Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Edition 8-B
Clark Co.

REV. JOHN G. ADAMS, a native of Clark County, Ky., was born September 8,
1827.  His father, John Adams, a native of Culpeper County Va.,
was born in 1775, emigrated to Kentucky, where he first settled in Clark
County, removed to Madison, then to Estill County, and finally settled
permanently in Clark County; he was a farmer by occupation and was a mem-
ber of the Calvinistic Baptist Church seventy-five years. He married
Elizabeth Parrish, a native of Madison County, Ky., daughter of William
Parrish, a native of Virginia. She bore him seven sons and two daughters,
the subject of this sketch being the eighth child.  Mrs. Adams died in
1860, having been a consistent member of the Calvinistic Baptist Church
for forty-five years. John Adams died at the age of ninety-eight; nine
months and seven days. Elkany Adams, grandfather of John G., a native
of Virginia, settled in Clark County, Ky., where he died shortly after
his arrival. He was one of those who fought for America's Independence.
The maternal grandfather of our subject was an early settler of Madison
County, Ky. John G. Adams was reared on the farm, the pursuits of which
he followed until nineteen years of age, when be worked for a time at
the sawmill business; he then apprenticed himself to learn the black-
smith trade with Robert W. Langley, of Dry Fork (said Langley after
removed to Texas). He successfully engaged in his trade for eighteen
years, when he began farming and preaching.  He engaged in minis-
terial work in 1863, his pastoral labor being confined chiefly to
Clark,Powell, Estill and Madison counties.  He settled on his pre-
sent location about 1857, where he owns 378 acres of land, in two
tracts, all well improved, which he successfully manages. June 21,
1849, he married Miss Millie Rucker, of Clark County, daughter of
Reuben and Margaret (Hardin) Rucker, natives, respectively, of Vir-
ginia and Clark County, Ky.  Twelve children have been born to their
union, viz: Sarah M., Mary E., Lucy J., Telitha F., Nancy B., Emma,
James T., Reuben A., Sallie, Esther, Millie J., and Fielding. Lucy J.
is deceased.  Politically Mr. Adams is Democrat.  He has been a mem-
ber of the Christian Church since I 862.  He has attained the third
degree in the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Adams has been a member of
the Christian Church for forty years.

Adams Parrish Langley Rucker Hardin

Clark-KY Madison-KY Estill-KY Powell-KY Culpeper-VA TX

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