Descendants
of Wayne Lewis ADAMS
Generation
No. 1
44.
WAYNE LEWIS8 ADAMS
(VIRGIL CLARENCE7, JOHN THOMAS6,
JESSE THOMAS5, BRIANT (BRYAN)4, HENRY3,
JESSE2, HENRY1) was born October 31,
1931 in Doniphan, Ripley, MO. He
married BETTY JANE KRABLIN June 16, 1956 in
St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. She was
born April 14, 1931 in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Notes for WAYNE LEWIS ADAMS:
The following is an electronic mail I
received from my Uncle, Wayne Lewis Adams, on August 6, 2000. I
(Dennis L Adams Sr.) have recently become very interested in our ancestry and
have been working with my uncle Wayne to try to further his research. As you
will note, Wayne Adams has spent many years researching and compiling our family
history. Wayne L. Adams is to be credited with our ancestry tree.
Actually the
Ripley County History (hopefully to be published later this year) is to
contain one article I wrote on our ancestor Jesse Thomas Adams, the first of our
Adams line to arrive in Missouri. At least three or four "researching
cousins" hopefully will be including articles on the Pattersons and other
related lines. The book was available only by pre-subscription but when it comes
out I'll plan to send you copies of any material that looks like it would
interest you. You may recall that there is a hard cover book on the Judy/Tschudi
line through my mom's mother which I'm pretty sure includes you. Some cousins
I'm in contact with have also used material I shared for a couple books on her
McKee/McKay line (her father's side). On my dad's maternal side (the Pattersons)
some material I shared has also been incorporated in at least one published
family history. I maintain several rather voluminous word processor files on our
family lines, about equally divided between Betty's lines and mine. I correspond
with a couple Adams "cousins" but I guess one reason I spent less time
on the Adams than on the McKees, McKays, Dixons, Judys, Vinyards, Tablers,
Pattersons, Trammels, etc was the relative lack of interest in genealogy by the
Adams cousins compared to enthusiasm among "researching cousins" on
other lines. Probably the biggest reason for my never putting what I had into a
bound book was that I was never satisfied that I "had it all" --
nearly every month something pops up which you would have written differently
had a volume been cast in stone the month before. A book put out by a McKee
cousin just a few months ago already has an extensive revision so I've mostly
stuck with the "loose leaf" approach. Your genealogy interest is like
manna from heaven. We have been dabbling in genealogy for about forty years. I
had to put it on the back burner for several years while we were tied down
caring for Betty's mom but before that we very regularly "hopped
around" court houses, libraries and cemeteries. I guess we would average
having put in about 40-50 days a year into this disease we call a hobby but
probably less than a tenth of that would have been devoted strictly to the Adams
surname. My one k of memory got overloaded when I tried to convert it into hours
-- there were lots and lots of hours but also lots and lots of fun and
satisfaction. I didn't even get onto the net until about a year ago and am still
pretty much an amateur on it so there you are already way ahead of me.
We got into genealogy as a branch off
our photography hobby and got serious about it back in 1958 when Betty's
grandfather died without leaving any decent pictures of himself. With family
pictures it was a natural extension into tree climbing. We dabbled in the
darkroom as long as my eyes held out but now mostly concentrate on using the
computer. I'm attaching a pcx image of John Thomas Adams which I think is the
one you are referring to. I have other pictures of him as well as one of his
father (which is to be used in the Ripley County history).
Child of WAYNE ADAMS and BETTY KRABLIN
is:
i. ROGER DALE9 ADAMS, b. June 06, 1964, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; m. JULIE ANN MASON, April 21, 1990, HAMPTON, VA; b. May 08, ,VA.
Notes for ROGER DALE ADAMS: Roger & Julie were married @ Hampton Roads Baptist Church.