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Samuel Boyd Adams Sr.

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Samuel Boyd Adams Sr.

Birth
Sturgis, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, USA
Death
14 Dec 1938 (aged 56)
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 6
Memorial ID
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Samuel Boyd Adams was born May 7, 1882 on a farm near Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, the sixth of seven children of Non Quincy Adams, who was a Mason and a Baptist Minister. His father died in 1922. His mother died when he was a very small child and he was reared by his step-mother who has been all that a mother could have been to him. When only eighteen years of age he became connected with a company engaged in the manufacture of lumber and in 1927 he organized the S. B. Adams Lumber Company, a Corporation in Mobile, Alabama. He was President and General Manger.
He was a member of the Rotary Club for seventeen years and in 1934 was elected President of the Rotary Club of Mobile, Alabama. In January, 1935, he was elected a Director of the First National Bank of Mobile, Alabama. He had eight children; four girls and four boys, composing a most charming family circle presided over by his splendid wife, Dora Williams Adams.
[Excerpts of this Bio Courtesy of Donna R. Causey - Author of The Grand Masters of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama 1811-2011]
Samuel Boyd Adams was born May 7, 1882 on a farm near Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, the sixth of seven children of Non Quincy Adams, who was a Mason and a Baptist Minister. His father died in 1922. His mother died when he was a very small child and he was reared by his step-mother who has been all that a mother could have been to him. When only eighteen years of age he became connected with a company engaged in the manufacture of lumber and in 1927 he organized the S. B. Adams Lumber Company, a Corporation in Mobile, Alabama. He was President and General Manger.
He was a member of the Rotary Club for seventeen years and in 1934 was elected President of the Rotary Club of Mobile, Alabama. In January, 1935, he was elected a Director of the First National Bank of Mobile, Alabama. He had eight children; four girls and four boys, composing a most charming family circle presided over by his splendid wife, Dora Williams Adams.
[Excerpts of this Bio Courtesy of Donna R. Causey - Author of The Grand Masters of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama 1811-2011]


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