The C. A. McAdams FamilyOur American Rootsby Charles G. Petersen |
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Charles' Paternal
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James Sarah
McAdams Haines
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Samuel --------- Margaret
Haines | Ellen
McAdams | Staley
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Charles
Andrew
McAdams
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James McAdams and Sarah Haines
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Birth Place
James was born in Bedford County in the middle of Tennessee,
on August 5, 1812, not far from the present city of
Shelbyville, which is located about 40 miles south of
Nashville. He is shown living with his father in the 1820
and 1830 U.S. Census for Bedford County in Tennessee.
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Marriage
In 1833, the entire family moved north to Fayette County in
southwestern part of Ohio. There he met and married 18 years
old Sarah Haines on February 13, 1834. Sarah was born on
January 19, 1816 in Ohio up in the northeastern part near the
border with Pennsylvania in Salem Township in Columbiana
County. The town of Salem is located about 20 miles southeast
of present day Youngstown. Her father had moved there from Virginia
about the time Ohio became a state in 1803. Shortly after
Sarah's birth, the family moved to Fayette County near the
border of Green and Perry Township. The county seat of Fayette
County is Washington Court House, which is located about 30
miles southeast of Columbus.
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Land
James' father had bought land in Rush Creek Township in Logan
County but James saw his opportunity in the next county north.
where he bought land in Marion Township in Hardin County, Ohio in 1834.
James' uncles, Wilson and Isaac, had bought land in the same
section, a section of land being 1 mile square.
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Hardin County
Hardin County was formed out of the northern part of Logan County
in 1820. The land in the northern part of the county was part
of Congressional Lands of 1819. The land had been surveyed and
available for purchase at that time.
It was mostly speculators that originally bought the
land from the government and then resold it to settlers.
In 1833 the County Seat was located on 40 acres of Congressional
Land and platted.
The town was named after Simon Kenton and the plat was registered
with the state in June.
At the time when the town was laid out there were 3 or 4 cabins,
but no villages per se.
Ft. McArthur a few miles to the west of town was the only center of
civilization at that time. The only Post Office in the area
and the only place to purchase supplies at the time was in Dunkirk,
several miles to the east.
In 2008 the Hardin County Genealogical Society certified the James McAdams family of 1834 as a Pioneer Family of Hardin County, Ohio. |
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Marion Township
James and Sarah moved to Marion Township in Hardin County
to clear the land for farming and to raise a family.
Marion Township is about 15 miles
east of present day Lima, Ohio in Allen County.
In the 1840's James' widowed
stepmother, Mary Catherine, and his brother, Martin, bought
land in the section just to the northeast but in Liberty
Township. Wilson owned land in the section immediately north
of James. James' half-sister's (Mary Catherine) future husband's
(William Ansley) family lived in the next section east of
James' stepmother. The Mary Catherine name can be very confusing
for it was common name in James' family. He had a stepmother,
a half-sister, and a daughter, all with the same name.
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Early Deaths
James and Sarah had 11 children over the next 23 years. Eight
of those children lived to adulthood. Wilson died just after
one year, George lived only a few months, and Martin died
at the age of 9. Just 2 years after the 11th child was born,
James died at the age of 47 on November 21, 1859.
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Ada
For the next decade or so Sarah stayed on the farm with her
son, Alfred Orah, doing the farming as witnessed by the 1860
U.S. Census. By 1870, Alfred Orah, had moved on and Sarah's
other sons, Samuel and Charles, were doing the farming.
By 1880 Sarah had moved to the nearby town of Ada, where her
son, James, was attending school. Ada is the home of the
present Ohio Northern University. The school existed as early
as the mid 1870's as a teacher's school.
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McFarlin
Also, living with Sarah in Ada in 1880 were 2 of her granddaughters,
Millie and Ella McFarlin. John McFarlin from Allen County,
basically from the next section west, married James'
brother's (John) daughter, Mary Kane. She died before 1870
and John McFarlin married Sarah's daughter, Amanda Melvina, in 1871.
They had 2 children, Millie and Ella, then Amanda died,
probably during the childbirth of Ella. The children moved in
with Sarah.
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Iowa
Sarah's son, Samuel, had moved west to Iowa and by 1895 she was
living with Samuel in Ramsey Township in Kossuth County in
northern Iowa near Bancroft. By 1900, 84 year old Sarah was
still living with Samuel, but now in Harrison Township still
in Kossuth County near Swea City.
Sarah died there on October 18, 1905 and is buried in the Harrison Township Cemetery just east of Swea City. |
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Children of James McAdams and Sarah Haines
Mary Catherine born 8 Jan 1836 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Hannah born 20 Jan 1838 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Alfred Orah born 25 Oct 1840 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Amanda Melvine born 11 Nov 1842 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Wilson born 25 May 1844 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Martin born 12 May 1846 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio George R. born 30 May 1849 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Samuel Haines born 15 Dec 1850 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Charles Gates born 4 Mar 1853 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio Rachel Jennie born 13 Jul 1855 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio James Edward born 9 Jul 1857 in Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio |
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