Alec was the second child of Silas and Cindy Adams. He was born in Buncombe County, NC in 1835. He moved with his parents and older brother, Thomas David, to Alabama in about 1838. According to available census records he lived with his parents up until the Civil War. On March 2nd, 1862 he joined the Confederate Army, Company I of the 10th Alabama Infantry, and spent most of the war with the Army of Northern Virginia. The 10th Alabama was involved in all the battles in that theatre from the Battle of Williamsburg until they surrendered at Sayler's Creek in April 1865. According to my grandfather, Herbert Adams, his grandnephew he walked back to Alabama from Virginia after the war. He again resided with his parents at least until the 1870 Census.
Sometime after 1870 he married Eliza Drew. They had no children of their own,however in the early 1880's they did take in Tessie Bradford who had been orphaned along with her siblings upon the death of their mother and father(W.J. and Emma F. Bradford). Although they never legally adopted Tessie they did raise her as their own until her marriage to P. Millard Adams (Alec's nephew, Posey's son) about 1897.
During the 1880's Alec and Eliza granted the first land deeds to Black Creek Baptist Church the present home of the church and adjoining cemetery where they are buried today.
At their death they Alec and Eliza willed all their remaining land and assets to Tessie and her husband Millard.
Sometime after 1870 he married Eliza Drew. They had no children of their own,however in the early 1880's they did take in Tessie Bradford who had been orphaned along with her siblings upon the death of their mother and father(W.J. and Emma F. Bradford). Although they never legally adopted Tessie they did raise her as their own until her marriage to P. Millard Adams (Alec's nephew, Posey's son) about 1897.
During the 1880's Alec and Eliza granted the first land deeds to Black Creek Baptist Church the present home of the church and adjoining cemetery where they are buried today.
At their death they Alec and Eliza willed all their remaining land and assets to Tessie and her husband Millard.
Alec was the second child of Silas and Cindy Adams. He was born in Buncombe County, NC in 1835. He moved with his parents and older brother, Thomas David, to Alabama in about 1838. According to available census records he lived with his parents up until the Civil War. On March 2nd, 1862 he joined the Confederate Army, Company I of the 10th Alabama Infantry, and spent most of the war with the Army of Northern Virginia. The 10th Alabama was involved in all the battles in that theatre from the Battle of Williamsburg until they surrendered at Sayler's Creek in April 1865. According to my grandfather, Herbert Adams, his grandnephew he walked back to Alabama from Virginia after the war. He again resided with his parents at least until the 1870 Census.
Sometime after 1870 he married Eliza Drew. They had no children of their own,however in the early 1880's they did take in Tessie Bradford who had been orphaned along with her siblings upon the death of their mother and father(W.J. and Emma F. Bradford). Although they never legally adopted Tessie they did raise her as their own until her marriage to P. Millard Adams (Alec's nephew, Posey's son) about 1897.
During the 1880's Alec and Eliza granted the first land deeds to Black Creek Baptist Church the present home of the church and adjoining cemetery where they are buried today.
At their death they Alec and Eliza willed all their remaining land and assets to Tessie and her husband Millard.
Sometime after 1870 he married Eliza Drew. They had no children of their own,however in the early 1880's they did take in Tessie Bradford who had been orphaned along with her siblings upon the death of their mother and father(W.J. and Emma F. Bradford). Although they never legally adopted Tessie they did raise her as their own until her marriage to P. Millard Adams (Alec's nephew, Posey's son) about 1897.
During the 1880's Alec and Eliza granted the first land deeds to Black Creek Baptist Church the present home of the church and adjoining cemetery where they are buried today.
At their death they Alec and Eliza willed all their remaining land and assets to Tessie and her husband Millard.
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