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DAVID AND ELIZABETH ADAMS
David Andrew Adams was born March 3, 1854, in Illinois to Ansel Adams of Virginia, and Sarah Ann Winterstein of Pennsylvania. He had four brothers, George, Ansyl Monroe, John Quincy and Taylor, and two sisters, Rachael, who married Tom Dean, and Nancy, who married George Restine and Charles Bradley.
David was married Dec. 19, 1880, at Hale, Missouri, to Sarah Elizabeth Rose, daughter of Jack Rose.
In the early part of 1899 David and his son William Thomas (Bill) came to Oklahoma and filed on land located two and a half miles south and a half west of the present town of Sharon. They put in a crop and built a sod shack, shipping in lumber for the doors and windows. The dirt floor was hardened by sprinkling water on it.
David, John and Ansel Adams
In the fall of 1899 David and Bill returned to Kirwin, Kansas, where the family had been living and returned with them to Oklahoma in three covered wagons. Also in the party was David's nephew, Lee Dean, with his wife, Deliah (who was half Cherokee Indian), and their three children. The Deans filed on land four miles south and two and a half miles east of Fargo.
David and his sons built a two-story house before 1902 where one of the sons, George, and his wife live at the present time. They also built a large red barn, a silo north of the barn and a long machine shed with a blacksmith shop in one end. They put up a large dinner bell which was rung for the men to come in for meals. They raised broomcorn and wheat.
The whole family walked to church every Sunday. Church was held at first in a schoolhouse half a mile south of David's house. In 1904 the South Persimmon Church, which still stands, was built. David Adams, W. L. Pittman and G. W. Patterson were the first deacons of the church. David's daughter, Anna, played the old-fashioned pump organ for many years. At the present time one of David's great granddaughters, Dottie Mae Adams Mote, is church pianist.
David was stricken while eating dinner, Aug. 23, 1916, and died immediately. His wife died Sept. 1 8, 1935, and both are buried in the South Persimmon Cemetery.
David Adams home built in 1901.
David and Sarah had eleven children, the first five born at Hale, Missouri. Frank, the oldest, died at the age of six months. Charles Wesley married lnez and their children are Wilber, George and Garland. Clarence Richard married Lulu Pittman and they had a son, Frank. Mary Elizabeth married Will Swift and their children are William (deceased), Nellie Pitts, LaRue Tedford and Gladys Day. Bill married Zelma West their son is Murrel. Later Bill married Ruth James and they had two daughters, Florene (deceased) and Dottie Mae Mote.
Four of the children were born near Kirwin, Kansas. John married Hazel Grace and their children are Estel Steele and J. E. Lula Anna married Claude Stewart and their children are Gladys Marie Barker, Charles Wesley, Rosa Naomi Story, Leona May Barnes, Maxine Mary KelIar, Claude Herbert and Betty Poe. Herbert McKinley (Hobart) married Clarice Lively and their children are Maurice (deceased), Maureen Schickendanz, Betty Dickerson, Merlin and Eldon. George married Josie Hopkins and their children are Leroy and Delores Sumter.
The two youngest children were born in Woodward County. Leona May married Earl Rinner and their children are Earl Jr. and Melvin (both deceased), Marvin and Eleanor Corbitt. Ruth married Floyd Loomis and their children are Leslie Marion, Clyde and Robert.
Submitted by Mrs. Lee Barker, granddaughter, (Gladys Marie Stewart) Vici, Okla.
ENGENE RUSSELL AND GRACE HUNTER ADAMS
Russell and Grace Adams were both born in Woodward County and have spent their lives here.
Russell, the son of Guy and Katie Adams was born southeast of Fargo, attended Jewel school and Keenan Methodist Church, and graduated from the Fargo High School in 1 929. He was active in basketball and fine arts.
Grace was born two and a half miles east of Woodward, the youngest child of Robert and Winona Hunter. She attended Red Rock School, graduated from Woodward High School in 1929 and took most of her college work at what was then called Northwestern State Teacher's College at Alva. She taught seventh and eighth grades at Tangier for three years, beginning in the fall of 1930. She taught second grade one year at Woodward's North Ward School.
The couple were married at the home of Mrs. Winona Hunter, where they lived for two years while he worked at Adams Brothers Store in Woodward. He worked there for a total of seven years.
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