BIOGRAPHY of WILLIAM DICKSON ADAMS
William Dickson Adams, one of thirteen children born to David and Margaret Dickson Adams,was born April 19, 1818, in Mercer County, Kentucky. His father, David, was the seventh child of Samuel and Anne Adams, and served in both the War of 1812 and the so-called Tecumseh War in Kentucky. William and his parents came to Cooper County in 1819 and settled on a four hundred acre farm about three miles east of Boonville on the Missouri River.
Here, with the help of slaves, they brought with them from Kentucky, they built a two and a half story brick house not far from the back of the river and established an orchard. In the opening days of the Civil War in Missouri (June 1861) the Adams house was the center of action during the engagement known as the First Battle of Boonville. General Nathaniel Lyon and his Union troops, in hot pursuit of General Sterling Price, Governor Claiborne Jackson and the rebellious State Militia, landed just down river from the Adams farm and engaged the hastily organized and ill-equipped troops under Colonel Marmaduke in the vicinity of the Adams house.
For many years thereafter, the house bore scars from this battle, including a cannonball lodged high up on one of the end walls. This house, one of two built on the Adams farm, was torn down in the mid-1930s. William grew to manhood on the old Adams farm, and on November 17, 1863, at the age of 45, he married Mary Pendelton Tompkins, daughter of Dr. Hiram A. and Susan Estes Tompkins of Boonville. Their marriage was blessed with four children but their oldest daughter, Mary, died in infancy.
William Dickson Adams Sr. died August 3, 1903, less than a year after the death of his wife Mary on December 16, 1902. Shortly after his death the farm was sold. The Adams' remains, in the old family cemetery on the farm, were moved to the Adams burial plot in Walnut Grove cemetery, Boonville.
- information compiled by William Adams Harriman, grandson of William Dickson Adams.
Mary Pendleton Adams and William Dickson Adams, Sr, were married on November 17, 1863.
William Dickson Adams, one of thirteen children born to David and Margaret Dickson Adams,was born April 19, 1818, in Mercer County, Kentucky. His father, David, was the seventh child of Samuel and Anne Adams, and served in both the War of 1812 and the so-called Tecumseh War in Kentucky. William and his parents came to Cooper County in 1819 and settled on a four hundred acre farm about three miles east of Boonville on the Missouri River.
Here, with the help of slaves, they brought with them from Kentucky, they built a two and a half story brick house not far from the back of the river and established an orchard. In the opening days of the Civil War in Missouri (June 1861) the Adams house was the center of action during the engagement known as the First Battle of Boonville. General Nathaniel Lyon and his Union troops, in hot pursuit of General Sterling Price, Governor Claiborne Jackson and the rebellious State Militia, landed just down river from the Adams farm and engaged the hastily organized and ill-equipped troops under Colonel Marmaduke in the vicinity of the Adams house.
For many years thereafter, the house bore scars from this battle, including a cannonball lodged high up on one of the end walls. This house, one of two built on the Adams farm, was torn down in the mid-1930s. William grew to manhood on the old Adams farm, and on November 17, 1863, at the age of 45, he married Mary Pendelton Tompkins, daughter of Dr. Hiram A. and Susan Estes Tompkins of Boonville. Their marriage was blessed with four children but their oldest daughter, Mary, died in infancy.
William Dickson Adams Sr. died August 3, 1903, less than a year after the death of his wife Mary on December 16, 1902. Shortly after his death the farm was sold. The Adams' remains, in the old family cemetery on the farm, were moved to the Adams burial plot in Walnut Grove cemetery, Boonville.
- information compiled by William Adams Harriman, grandson of William Dickson Adams.
Mary Pendleton Adams and William Dickson Adams, Sr, were married on November 17, 1863.
BIOGRAPHY of WILLIAM DICKSON ADAMS
William Dickson Adams, one of thirteen children born to David and Margaret Dickson Adams,was born April 19, 1818, in Mercer County, Kentucky. His father, David, was the seventh child of Samuel and Anne Adams, and served in both the War of 1812 and the so-called Tecumseh War in Kentucky. William and his parents came to Cooper County in 1819 and settled on a four hundred acre farm about three miles east of Boonville on the Missouri River.
Here, with the help of slaves, they brought with them from Kentucky, they built a two and a half story brick house not far from the back of the river and established an orchard. In the opening days of the Civil War in Missouri (June 1861) the Adams house was the center of action during the engagement known as the First Battle of Boonville. General Nathaniel Lyon and his Union troops, in hot pursuit of General Sterling Price, Governor Claiborne Jackson and the rebellious State Militia, landed just down river from the Adams farm and engaged the hastily organized and ill-equipped troops under Colonel Marmaduke in the vicinity of the Adams house.
For many years thereafter, the house bore scars from this battle, including a cannonball lodged high up on one of the end walls. This house, one of two built on the Adams farm, was torn down in the mid-1930s. William grew to manhood on the old Adams farm, and on November 17, 1863, at the age of 45, he married Mary Pendelton Tompkins, daughter of Dr. Hiram A. and Susan Estes Tompkins of Boonville. Their marriage was blessed with four children but their oldest daughter, Mary, died in infancy.
William Dickson Adams Sr. died August 3, 1903, less than a year after the death of his wife Mary on December 16, 1902. Shortly after his death the farm was sold. The Adams' remains, in the old family cemetery on the farm, were moved to the Adams burial plot in Walnut Grove cemetery, Boonville.
- information compiled by William Adams Harriman, grandson of William Dickson Adams.
Mary Pendleton Adams and William Dickson Adams, Sr, were married on November 17, 1863.
William Dickson Adams, one of thirteen children born to David and Margaret Dickson Adams,was born April 19, 1818, in Mercer County, Kentucky. His father, David, was the seventh child of Samuel and Anne Adams, and served in both the War of 1812 and the so-called Tecumseh War in Kentucky. William and his parents came to Cooper County in 1819 and settled on a four hundred acre farm about three miles east of Boonville on the Missouri River.
Here, with the help of slaves, they brought with them from Kentucky, they built a two and a half story brick house not far from the back of the river and established an orchard. In the opening days of the Civil War in Missouri (June 1861) the Adams house was the center of action during the engagement known as the First Battle of Boonville. General Nathaniel Lyon and his Union troops, in hot pursuit of General Sterling Price, Governor Claiborne Jackson and the rebellious State Militia, landed just down river from the Adams farm and engaged the hastily organized and ill-equipped troops under Colonel Marmaduke in the vicinity of the Adams house.
For many years thereafter, the house bore scars from this battle, including a cannonball lodged high up on one of the end walls. This house, one of two built on the Adams farm, was torn down in the mid-1930s. William grew to manhood on the old Adams farm, and on November 17, 1863, at the age of 45, he married Mary Pendelton Tompkins, daughter of Dr. Hiram A. and Susan Estes Tompkins of Boonville. Their marriage was blessed with four children but their oldest daughter, Mary, died in infancy.
William Dickson Adams Sr. died August 3, 1903, less than a year after the death of his wife Mary on December 16, 1902. Shortly after his death the farm was sold. The Adams' remains, in the old family cemetery on the farm, were moved to the Adams burial plot in Walnut Grove cemetery, Boonville.
- information compiled by William Adams Harriman, grandson of William Dickson Adams.
Mary Pendleton Adams and William Dickson Adams, Sr, were married on November 17, 1863.
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