Biography
Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. was born 23 December 1848 in Iowa, United States to Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1895) and Mary Vance (1820-1918) and died 2 March 1912 Alpine, Utah County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Alexander (1852-1925) 1871 in Utah. He married Lois Felicitus Fields (1879-1911) 28 April 1897 in Cochise County, Arizona.
Fool Hollow
The tiny town of Adair, Arizona has long since been covered by the lake, but it was Thomas Jefferson Adair (1848-1912) (or his father?) 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.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Armenta Jane Adair (1872-1957) | |||
| Randolph Lawrence Adair (1875-1959) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Vessie Felicitus Adair (1899-1944) | |||
| William Adair (1900-1988) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mary Ann Adair (1836-1861) | 13 June 1837 Pickens County, Alabama | 27 April 1861 Washington, Washington County, Utah | Valentine Carson (1831-1898) |
| Adair (1839-) | |||
| James Wesley Adair (1841-1865) | 1 January 1841 Itawamba County, Mississippi | 11 January 1865 | Elizabeth Thornton (1841-) |
| Samuel Adair (1843-1844) | 23 August 1843 Chickasaw County, Mississippi | 3 October 1844 | |
| Emma Smith Adair (1845-1876) | 11 January 1845 Chickasaw County, Mississippi | 24 March 1876 Kane County, Utah | Hans Peter Mortensen (1844-1890) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Thomas Jefferson Adair (1848-1912) | 23 December 1848 Iowa, United States | 2 March 1912 Alpine, Utah County, Utah, United States | Elizabeth Alexander (1852-1925) Lois Felicitus Fields (1879-1911) |
| Aaron Porter Adair (1850-1911) | 2 June 1850 Winters Quarters, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States | 21 October 1911 Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States | Fanny Crosby (1860-1915) |
| Frances Myrah Adair (1853-1928) | 6 March 1853 Nephi, Juab County, Utah | 18 September 1928 Pine, Gila County, Arizona | Alfred Bryan Peach (1832-1926) |
| Moroni Adair (1855-1916) | 31 October 1855 Payson, Utah County, Utah, United States | 18 February 1916 Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona, United States | Emeline Whipple (1858-1924) Alvira Tilitha Jackson (1874-1954) |
| Mary Elizabeth Adair (1858-1926) | |||
| Jacob Franklin Adair (1860-1871) | |||
| George Adair (1869-) | |||
Residences
See Also
References
- ^ Adair AZ Ghost towns of Arizona
- ^ The Ghost of Adair