SURNAME SATURDAY–Adams of Lawrence County, Ohio

Today’s surname is ADAMS.  I’d like to begin taking a count of the various surnames in my database and how they relate to me and/or my husband.  Beginning with the letter “A” seems a good place to start.

I began by looking in the Index in my Legacy database.  Here is what I see:

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NOTE: Legacy 8 allows us to determine what we see on our Index list.  I choose to show women’s married names.  So the women show up in the list by both their maiden name and all of their married names.  You can also pick which columns you want to show, what order you want them to be in, and adjust the size of those columns.
 
I have 18 ADAMS listed here on my index.  As you can see I only have two of them with any relationship listed.  That tells me that most of these are not direct bloodlines.  They might be a parent or sibling of a 4th cousin once removed.  I picked a name at random and used Legacy’s relationship calculator to determine Fred T. Adams' relationship to me.  He shows up as “not related” (which means by blood).  He is my step-3rd great grandfather’s wife’s brother’s wife’s grand nephew.  Whew!  That’s a mouthful.  Fred is included in my tree because he links to one of my direct ancestor’s brother’s children, via a marriage.

So, who is my closest Adams relation?

That would be Amanda D. Adams who married Martin Hunter GILLEN.  Amanda is the wife of my 1st cousin 4 times removed.

Here’s how this plays out from my direct line:

4th great grandparents

William Gillen & Rachel Frampton

Their son, my 3rd great granduncle

Isaac Fisher Gillen & Amy Kimball

Their son, my 1st cousin 4 times removed

Martin Hunter Gillen & Amanda D. Adams

Amanda D. Adams was born 23 Mar 1873 in Lawrence Co., Ohio.  She married Martin Hunter Gillen on 3 Dec 1899 in Lawrence Co., Ohio. They had two sons, Hugh Loder Gillen (1900-1973) and Garland A. Gillen (1902-1932).

 

Marriage record for Martin H. Gillen & Amanda D. Adams (downloaded copy is blurry)

In 1915, Martin Hunter Gillen (who went by his middle name, Hunter) opened a car dealership in Chesapeake, Lawrence Co., Ohio.  Later on the business was passed to his sons, Hugh and Garland.
 
Here is an article about the car dealership.



Amanda Adams Gillen died on 18 Jan 1937 in Chesapeake, Lawrence, Ohio.  She was 63 years old.  Her cause of death was given as Cardiac asthma.  She was preceded in death by her son, Garland, who died of influenza in 1932 and her husband Martin “Hunter” who died in 1935 of heart problems.
 
TIP:  The last time I researched Amanda Adams was in 2010.  At that time I located an index of her death record on familysearch.org, but no image.  I went back today and the image is available.  This is why it is so important to keep checking those online records.

Death certificate - Amanda D. Gillen

Here is Amanda’s obituary from the Ironton Evening Tribune.

Amanda Gillen's Obituary - The Ironton Evening Tribune

Martin, Amanda & Garland are buried in Rome Proctorville Cemetery, Proctorville, Lawrence Co., Ohio.

You may visit their memorials by clicking here – Martin, Amanda, Garland.

Writing about someone not directly related to me has yielded me a record I did not previously have, Amanda’s death certificate.  It’s also shown me that I have a bit more work to do on this particular direct line, the Gillens.
 
Do you have any Adams in your tree?  Are you related to either the Adams or the Gillens in my tree?  I have many contacts in Lawrence County, Ohio and find that most of us are related in some way.

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Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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