Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Woodford Co.

ADAM L. CHILDERS was born twelve miles northeast of Lexington, Fayette
Co., Ky., January 2, 1820, and is the second son of Lindsey and
Catherine (Lydick) Childers, natives of Garrard and Fayette Counties, 
Ky.  The maternal grandfather, Jacob Lydick, was born in Pennsylvania.  
The paternal grandfather, Goolsberry Childers, was from Virginia, was 
in the war of the Revolution, and afterward immigrated to Garrard 
County.  Adam L. Childers was reared on a farm in Fayette County, and 
when a boy learned the brick laying trade; served three years' 
apprenticeship, and afterward worked at his trade from seventeen until 
he was forty-nine years of age.  In the meantime he came to Woodford 
County, and located in Versailles.  He abandoned his trade for the farm.
He was one of the inspectors of construction of the courthouse, Free 
Mason Hall, etc.  He was married in 1843 to Miss Mary J. Smith, of 
Fayette County; she died in 1848.  In 1851 Mr. Childers married Miss 
Susanna M'Cloed, a native of Bourbon County, Ky.    One child living 
was born to the first wife, Lindsey D.; three are living by the second: 
Kate, Maggie and Henry.  There is one deceased child, George.  Mr. 
Childers owns 345 acres in the county.  The family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Childers Lydick Smith M'Cloed
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Fayette-KY Garrard-KY Bourbon-KY PA VA

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