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THOMAS W. ADAMS, SR., BIBLE Lillian Annie Drake, born Sept. 5, Amite, La., Married Magnolia, Miss., Irvin Bennett. Frances Frierson Adams, born Nov, 5, 1895, Amite, La. Married Nov. 3, 1919, Monroe, La. to Thomas Walter Adams. Gillen Quitman Drake, born Dec. 31, 1897, Amite, La. Eula Lee Drake Edler, born November 17, 1908, Amite, La. married May 27, (no year) to Thomas A. Elder, Coldwater, Miss. Children's Register - Thomas W. Adams, Jr. born May 25th, 1921, Presbyterian. Hospital, New Orleans, La. - married Fr. 6th, 1949, at 4:30 o'clock, in the Meth. Church at Carthage, Miss., by Rev. Chas. Duke, assisted by Rev. Wm. Fulgham, to Alice Gipson McMillen. Alice Lorraine Adams, born Nov. 21st, 1924, at Pelahatchie, Miss. Children of T. W? Adams, Jr* and Alice M. McMillan Adams: Twins - Frances Lorraine Adams born June 5, 1950, at Kosciusko, Miss. Mattie Tallulah Adams, born June 5, 1950, "Kosciusko, Miss. On a fly leaf in back of Bible: Ella Cork Ziegler's Natl. No. 176859, descendant of William Davidson. Judge John Witherspoon was a brother of Mary Witherspoon who slapped the face of a British officer with her slipper for making a derogatory remark about Captain Conyers to whom she was affianced and afterwards married. Aunt Leonora of New Orleans was a granddaughter of Captain Conyers and his wife, Mary Witherspoon. The above incident is related by B. J. Lossing in Harper's Magazine of 1857 or 1859. Lossing says Miss Witherspoon had two brothers with Marion. She had only two brothers and our ancestor was one of them. married Elizabeth McAulery (?). John, son of Robert, was born in South Carolina in 1778. He was married in 1799 to Mary Witherspoon, dau, of Judge John Witherspoon, a soldier of the Revolution from Williamsburg Dist., S.C. Dr. John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration arid President of Princeton, S. C. was his cousin. married Lavina Tipton Williams, a daughter of Gen. Sam Williams. Wm. Gardiner, son of Gardiner, married Fannie Eagan. Ella, daughter of Gardiner, married Albert Cook. Lida, dau. of Gardiner, married Quitman T, Drake and they had four children. James White Stevenson Frierson (l) Dr. died about 1880, Columbia, Tenn. J.S.W, Frierson, his son, died 1902. (2) J.S.W, Frierson, his son (3) Fort Worth, Texas, 510 S. Ballinger St. Robert Frierson, soldier under Marion, Robert, son of Wm, Frierson Gardiner, son of John, born in S. C., moved to Tenn. in 1813 Cemetery and Bible Records, Volume XIV
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