Biography
John Adair was born 8 January 1833 in Pickens County, Alabama to Samuel Jefferson Adair (1806-1889) and Jemima Catherina Mangum (1809-1848) and died June 1899 Barclay, Lincoln County, Nevada of unspecified causes. He married Eliza Jane Richey (1837-1908) 1855 in Payson, Utah County, Utah.
Eliza Jane Richey (1837-1908) married her cousin, John Milton Adair (1833-1899). Both are granchildren of Thomas Adair (1774-1858) and Rebecca Brown (1776-1846).
Their parents grew were born in Pickens Co, Alabama, and in 1831 the families moved to Noxubee, MS where they saw the missionaries of the Mormon Church. By 1845 they moved to Nauvoo Illinois. In by 1848 had migrated out to Utah with some of the earlier Mormon Pioneer Companies.
Benjamin Gardner 1852 Pioneer Company
1861 Wagon train in Echo Canyon
Benjamin Gardner led a pioneer company of 185 individuals that consisted primarily of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were seeking refuge from religion persecution. Departed from Kanesville, Iowa on 2-10 June 1852 and reached the Salt Lake Valley on 24-27 Sept 1852. The Adair Family was part of this group, including 3-4 children adopted in Iowa.
Dixie Cottom Mission (1857)
In 1857, a group of about 38 southerner families were called by Brigham Young (1801-1877) on to settle the Virgin River area of Southwest Utah and to crow cotton, to decrease the saints reliance on expensive product from back east. Other pioneer families joined them in 1861 but this ambitious endeavor came to an end after the close of the Civil War and cotton prices collapsed.
They married in 1855 in Payson Utah and followed their parents to settle Washington County, Utah as part of the LDS Dixie Cotton Mission.
About 1875 they moved to Lincoln County, Nevada where their last child, Cordelia was born.
Barclay (aka: Clover Valley) is a ghosttown in Lincoln County, Nevada, just across the state line from Washington County, Utah. Originally a Mormon settlement in the 19th century, it has few residents and appears on several ghost town lists. Main sites in the town include an old Mormon cemetery, and an abandoned Post Office, the latter being one of the few remaining buildings in the town. Both John and Eliza are buried in the Old Mormon Cemetery in Barclay. Several of their children married some of the Hamblin children that helped to found that community.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mammy Adair (1827-1921) | |||
| Emily Jane Adair (1856-1861) | |||
| John Milton Adair (1858-1926) | |||
| Elizabeth Malinda Adair (1860-) | |||
| Eliza Ann Adair (1860-1926) | |||
| Margaret Jemina Adair (1864-1958) | 11 May 1864 Washington, Washington County, Utah, United States | 27 July 1958 Ontario, San Bernardino County, California, United States | Obed Edwin Hamblin (1856-1917) |
| David William Adair (1867-1934) | |||
| Hannah Melissa Adair (1870-1890) | |||
| Charlotte Lucinda Adair (1873-1936) | |||
| Cordelia C Adair (1876-1882) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Joshua Tumer Adair (1849-1938) | 25 December 1849 Kanesville, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States | 2 August 1938 Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska, United States | Eliza Arilla Rickman (1850-1936) |
Vital Records
- Washington County, Utah/1860 U.S. Census - Household #1293 in Washington, Utah
References
- History of Barclay NV - Sons of Utah Pioneers
See Also
- John Adair
- Adair Family
- Adair in Lincoln County, Nevada
- Adair in Pickens County, Alabama
- Adair in Utah County, Utah