George Washington Adair II was born 26 January 1861 in Santa Clara, Washington County, Utah, United States to George Washington Adair (1837-1909) and Ann Catherine Chestnut (1844-1863) and died 10 January 1934 Bloomfield, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States of unspecified causes. He married Almira Hamblin (1860-1940) 22 January 1879 in St. George, Washington County, Utah, United States.
Called to Arizona
Source: Autobiography of Priscilla Hamblin Alger Called to Arizona Preparations commenced for our journey to Arizona. The men traded most of our cattle for horses, some of them the very best to be procured. A small herd of cows and heifers were kept to take with us. Good strong wagons with double covers on them were bought some of them had a trail wagon behind. My brother, Billie and family, were in the lead. Next [was] George Mangum, then George Adair, both brother-in-laws of mine. Sister Clara and myself rode with Elmira and Georgie, mother with Jane and George. There were five other families, three of them driving ox teams and all seemed to be well prepared for a long hard journey. Our family at least were well supplied with plenty of food to last a year. The horses and cattle were started on ahead, with five men and boys driving, my brothers Duain and Joseph and a cousin, Jacob Hamblin, Jr. On October 28, 1879, our little company, ten wagons in all, started for the far off Arizona. The first part of our journey was very pleasant. Everyone was well and happy.
A month had passed and nothing of importance had happened. But first we had to prepare for so long a journey and be well supplied with plenty of food like flour, sugar, meat, cheese, butter, and frozen milk. So in order to take food with us we went on a ranch and rented cows and started making butter and cheese and fattening five hogs. Selling what we didn’t take with us, bought sugar, coffee, tea, cloth for clothes and many other things, like shoes. We had many guns and plenty of ammunition, yarn for socks and stockings, buckskin for jackets, and now we are packing and getting ready to go to Arizona.
There was Mother, my sisters Anna, Clara and Priscilla, mother’s baby girl myself. William H. Hamblin, my oldest brother and his family which consisted of his wife, Abigail, and Eliza, Ellen, and Willie the oldest boy, George A. Mangum and his wife, Jane, my older sister and their two little girls, Olive & Lydia and George Adair and his wife Elmira. My sister Clara and myself rode in the wagon with them. Then Grandpa and Grandma Mangum (parents of George A. Mangum – John Mangum and Mary Ann Adair Mangum) with one of their son-in laws (James Orman Wilkins?) who had lost his wife not long before we left for Arizona, also, John [Wesley] Mangum with his family and mother and a family by the name of Wilkins (James Orman Wilkins?) and two other families. All went well with us till we had to lay over for three weeks for my sister Jane who had a little blue-eyed yellow curly headed girl born while on the road to Arizona, and for my sister Elmira who gave birth to a little black-eyed black haired boy, but Elmira’s boy, her first child, didn’t get strong.
Railroad Work
Source: Autobiography of Priscilla Hamblin Alger
Our Men Hunt Work In 1881 work commenced for putting through the Union Pacific Railroad, (now the Sante Fe Railroad) which was being put through from Fort Wingate, New Mexico to Flagstaff, Arizona. As men were wanted for cutting and laying ties, my brothers Billie and Duane, brother-in-laws, George Mangum and George Adair, whose wife accompanied him, also my sister Annie, and sister-in law Abigail, went with the men. The next winter was the coldest we had known since coming to Arizona. All of our men having left home all of the chores such as milking cows, cutting wood, digging paths through the snow to the wood pile and corral and over cross the creek to where my sister lived, made it pretty hard for us children and mother. Late in the spring brother Duane came home.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| George William Adair (1880-1880 | |||
| Leroy Adair (1882-1966) | |||
| Don Carlos Adair (1884-1885) | |||
| Bertha Almira Adair (1886-1962) | |||
| Clarence Duane Adair (1888-1933) | |||
| Lenora Ann Adair (1891-1906) | |||
| Guy Adair (1892-1959) | |||
| Emily Perinthia Adair (1894-1979) | |||
| Betsy Olive Adair (1896-1984) | 2 January 1896 Overton, Clark County, Nevada, United States | 10 September 1984 Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States | Edward Schuyler Fuller (1875-1936) George Ether Slade (1887-1958) |
| Alfred Chestnut Adair (1898-1983) | |||
| Blanche Grace Adair (1900-1920) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| George Washington Adair (1861-1934) | 26 January 1861 Santa Clara, Washington County, Utah, United States | 10 January 1934 Bloomfield, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States | Almira Hamblin (1860-1940) |
| Jemima Ann Adair (1863-1919) | 27 March 1863 Washington, Washington County, Utah, United States | 2 January 1919 Junction, Piute County, Utah, United States | Charles Henry Hales (1848-1907) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Olive Parintha Adair (1864-1864) | |||
| Emily Jane Adair (1865-1949) | |||
| Daniel Tyler Adair (1867-1901) | |||
| Samuel P Adair (1870-1871) | |||
| William Albert Adair (1872-1927) | |||
| John Washington Adair (1874-1957) | 10 February 1874 Kanab, Kane County, Utah, United States | 18 April 1957 Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona, United States | Cynthia Jane Penrod (1878-1951) |
| George Newton Adair (1876-1899) | 23 March 1876 Kanab, Kane County, Utah, United States | 23 November 1899 New Harmony, Washington County, Utah, United States | Adelia Francesca Sawyer (1876-1953) |
| Ruth Alice Adair (1878-1920) | |||
| Joseph Welton Adair (1881-1926) | |||
| Rufus Nathaniel Adair (1884-1959) | |||
| Edna Irene Adair (1887-1937) | 20 January 1887 Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, United States | 10 April 1937 Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States | George Ether Slade (1887-1958) |
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