BIOGRAPHY: Thomas J. Adams - Smith County, TX Submitted by Bobby Williams 14 February 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families Chicago: F. A. Battey & Company, 1889, Vol I, p 22. THOMAS J. ADAMS was born in Harris county, Georgia, July 24, 1836, a son of Edwin and Martha E.(Johnson) Adams, his father a native of North and his mother of South Carolina. In 1852 they moved to Smith county, Texas, where the father died in 1862 and the mother in 1867. They were members of the Missionary Baptist church, and were loved and esteemed by all who knew them. They had a family of twelve children--Aulsey F., Henry H., Jerry J., Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, William W., Thomas J., Martha, Josiah, John Q., and Andrew J. Thomas J. Adams has devoted his attention to agriculture and now has 485 acres of good land, 200 of which he has under cultivation. He has made a success of farming, and has also dealt successfully in stock. In 1862 Mr. Adams enlisted in the Confederate army in Company C, Clark's regiment, and participated in the engagements at Mansfield, LA., Milliken's Bend, Potato Hill, Saline and others of lesser note, serving until the surrender of the Southern army in 1865. In December, 1859, he married Frances J., daughter of Moses Knight of Milledgeville, Georgia, and they have had nine children--Mary B., Thommie, William J., Edwin M., Minnie P., Clinton M., Laura, Lizzie and Zura. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He is a member of the Alliance and Grange.