History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 723.
[Harrison County]  [Leesburg Precinct]

E. D. McADAMS, farmer, Cynthiana.  The subject of this sketch was born
in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1814; a son of Armstrong McAdams, who
died in 1857, and grandson of John McAdams, who was of Scotch birth. His
mother was Nancy Purcell, who died of cholera during the fearful rage of
that fell destroyer in 1833, she was the daughter of William Purcell, an
Englishman by birth who emigrated to this country and resided for a long
while in Bourbon County.  When advanced in years he moved to Harrison
County, and after living a life of great usefulness, he died in 1826. In
1849, E. D. McAdams and Miss Rebecca Ann Ammerman, a daughter of Joseph
and Rebecca Ammerman, of Harrison County, were united in the holy ties
of matrimony.  By this marriage they have five children named: Joseph
A., James W., John W., Franklin R. and Hettie A.  By honest toil and close
attention to business, he is now the owner of a nice tract of good land,
containing 115 acres, three miles from Cynthiana, lying immediately along
the Cynthiana and Leesburg Turnpike, which he calls Sugar Grove.  Father,
wife, and son Joseph, are members of the Christian Church at Cynthiana.

McAdams Purcell Ammerman
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Bourbon-KY Fleming-KY

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