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This page collects information about people with surname Adair who were known or believed to have lived in Navajo County, Arizona.

Notable Individuals

Notable Landmarks

Fool Hollow

The tiny town of Adair, Arizona has long since been covered by the lake, but it was Thomas Jefferson Adair (1848-1912) who was responsible for the name Fool Hollow. In 1885, Adair moved into the area with the intention of farming. The locals joked that only a fool would try and farm the place. The name stuck! Mormon settlement established in 1878 in what was then Apache County of Arizona Territory. This area became Navajo County on March 21, 1895. Arizona officially became a state February 14, 1912. Submitted by: Bob McKown [1]

The only remnant left of the settlement is the Adair Cemetery off Old Linden Road. The weathered grave markers honor the deceased, some of whom lived only nine years, two years, one day. The names of their descendants now adorn street signs in Show Low.

There were 12 families in total who settled in the hollow in 1879 — all Mormon pioneers tasked with settling the area. For 25 years they eked out a living tending livestock and raising corn, sugar cane, beans and other vegetables, sustained by water that the settlers had to haul from the creek. The treeless, flat bottom of the hollow looked, at first, ideal for crops, but the settlers could not have known at the time that its soil was laced with sand and salt deposits. And the bowl-shaped topography invited early frost, deadly to crops. The name “Fool Hollow” seems now appropriate, and was coined for that very reason.[2]


Adair is now under Fool Hollows Lake it is located two miles north of US 60 off Highway 260 in Show Low, Arizona.


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:Note, for the following tables, that there may be more than one county or district of this name and that some contributors may have entered a different (possibly shorter and/or ambiguous) name when this one was meant. Search for similar names to get a more complete result. Common abbreviations are "Co." and "Cty", but there may have been no word for "county" (or equivalent) included, or such a word may have been wrongly included.

Familypedia people with surname Adair in Navajo County, Arizona


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Born in Navajo County, Arizona

 Birth placeBirth dateFatherMotherJoined with-g1
Delbert William Adair (1934-1976)Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona, United States3 November 1934Leslie Ronald Adair (1914-1951)Mildred Lilly (1918-1997)Wilma Doris Dear (1935-1973)
Leslie Ronald Adair (1914-1951)Pinetop, Navajo County, Arizona, United States8 May 1914John Washington Adair (1874-1957)Cynthia Jane Penrod (1878-1951)Mildred Lilly (1918-1997)

Baptised in Navajo County, Arizona

Married in Navajo County, Arizona

See also Category:Married in Navajo County, Arizona

Grouping is for "first marriage", "second marriage", etc as indicated in column headings

 Birth placeBaptism placeWedding1 dateWedding1 placeJoined with-g1
Leslie Ronald Adair (1914-1951)Pinetop, Navajo County, Arizona, United States1 March 1934Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, United StatesMildred Lilly (1918-1997)

Died in Navajo County, Arizona

See also Category:Died in Navajo County, Arizona
 Death dateDeath placeBirth placeFatherMotherJoined with
Jamima Jane Adair (1871-1919)8 June 1919Taylor, Navajo County, Arizona, United StatesWashington, Washington County, Utah, United StatesSamuel Newton Adair (1839-1924)Helen Genette Brown (1845-1933)William Clark Baldwin (1868-1950)
John Washington Adair (1874-1957)18 April 1957Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona, United StatesKanab, Kane County, Utah, United StatesGeorge Washington Adair (1837-1909)Emily Prescinda Tyler (1847-1917)Cynthia Jane Penrod (1878-1951)
Moroni Adair (1855-1916)18 February 1916Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona, United StatesPayson, Utah County, Utah, United StatesThomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1895)Mary Vance (1820-1918)Emeline Whipple (1858-1924) + Alvira Tilitha Jackson (1874-1954)

Buried in Navajo County, Arizona

References

  1. ^ Adair AZ Ghost towns of Arizona
  2. ^ The Ghost of Adair
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