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Cecil Adams, Sheridan, Illinois, descended of Thomas Jefferson Adams (1787), state; remember hearing my father (Charles Ditchen Adams) say John Charles Adams, FATHER of Thomas Jefferson Adams (1787), came to Boone County, Kentucky with an ox cart from Pennsylvania;. And James Walter Adams, Richmond, Indiana, grandson of Thomas Davis Adams (1824), 7th child of Thomas Jefferson Adams (1787), as a boy lived with his grandmother, Lucretia Creacy (Adams) Adams, wife of Thomas Davis Dee Adams (1824). Creacy told him that The father of Thomas Jefferson Adams (1787) came down the Allegheny River (Pennsylvania), thence to Kentucky by ox cart between 1800 and 1810; that he settled at the present site of Covington, Kentucky, and that he was killed at a barn raising on the site of present Cincinnati by having a log roll over him.

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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.

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In 1806 John Adams met with an untimely death. A granddaughter, Lucretia "Creacy" Adams, stated "that he was killed at a barn raising on the site of present Cincinnati by having a log roll over him"

(Dr. Henry DeCousey Adams. 1972. "Notes on the Thomas Adams Family." n.p.)

Children of John Charles Adams and Elizabeth "Letta" (Peek-Peake) Adams:

1.) Letty Lily Adams B: 17 Feb 1786 Somerset, Pennsylvania D: 17 Nov 1845 Shelby, Indiana. M: William Steers on 23 Aug 1806 Boone, Kentucky:

2.)Thomas Jefferson Adams B: 15 Feb 1787 Washington, Pennsylvania D: 12 Sep 1869 Grant, Kentucky. M: Aletta "Letta" Peek on 24 Jun 1806 Boone, Kentucky:
Note: Thomas & Letta are 1st cousins:

3.)Matthew Adams Sr. B: 01 Nov 1788 Pennsylvania D: 01 Feb 1855 Selma, McLean, Illinois. M: 1st - Mary "Jane" Black on 29 Aug 1810 Boone, Kentucky 2nd- Ann Batey on 01 Dec 1852 Danville, Vermilion, Illinois:

4.)Robert Gillespie Adams B: 1792 Somerset, Pennsylvania D: 23 Dec 1853 Boone, Kentucky. M: 1st - Elizabeth "Betsey" Connley on 06 Dec 1812 Boone, Kentucky, 2nd - Sarah Unknown, 3th - Sarah Snydor on 01 Sep 1850 Boone, Kentucky:

5.)Alanson Adams B: 1793 Pennsylvania D: Unknown M: 1st - Cornelia H. Bush on 01 Apr 1824 Boone, Kentucky 2nd - Mildren Aylor on 16 Nov 1826 Boone, Kentucky:

6.)John Charles Adams Jr. B: 1795 Somerset, Pennsylvania D: 1838 New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, ("Died in New Orleans and was buried there of yellow fever.") M: Elizabeth Warnick on 02 Sep 1819 Boone, Kentucky:

7.)Benjamin Adams B: 1800 Pennsylvania D: 1800 Pennsylvania

8.)Isaac Adams B: 1802 Hamilton, Butler, Ohio M: Catherine Steers M: 31 Oct 1822