Muhlenberg County Kentucky
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R.W. Adams
R.W. Adams, Muhlenberg County, was born in Daviess County, Ky., September 2, 1847, and is the eldest of two boys and three girls born to Elisha and Artemisia E. (West) Adams, natives respectively of Kentucky and Connecticut. Elisha was the son of Eli Adams, who married a Miss Geyable, of Virginia, of English and Irish origin, respectively.
They first moved to upper Kentucky and about 1825, moved to southern Illinois, where they remained about three years; thence to Daviess County, where a farm was purchased and improved. Eli Adams made several trips to New Orleans on flatboats. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Romanta West, who was born and reared in Connecticut, and came to Daviess County about 1840, and settled near Owensboro, where he was engaged in grist and saw-milling during his life.
R.W. Adams received a fair common school education, and lived with his parents until the age of twenty-two, when he engaged in farming until 1878, when he sold his farm, and has since engaged in the tobacco business in the Green River country. He located in South Carrollton in the fall of 1882; was married in January, 1871, to Nannie E. Williams of Daviess County, daughter of George S. and Lucy L. (Swope) Williams, who were born and reared in Nelson County, Ky., and whose people were among the very first settlers. Her grandmother Swope was born in camp where Louisville now stands; there was only a fort at that time in Louisville.
Mr. Adams is the father of three children, Aurora Bell, Elisha G. and Bertha E. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is a member of the F.&A.M.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, & G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885, p. 894.
Updated April 23, 2024.