Individual Details

Wells said to have married Sarah Ann Williams. Wells also married Mary George, 29 Dec 1812, Knox Co, TN - which may have been the first marriage. Wells said to have died Sep 1838, DeKalb Co TN - there are children listed which are said to be the same as children listed in the will of Sarah Ann Adamson.

Cannon Co. TN Deeds
(FHL film 898,453; Book A has blurred or out-of-focus pages)
A-9: 4 Nov. 1835, Thos. W. Duncan of Smith Co. TN to Wells Adamson, $50, 1/10 part undivided tract of land in Smith Co. on Smith's Fork, heir of Josiah Duncan decd, where Josiah lived and died. Wit. Samuel J. Garrison, L.S. Gilian?

DeKalb Co TN Will Book 1, p.3-4
State of Tennessee, DeKalb County, September the 19th 1838
In the name of god amen this is my last will and testament. First of all I resign my soul to god who gave it and my body to the dust from where it came. first of all I want my Just debts to be paid and my and my wife to be decently buried.
I will and bequeath to my son Edward one sorrel Colt - that he now Claims. next - I will that my wife have a sufficiency to maintain her and her children until they are raised or put to a trade, produce provided for her where ever she lives, the lands all to be rented out except the tract where my son son William now lives on. I will that he keeps one half of the improvement rent free as long as he sees cause to live on it by his keeping up the fence. I will also that the negroes all be hired out after gathering all the Crops except old Isaac and he to have his freedom on his good behavior but on the first offence my son William to take him and hire him out as the others. The rents of the lands to be put to the maintaining of my wife and children. I also appoint my son William and William Adams, and Ausburn Mullinax my executors of my will. If son William sees cause to keep the place where he lives and pay six hundred dollars he may do so and pay not rent only this year and have five years to pay it in finally I want all my children to have an equal part of my estate.
Well (his X mark) Adamson
Attest: Jose Adamson, James M. Dodd
State of Tennessee, DeKalb County October Term 1835. On motion the last will and testament of Wells Adamson Dec'd was produced in open Court for probate and was duly proven in open Court by the oaths of Joseph Adamson and James M. Dodd subscribing witnesses to the same who being sworn depose and say that they were acquainted with Wells Adamson and that he was a man of sound mind and memory and that he also acknowledges that he executed the within will on the day it bears date for the purposes therein Contained and on Motion ordered to be recorded. Witness my hand at office this the 1st day of October 1838.
T. M. Wade, Clerk of DeKalb County Court.

I searched DeKalb wills all the way to the 1870's without finding any will for a wife - perhaps there was some other settlement at her death since there was both land and slaves involved.

I believe the eldest daughter Cinthia married William L. Adams - and Wells' wife was deceased before 1850.
1850 Census. DeKalb, TN, Dist 3, Hh 277
William L. Adams, 38.
Cintha, 34.
Abram, 17. Wells 14. William 12. Nancy P. 10. Peter, 8. Jacob 5. Horace, 1.
Olivia Adamson, 15
Thomas R. Adamson, 13

Children listed here found on FamilySearch - some are certified by above research, others I have no confirmation.

Birth	1793
Marriage	29 Dec 1812	Knox County, Tennessee - Mary George
Marriage	Abt 1822	Sarah Ann Williams
Death	Bef 1 Oct 1838	DeKalb County, Tennessee

Spouse	Sarah Ann Williams ( - 1850)
Child	Edward Adamson (1824 - 1901)
Child	Nancy Melissa Adamson (1826 - 1901)
Child	Lemuel Jefferson Adamson (1829 - 1871)
Child	Joseph Morrison Adamson (1831 - 1853)
Child	Sarah Ann Adamson (1833 - 1853)
Child	Olivia "Ollie" Adamson (1835 - 1876)
Child	Thomas Bethel Adamson (1837 - )

Spouse	Mary George ( - 1822)
Child	Cynthia Adamson (1815 - 1873)
Child	William Adamson (1816 - )

Father	Jesse T. ADAMSON (1759 - 1825)
Mother	Mary Wells (1757 - 1825)
Sibling	Charity ADAMSON (1778 - 1828)
Sibling	John ADAMSON (1780 - 1806)
Sibling	Margaret ADAMSON (1782 - )
Sibling	Joseph ADAMSON (1785 - 1854)
Sibling	Simon ADAMSON (1786 - 1870)
Sibling	William ADAMSON (1787 - )
Sibling	Jesse ADAMSON (1788 - )
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Adamson (1790 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Adamson (1797 - )
Sibling	Elijah ADAMSON (1799 - 1826)