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AUis (speaker) and D. C. Hardeman in 1864 and the breaking out of the war entered the army in

1865; W. f illiamsand W.H. Connelly intheCon- 1861, nuder Col. Anderson. in Company K,

federate legislature; Reed Fletoher and Witt Will Eleventh Georgia Regiment. He part,icipated in

iamson, Jr., in 1857; P. Mosely, H. St. John, J. the battles of Second Manamas, Thoroughfare

M. Gray, J. J. Williams, Q. W. Davis, and Will Gap, Rirhmond, Yorkbwn, and several others,

iam T. Momow, for Jefferson, and Brdlee~i,n 1869; being finally bor~orablydischarged, and he haa

William Young, G. W. Prigmore, J. M. Clayton, now in his possession his discharge and furIough

It. S. Parker, E. G. Hale and Carl Pope, for Jeffer- papers and numerous others, mementoes of an

son, Bradley and Grant, in 1871; A. E. Beardsley, experience severe but booorable. I n 1875 he

A. J. Wheat, W. hInrphy, Ferd Havis, V. M. came to Little Rock, where he became engaged an

Gehee and J . M. Merrett, for Jefferson and three a planter. His possessions have increased most

other counties, in 1873; B. McQuire, C. C. John- perceptibly, until, besides owning valuable prop-

son, W. W. Hughey, and A. J. Wheat, for Jeffer- erty in Hutchinson, Kas., he has about 700 acres

son and three other counties, in 1874; L.B. Boston, in Jefferson Cou~nty,Ark., in cotton and corn. He

L. J. Maxwell and Ned Hill in 1874-78; 0.H. is a Mason in good standing, and also belongs to

Rice, Anderson Ebberson and f illiam Murphy in the American Legion of Honor andRoya1Arcanum.

1877; J. A. Hudson, R. A. Dawson and W. C. He is a Democrat, and a man of great public

Payne in 1879; Carl Polk, W. C. Payne and A. enterprise. keeping thoroughly apace with the

Ebberson in 1881; B: Waterhouse, W. H: Young progress of the day. Since 1879 he has kept a

and H.Sherrill in 1883; W. B. Jacko, Ed. Glover diary of passing events, in which he takes great

and S. H.Scott in 1885; Ed. Jefferson, H. B. pride. Ootober 8, 1863, Mr. Adams married Miss

Burton and W. B. Jacko in 1887; S. S. Wool- Rabecca Perry, of Haynesville, Houston County,

fork, Ed. Jefferson, 8. W. Dawson in 1880. Ga. They have two children, Virginia E. (born

Constitutional Delegates: Samuel C. Roane in Ootober 1, 1804) and Mattie JOP(born April 5,

1836; J . Yell and W. P. Grace in 1861; H.B. 1866).

Allis, Peter Finnerty and Thomas W . Clegg, Jr., Rev. 1. 0. Adams, rector of the Episcopal

in 1864; S. W. Mallory, 0. P. Snyder, James M. Church a t Pine Bluff, and a man whose character

Gray and William Murphy in 1808; and J. A. and influence are above miticism, is a native of

Williams, W. Murphy and Oyrun Berry in 1874. ' Alabama, having been born in Mobile in 1852.

-. Jamefi I. Adamn, his father. was of Richmond,
Va., nativity, and a merchant in Mobila who died

Robert R. Adams has been intimately and prom- at the age of thirty-five in 1855. The latter's

inently identified with the interests of Jeffer- wife was Henrietta C. Bickley, of Mobile, Ala.,

son County for a period of time sufficiently long to daughter of Dr. Walter 0. Bickley, s man of

have acquired extensive acquaintance. He is n some prominence in that State. Samuel J. Adams,

native of Twiggs County, Qa., being a son of grandfather of the subject of this sketch, of Eng.

Donald Adams, who was born in South Carolina, land, married a daughter of Judge Innes. of

November 25, 1801, but who removed to Georgia Frankfort, Ky., whose family were widely known

in 1824, where he married Miss Elizabeth Ellis. and inflnential in Scotland; they were early settlera

The latter first saw the light of day in Georgia in in this country, and served in the Revoluutionary

1807, and there Robert was born February 28, War. Jam88 I. Adams was the youngest of a

1842. Mrs. Adams died in her native State in family of seven children, and was reared in Vir-

1883, her husband having preceded her about ginia till the age of seventeen, when he wentto

three years. I n this family were nine ahildren, Alabama. His son, I. O., grew to manhood in

four of whom are now living. Young Robert that State, and there attended school. He took a

1received his education in private schools, and on literary course at the University of the Youth, in

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