The Adam Family Reunions
The Adams Family first seetled in Dallas County in the early
part of the county's history. Singleton
Adams, appears in the
1850 US Census for Dallas County, he later married Cornelia
Dunn, and had several children. The couple remained
in Dallas County the rest of their lives farming
and raised their ten children on the family homestead.
In the early years they lived in the Manning
area. Eight of the ten children remained in Arkansas.
Only the oldest, Albert Sidney Adams and youngest
daughter, Girtha Bell Adams (who married George
Weaver), moved to Texas as adults. The eight
who lived in Arkansas were James Franklin "Jim" Adams, Minnie
Elizabeth Adams (married James Porterfield),
Mary Lucinda Adams (married Walter A. Pennington),
Walter Ernest Adams, Fannie Irma Adams (married
Charles T. Bettis), Cornelia Catherine Adams
(died young), Jesse Tompkins Adams, and John Quincy
Adams.
The attached are two group pictures from an Adams Family Reunion
in 1938. I can only identify a handful of people myself
since the majority resided in Arkansas, most likely around
Arkadelphia.


This
one is of an Adams family gathering when my aunt, Mildred Warhol
took her father and mother, Albert & Emma (Phillips) Adams,
back to visit his brothers and sisters there. I don't
know whose home this is but the people on the porch are:
Jim Adams, Jack Pennington, Charlie Bettis, Albert Adams,
Kay Warhol, Mary Pennington, Winnie Dale, Irma Bettis, Maude
Adams, Mildred Warhol. Taken at Manning, AR in 1952.
All photos and information, submitted by Loudene
Kirk Tollar,
an Adams family descendant.
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