Individual Details

"After her father's death, Jane taught school for awhile in the home neighborhood, then came to this part of the state and took charge of a school not far from where Bethel Church now stands. Her boarding place was on that little rise on the south side of the Jackson road, just beyond the church as you go west.
She married Dr. Armel F. Adair, and lived in that vicinity until the latter part of 1846. They then went to Attala Co., and in January 1849 moved to Texas. Jane visited her sister Pauline in the summer of 1848, but then didn't see her again for 44 years when Pauline visited her in her Texas home in 1892.
After Dr. Adair's death, Jane with her three little children, lived with her mother and taught school most of the time, and in this way, not only helped to provide for herself and little ones, but educated her younger sisters.
After almost three years of widowhood, she married Jacob Colvin. She still taught occasionally, and after Mr. Colvin's death followed this vocation most of the time. In this way she was enabled to give her three Adair children and her two Colvin children a pretty fair common school education. Dora, her youngest child, began when quite young to teach in the public schools, and later attended the high school at Huntsville, Texas." (Paulline Craig Hughes)

"Girls married when pretty young a hundred years ago. In 1843, I believe it was, when Jane was about twenty, she married Dr. Armel Adair. She and her husband started their married life in the southern part of Kemper County, near where Jane had been teaching school before marriage. After a few years, they moved to Atalla County, thence to Texas in 1849.
Dr. Adair did not live long after reaching Texas. After a few years of widowhood, Jane married a second time. Jacob Colvin was the name of this second husband. He, too, died after only a few years, leaving Jane again a widow with two little ones in addition to the three of hers by the former marriage.
Jane resumed her teaching after the death of Mr. Colvin, and followed this occupation for many years. After John's marriage she lived with him most of the time. Her own daughter, Mary Adair, who had married a Mr. Broyles, died when still quite young, leaving three little children. These, with the help of his mother, John undertook to raise in addition to his two little sons. He cared for them as though they were his very own. The boys grew to manhood in John's home, and proved to be useful citizens of the communities where they afterwards lived. The one girl, whose name was Jane, married when very young against the wishes of her uncle and grandmother, and we seem to have lost sight of her." Betty Hughes

Courthouse records show that Eliza Jane, after the death of A. F., had to have the property appraised, etc. One of the individuals selected by the court to do this was a William (H?) Craig.
(Barbara Crenwelge)

Birth	14 Jul 1824	Alabama, United States
Marriage	26 Apr 1844	Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States - Dr. Armel F. Adair
Census (family)	19 Nov 1850	Precinct 5, Limestone, Texas, United States - Dr. Armel F. Adair
Marriage	10 Sep 1854	Smith, Texas, United States - Jacob Feaster Colvin
Census (family)	1860	Mt. Vernon Beat, Smith, Texas, United States - Jacob Feaster Colvin
Census	14 Aug 1870	Athens PO, Henderson, Texas, United States
Census	1880	Henderson, Texas, United States
Death	31 Jan 1894	Henderson, Texas, United States
Burial		Leagueville Cemetery, Leagueville, Henderson, Texas, United States

Spouse	Dr. Armel F. Adair (1812 - 1853)
Child	John Craig Adair (1845 - 1906)
Child	William Wesley "Will" Adair (1847 - 1907)
Child	Mary S. Pauline Adair (1852 - )

Spouse	Jacob Feaster Colvin (1823 - 1863)
Child	Elizabeth Jane Colvin (1856 - 1935)
Child	Eudora "Dora" Colvin (1862 - 1937)

Father	Dr. John Craig (1801 - 1841)
Mother	Mary Barfield (1803 - 1860)
Sibling	Pauline Craig (1826 - 1910)
Sibling	Mary Craig (1828 - 1841)
Sibling	William Henry "Will" Craig (1831 - 1880)
Sibling	John Craig (1834 - 1861)
Sibling	Sarah C. Craig (1839 - )
Sibling	E. Matilda Craig (1838 - 1862)
Sibling	Louisa Anna Craig (1841 - 1887)

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