Benjamin Adams
and Sarah Sally Maggard

Benjamin Adams b 1843 Rockhouse, Floyd Co KY; s/o Moses "Rockhouse Mose" Adams and Sarah Caudill. Benjamin Adams m. 1874 Letcher Co KY to Sarah Sally Maggard b 1850 Letcher Co KY; d/o Henry Maggard and Mary Pollly Stamper. Children of Benjamin Adams and Sarah Sally Maggard;

I. General Adams b 29 Jan 1874 d 19 Jan 1959; buried Isom Cemetery, Isom KY behind the Presbyterian Church, Isom, Letcher Co KY; m. Martha Caudill b 14 Feb 1882 KY d 28 Jul 1957; buried Isom Cemetery, Isom, KY, behind the Presbyterian Church, Isom, Letcher Co KY; d/o Henry R S Caudill and Mary Branson. Children of General Adams and Martha Caudill;

1. Maryann Adams b about 1903 KY

2. Cinda Adams b about 1905 KY

3. Lou Adams b about 1907 KY

4. Curtis Adams b about 1908 KY

5. Crow Adams b about 1910 KY

6. Beula Adams b about 1913 KY

7. Dixie Adams b about 1915 KY

II. Isaac Adams b 1875

III. Millie Adams b 1878; m. 25 Nov 1896 Letcher Co KY to Leonard Crouch (aka Croucher)


Benjamin Adams
and Sarah Lucinda Combs

Benjamin Adams b 1843 Rockhouse, Floyd Co KY; s/o Moses "Rockhouse Mose" Adams and Sarah Caudill. Benjamin Adams m. about 1862 to Sarah Lucinda Combs b 6 Jun 1846/47 Letcher Co KY d 7 Feb 1884 Letcher Co KY; d/o John Wesley Combs and Mary Polly Hogg. Children of Benjamin Adams and Sarah Lucinda Combs;

I. Elizabeth Adams b about 1863 KY

II. Shadrack Adams b 3 Apr 1865 Letcher Co KY d 24 Dec 1943 Jeremiah, Letcher Co KY; m. about 1898 to Susan Unknown.

III. Mary Ann Adams (aka Marianne) b 6 Oct 1867 Letcher Co KY d 20 Aug 1941 Letcher Co KY; m. 29 Jan 1885 Letcher Co KY to Shadrack R "Red Shade" Combs b 22 Dec 1859 Smoot Creek, Letcher Co KY d 27/29 Jan 1940 Letcher co KY of terminal pneumonia; s/o Shadrack "Shade" Combs and Sarah Sally Adams.

IV. James M "Jim" Adams b 1868; m. 7 Sept 1893 (or 6 Oct 1893) Letcher Co KY to Sarah Back b Sept 1877 KY d Oct 1946; d/o David Back and Nancy Dixon. Children of James M "Jim" Adams and Sarah Back;

1. Lucinda Adams b 1895 Letcher Co KY

2. John P Adams b 1897 Letcher Co KY

3. Mary Ann Adams b 3 Jan 1899 Letcher Co KY d 6 Mar 1963 Jeremiah, Letcher Co KY m. Gideon Ison b 5 Feb 1891; s/o James Ison and Polly Victoria Cornett; Gideon Ison m. Mae Blair b 25 Jun 1896 d Feb 1920; d/o Hiram Blair and Jane Unknown. Gideon Ison m. Grace Combs; d/o Jordan Combs. Mary Ann Adams m. James L Breeding.

4. Julia Adams b 1900 Letcher Co KY

5. David Adams

7. Bill Adams

8. Steve Adams

9. Charles Adams

10. Fred Adams

11. Herman Adams

12. Hattie Adams.

V. Ike David Maggard Adams b about 1870 d about 1970 age 99 years old. (Notes from V.N. Phillips.. Author.. Coming Down Cumberland: Green was the father of Ike who was born to Sally Maggard before she married Green's brother Ben. Ike David Maggard (Adams) was a great friend of the Author. He lived to be 99 years old and died about 1970)

VI. Moses Adams b about 1870 KY

VII. Polly Ann Adams b about 1872; m. Hissie Caudill

VIII. Isaac Adams b after 1873