Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

THE ADAIR FAMILY.  The Adairs are among the oldest families of Graves
County.  They came originally from Ireland, and settled in one of the
Atlantic States a number of years before the war of the Revolution.  The
family originally settled in South Carolina, where James Adair, grandfather
of Turner Adair, distinguished himself in the war of Independence as a
member of the celebrated Marion's band.  Late in life he settled in
Alabama, where he died about the year 1839 or 1840.  His son, John Adair,
was left an orphan, when but three weeks old, by the death of his
mother.  He made his home with the families of his aunt and grandfather,
and at an early age was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, which he
followed all his life.  He was married in 1820 to Margaret Wilson, by
whom he had thirteen children, whose names are as follows: James
McConathy, Elizabeth, Jane, Turner, Martha C., Sarah A., James H., S.B.,
John P., Joseph B., Margaret P., Mary P. and Virginia P.  In the year
1830 Mr. Adair came to Graves County, Ky., and settled in Lynnville
Precinct on the place where his widow now resides.  He died June 4, 1878.
Turner Adair, third child of John Adair, and eldest member of the family
now living, was born in 1825 in Lawrence [sic] District, S.C.  He
remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age, when he engaged
in farming for himself, which occupation he continued until 1849, when
he joined a company of young men as daring as himself, and made an 
overland trip to California for the purpose of engaging in mining.  He
participated in all the active scenes of that exciting period, and was
fairly successful in his quest of fortune.  He returned home in 1858,
and at once resumed farming, which he still follows.  Mr Adair has never
married and at the present time lives with his mother on the old
homestead.

Adair Wilson 
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Ireland SC AL CA 

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