Clayton-Carroll-Heard County GaArchives News.....GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF, ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED AT RANDOM FROM ALL OVER THE STATE October 6, 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise October 6, 1892
A Remarkable Family Gathering
     A noted reunion of a noted family was held at “The Rock,” a Church seven 
miles north of Jonesboro a few days ago. It was the first reunion of the 
ADAMSON family, which is one of the oldest and best families of Clayton County. 
Greenberry ADAMSON and his six sons, viz.: John Coats, William Coats, A. Y. 
George, James and Nathaniel Coats ADAMSON settled in Clayton County in 1823, 
and their descendants today number a little over eight hundred. The father and 
five of the sons have passed into another land; only one uncle, Nat ADAMSON 
remaining. The meeting was not a family reunion, but was the celebration of the 
golden wedding of Uncle Nat and his faithful wife, and also it was the one 
hundredth anniversary of Greenberry ADAMSON’S marriage. Of the 800 descendants 
of this noted family, 115 bearing the name of ADAMSON live in Clayton County, 
and many live in Carroll, Heard, Fulton and Bibb Counties and many have cast 
their fortunes in the far away west. In the proceedings of the day the 
genealogy of the family was traced back for 200 years, and for the  first time 
many of the young ones of the family learned from what it came. Speeches were 
made by Judge W. C. ADAMSON, of Carrolton; Colonel G. R. ADAMSON, of Bowden, 
and many other members of the family. At noon a bounteous dinner was spread, 
and in the afternoon other speeches were made by the little folks and essays 
were read by young ladies, and when 3 o’clock came the choir sang “ God Be with 
You Till We Meet Again,” and the great crowd present gave the parting hand to 
Mr. Nat ADAMSON, his good wife and other aged members of the ADAMSON family.


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