John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, who bore the same name as the sixth president of the United States, was born on August 7, 1875, in the Roaring Springs community of Christian County, Kentucky. He was the second of seven children born to John Wylie Adams and Martha Jane Coleman Adams. John Wylie was a native of Trigg County, Kentucky and worked as a farmer. Martha Jane was also a native of Trigg County, worked as a homemaker, and was a descendant of Perry Thomas. John Quincy’s siblings were Lucy Agnes Adams, born in 1874 and married Robert Henry Williams; Alfred Sidney Adams, born in 1877 and died at the age of 12; James Sterling Adams, born in 1880 and married Hattie Grace Bell and then married Mary Docia Atkins; Willie Helen Adams, born in 1884 and married John Sherman Bell; Martha Gertrude Adams, born in 1887 and married James Pascal Hendon and Eulis Franklin Adams, born in 1892 and died at the age of 4.
John grew up in the river bottom area near Linton, Kentucky in Trigg County. As a young man he helped to clear the river bottom land where he and his neighbors lived. He helped to cut the virgin timber and then had log rollings along with his neighbors to roll the logs into large piles to be burned in order that new ground could be cultivated. He farmed in both Trigg and Christian counties. He traveled by steamboat from Linton down the Cumberland River to Nashville where he took the train to Union Grove, Alabama where he again worked as a timberman, cutting tall pine trees from the mountainside, hewing them and then using a broadax making them into crossties. He also worked to clear land in the Missouri Delta.
John returned to Kentucky where he worked in the tobacco factories in Hopkinsville. He then worked in the steel mills in Alton, Illinois and later lived in Akron, Ohio where he worked at the Saalfield Publishing Company and the East Ohio Gas Company. He returned again to Trigg County in 1930 and bought a farm in the Donaldson Creek community where he settled down as a farmer and lived longer there than any other place during his life.
On December 1, 1894, John married Suphronia (Sophronia) Adeline Williams in Stewart County, Tennessee. Suphronia was born January 24, 1875 in Trigg County, the daughter of Lessenberry Nance and Cynthia Ann Vinson Williams. Nance was a native of Trigg County and Cynthia was a native of Stewart County, Tennessee.
John and Suphronia were the parents of eleven children, most who were born in Trigg County and raised in the river bottom area near Linton. They were, Lou Bess Adams, born in 1895 and died at the age of 3 years; John Troy Adams, born 1897 and married Nova Mae Sumner, a second marriage to Maurine Sumner and a third marriage to Ora Monico Gordon; James Floyd Adams, born in 1899 and married Maggie Belle Hargroves; Hattie Bell Adams, born in 1901 and married Perry Amos Thomas; Willie May Adams, born in 1904 and married Oscar Err Thomas; Sammy Ray Adams, born in 1905 and died in early childhood; Thomas Odell Adams, born in 1906 and married Helen Anne Moore and later married Betty Earle Ford; Herbert Truman Adams, born in 1909 and married Mary Thomas; Herman Taylor Adams, born in 1912 and married Bessie Mae Thomas; Plomer Douglas Adams, born in 1914 and died at the age of 1 year and Daphane Estelle Adams, born in 1921 and died at the age of 11 years.
John Quincy died on June 13, 1961 at his home in the Donaldson Creek community at the age of 85. He was buried in the Lancaster Cemetery located on the South Road in Trigg County. His wife, Suphronia had died on February 4, 1950 and was also buried in the Lancaster Cemetery.
Suphronia Williams Adams
John and Suphronia's tombstone
LINEAGE: (John Quincy Adams was the second child of John Wylie and Martha Jane Coleman Adams. Martha Jane was the second child of Alfred Boyd and Alpha Thomas Coleman. Alpha was the second child of Perry and Elizabeth Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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