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Note: orphaned Jesse Adams (b. 1854) and siblings were raised by Wythe Walker ADAMS after 1865 Title: Descendants of James and Agnes (Wilson) Adams With Fifty-Seven Allied Families Abbrev: Descendants of James and Agnes (Wilson) Adams Author: Loviska, Leona Adams Publication: Printed by Budget Books, San Diego, California, 1978 Note: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-59093, ISBN 0-89626-003-8. 470 pages (p. 464-470, blank for notes) Repository:
Name: Allen County Public Library Note: Internet address: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us
Call Number: 929.2 Ad1047L Page: "Wythe Walker Adams was a Mason and helped to organize the Adams Lodge at Norfolk, Ark. He had two children by his first marriage but they both died in infancy." "An interesting letter, in the possession of W. M. Adams, was written to Tabitha Smith, proposing marriage. Wythe, a widower, wished to care for his brother's orphaned children. Tabitha accepted his proposal and they began their married life with a ready made family, composed of the five surviving children of Alexander Hamilton Adams."
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The History of Baxter County, page 347: " ... Wythe Walker Adams was an active Mason and helped organize the Adams Lodge at Norfork. He was a Worshipful Master of that lodge. He was a Representative to the Reconstruction Constitutional Convention for Arkansas after the Civil War. He is listed in that record as a "farmer from Izard County." He married Miss Christine Jeffery and they made their home on his father's place at the mouth of Big Creek on White River. They had not living children, but Christine and two stillborn babies were buried in the family plot at their home. (Wythe and his second wife were also buried in this plot.) ... "
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