OBITUARY:  George H. Adams, 1921 - Coke County, TX

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Coke County

Feb. 1921 The Robert Lee Observer

George H. Adams

George H. Adams answered to the last role call on Christmas Day, 
1920 at the age of seventy-nine years. He was the son of Ichabod and 
Ann Hooper Adams, who moved from Humphrey’s County Tennessee, to Texas 
in 1850.  He was married to Miss Amanda V. Baugh, daughter of David 
Baugh, of Brown County Texas; in January 1862. Of their four children 
two sons, Sylvester and John Q. Adams, survive him.

Opportunity for acquiring an education was very meager, and the first 
work of George Adams was in herding cattle for his father. In 1858, when 
only about sixteen years of age, he joined Capt. John S. Ford’s company 
of rangers, the youngest ranger in a command of one hundred men.  In 
1859 he returned to the ranch and assumed the life of a cowboy.  Then 
in August 1862, he enlisted as a private in Capt. G. T. Riley’s Company, 
Cook’s Regiment of the Navy, Artillery, and served throughout the War.  
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