Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

R. W. ADAMS, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born in Daviess County, Ky., 
September 2, 1847, and is the eldest of two boys and three girls born to 
Elisha and Artemisia E. (West) Adams, natives respectively of Kentucky 
and Connecticut.  Elisha was the son of Eli Adams, who married a Miss 
Geyable, of Virginia, of English and Irish origin, respectively.  They 
first moved to upper Kentucky and about 1825, moved to southern Illinois, 
where they remained about three years; thence to Daviess County, where a 
farm was purchased and improved.  Eli Adams made several trips to New 
Orleans on flatboats.  The mother of our subject was a daughter of Romanta 
West, who was born and reared in Connecticut, and came to Daviess County 
about 1840, and settled near Owensboro, where he was engaged in grist and 
saw milling during his life.  R. W. Adams received a fair common school 
education, and lived with his parents until the age of twenty-two, when
he engaged in farming until 1878, when he sold his farm, and has since 
engaged in the tobacco business in the Green River country.  He located 
in South Carrollton in the fall of 1882; was married in January, 1871, to 
Nannie E. Williams of Daviess County, daughter of George S. and Lucy L. 
(Swope) Williams, who were born and reared in Nelson County, Ky., and 
whose people were among the very first settlers.  Her grandmother Swope 
was born in camp where Louisville now stands; there was only a fort at 
that time in Louisville.  Mr. Adams is the father of three children, Aurora 
Bell, Elisha G. and Bertha E.  He and wife are members of the Baptist 
Church.  He is a member of the F. & A.M.

Adams West Geyable Williams Swope
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Daviess-KY CT VA IL Nelson-KY

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