad fields were formed by ancient floods; and modern floods would haunt Washington - not the town but the irrigation projects. And the springs created marshes. There insects would spread malaria. So the Washington Saints were spared little; their plight, fighting malaria and rebuilding washed-out dams, would equal, if not surpass, the tests their neighbors encountered."

      8. From email of 26 Dec 2001 email of Norma Entrekin [nje@mindspring.com]: "Another account of the Gardner [later Bishop of St. George] entry reads similar, but a little different: (Perhaps 2 different entries?) 'The Thomas Adair family was among the ten families in the Sam Adair Company that came from Payson, Utah and were the first to settle Washington County, Utah. They arrived April 15, 1857 which was four years before the pioneers were called to settle St. George five miles to the west. All of these first settlers were from the southern states and were called to Southern Utah to cultivate cotton and other hot weather crops. They had a terrible time in this pioneering effort, but they persevered. Their dam washed out every year, the soil was filled with alkali, and they caught malaria from the mosquitos. Six years later in December, 1861 when the group of pioneers going to St. George passed through Washington, the new pioneers were upset over how the pioneers of Washington appeared and were afraid that they were bringing their own families in to endure the same things that these poor malaria plagued creatures in Washington had endured. One of the St. George pioneers, Robert Gardner, says in his journal; '...here we found some of our old neighbors who received us very kind...but the appearance of these brethren and their wives and this country. They had worked hard and had wore out their clothes and had replaced them from the cotton they had raised on their own lots and farms which their women had carded, spun and wove by hand. Colored with weeds, men's shirts, women's dresses and sunbonnets were all made of the same piece; and their clothes and their faces were of the same color, being a kind of blue as most everyone had the chills. This tried me more than anything I had seen in my Mormon experience. Thinking that my wives and Children, from the nature of the climate would have to look as sickly as those now around me...' The Thomas Adair family were called to settle many rough places in Utah and Arizona. Pioneering was a hard life and they endured much."

      9. Three monuments erected in Washington City, Washington, Utah:
      A. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this is a mistake; should be Samuel Jefferson Adair, see correction below], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W. Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were: [43 names listed; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James. Erected by the citizens of Washington City and the Washington City Historical Society, 1996." [Photo is on file with me of plaque.]
      A newer plaque has since been added to left side of monument which reads: "Correction. It is recorded in the 'John Mangum American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants' book that Samuel Jefferson Adair was the leader of the Adair group. It was not Samuel Newton Adair who was the son of Samuel Jefferson Adair. Apparently the father was known only as Samuel Adair since the property he owned was recorded as Samuel Adair. The names of Samuel Adair and Samuel N. Adair were erroneously assumed to be the same person and the initial 'N' omitted at various times. They both were in the original ten families that arrived her on 15 April 1857 but only the name Samuel Adair is listed as one of the original 1857 pioneers. This plaque is to correct the information as shown on the large plaque. Samuel Newton Adair did become a prominent person in Washington but was not the leader of the Adair Company. It was Samuel Jefferson Adair, his father, listed only as Samuel Adair, who led the Adair Company."
      B. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the purpose of growing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reoccurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.]
      i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James.
      ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M.
      iii. 1861-62: [none]."
      C. Monument in Washington City, Utah with the full-size statues of Samuel J. Adair and three others has the following plaque: "Prominent Pioneer Man and Women Who Helped Settle Washington City. Pioneer City officials and citizens of Washington City desired to pay tribute to early prominent pioneers who first settled here in 1857. These pioneers sacrificed their all while improving conditions in this harsh, dry, hot, inhospitable, mosquito-infested area. This spot was selected because it represents the early town square where meetings were held in an open-air bowery. Our first adobe school and first rock school and church once stood here or close by. Those represented here in this park took part in different ways to lay the foundation for our present way of life. This is small way of recognizing their efforts. Those represented here in bronze are the first. Many have followed these first pioneers who continued on to improve our town making it what it is today. At this same location others to be recognized will follow. We pay tribute to those who stayed or struggled with determination to create our city. Samuel Jefferson Adair was the leader of the first group of 10 southern families called by Brigham Young to come on the cotton or southern mission to settle in Washington. He was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and was familiar with the raising of cotton. Their purpose was to colonize the area and grow cotton. They arrived here on April 15, 1857. This being the first company to traverse the Black Ridge, they had to do much extra work to build a road that the following companies could follow. The Adair families owned six lots in block 35 of the resurvey of 1873 and, no doubt, built family homes there. Only John Milton Adair's home remains today. Samuel Jefferson's son, Samuel Newton Adair, became a well known Washington citizen and Indian missionary. Thomas Jefferson Adair, a brother, and his wife were blessed with a baby girl born to the Adairs on the day they entered the area. They named her Mary Elizabeth Adair. She was the first baby born in Washington City. None of the Adairs are in the Washington City 1880 census. They had gradually moved to Minersville, Utah, Beaver, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. Robert Dockery Covington, the leader of the second group of twenty-eight southern families, came on May 6, 1857. A native of Rockingham, North Carolina, he had experience directing slaves on cotton plantations, so he was well familiar with the raising of cotton. These two groups laid out the town and called it Washington after the first president of the United States, George Washington. Robert D. Covington was the first bishop of the Washington ward established August 1, 1858, and was bishop from 1858 to 1869. Bishop Covington built a large two-story rock home just east of John D. Lee's home, completed in 1859 and is still standing. It is the oldest building in all of Washington County. The home was used as a recreation center for the community where dances, parties and other functions were held. Church meetings were held there also. Brigham Young stayed here many times while visiting the area. To get to the upstairs, one had to go outside and climb wooden stairs to the second story. There was no other way to get to the upstairs from the main floor. This was done so that people coming for a get together could not disturb the main floor family living quarters. Peter Neilson (Sr.), a native of Denmark, emigrated to America for his religious beliefs. He was the person who took $600.00 in gold coins to David H. Cannon, the St. George Stake President, to pay the freight bill for the St. George tabernacle window glass. Only $200.00 had been collected from the people in the surrounding area toward the total bill of $800.00. The bill had to be paid before the glass could be freighted from California to St. George and installed in the tabernacle. Mr. Neilson walked all the way from Washington to St. George early one morning carrying the gold in an old blue bandana. He was not asked for the money; he just knew through his experiences during the night that he was to take the money to the stake president. He had saved the money so that he could add rooms to his meager home. His generosity made it possible for the window glass to be purchased and installed. When asked about giving the money he would reply, 'I can get more money to build my house. Every time I see that magnificent building I shall be reminded of what I did with my six hundred dollars, and the tabernacle will be there for people to see and enjoy long after I am gone.' His home had a store attached, which gave him the income to save the six hundred dollars. The house burned in 1975. He did many acts of service for the people of Washington. John F. Chicester, was an engineer, who was born in Somerfield, Michigan. He was involved in the building of the cotton factory being in charge of the timbers used in its construction. He was also the foreman responsible for obtaining and installing the wood pilings that were used to build the pile dam. This dam was to solve the problem of replacing dams that were destroyed on the Virgin River due to flash floods. The pile dam also failed because of the quicksand in the bottom of the river. The dams on the river washed out at least once every year, sometimes as many as three times, which put a terrible stress on the small community. The dams were necessary to obtain water to grow crops in the Washington fields. No water meant no crops, which meant starvation or severe suffering from hunger. As the engineer on the construction of the Washington Fields dam that solved the problem of replacing dams on the Virgin River, he also said the water had to be taken to the distribution canal from the back of the dam and not the front in order to solve the problem of debris plugging the opening. Shortly after the dam was built, it was obvious that he was correct and the dam was changed to the way he had designed it. The dam never gave any problem after it was changed. It performed for ninety-eight years without difficulty, until the Quail Creek dam failed and severely damaged it on Jan. 1, 1989. The Washington Fields dam has since been repaired and is still taming the Rio Virgin River. During the erection of the St. George temple, John served in the surveying of timber sources and superintended the scaffolding on the temple. His adobe home is still standing that he built for his family before 1873. Erected by Washington City, Spring, 2003." [Photos on file of the Samuel J. Adair statue and the surrounding memorial park.]

      10. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie, quote from the book "A Mormon Chronicle, the Diaries of John D. Lee," vol. 1,
      P. 165 (Washington, Utah): "Wed., 26th (1858) I bargained with Thos. Adair to put in and cultivate 6 acres of land, mostly in cotton, for which I paid him a good cow and calf."
      P. 231 "Washington, Frid., Jay 6th, 1860. The Boys finished jinng and Bailing my cotton. I had 600 lbs. cotton linnt. Paid my tything (106$). I Set Some hands querying Stone, hauling wood &c. I also Sold 3 tracts of land in Big Field to Thos Adair, for 70$ Payable in corn, cotton & molasses. Bro. Turly made some proposition in the Sale of his property &c."

      11. Panquitch Quilt Walk:
      A. Email 30 May 2000 from Elaine Baldwin at dbalwin@color-country.net or 435-676-2403 indicates that a Thomas Adair had lived in Panguitch in 1864. The winter of 1864 had been particularly hard and food was critically low. Some of the men volunteered to hike west over the mountain to Parowan to get food for the town. As they started to get up on the mountains, they realized that the snow was just too deep. They had a prayer to receive some guidance as to what they should do. They were kneeling on the quilts they had brought along for warmth, and then they were inspired to use the quilts to walk on, as they didn't sink into the snow. They did this and were able to complete their mission. Elaine was chairperson of the "Quilt Walk Festival" which celebrates this event.
      B. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: "On 16th March 1864 the first group of pioneers came to Panguitch from Parowan under the leadership of Jens Neilson. They followed the rout over the rugged bear Valley, part of the Spanish Trail. Crops were planted but the season was short and they did not mature. The winter of 1864 was extremely cold and snow was deep. The closest supplies were either one hundred and fifteen miles to the north in Gunnison, or forty miles to the west over the difficult Bear Valley Road in Parowan.
      Seven men, Alexander Matheson, William Talbot, Thomas Richards, Jesse Lowder, John Butler, Thomas Adair, and John Paul Smith left Panguitch to go to Parowan to get flour and food for the starving colony. At the head of Bear Valley they had to abandon their two yoke of oxen and a light wagon because of the deep snow. They proceeded on foot. The only progress that could be made over this frozen, crusted snow, was to lay a guilt down, walk to the end of it, relay it and walk again. In this way they reached Parowan.
      The following information was recorded by Alexander Matheson: "We decided that if we had faith as big as a mustard seed, we could make it and bring flour to our starving families. So we began the quilt-laying in prayerful earnestness. The return trip was harder with the weight of the flour, but we finally made it to our wagon and oxen and on home with thankfulness to the Lord for his goodness. The whole settlement welcomed us, because we had been gone longer than expected. There had been prayers, tears, and fears which turned to rejoicing and cheers."

      12. The 1870 US census shows the family in Harrisburg in July 1870. According to the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: "The monument in Harrisburg, Utah, has Thomas Jefferson Adair's name on it as one of the first settlers to that area."

      13. Various historical descriptions of places in which Thomas Adair lived:
      A. Bellevue, Utah:
      a. "Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Andrew Jenson, 1941, BYU BX8605.5.J35-1941: p. 56: "Bellevue Branch, St. George Stake, Washington Co., Utah, consisted of a few families of Latter-day Saints living in a scattered condition on Ash Creek, immediately north of Toquerville. The settlement dates back to 1863, when Thomas Adair and others located on Ash Creek, where a small village afterwards sprang up. This place is 28 miles northeast of St. George, or 7 miles north of Toquerville, in 15 miles south of Kannarra, Iron Co. These first families of latter-day Saints on Ash Creek belonged to Toquerville Ward. In 1867, the place, which was originally known as Ashton, was vacated because of the Indian troubles, but was re-settled in 1869, under the name of Bellevue, when James Sylvester was chosen as presiding elder... in 1930 there were no church organizations of any kind in that part of Utah's Dixie once called Bellevue."
      B. Panguitch: From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: "On March 16, 1864, a band of stalwart pioneers from Parowan and Beaver, led by Jens Neilson, reached the valley where Panguitch is now located... Although they proceeded to build homes and establish their community, the Indians became so hostile that the settlers had to construct a fort for their protection... During the summer of 1866, the Indians became extremely hostile. Since a number of settlers had been killed, weapons had to be carried at all times... Because of the Indian dilemma, Panguitch was abandoned in May of 1866, and virtually all settlements form Kanab on the south to Gunnison on the north were deserted by June of 1867. Few of the original settlers returned when Panguitch was resettled. Thomas Jefferson Adair's name is on a monument in Panguitch, Utah. He was one of the first settlers and was also on the Quilt Walk."
      C. Paria River settlements:
      a. The book "History of James Agee Smith," FHL 921.73 Sm61dg, p. 48: "It was December of 1869, when Jacob Hamblin was sent out by the Mormon Church to head a group of in organizing an Indian farm somewhere on the Paria River. These first settlers did well and they built a guardhouse and a small corral, where men could cook and have safe lodging. By March, 1870, they had 2 1/2 km of ditches and 800 meters of fence built, and had eight Indians there helping and learning about agriculture. They went to Rock House, eight or nine kilometers below the later town site of Pahreah, and settled there. Then three years later they were driven out by floods, and couldn't get water in their ditches or on their fields. At that time, about 1873 or 1874, they relocated; some went downstream as did Thomas Adair, to settle at what was to be known as Adairville, while others went north through The Box of the Paria River and founded the settlement of Pahreah."
      b. From the book "Utah Place Names," pg. 2: "Adairville (Kane) was located 45 miles east of Kanab, one-half mile north of US 89, near the Paria River. The area was settled in 1873 and named for the Thomas Adair family. After severe flooding in 1883 and 1884 most of the residents moved upstream to Paria (Pahrea[h]). The settlement was finally abandoned in 1885 because of flash floods and drought. The site is now a ghost town."
      c. From an uncited book, p. 627-628: "Pahreah Ward, Kanab Stake, Kane Co., Utah, consisted of the Latter-day Saints residing on Pahreah Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River. The little settlement, which changed locations several times on account of washouts in the creek, was situated 42 miles northeast of Kanab and 35 miles northwest of Lee's Ferry. The ward had a Sunday school, a Relief Society, and a Mutual Improvement Association for both sexes. The farming lands used for gardens and the raising of grain are narrow strips of land lying along the bed of the creek, but during the existence of the settlement the main occupation of the people was stock-raising. Peter Shirts was the first settler on Pahreah Creek; he located a claim at a point about four miles below the later village of Pahreah in 1865, and erected a substantial stone building and dug a trench from the house to the creek in order to secure safety for himself and family against the Indians. When authorities of the Church advised the settlers in the small villages to leave and seek safety elsewhere, Brother Shirts refused to vacate, considering himself able to defend himself and family from any attacks from the Indians. Subsequently, however, a posse was sent out to take him and family to safety. They almost had to take Bro Shirts away by force, although the Indians had stolen all of his stock. Pahreah was re-settled in 1870, under the presidency of William Meeks. Other settlers arrived, and for several years considerable progress was made in the little settlement. Brother Meeks was succeeded as presiding Elder by Allen F. Smithson, who was succeeded in 1877 by Thomas W. Smith, who presided until 1884, when the Pahreah Ward was disorganized and the saints made a branch of the Kanab Ward with Thomas W. Smith as presiding Elder. He acted until 1890 when he was succeeded by John W. Mangum. In 1892 there were only eight families of saints in the Pahreah village, and as floods continued to destroy the property, the families left one by one, and in 1929 only one unmarried man remained. The old building erected by the early settlers were mostly in ruins. In 1930 the Pahreah town site had been entirely vacated."
      d. Uncited book, pp. 126-127: "Adairville and Paria, Kane County. As part of territorial colonization in the back country of southern Utah, several settlements were made on the Pahreah River. The first of these was established by Peter Shirts and others in 1865. It was located in a wide spot in a canyon near a large sandstone ridge known as the Cockscomb, partly because of the good soil present and partly because Shirts was a prospector of some sort and he thought there might be some placer gold in the gravels. He built a rather sturdy sandstone house, the first in the village, and the town became known as Rockhouse. When the Blackhawk War ended in 1867 many more settlers arrived and the town became an outpost for the Indian Mission. Good crops were harvested for four or five years but it was all hard work. Spring run-off waters carved new channels in the valley, then in the summer the irrigation water was sucked down into the sandy soil before much of the land could be properly watered. In 1870 the townspeople decided to relocate. After some difference of opinion among the settlers half the group headed upstream five miles and established a new site called Pahreah, the other half went down stream under the leadership of Thomas Adair and by 1872 founded Adairville. New settlers arrived in both hamlets in 1872-73, farming and cattle raising prospered. A small store, post office and school-church buildings were erected among the settlers' homes. Orchards and shade trees watched over the gardens. By the 1880's the unpredictability of the river and prolonged summer droughts forced most of Adairville residents to leave; some families remained for a few more years. Sporadically, even up till the 1920's, an occasional family lived in town and tried to farm out the potentially good land. Paria, named for a Piute Indian word meaning 'muddy water,' was originally spelled Pahreah and pronouced Pah-ree'-ah or simply Pah-ree'. Over the years it has been corrupted to its present spelling. The town was located on the narrow benches above the river. Fruit and nut orchards, vineyards and vegetable farms all grew well in the area. Many of the settlers ran cattle in the side canyons. As the town was getting a good start, Maj. John Wesley Powell stopped for a day during his 1871 expedition. It was also a stopping place for Indians traveling down the old Indian Trail to the Ute ford across the Colorado River just above the Arizona line. Various other explorers and surveyors stopped to partake of the town's hospitality and to enjoy the brilliant scenery. Jacob Hamblin, the great peacemaker, came through in 1874 and took two residents with him to help quell a brewing Navajo uprising. With 47 families in town, quite a number of sandstone houses were built, along with many log ones, a church house and post office. From 1883-88, the river flooded and gouged out the sandy bench lands, washing away fields, corrals, barns and some homes. At some point, nothing was left but a worthless wash between the canyon walls. By 1892 only eight families were left... A tiny cemetery is found on the west side of the river a few hundred yards from town. Also nearby, about a mile west of town, is a rather photogenic but not historical Hollywood movie set. Do not confuse this with the real town... Adairville is largely washed away. An abandoned corral sits north of U.S. Highway 89 immediately west of the Paria River..."
      e. "Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Andrew Jenson, 1941, BYU BX8605.5.J35-1941: p. 4: "Adairville, Kanab Stake, Kane Co., Utah, is a defunct settlement situated in a snug little valley where the Paria Canyon opens out to the width of about half a mile, eight miles below the former settlement of Paria, 30 miles north of Lee's Ferry (in Arizona), and 49 miles east of Kanab, Utah. Both below and above the settlement the Paria Creek flows through box canyons. This creek is a tributary of the Colorado River and rises immediately south of the Rim of the Basin in Garfield County, Utah, near Bryce Canyon. It flows in a southerly direction until it enters the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry, or about five miles east of the new bridge which now (1930) spans said river. Adairville was first settled in the spring of 1873 by Thomas Adair and family and others, but the settlement was broken up in 1878 owing to the scarcity of water. Nothing whatsoever remained of Adairville in 1930."
      D. Showlow, Arizona:
      a. No source but a copy of book page 168 in my possession: "Showlow, one of the freak Arizona place names, applied to a creek and district, as well as to a thrifty little settlement, lies about south of Snowflake, twenty miles or more. The name antedates the Mormon settlement. The valley jointly was held by C.E. Cooley and Marion Clark, both devoted to the card game of 'seven-up.' At a critical period of one of their games, when about all possible property had been wagered, Clark exclaimed, 'Show low and you take the ranch!' Cooley 'showed low'... The Showlow section embraces the mountain communities of Showlow, Reidhead (lone Pine), Pinedale, Linden, Juniper, Adair (which once had unhappy designation as 'Fools' Hollow')..."
      b. Per "http://home.att.net/~edwardholliday/foolshollow.html": Adair, or Adairville, was a Mormon settlement established in 1878 in what was then Apache County of Arizona Territory. It was located about 3 miles NW of Show Low. This area became Navajo County on Mar. 21, 1895. Adair was founded by Wesley Adair and his brother Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr., and Thomas's wife Mary Vance. The Adair family built a home about one-fourth of a mile from Show Low Creek. Soon, other families came and settled in the valley. It was beautiful country but had a limited water supply. Many of the Adairs and other families left the area to move to Show Low and surrounding regions. All traces of Adair are gone except for Adair Cemetery which ironically has no one with surname of Adair buried there. Contact: Delbert Adair, Jr. at dtadair@att.net.
      c. "Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Andrew Jenson, 1941, BYU BX8605.5.J35-1941:
      P. 4: "Adair Branch (Showlow Ward), Snowflake Stake, Navajo Co., Arizona consisted (in 1894) of a little village situated about half a mile up the so-called Fool's Hollow, which opens into the Showlow Creek below. There were only a dozen families living there (all Latter-day Saints) in 1894. All the farming was done without irrigation, and corn, sugar cane and vegetables were the principal products raised. The settlement dates back to 1879, when Thomas Adair and family located there. A school house was built; a Sunday school, and, later, a Relief Society were organized. For several years there was a mail station at Adair, 18 miles south of Snowflake, the stake headquarters."
      P. 385: "Juniper Branch (Showlow Ward), Snowflake Stake, Arizona, consisted of a few saints who had settled near Showlow Creek in 1879. It was originally known as the Reidhead settlement and was situated about seven miles below Cooley's Ranch and two miles west of Showlow Creek. Thomas Adair was appointed to preside. After some Indian difficulties, the place was permanently settled in 1882; it first belonged to the Snowflake Ward; later to Taylor, and still later (1884) to Showlow Ward.
      d. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie quoting Ann A. Watts. Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area has been created over the remnants of Thomas Adair's homestead. "The tiny town of Adair has long since been covered over by the lake, but it was Thomas... Adair who was responsible for the name Fool Hollow. In 1885, Adair moved into the area with the intention of farming. the locals joked that only a fool would try and farm the place. The name stuck."

      14. A son's death reported in the Deseret News 1 Feb 1871 notes that Jacob Franklin, son of Thomas and Mary Adair, age 9y 9 m 10 d, died 10 Jan 1871 in Harrisburg, Utah.

      15. From the book "John Doyle Lee, Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat," by Juanita Brooks, pages 304 and 305, in speaking of John Doyle Lee's move to the Lonely Dell on the Colorado River, November, 1871: "The first contingent to pull out of Skutumpah in November, 1871, consisted of three wagons, one of which carried Caroline and her family, and 57 head of loose stock. Some of the older boys were driving the cattle, others in charge of the wagons. At their first camp out, just above Johnson's, Jacob Hamblin joined them and held a long consultation with Lee, for he had been over this trail and on across the river at least a half a dozen times. He told Lee that the cattle would do better if they traveled down the Paria Creek then they would over the long, barren road which the wagons must take, where they would be needed feed nor water. The reasoning choose one logical so Lee went, taking with him only the 14 year old Ralph, leaving the teamsters to find their way past the junction to the Hogan Wells. There, some of the brethren sent to work on the road would act as guides. At Paria village, Lee found the problem of driving cattle down the stream was much greater than he had anticipated. If John Mangum and Tom Adair had not volunteered their help, he could not have managed. To follow the stream was so great that it had cut it chasm where for miles the water was bank to bank. Though it was now low water and the skies were clear, a storm above would bring a flood that would sweep them all literally to the Gulf of California. There would be no escape for man nor beast. They spent eight days on the trail, much of the time in water. Two days and one night they traveled without stopping because there was no place to camp. When the provisions were gone, they shot a cow that had become hopelessly mired in quicksand and cut steaks from her, living for the next few days on the meat diet. Lee had started with a half a bushel of corn in a sack behind his saddle, intending to grind some for mush as they might need it, but hoping to save most of it for early planting. This onerous burden was the straw that broke the camel's back, not so much in itself but it was simply more than he could manage. "It was baptized as often as I was and one place it was underwater 24 hours before I could find it, and had passed the place some 10 miles," he wrote. Along the lower reaches of the stream with the valley widened to grassy coves and choose one, he left a part of the cattle, and bringing only 12 head through to his destination. He was disappointed on arriving at Lonely Dell, not to find his wagons there."

      16. Book "Jacob Hamblin, the Peacemaker" by Pearson Corbett, pp. 360, 361, during a difficult time in Feb. 1874 when the Navajos were in hostilities and demanding payment of 350 head of livestock as the price of peace for incidents of their own making, Jacob Hamblin was sent as the peace negotiator and was quite sick by traveling through a severe storm that when he reached a vacant house by Navajo Wells, ten miles from Johnson, he prayed that the Lord would protect him and preserve his life which he thought would not last past the morning. He says: "When I awoke I felt well, and quite able to pursue my journey. I went by the Pahreah settlement, and from there Brothers Thomas Adair and Lehi Smithson accompanied me to Mowabby. There I found Ketch-e-ne and a deputation from the Moquis towns... I went on and visited all the Moquis towns, and told the people the object of my visit... Feeling satisfied that thing would work out all right, I returned home."

      17. Obituary, Deseret News, Vol. 25, No. 14, 3 May 1876: "Died. March 24th, 1876, Emma Adair, wife of J.H. Goodrich, aged 31 years, 2 months and 14 days. Deceased was born in Chickasaw county, Miss., January 11th, 1845; was a devoted wife, a fond mother and a true Christian; died in full faith of the Gospel of Christ, and in hopes of a glorious resurrection. Her body was laid away near the home of her father, Thomas Adair, on the Pahrea, Kane County, Utah. - [Com."
      Email from Richard Adair dated 22 Apr 2010 concerning the gravesite of Emma:
      "In June 1992 my father, Bert Junior Adair and I traveled through southern Utah and northern Arizona to see family history sites. We looked for and found the site of Adairville just west of milepost 22 on Highway 89, east of Kanab. While walking around the area we met a man who leases the land, Charlie Hepworth. He showed us some stones he says were foundations of homes in Adairville. Then he pointed us toward a grave just west of where we had parked. He said there had been two graves once, but one had been covered over when they dug out the waterhole just west of the road on which we were parked. We walked just west, probably less than a hundred yards, toward a small reservoir (the water hole he spoke of). There, hidden from the road by a slight rise, was a single grave covered by very large, flat rocks piled higher than ground level in the shape of a grave. A tombstone was leaning against the rocks with the inscription: 'In Memory of Emma A. Wife of J.M. Goodrich, born Jan 11, 1845, died March 24, 1896.'
      Later in the same trip I saw in the County Recorder's Office in Holbrook a letter related to Thomas Jefferson Adair's will. The letter was from an heir, Samuel Valentine Carson, son of Mary Ann Adair Carson and grandson of Thomas Jefferson Adair. He wrote it from Kershaw, Lincoln Co., Nevada, dated Dec. 27, 1900. In it, besides mentioning his family and where he is living, he mentions the death of his father Valentine Carson, from "cansor" three years earlier. Then he asks Moroni Adair (the executor and my direct ancestor) to tell him "about Ant Emma Goodritch her Family and James Goodritch's children." That letter seemed to suggest that it was Emma Adair's grave that we found in old Adairville."

      18. Ann (Page) Adams Rose Watts was born on March 19, 1877 to John S. Page Adams and Mary E. Adair. Mary E Adair is the daughter of Samuel J. Adair's brother, Thomas. She wrote her history in 1937 at age 60 and it is titled "A Sketch of Thrilling Events in the life of Ann (Page) Rose Watts- Written in Aurora, Utah 1937 by herself: "The spring of 1883 our family was called to help settle Apache County, Arizona from Harrisburg, Washington County, Utah. We crossed Lee's ferry on the Colorado River on my sixth birthday 19 March, 1883. I well remember the sand and Navajo Indians and Ralph Keets getting his foot run over with the wagon. How he nearly died with blood poison. They put fat bacon on the foot to draw the swelling out of his body. His foot busted in the instep, but he got well. There were 10 families each had one or two wagons. At Holbrook I saw my first train and first drunk man. He came to our camp. We children thought he was crazy. After 25 days travel we got to Snowflake [the LDS stake headquarters]. There we found the Apache Indians were causing trouble 16 miles up the Show Low creek from there. At Shumway's ranch on the creek the Indians had killed and tortured a family and burned the house. The house was still smoking when we went by it three or four days later. When we got to Adairville where Grandpa Adair lived we found all the people around had gone to a fort on Edson Whipple's ranch for a few days. The fort was a large log hall. Large enough to dance eight sets, a quadrille, with a stage or part kept for to store wood in. And in one corner was a well with good water in. There were eight government stoves in it and when the beds were made down they almost touched each other. There were no windows, only in the roof, just holes in sides to see through. I danced in the fort after I was 16 years old. People stayed there a week. Then the ranchers stayed in town awhile for the Indians to quiet down. This was old chief Geronimo's days. (I remember him and his black horse.) ... Oh, how afraid we were of Indians and Negro soldiers. (We lived on the main road.) [Note: this is at Bognel Hollow.] One time the Negro soldiers were putting a telegraph line from Holbrook to Fort Apache, Arizona along the main highway. There was a public well outside our fence but the Negros that were camped there thought our well water was the best so would come night or day after water. Mother was so afraid of them that the third day she bandied them to shoot with her, and I. Mother hit the knot in a post three times straight. I hit the knot twice and the post the third time. After that the Negros didn't act so smart and bold when they came after water. We girls learned to shoot young... In the winter of 1890 father went to help drive from Arizona to Utah [cattle drive?]. The family was left on the ranch to do both man and woman's work. I sure learned to chop wood that winter. We got without flour so mother had us girls sack up wheat and corn. She harnessed up old Crook and bill, a white team, hitched the wagon, loaded the grain in, and started for the grist mill 16 miles away. They had to wait for the grain to be ground, so mother was gone over night. That afternoon we saw Indians had made a camp on the hill above our house. At night we could see by the fire light that they were drinking talepie, a drink they made out of corn. We girls did the chores as usual. But, after dark we oldest girls each took a quilt and went over the hill to grandma's at Adairville. We went down a big wash till we were out of sight of the Indians. We stayed there over night. Next morning an uncle went home with us. The Indians had come to the house and took the door off the hinges, went in, found the shot gun under the mattress on the bed, took every screw out of the gun, laid them on the table, took everything there was in the house to eat and left... Our family moved to Pinetop, the spring of 1891 where the happiest or most pleasurable two years of my life was spent. In 1892 Father took sick in the fall and winter with the rheumatics. The Dr. advised a warmer climate for him. So, the family moved to Utah in 1893, a hard 28 day trip. We stopped in Moenkopi to rest and wash. While there the Navajo Indians searched our wagons for a man that had whipped an Indian with a quirt. This was the Indian trouble where Lot Smith, a noted pioneer was killed at Tuba City, near Moenkopi, Arizona. After leaving Moenkopi we went over Lee's Backbone, a mountain. We had to go over to get to the upper crossing of Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River. The river was so high and so much timber and large trees coming down. We had to wait three days for the timber to stop coming down. So father took us to see the mouth of the Grand Canyon or the narrows as they were called them (sic) where the large trees were sucked under water out of sight. (It was a grand view.) We always found times for pleasures such as dancing, picnicing, sleigh riding, mixed with our buggerboo and nerve wracking times..." [Note: she tells of marrying her husband Hyrum Rose on Aug 20, 1896. In the story she always refers to him as 'Mr Rose'.] While at Chloride, Mohave County. Arizona, we bought lumber to build us a house. The lumber dealer warned us that there were lumber thieves around. So we moved our tent close to the lumber. Mr Rose was working nights. I had two little girls staying with me. [Note: She had lost her first 3 children to death.] I was reading to them. When we heard steps outside, I put out the light. One of the girls handed me a stick of wood. I looked out but couldn't see anyone but I could see what I thought was a seamless sack of clothes. I went to pick it up to take it to the tent. I stooped to pick it up by one end and Oh boy, I put my hand in an Indian's hair. He grunted, I hit him with the stick of wood, he ran, but never bothered us again. We next moved to Cottonwood, Arizona near the mining camp, Jerome. Here we rented a farm. Our corn had almost got as high as man's head. Mr. Rose was plowing the corn to water. I had a hen with little chicks. On the hill above our house about 30 Indians were camped. A chicken hawk tried to get a chick. I got the shotgun and shot the hawk from a tree between the house and the Indian camp. As the hawk fell the Indians screamed. I thought I had shot an Indian (my, I was scared.) I set the gun in the house and went to the field to Mr. Rose but I hadn't hardly got to him till here came a dozen or more Indians carrying the hawk. I was the first women they had seen shoot a gun. (What a relief.) This was in 1900? We went to Globe, Arizona for two winters. Next we started for my old home at Pinetop, Arizona. We left Globe and went to the San Carlos Reservation on the Gila River. Here the Indians directed us where we would find water. We left the river, (and) went over a hill that was very steep. We couldn't haul water up it. When we got to the top the spring was dried up. We had ten miles to go to the next water. The team was tired. The Indians said to follow the cattle trails, they would lead us to water. So, we unhooked and Mr. Rose took the horses and canteens and followed the cattle tracks. I was to build a fire to guide him back to the wagon. But there were too many wild cattle to get out of the wagon. But after he had been gone two hours, I got nervous, shot off the shotgun twice every half hour. I shot the gun ten times before he came to the wagon at eleven thirty. For once I thought I was going to choke to death. But, the next morning we found water in about a mile, by the side of the road. I sure had a sore shoulder from the gun kicks. We went on to Black River. We crossed it and camped to fish. While Mr. Rose was fishing, I made a fire preparing to cook fish. I wanted water. I took the bucket and tried to get where I could get a bucket full. I stepped on what I thought was a chunk of cottonwood in the shallow water. It was a sturgeon fish. It went and I went - down in five inches of shallow water. (Another thrill) I had to cook supper for them in wet clothes. I had no place to change. How the Indians did laugh. We went from Black River, crossed the White River, on to my old home, Pinetop, then Navajo, County Arizona to see my grandmother Mary V. Adair. I had a good visit with old friends. We went through the San Carlos Indian reservation and the Apache Indian Reservation on this trip... On Oct 7, 1902 our daughter Hilda Grace was born, my fourth Child, but my first to live. Up to this time in my travels I had crossed the Big Colorado River four times, the Little Colorado, the Verde, the Rio Virgin, the White and Black Rivers, and the Gila River all in Arizona. The Rio Grande, the Pecos, the Red, and the Cimmarron Rivers in New Mexico. These were all native rivers, crossed some in boats, some forded in wagons, some on bridges... Once my two year old baby, Hilda wandered off hunting flowers and was lost for two hours. I was some excited. When we found her, she had her dress full of flowers and was not afraid. (She) was still picking flowers one and half miles from the cabin. Not far from the mine where her father worke