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George appears to have lived in Crawford Co AR his entire life. I don't know what, if any, relationship he had to the family of my Ernie Adamson.
George was still living for the 1820 Census. George & Sally are listed as buried in the Oliver Springs Cemetery in Crawford Co - there are no dates.

1900 Census. Oliver Springs, Crawford, AR, Hh 213
George W. Adamson, b. Jan 1852, 48, married 23 years, b. AR, father b. AL, mother b. TN, Farmer
Sarah F., wife, b. Nov 1862, 57, 6 children - 5 are living, b. AR, father b. AL, mother b. TN
Alvia, son, b. Aug 1878, 21, Student
Ina, dau, b. Feb 1890, 20
Ruby, dau, b. Jul 1881, 18
Claudy, son, b. Sep 1892, 7

1910 Census. Oliver Springs, Crawford, AR, hh 212
George W. Adamson, 58, married once for 32 years, b. AR, Farmer
Sarah F. E., wife, 52, 6 children - 5 are living, b. AR
Earl, son, 22, Farm labor, home farm
George C., son, 18, Farm labor, home farm
Ruby West, dau, 28, widow, 1 child
Bertha, granddau, 6, b. AR
Roberts, Emma, lodger, 45, widow, 4 children - 2 living, b. Ohio, Farm labor, working out
George W. Roberts, 13, b. AR
John W., Roberts, 11, b. TX

1920 Census. Oliver Springs, Crawford, AR, Hh 102
Geo. W. Adamson, 67, b. AR, Farmer
Sarah, wife, 62, b. AR

1930 Census. Oliver Springs, Crawford, AR, Hh 83. Census dated 16 Apr 1930.
George Adamson, 79, married at age 24, General farming
Sarah E., wife, 72, married at 18

Buried Oliver Springs Cemetery, Rudy, Crawford, AR. The date given for his death is that of the census of 1930 - I suspect this is not the actual date of his death.

The following sketch was attached to this George (Withers) Adamson on Ancestry, as proof of George's ancestry and descent from Jonathan Adamson (1794 1859) - who married Sarah Teague. Yet the sketch names no child of Jonathan & Sarah as George. The database has added a wife for Jonathan - Lucy, who he married circa 1850.

The 1850 Census, Crawford, AR, has in Hh 86
Johnathan Adamson, 50, laborer, birthplace unknown
Lucy, 25

In 1860, Lucy was a widow with two children. George W. age 8 and Nancy J. age 6. Lucy was born in Missouri, her children born in AR. Manda Laurence age 16, b. TN was living with the family.
1860, AR, Crawford Co, Richland Twp, p.670, Dwelling 492.


12 April, 1991 Reprint of Article from SOUVENIR OF TEXAS
Jonathan Adamson is an old Texan and ranks among the early settlers of Grayson Co. He is a native of Indiana, a descendant of a pioneer family of that state, and of Irish and Scotch extraction. His great-grandfather Adamson was a Scotsman who imigrated to America in Colonial times. Among others, he had a son named David, who moved to Indiana and settled when that state was a territory and there raised a family. The eldest of these sons was a son named Jonathan and he was the father of the subject of this sketch. Jonathan Adamson, Sr. was born in Indiana and lived there to maturity, moving when a young man to Greene County, Missouri, where he lived about 10 years. He then moved to Crawford Co., Arkansas, where he died in 1861 in the 70th year of his life. He was a farmer and pursused his calling steadily and successfully all his life. He occupied a number of official positions in different localities where he lived; was sheriff of his native county, also represented Greene County in the legislature during his residence there. and was Justice of the Peace for many years in Crawford Co., Arkansas, being then familiarly known as Squire ADAMSON all over the county and transacting a large amount of legal business in his court. He was a man of strict integrity, thoroughly honest and upright in all his dealings. In some respects he led a singular life; he was never drunk, he never swore an oath, he never fired a gun, he never laughed and he never cried, yet he was genial, good natured and entertaining, cherished as a companion, admired as a friend and respected as a citizen. The lady whom Jonathan Adamson, Sr. married and bore him companionship throughout the greater part of his life, was, before married, a Miss Sarah Tigue, a daughter of William Tigue, of Indiana. Mrs. Adamson was born in Indiana, moved with her husband to Missouri and thence to Arkansas, where she died in 1848. To this union were borne 9 children, who were christened as follows - Eliza, Alfred, William, Elizabeth, Mora, Susan, Martha , Jonathan and Sarah.
Jonathan Adamson, whose name is placed at the head of this sketch, was born in Marion Co., Indiana April 15, 1835. [Note: this HAD to be Monroe Co IN - not Marion] He was a child when his father left there, and was reared to the age of ten in Greene County, Missouri. His mother dying when he was yet young, he came as a lad to Texas, to live in the family of his sister. She died soon afterward and from that time on he lived among strangers and is the maker of his own fortune. Like most boys, he drifted from one place to another and was employed at divers occupations until the breaking out of the civil war., when he enlisted in the Confederate service and was soldiered in various portions of the state for four years, or until the surrender. He then came to Grayson County, and, having married a lady of that county in the meantime, settled in the vicinity of Collinsville, where he began farming. He has lived in this community since, being engaged at different times at farming, hotel keeping and the livery business. On may 12, 1861, Mr. ADAMSON married Miss Margaret Huffaker, d/o of Jacob Huffaker, one of the pioneer settlers of western Grayson County and herself a worthy representative of this widely known and respected family.
Mr. and Mrs. ADAMSON have had born to them and have reared to maturity a family of 9 children, in the order of their ages as follows - Joseph, Jonathan Q., William H., Jacob W., Mollie, Thomas, Alpheus, George and Maud. There is no family in the county that has furnished as many successful teachers as this. Joseph, after several years of successful teaching, was recently elected superintendent of public instruction for the county, which office he now holds; Jonathan Q. is principal of the schools at Bowie, Montage County; William H. and Jacob W. are in charge of good schools, the one in Grayson and the other in Collin County. The younger ones Mr. ADAMSON has in school, fitting them for useful and honorable positions when they began life for themselves.
Submitted by June Kiker Rickets.
The researcher and descendant of this line also told me that this Jonathan was on the 1840 Pulaski Co., Missouri Census and married Sarah Teague in 1818. The 1850 Census of Grayson Co., Texas shows 14 yr old Jonathan Adamson [Junior- who married Huffaker] living with Mary Myers.

The names don't seem to match children as noted above, but perhaps Jonathan and a younger sister were living with an older married sister.
1850 Census. Grayson Co, TX, Hh 220
Jesse Myers, 27, b. Ohio
Mary, 23, b. IN
S. or L. E. Myers, female age 8 months, b. TX
J. Adamson, 14, male, b. IN
M. Adamson, 11 female, b. IN (should have been "N." for Nancy)

Birth	Jan 1852	Arkansas
Marriage	Abt 1877	Sarah Frances E. Sagely
Death	Aft 16 Apr 1930	Crawford County, Arkansas

Spouse	Sarah Frances E. Sagely (1862 - 1943)
Child	Alva Edison Adamson (1878 - 1962)
Child	Ina Adamson (1880 - 1976)
Child	Ruby Adamson (1881 - )
Child	Earl Adamson (1887 - 1963)
Child	George Claude Adamson (1892 - )

Father	Jonathan "Squire" Adamson (1795 - 1859)
Mother	Lucy [Adamson] (1825 - )
Sibling	Nancy J. Adamson (1854 - )