Rev. Charles D. Adams

Source: Memoirs of Georgia Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People. Vol. 2. Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Historical Association, 1895. p. 869

REV. CHARLES D. ADAMS, McRae, Telfair Co., Ga., son of Dr. Samuel Adams, once an eminent physician of Thomasville, Thomas Co., Ga. (who died in 1888), was born in Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 30, 1855. He enjoys the distinction of belonging to a family which has been identified with the Methodist Episcopal church from its earliest history, some of whose members have not only sustained high and honorable relations to Methodism, but to the political history and official life of the nation. Mr. Adams himself has a natural fondness and aptitude for geology and agriculture. He was educated in the very excellent schools of Thomas county, particularly Fletcher institute. July 20, 1874, he was licensed to preach, was admitted to the South Georgia conference at its annual session the latter part of that year, and in 1878 was ordained elder by Bishop Holland N. McTyeire. He has been an itenerant ever since, and has been stationed at various important places, lastly at McRae, where, in addition to pastoral and other duties, he is acting as agent for the south Georgia college. Mr. Adams married Claudia B., daughter of Hardy Hodges, a prosperous farmer near Mill Ray, Bulloch Co., Ga., who has borned him seven children: Mary, fourteen years old; Lila, twelve years old; Samuel, ten years old; Wesley, eight years old; Belle, six years old; William, four years old, and Augusta, two years old. Mr. Adams is a master Mason, and was once a member of the Knights of Damon.