Individual Details

Alfred Adamson

(1824 - 9 Feb 1881)



Although several marriages in this family are said to have taken place in Wright Co, MO - the records were destroyed during the Civil War and again in a courthouse fire in 1897.

Alfred Adamson and Sarah Coday were married on 15 October 1841 in Wright Co., Missouri. Sarah Coday was born in 1820 in Indiana. She died () after July 1900 at the age of 80 in Wright Co., Missouri. She was buried in Wright Co., Missouri. Sarah was buried in Wolf Creek Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery.

1850 Census. Wright, MO, Hh 175
Alfred, 26, b. IN. Sarah, 28, b. KY
Children all born in Missouri
Jonathan, 6. Samuel, 4. Zed, 2. Elizabeth, 2 months old

1860 Census. Wright, MO, Hh 419
Alfred Adamson, 35. Sarah 29
Johnathan, 16. Samuel, 14. Zed, 12. Elizabeth, 10. Elender, 7. James, 3. William, age 1.

Alfred was a member of the Union Army Co. H, MO S.M. Cav.

1870 Census. Wright, MO, Hh 375
Alfred Adamson, 50. Sarah, 50
Elizabeth, 20. Ellen, 16. James 14. William, 12.
[note: should have been a Riley, age 8]
Hh 226
Samuel Adamson, 24. Samantha, 20. Henry, 3. May A., 8 months.

1870 Census. Hh 380
Riley Adamson, age 10, living with Flora & Thos. Randall, age 10 "School boy". There were also 3 young Randall children and Alley Russell, age 20, "school girl".

1880 Census. Gasconade, Wright, MO, Hh 166
Alford Adamson, 56
Sarah, 60, wife
Riley, 18, son

Died Wright County.

Events

Birth1824Indiana
Death9 Feb 1881Wright County, Missouri

Families

FatherJonathan "Squire" Adamson (1795 - 1859)
MotherSarah Teague (1795 - 1848)
SiblingEliza Adamson (1820 - 1865)
SiblingWilliam R. Adamson (1826 - )
SiblingMary Adamson (1827 - )
SiblingJonathan Adamson Jr. (1835 - 1896)