Benton Co., AR - Biographies - David Adams

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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David Adams. Prominent among the progressive and successful farmers of Benton County, Ark., may
be mentioned Mr. Adams, who was born and reared in Coles County, Ill., and came to Arkansas in
1886, purchasing the farm of 550 acres on which he now lives. Three hundred acres of the land are
situated in the Osage Valley, and his residence is pleasantly situated on a high hill. He was
born June 26, 1849, and his first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Grant, who was then running
for his second term. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and May, 1873, was married to Miss Hannah
Harris, who was born and reared in Illinois. Their union has been blessed in the birth of three
children: Grace, Jefferson and Fannie. Mr. Adams is a son of John J. and Nancy C. (Dryden) Adams,
who were of English descent, and came from Tennessee to Illinois in 1830, assisting in the early
settlement of that State. The father was a soldier in the Black Hawk and Mexican wars and the
Civil War, and died in 1878. He was first married to Martha Gammil, by whom he had seven
children: William E. (deceased), Elizabeth, wife of Rufus Brown; Eliza, wife of Dr. Reel, of
Oakland, Ill.; Martha, wife of Thomas West; Margaret, wife of John Grimes, and John, who died
during the late war, at Pocahontas, Ark. After the mother's death the father married Nancy C.
Dryden, who became the mother of one child, David.