LEE CO, AR - P. H. ADAMS  - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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P. H. Adams, a farmer and stock-dealer, was born in Lee County, Ark., 
in 1844, being the son of Henry and Nancy (Rolledge) Adams. Henry 
Adams was a native of Kentucky, but of English descent, and to his 
marriage fifteen children were born, only three of them now living: 
P. H., Thomas J. and Nancy (the wife of Thomas Kemp, a prosperous 
farmer of this county). Mr. Adams died in St. Francis County, in 1862, 
where he had resided for many years. His wife received her final 
summons some years previous. 

P. H. Adams was married to Miss Mary Upton, of Lee County, in 1866, 
and by her became the father of two children (both deceased). 
Mrs. Adams having died, for his second and present wife Mr. Adams 
chose Mrs. Mary J. Glidley, who bore him five children: Martha C. 
(the wife of J. Bowman of this county), Allie S., Mary C., Belle E. 
and Francis R. Mr. Adams owns 240 acres of land, with 100 improved, 
giving evidence of a careful and thorough cultivation. 

He is a Mason, and belongs to Baxton Lodge, No. 242. In his religious 
faith he clings to the Baptist doctrine, being a member of that 
denomination. Mrs. Adams is a member of the Methodist Church, South. 
She is a native of Illinois, and was born in 1844, the daughter of 
Ames and Martha A. Smith. Her parents died in 1886 and 1887, 
respectively.