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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The inclusion of this individual and his siblings into this database is based on rather circuitous inference. On 27 Nov 1877, John Wesley Adair and Rebecca Frances Adair Stayner went to the St. George, Utah, LDS Temple to perform vicarious baptisms in behalf of the dead. John was the son of Thomas Adair and Rebecca was John's stepdaughter; Rebecca's birth father was Joseph Adair b. 11 Apr 1806, who is the subject of this note. Rebecca noted herself as a relative and was the proxy for Elizabeth Adair; John noted himself as second cousin and was the proxies for all of the boys. Both gave exact dates of birth but no birth location. To have this temple ordinances done, the individuals had to have been deceased. I looked at the microfilm of the actual temple record and found that the family members were in sequence that day at the temple except that there were several names between Elizabeth and the others for work done by Jeremiah Stayner who was Rebecca's husband. The following is the data found listed by individual, date of temple work, proxy, FHL film-page-ordinance number, birthdate, and relationship of proxy to individual.
Adair, Elizabeth; 11/27/1877; Stayner, Rebecca Frances Adair; 170845-18-285; b. 11 Apr 1806; Relative.
Adair, Joseph; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-296.
Adair, James; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-297; b. 4 Aug 1770; Gr. Nephew.
Robbins, Alexander; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-298; b. 2 Sep 1793; Second Cousin.
Adair, John; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-299; b. 13 Nov 1796; Second Cousin.
Adair, Allen; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-300; b. 17 Mar 1798; Second Cousin.
Adair, William; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-301; b. 15 Nov 1804; Second Cousin.
Adair, James Newton; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-302; b. 11 Nov 1812; Second Cousin.
We can assume that all of the individuals noted as second cousins to John Wesley Adair are most likely siblings of each other. We also assume Elizabeth was a sister in this group. Alexander Robbins is most likely a "second cousin-in-law" having probably married a sister within the group (unsure if the sister was Elizabeth Adair or some other unnamed person still living in 1877 but currently I assume another "Miss Adair" separate from Elizabeth as his wife). To be literal second cousins with the surname Adair, this family would have had to be grandchildren of Joseph and Sarah Adair who were parents of Thomas Adair who married Rebecca Brown who were in turn parents to John Wesley Adair.
James Adair who was born 4 Aug 1770 and is also listed above gives us a special problem since he would have to be two generations older than John Wesley Adair for John to be a "grand-nephew." This would make him a sibling to John's grandfather Joseph Adair, b. abt. 1745, who married Sarah and was the son of the original Laurens Co., SC James Adair (the cooper). This is a problem since we have already established a James, b. 1752, who married Hannah ___ with a large progeny of children, as a brother to Joseph. There is also the large discrepancy in birth dates of this new James (b. 4 Aug 1770) vs Joseph as a sibling (b. abt. 1745). It should be noted also that James is old enough to be the father of this new group, but that would make him the uncle of John Wesley Adair and not the grand-uncle; if this were the case he would be the brother of Thomas Adair (b. 1771/1774) who married Rebecca Brown.
There is also the problem in the above list of where to place Joseph Adair who is listed without any relationship nor birthdate. Could this be the father of this group of children? Most LDS genealogies include a Joseph Adair as a sibling to Thomas Adair who married Rebecca Brown. Thomas' brother Joseph and other siblings Sarah/Sally, Jenny, and Suffiah have always been undocumented and appear to be the result of LDS family genealogists Delta Hale's book on John Mangum and on Ellen Cherry records of the 1950's neither of whom have shown proof for these additional names. Early Laurens County Records as analyzed by the thorough researcher Mildred Brownlee has only established one documented son for Joseph and Sarah who is named their eldest in a land transaction in the late 1700's. Brownlee notes that the 1790 census for Joseph does establish a possibility of up to seven children for Joseph and Sarah which allows for the possibility of additional siblings of Thomas. Perhaps the Joseph and James noted above could be siblings of Thomas.
George Addison Mangum, the brother to Delta Hale, was also a researcher of this family and gave his research to the FHL library in Salt Lake City where it can be seen on film 2056025. One of the pages he includes and of which I have a copy is a family group sheet prepared by Miriam S. Adair Covington in the mid-1960s. She was apparently looking at the same St. George temple records as I am since she prepared the group sheet exactly the same as above. She lists a separate Miss Adair as the spouse of Alexander Robbins. She lists Joseph as the father of the group with his parents in turn as Joseph and Sarah. She assumes all of their births in Laurens Co., SC. She then completes their endowments and sealings to their parents in the London, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City temples from 1965 to 1967. She does make one change listing James Adair who I have born in 1770 as the oldest sibling of the group with a birth in 1790. Could it be that I transcribed the date wrong; however, Family Search's Ordinance Index also shows the date as I saw it as 4 Aug 1770 - it needs to be reviewed again. Perhaps Miriam assumed the date was entered wrong at the temple? She does list the 1790 date for the 1960s endowment and parent sealing.
So what is the possible solution? Subject to ongoing research, the simplest scenario would be that James Adair, b. 4 Aug 1770, and the undated Joseph Adair were brothers and sons of Joseph Adair who married Sarah ___ (this latter Joseph being the son of James Adair the Indian trader and author). This would also make James and Joseph brothers to Thomas Adair who married Rebecca Brown. Since we know that the above Elizabeth Adair, b. 11 Apr 1806, had to be the twin sister of Joseph Adair who married Rebecca Mangum (who married secondly John Wesley Adair) and was the Utah and Arizona Mormon pioneer (he reported his birth as the exact same day) and since we also have documentation that this twin Joseph had parents James and Rebecca Adair (as he self-reported in his LDS Patriarchal Blessing), then the family group of siblings would be children of the same James and Rebecca. This James would most likely be the one born 4 Aug 1770 -- this would mean the reported relationship of "grand-nephew" in the LDS temple record was probably erroneous, but since it immediately follows the entry for his proposed brother Joseph for whom no birth date or relationship was given, then this supposition of a bad reporting of relationship may not be such a stretch. This relationship is further corroborated by the following family information provided by Samuel Newton Adair, the son of Samuel Jefferson Adair (who was the son of Thomas Adair and grandson of Joseph Adair who married Sarah ___). He states: "Luna, New Mexico, October 7, 1919. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know about my mother's folks ... Rebecca Mangrum married Joseph Adair, my father's cousin." Samuel's testimony works perfectly in terms of my proposed scenario -- this Joseph Adair would in fact be the first cousin of Samuel Jefferson Adair since Joseph's father James would be Samuel's father Thomas' brother.
2. "The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 4, pp. 103-106, contains the 1829 Census of Laurens District. It notes: "This is one of three state census records extant before 1850, the other two being Fairfield (1829) and Kershaw (1839) Districts." It was a census of all the free white inhabitants. Included in the census are the following Adairs and Browns, most of which I am not familiar since the Adairs and Browns I follow in my database generally left the District in the first decade of the 1800s. The number stands for the number in the family.
Pg. 1:
Adair, Robert, 2
Adair, James, 9
Adair, Benjamin, 9
Adair, Robert, 9
Adair, John, 5
Adair, Thomas, 7
Pg 3:
Brown, Joseph, 11
Brown, Samuel Revd., 6
Brown, Anderson, 3
Brown, Harlin, 8
Brown, Omy, 2
Brown, Susan, 1
Pg. 4:
Brown, Bexy, 7
Brown, Samuel, 4
Brown, Benjamin, 7
Brown, James, 5
3. Http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.adair/1433.1.1/mb.ashx various quotes circa 2003-4:
A. "Ann McClure (who had the child by Alexander Adair), Elizabeth McClure (wife of Benjamin Wilson and mother of Margaret Wilson, who married John Adair, son of James Adair), and James McClure (father of Mary A. Bell, who married Stephen Braddock, son of Ann McClure and Alexander Adair) were siblings."
B. "The following web page on McClure, Braddock, Wilson, Adair mentions the above Alexander came directly from Ireland to Laurens Co. (1767)." [Kerry's note: I am aware of Alexander from other notes in Laurens Co., SC, but it is interesting to see him in a relationship with the same family as our John Adair.]
C. "Kentucky: A History of the State," Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885. Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY. [My note: The first part of this biography is confusing. The James Adair who was part of Marion's band was not of Laurens Co. nor was John's father James old enough to have served in the War of Independence, yet we are certain that this John is correctly placed due to the correlation of his birth date as compared with his tombstone and the LDS Temple records as reported by his cousins. John's father James may have had a previous wife before Rebecca if this account of John's mother's death is correct.]
"Graves Co.
"The Adair Family. The Adairs are among the oldest families of Graves County. They came originally from Ireland, and settled in one of the Atlantic States a number of years before the war of the Revolution. The family originally settled in South Carolina, where James Adair, grandfather of Turner Adair, distinguished himself in the war of Independence as a member of the celebrated Marion's band. Late in life he settled in Alabama, where he died about the year 1839 or 1840. His son, John Adair, was left an orphan, when but three weeks old, by the death of his mother. He made his home with the families of his aunt and grandfather, and at an early age was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, which he followed all his life. He was married in 1820 to Margaret Wilson, by whom he had thirteen children, whose names are as follows: James McConathy, Elizabeth, Jane, Turner, Martha C., Sarah A., James H., S.B., John P., Joseph B., Margaret P., Mary P. and Virginia P.
In the year 1830 Mr. Adair came to Graves County, Ky., and settled in Lynnville Precinct on the place where his widow now resides. He died June 4, 1878.
Turner Adair, third child of John Adair, and eldest member of the family now living, was born in 1825 in Lawrence [sic] District, S.C. He remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself, which occupation he continued until 1849, when he joined a company of young men as daring as himself, and made an overland trip to California for the purpose of engaging in mining. He participated in all the active scenes of that exciting period, and was fairly successful in his quest of fortune. He returned home in 1858, and at once resumed farming, which he still follows. Mr Adair has never married and at the present time lives with his mother on the old homestead."
D. "Elizabeth McClure Wilson [mother of Margaret (Wilson) Adair] is also buried in Graves Co, KY ... John and Margaret Adair are in Beech Grove Cemetery, perhaps Elizabeth is also..."
BIRTH:
1. On 27 Nov 1877, John Wesley Adair and Rebecca Frances Adair Stayner, son and daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown, went to the St. George, Utah, LDS Temple to perform vicarious baptisms in behalf of their dead relatives. An exact date of birth was given for John but no birth location. To have this temple ordinance done, the individuals had to have been deceased -- apparently John Wesley Adair was not aware that his second cousin, John Adair, was still alive and did not die until 4 Jun 1878. The following is the data found listed by individual, date of temple work, proxy, FHL film-page-ordinance number, birthdate, and relationship of proxy to individual:
"Adair, John; 11/27/1877; Adair, John Wesley; 170845-18-299; b. 13 Nov 1796; Second Cousin."
2. Find-a-grave Memorial# 26897617 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=adair&GSiman=1&GScid=1993974&GRid=26897617& accessed 19 Dec 2013. Memorial notes: "John Adair; b. Nov. 16, 1796, Laurens County, South Carolina; d. Jun. 4, 1878, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky. Actual tombstone reads: John Adair, John Adair, Died June 4, 1878 aged 81ys. 6ms. 22ds." [Note: the age at death calculates to 12 Nov 1796, which is within one day of the reported LDS Temple date per separate comment elsewhere in these notes.]
BURIAL:
1. Find-a-grave Memorial# 26897617 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=adair&GSiman=1&GScid=1993974&GRid=26897617& accessed 19 Dec 2013. Memorial notes: "John Adair; b. Nov. 16, 1796, Laurens County, South Carolina; d. Jun. 4, 1878, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky. Actual tombstone reads: John Adair, John Adair, Died June 4, 1878 aged 81ys. 6ms. 22ds." [Note: the age at death calculates to 12 Nov 1796, which is within one day of the reported LDS Temple date per separate comment elsewhere in these notes.]
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1796 - 1878 (81 years)