History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 787. [Nicholas County] [Union Precinct] MINERVA ADAMS, farmer, P. O. Moorefield, was born on the place where she now lives, in Nicholas County, Ky., July 20, 1818, and is a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kincade) Banister; Mr. Banister the father of our subject, was born in Virginia, June 20, 1791, and died Sept. 22, 1864; his wife was born in Garrett [sic] County, Ky., in 1792. The subject of this sketch received a common school education in Nicholas County, was married in Bath County, April 27, 1841, to Samuel Adams, who was born in Nicholas County, Oct. 18, 1818, and died March 28, 1878, leaving to her care four children, viz: Elizabeth, Nancy, Millard and Statire. Mr. Adams was a son of John and Mary (Pinter) Adams, both natives of Nicholas County, Ky. Mrs. Adams is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Moorefield; owns ninety-nine acres of land, which is tilled after her directions; she is a woman of intelligence and well worthy of the high esteem in which she is held by the community in which she lives. Adams Kincade Banister Pinter = Garrard-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/adams.m.txt