Samuel
Adams
Born in Halifax, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Sylvester W. Adams
and Rebecca (Boyd) Adams
Brother of
Susan (Adams) Humphreys, John Adams, Rebecca (Adams) May, Sylvester Adams, Thomas Adams, Boyd Adams, William Adams, Ichabod Adams, Sarah (Adams) Winstead, Martha Boyd (Adams) Traylor, Isabella (Adams) Norseworthy and Ann Adams
Husband of
Rebecca May
— married
16 Dec 1824 [location unknown]
Husband of
Catherine A (Stevens) Adams
— married
1842 (to 1850) [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
John Dunning Adams, Jesse May Adams, Martha Isabel Adams, Joyx Collins Adams, David Walker Adams and Jackson B. Adams
Died
at age 44
in Saline, Arkansas, United States
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Biography
Samuel Adams is Notable.
This biography is taken mainly from "A Genealogical History of the Chappell, Dickie, and other Kindred Families of Virginia."[1]. The interested reader is also referred to Wikipedia[2] for other information, and Samuel Adams in Encyclopedia of Arkansas][3]
Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia, on 5 June 1805, the son of Sylvester and Rebecca (Boyd) Adams.
Samuel married Rebecca May, a daughter of Capt. John May on 16 December 1824. Samuel and Rebecca had four children that lived to maturity, John D., Jesse M., Martha Isabella, and Collin.
In 1830 Samuel Adams and a number of relatives moved to Johnson County in the Territory of Arkansas where he soon became a prominent politician. He represented his county and district in each branch of the legislature several times. He was president of the Senate several times. He was elected State treasurer and became the state’s governor in 1844. He moved to Little Rock which became his home.
His wife Rebecca died in 1840, and in 1842 he married Mrs. Catherine A. Fagan, a widow. There were no children born to them, however.
Gov. Samuel Adams died 27 February 1850 while on a visit to a plantation he owned in Saline County, Arkansas. He is buried in Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas.[4][5]
Sources
- ↑ Chappell, Phil E., A Genealogical History of the Chappell, Dickie, and other Kindred Families of Virginia, Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, Kansas City, Mo., 1900, pp. 348-50. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE993757, accessed October 2016
- ↑ Samuel Adams on Wikipedia
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Samuel Adams (1805–1850) https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/. Accessed 27 Feb 2021.
- ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 7421625
- ↑ "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJC-7KW : 6 November 2014), Samuel Adams, Saline county, Saline, Arkansas, United States; citing line 2, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,549,731.
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