Joseph Thomas Adams

Notes:

Shown as Joseph T. on early census records but was called Thomas or Tom or J.T. on land records in Knox Co. TX. His grave stone gives the name Uncle Tom and under that, Thomas Adams. There was an African American in Knox Co., also named Tom Adams, who died there in 1949.


Email from Teresa McMinn- "Fred McMinn says that Uncle Tom died in 35/36 in, he thinks, Knox County....he left Susie $66.00 after all was settled with the nephew, Glenn Martin. Fred remembers that Uncle Tom wrote Susie ('Trawick' McMinn) and asked her to come to see him a couple of years before he died and they went up to Knox to see him."

"Knox Co. History" Early Cattle Drives by Oran W. Driver Last paragraph of this article states; "In the late eighties Tom Adams left Jack County with a herd of cattle and started to Arizona with them. When he got west of Benjamin, about where the Ross and Moorhouse ranches are now, the grass and water were never better, so he just turned his cattle loose and said, "This is Arizona enough for me," so that part of the country went by the name of "Little Arizona" in the early days.

There are dozens of land records in Knox Co. naming Tom, W.A. Oscar and Perry Adams and some mention King Co. also.

(Courtesy of Lynell Cordell)

(Research):
Census Listings:

1900 census
Knox Co. TX ED 43 pg. 173A
74/74
Adams, Thomas, head, Oct. 1858, 41, single, AR TN AL
Adams, Perry, nephew, Aug. 1878, 21 TX MS IL
Brannin, Robert S., boarder, Mar. 1875, 25, single, TX MO KY
Brannin, Charley S., boarder, Feb. 1879, 21, single, TX MO KY

1910 census
Knox Co. TX pg. 13A
186/196
Adams, Perry, 31, single, TX - -
Adams, Thomas, 51, single, AR TN AL
Smallin, Claude M., hired man, ?, single, AR TN AR