Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: 
Arranged by Mary A. Maverick and Her Son Geo. Madison Maverick
By Mrs Mary Ann Adams 
Edited by Rena Maverick Green

Alamo Printing Co. in San Antonio, Texas - 1921 

[the narrative is about William Adams, her brother, who was first a merchant in 
San Antonio, then later a merchant and resident of Troy.]

[page 91]

  March 18th [1846].  The "Petrel" wrecked with two hundred German immigrants
aboard. All lives saved by Captain Simptorn of the revenue cutter "Alert".  
Mrs. Neil, of San Antonio, was aboard. About this time, I learned of the 
marriage of my brother William to L. A. Goodman, in Freestone County at Troy on 
the Trinity River.  There he was established as a merchant.  My brother George 
M. Adams died April 26th, 1846, in Aberdeen, Mississippi, of congestive chills.  
He was twenty-eight years of age.  He was an affectionate, good brother and a 
courageous man.