May E. (Adams) Arbuckle
Published: 1956*
Total Pages: 65
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John Adams was born in York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania, in 1753, probably the son of John Adams, born in 1728 in Lancaster, Ireland. He was a Revolutionary soldier in the Pennsylvania regiment. He married Margaret McGuire in 1798 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He died in 1824 in Henry County, Kentucky. His grandson, William Clifford Adams (1811-1890) was born in Henry County, Kentucky, the son of John and Mary (Polly) Clifford Adams. He migrated to Barthomew County, Indiana, in 1820 with his parents. He married 1) Cinderella Bunnell (1814-1846) in 1831. They had six children. He married 2) Eliza Ann Masters (1825-1853) in 1846. They had three children. He married 3) Elizabeth Gale Cummings Adams (1827-1861), widow of his brother, John G., in 1853. They had four children. He married 4) Sarah Jane Phillips in 1862. They had six children. He died in 1890. Descendants lived in Indiana and elsewhere.