Underground Railroad Research Forum From "The Other Adams
Family" Date: Sunday, 4 May 2008, 8:06 pm In the 1960s a distant
cousin of mine and his wife wrote a story about our family based
on information given to him from his grandparents, Jonathan K.
Adams (aka John) and Margaret Adams with whom he had lived, and
his own personal knowledge. The story contains a genealogy down
to my Mother. John Adams was born 1835 in Greene County,
Pennsylvania. On the first page of their story, George and
Thelma Adams write: “John, the Civil War foot soldier, trudged
heavily toward home, pausing as he came upon familiar scenes to
look, half-seeing, at the trees and sheds where he had hidden
the fleeing slaves over night.” That statement in itself has
more weight when combined with the information found while
researching the Abraham Adams family, also of Greene County. Two
of the sons of Abraham Adams b Maryland d about 1834 Greene
County PA; Eli Adams abt 1810 and John Adams b abt 1814; both of
Hargus Creek, are mentioned in