John Charles Adams Jr. came to Kentucky with his father (John Charles Adams Sr.) and two of his brothers, Thomas and Robert G. Adams. They eventually settled in Pendleton County Kentucky. Most of the family line stayed in Kentucky to this day.
Grant County, Kentucky, Court House records indicate the death of John Charles Adams Jr. no later than 1838:
James Walter Adams, who as a boy lived with his grandmother, Lucretia Creasy Adams, states Lucretia told him that her father , John Charles Adams Jr., made salt at Big Bone Lick, Boone County, a few miles from Burlington; cured pork by the salt method, and every fall took a raft of pork down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he sold the pork and raft, and made his way back as best he could; that on one trip he did not return and was never heard of again.
Lulu M. Adams, Covington, Kentucky, said her grandfather, John Augustus Considine Adams, told her that John Charles Adams Jr. died in New Orleans of yellow fever and is buried there.
This statement is positive in that it specifically mentioned the name of John Charles Adams Jr. and is further supported by the absence of a tombstone in Concord Cemetery, where his wife Elizabeth "Warnick" Adams is buried. Therefore, it is accepted that death and burial was in New Orleans. It is noted that John Charles Adams Jr. does appear in the 1840 U. S. Census. This raises the question as to whether in 1838 it was actually known that John Charles Adams Jr. "disappeared" or was "deceased". Allowing for slow communication, positive identification, and the usual legal requirements from three to five years of proof, it is possible, even probable, that in 1840 there still was doubt, and for this reason John Charles Adams Jr. is listed as the Head of the Household; also this may account for the ten-year delay in 1848 when the final settlement of the estate is settled.
Grant County, Kentucky, Court House records indicate the death of John Charles Adams Jr. no later than 1838:
James Walter Adams, who as a boy lived with his grandmother, Lucretia Creasy Adams, states Lucretia told him that her father , John Charles Adams Jr., made salt at Big Bone Lick, Boone County, a few miles from Burlington; cured pork by the salt method, and every fall took a raft of pork down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he sold the pork and raft, and made his way back as best he could; that on one trip he did not return and was never heard of again.
Lulu M. Adams, Covington, Kentucky, said her grandfather, John Augustus Considine Adams, told her that John Charles Adams Jr. died in New Orleans of yellow fever and is buried there.
This statement is positive in that it specifically mentioned the name of John Charles Adams Jr. and is further supported by the absence of a tombstone in Concord Cemetery, where his wife Elizabeth "Warnick" Adams is buried. Therefore, it is accepted that death and burial was in New Orleans. It is noted that John Charles Adams Jr. does appear in the 1840 U. S. Census. This raises the question as to whether in 1838 it was actually known that John Charles Adams Jr. "disappeared" or was "deceased". Allowing for slow communication, positive identification, and the usual legal requirements from three to five years of proof, it is possible, even probable, that in 1840 there still was doubt, and for this reason John Charles Adams Jr. is listed as the Head of the Household; also this may account for the ten-year delay in 1848 when the final settlement of the estate is settled.
John Charles Adams Jr. came to Kentucky with his father (John Charles Adams Sr.) and two of his brothers, Thomas and Robert G. Adams. They eventually settled in Pendleton County Kentucky. Most of the family line stayed in Kentucky to this day.
Grant County, Kentucky, Court House records indicate the death of John Charles Adams Jr. no later than 1838:
James Walter Adams, who as a boy lived with his grandmother, Lucretia Creasy Adams, states Lucretia told him that her father , John Charles Adams Jr., made salt at Big Bone Lick, Boone County, a few miles from Burlington; cured pork by the salt method, and every fall took a raft of pork down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he sold the pork and raft, and made his way back as best he could; that on one trip he did not return and was never heard of again.
Lulu M. Adams, Covington, Kentucky, said her grandfather, John Augustus Considine Adams, told her that John Charles Adams Jr. died in New Orleans of yellow fever and is buried there.
This statement is positive in that it specifically mentioned the name of John Charles Adams Jr. and is further supported by the absence of a tombstone in Concord Cemetery, where his wife Elizabeth "Warnick" Adams is buried. Therefore, it is accepted that death and burial was in New Orleans. It is noted that John Charles Adams Jr. does appear in the 1840 U. S. Census. This raises the question as to whether in 1838 it was actually known that John Charles Adams Jr. "disappeared" or was "deceased". Allowing for slow communication, positive identification, and the usual legal requirements from three to five years of proof, it is possible, even probable, that in 1840 there still was doubt, and for this reason John Charles Adams Jr. is listed as the Head of the Household; also this may account for the ten-year delay in 1848 when the final settlement of the estate is settled.
Grant County, Kentucky, Court House records indicate the death of John Charles Adams Jr. no later than 1838:
James Walter Adams, who as a boy lived with his grandmother, Lucretia Creasy Adams, states Lucretia told him that her father , John Charles Adams Jr., made salt at Big Bone Lick, Boone County, a few miles from Burlington; cured pork by the salt method, and every fall took a raft of pork down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he sold the pork and raft, and made his way back as best he could; that on one trip he did not return and was never heard of again.
Lulu M. Adams, Covington, Kentucky, said her grandfather, John Augustus Considine Adams, told her that John Charles Adams Jr. died in New Orleans of yellow fever and is buried there.
This statement is positive in that it specifically mentioned the name of John Charles Adams Jr. and is further supported by the absence of a tombstone in Concord Cemetery, where his wife Elizabeth "Warnick" Adams is buried. Therefore, it is accepted that death and burial was in New Orleans. It is noted that John Charles Adams Jr. does appear in the 1840 U. S. Census. This raises the question as to whether in 1838 it was actually known that John Charles Adams Jr. "disappeared" or was "deceased". Allowing for slow communication, positive identification, and the usual legal requirements from three to five years of proof, it is possible, even probable, that in 1840 there still was doubt, and for this reason John Charles Adams Jr. is listed as the Head of the Household; also this may account for the ten-year delay in 1848 when the final settlement of the estate is settled.
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