Photo provided by Matthew Adams from Ancestry
June 19, 2010
Robert & Nancy Adams Family in 1907
From left to right:
Zona Jones (holding baby) Viola Jones (baby) Hugh Jones (standing) Elmer Hathaway (little boy in front) Dr. W. G. Hathaway (standing with mustache) Media Hathaway (standing behind baby 2) Dessie Hathaway (baby 2) Nettie Adams (standing behind man with beard) Robert L Adams (seated, man with beard) Nancy Adams (seated to Robert Adams' left) Jessie Adams (held by Nancy Adams) Grover Cleveland Adams (standing behind Nancy Adams) Cora Adams (standing to Grover Cleveland Adams' left) John Easley (standing behind baby 3) Beatrice Easley (baby 3) Ella Easley (standing to John Easley's left) Walter Easley (small boy next to Beatrice with arm resting on Beatrice) Robert Finley (young boy to Walter Easley's left) Archie L. Finley (standing to Ella Easley's left) Mary Finley (standing to A. L. Finley's left) Pearl Finley (seated in front of A. L. Finley) Murbey Finley (small girl seated on stool far right of picture)
Click on photo to enlarge
Permission to post photo given by Matthew Adams on March 19, 2016
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Laid to rest next to her husband, Robert, & children: R.R. & Jesse Adams.
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Nancy's parents were:
Samuel M Wilson 1827–1870
Mary Polly Doty 1825–1863
Nancy & her siblings:
Alfred S Wilson 1848–1922
Nancy Miranda Wilson 1851–1931
Mary E Wilson 1852–1920
John D Wilson 1857–
Half brothers from her father's marriage to Louisa Stiles after the death of her mother.
George Wilson 1865–
James H Wilson 1867–
William J Wilson 1869–
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Nancy married Robert Lynch Adams in Barry Co, MO on February 2, 1872.
Their children were:
Mary M Adams 1873–1965
Frances Adams 1877–1883
Ella Elizabeth Adams 1880–1960
Jessie Robert Adams 1881–1908
Alameda "Media" A Adams 1882–1961
Sammie Arizona "Zona" Adams 1885–1965
Robert R. Adams 1885–1892
Grover Cleveland Adams 1887–1969
Nettie Mae Adams 1887–1972
Cora Lea Adams 1887–1969
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On July 7, 1900,
Robert & Nancy, ages 53 & 49, were renting a home in
Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory where Robert farmed to support the family. Their children were:
Annie A Adams 17
Arazne Adams 15
Gover L Adams 12
Nettie M Adams12
Cora A Adams 12
Robert Adams
Part of Census unreadable.
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Robert died on Christmas Eve, 1907
The Daily Ardmoreite
Tuesday, February 24, 1931
"PIONEER WOMAN DIES IN ARDMORE
Impressive Funeral Services for Mrs. Nancy Adams Held at Home at Provence.
Funeral of Mrs. Nancy Adams, 82, pioneer Carter county citizen, who died in an Ardmore sanitarium last night, was to be held this afternoon from her home at Provence. The religious service of the Methodist Episcopal church will be conducted by Rev. Charles L. Brooks, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city.
Mrs. Adams' grandsons, Kermit Adams, Elmer Hathaway, Robert Finley, Richard and Robert Jones and Aubrey Easley, were to act as the active pallbearers. The honorary ones include Teddy Clay, G.C. Adams, Jr., Walter Easley, Shelton and Paul Hathaway and Lloyd Jones. Burial arrangements were in charge of the Bettes funeral home.
Death of Mrs. Adams removes one of this county's oldest pioneers. The family had lived here nearly 40 years. Mrs. Adams and her husband having come to this section in the early territorial days from Collin County, Texas.
Mrs. Adams was born in Missouri, January 1851. She married Robert L. Adams at Aurora, Mo., in 1871 and to them 10 children were born, seven of whom are living. They moved to Texas and within a few years settled on a farm near Terrell later moving to Provence where Mrs. Adams lived the last quarter of a century. She became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 16. ..."
Last part of obituary too dark to read.
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The following was contributed by Find A Grave member, Leah Stubbs (#48433522), on March 16, 2016.
"Nancy Miranda Wilson was a daughter of Samuel M Wilson and Mary Polly Dotty.
Samuel and Mary had four children together, including Nancy: Alfred, Mary, Nancy, and John.
After Mary Polly (Dotty) Wilson died, Samuel married 2nd to Louisa Stiles (16 Feb 1863 in Barry County, Missouri). This union bore three children, the half-siblings to Nancy: George, James, and William."
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Robert & Nancy had triplets, which often made the news.
The Daily Ardmoreite
Thursday, August 5, 1965
"TRIO GROWS UP IN ARDMORE
ADAMS TRIPLETS MARKING THEIR 78TH BIRTHDAY
They made their first public appearance at the Texas Fair in Dallas when they were six weeks old.
President Grover Cleveland was so pleased he sent a letter of congratulations and a picture of himself. They've been written up in numerous newspapers across the nation, even the New York Times.
But today is a very special occasion for the Adams triplets because they're marking their 78th birthday. The triplets were born August 5, 1887, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams on a farm between McKinney and Farmersville, Tex. They wee named in order of birth, Grover Cleveland, Nettie, and Cora, and were the seventh, eighth and ninth children of a family of 10.
The letter from then President Grover Cleveland came after he had been informed of the triplets' birth and that the boy had been named in his honor. Other letters followed in later years.
But Grover Adams recalled sadly, "All his letters were destroyed in a fire. You know, they probably would be worth quite a lot now, wouldn't they?"
When the triplets were one year old, their family moved to Indian Territory and four years later, they became residents of Ardmore. It was here they grew up, and went to school and married.
Grover has lived here ever since, but the girls went west with their husbands.
Nettie, who is now Mrs. Tom Clay, moved to Shamrrock, Tex., in 1913, but she now resides in Lubbock.
Cora Adams Comer moved to Lockney, Tex., in 1914, and lived there until her husband's death in 1957, when she moved to Plainview, Tex.
Grover is a retired school teacher and lives at 414 12th Ave, NW. He taught more than 40 years and still substitutes.
The trio usually tries to get together every year for their birthday celebration. They didn't celebrate their 77th birthday, because of illness, so their last get-together was when they were 76 in Lubbock in 1963.
This year the triplets decided to meet in Ardmore, and more birthday parties are planned. Nettie has been known to say, "We'll have them until we're 100, and then we'll quit."
Grover sad he believes, although he isn't sure, that they are the oldest living triplets in the United States.
The girls arrived in town Monday, but left Wednesday for home. The triplets aren't together today, their birthday, but they had fun the two days they did spend with each other.
They were the honorees at a birthday dinner held Tuesday night at the Adams Boys Triple A Ranch north of town. About 15 family members were present.
Although there was no previous record of multiple births in the Adams family, both Nettie and Cora gave birth to two sets of twins.
Of the eight only four survived, Mrs. Marvin Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Johnnie Howell, Lubbock, are Nettie's daughters. The twin brother of T.J. Clay, Amarillo, died at birth.
Cora's only living twin is Lou Comer of Silverton, Tex.
Grover has six children; Kermit Adams, 409 R St. NW; Mrs. Vernon Carruth, Midland, Tex.; G.C. Adams, Jr., and Dick Adams, Edmond; Mrs. George Shumar, Clovis, N.M.; and Mrs. Jack L. Sloan, 916 Ash.
Nettie's children are Mrs. Howell and zMrs. Ned Craig, Lubbock; Mrs. Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo.; T.J. Clay, Amarillo; and Teddy Clay, Chowchilla, Calif.
Cora's children are Mrs. Price Barrett, Shamrock, Tex.; Mrs. O.B. Fore, Lon Comer, and Mrs. David Stephenson, all of Plainview, Tex.; and Leo Comer, Silverton, Tex."
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The Daily Ardmoreite
Sunday, August 6, 1967
"ADAMS TRIPLETS OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
It isn't everyone who receives personal birthday greeting from the President of the United States. Especially 80 years after having been cited by another President.
But then it isn't an ordinary thing to be a triplet either, yet all these distinctions belong to an Ardmore resident, Grover Cleveland Adams and to his sisters Mrs. Tom (Nettie May) Clay, Lubbock, and Mrs. Sam (Cora Lea) Comer, Plainview, Tex. The three reached their 80th milestone Saturday.
Grove Cleveland, who was president when the triplets were born Aug. 5, 1887, was so pleased that the male member of the trio had been named for him that he sent the parents a personal letter and an autographed photograph of himself.
Not to be outdone, President Lyndon Baines Johnson already is on record for his congratulations mailed to each of the trio. The card reads: "The President and Mrs. Johnson join in sending warm congratulations on your birthday and best wishes for the happiness in the years to come."
The triplets celebrate every years now. The 1967 events are special, rounding out a decade, and began Saturday with an open house reception at the home of Mrs. Clay at 3103 43rd St. Lubbock. Scores of friends and relatives attended.
Today at 1 p.m. luncheon for all the kinfolks is taking place at a church Youth Center in Lubbock, 1810 Main St.
Figures are not available but it is known that only a comparative few sets of triplets have survived to celebrate an 80th anniversary. The event is so unusual as to have rated mention in newspapers throughout the United States, including in newspaper States, including the New York Times.
The triplets were born in Collin County Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams who already were parents of six. At the age of sic weeks, so rare a phenomenon were the triplets, the infants became an 'exhibit' at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, at request of Fair authorities. They attracted wide interest, naturally.
The father was a farmer. The family moved to Ardmore - or rather Provence - five years later, and Grover has resided her ever since. The two sisters moved after their marriages, Mrs. Comer to Lockney, Tex., then Plainview. Mrs. Clay was a Shamrock, Tex. resident from 1913 to 1945 later residing at Hereford and Lubbock. ...
Another greeting cherished by the Ardmore member of the triplets is a personal letter of congratulations from Rep. Carl Albert, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. Albert requested a group photograph, should one be made today."
Researched & compiled by Virginia Brown
March 2016
June 19, 2010
Robert & Nancy Adams Family in 1907
From left to right:
Zona Jones (holding baby) Viola Jones (baby) Hugh Jones (standing) Elmer Hathaway (little boy in front) Dr. W. G. Hathaway (standing with mustache) Media Hathaway (standing behind baby 2) Dessie Hathaway (baby 2) Nettie Adams (standing behind man with beard) Robert L Adams (seated, man with beard) Nancy Adams (seated to Robert Adams' left) Jessie Adams (held by Nancy Adams) Grover Cleveland Adams (standing behind Nancy Adams) Cora Adams (standing to Grover Cleveland Adams' left) John Easley (standing behind baby 3) Beatrice Easley (baby 3) Ella Easley (standing to John Easley's left) Walter Easley (small boy next to Beatrice with arm resting on Beatrice) Robert Finley (young boy to Walter Easley's left) Archie L. Finley (standing to Ella Easley's left) Mary Finley (standing to A. L. Finley's left) Pearl Finley (seated in front of A. L. Finley) Murbey Finley (small girl seated on stool far right of picture)
Click on photo to enlarge
Permission to post photo given by Matthew Adams on March 19, 2016
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Laid to rest next to her husband, Robert, & children: R.R. & Jesse Adams.
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Nancy's parents were:
Samuel M Wilson 1827–1870
Mary Polly Doty 1825–1863
Nancy & her siblings:
Alfred S Wilson 1848–1922
Nancy Miranda Wilson 1851–1931
Mary E Wilson 1852–1920
John D Wilson 1857–
Half brothers from her father's marriage to Louisa Stiles after the death of her mother.
George Wilson 1865–
James H Wilson 1867–
William J Wilson 1869–
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Nancy married Robert Lynch Adams in Barry Co, MO on February 2, 1872.
Their children were:
Mary M Adams 1873–1965
Frances Adams 1877–1883
Ella Elizabeth Adams 1880–1960
Jessie Robert Adams 1881–1908
Alameda "Media" A Adams 1882–1961
Sammie Arizona "Zona" Adams 1885–1965
Robert R. Adams 1885–1892
Grover Cleveland Adams 1887–1969
Nettie Mae Adams 1887–1972
Cora Lea Adams 1887–1969
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On July 7, 1900,
Robert & Nancy, ages 53 & 49, were renting a home in
Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory where Robert farmed to support the family. Their children were:
Annie A Adams 17
Arazne Adams 15
Gover L Adams 12
Nettie M Adams12
Cora A Adams 12
Robert Adams
Part of Census unreadable.
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Robert died on Christmas Eve, 1907
The Daily Ardmoreite
Tuesday, February 24, 1931
"PIONEER WOMAN DIES IN ARDMORE
Impressive Funeral Services for Mrs. Nancy Adams Held at Home at Provence.
Funeral of Mrs. Nancy Adams, 82, pioneer Carter county citizen, who died in an Ardmore sanitarium last night, was to be held this afternoon from her home at Provence. The religious service of the Methodist Episcopal church will be conducted by Rev. Charles L. Brooks, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city.
Mrs. Adams' grandsons, Kermit Adams, Elmer Hathaway, Robert Finley, Richard and Robert Jones and Aubrey Easley, were to act as the active pallbearers. The honorary ones include Teddy Clay, G.C. Adams, Jr., Walter Easley, Shelton and Paul Hathaway and Lloyd Jones. Burial arrangements were in charge of the Bettes funeral home.
Death of Mrs. Adams removes one of this county's oldest pioneers. The family had lived here nearly 40 years. Mrs. Adams and her husband having come to this section in the early territorial days from Collin County, Texas.
Mrs. Adams was born in Missouri, January 1851. She married Robert L. Adams at Aurora, Mo., in 1871 and to them 10 children were born, seven of whom are living. They moved to Texas and within a few years settled on a farm near Terrell later moving to Provence where Mrs. Adams lived the last quarter of a century. She became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 16. ..."
Last part of obituary too dark to read.
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The following was contributed by Find A Grave member, Leah Stubbs (#48433522), on March 16, 2016.
"Nancy Miranda Wilson was a daughter of Samuel M Wilson and Mary Polly Dotty.
Samuel and Mary had four children together, including Nancy: Alfred, Mary, Nancy, and John.
After Mary Polly (Dotty) Wilson died, Samuel married 2nd to Louisa Stiles (16 Feb 1863 in Barry County, Missouri). This union bore three children, the half-siblings to Nancy: George, James, and William."
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Robert & Nancy had triplets, which often made the news.
The Daily Ardmoreite
Thursday, August 5, 1965
"TRIO GROWS UP IN ARDMORE
ADAMS TRIPLETS MARKING THEIR 78TH BIRTHDAY
They made their first public appearance at the Texas Fair in Dallas when they were six weeks old.
President Grover Cleveland was so pleased he sent a letter of congratulations and a picture of himself. They've been written up in numerous newspapers across the nation, even the New York Times.
But today is a very special occasion for the Adams triplets because they're marking their 78th birthday. The triplets were born August 5, 1887, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams on a farm between McKinney and Farmersville, Tex. They wee named in order of birth, Grover Cleveland, Nettie, and Cora, and were the seventh, eighth and ninth children of a family of 10.
The letter from then President Grover Cleveland came after he had been informed of the triplets' birth and that the boy had been named in his honor. Other letters followed in later years.
But Grover Adams recalled sadly, "All his letters were destroyed in a fire. You know, they probably would be worth quite a lot now, wouldn't they?"
When the triplets were one year old, their family moved to Indian Territory and four years later, they became residents of Ardmore. It was here they grew up, and went to school and married.
Grover has lived here ever since, but the girls went west with their husbands.
Nettie, who is now Mrs. Tom Clay, moved to Shamrrock, Tex., in 1913, but she now resides in Lubbock.
Cora Adams Comer moved to Lockney, Tex., in 1914, and lived there until her husband's death in 1957, when she moved to Plainview, Tex.
Grover is a retired school teacher and lives at 414 12th Ave, NW. He taught more than 40 years and still substitutes.
The trio usually tries to get together every year for their birthday celebration. They didn't celebrate their 77th birthday, because of illness, so their last get-together was when they were 76 in Lubbock in 1963.
This year the triplets decided to meet in Ardmore, and more birthday parties are planned. Nettie has been known to say, "We'll have them until we're 100, and then we'll quit."
Grover sad he believes, although he isn't sure, that they are the oldest living triplets in the United States.
The girls arrived in town Monday, but left Wednesday for home. The triplets aren't together today, their birthday, but they had fun the two days they did spend with each other.
They were the honorees at a birthday dinner held Tuesday night at the Adams Boys Triple A Ranch north of town. About 15 family members were present.
Although there was no previous record of multiple births in the Adams family, both Nettie and Cora gave birth to two sets of twins.
Of the eight only four survived, Mrs. Marvin Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Johnnie Howell, Lubbock, are Nettie's daughters. The twin brother of T.J. Clay, Amarillo, died at birth.
Cora's only living twin is Lou Comer of Silverton, Tex.
Grover has six children; Kermit Adams, 409 R St. NW; Mrs. Vernon Carruth, Midland, Tex.; G.C. Adams, Jr., and Dick Adams, Edmond; Mrs. George Shumar, Clovis, N.M.; and Mrs. Jack L. Sloan, 916 Ash.
Nettie's children are Mrs. Howell and zMrs. Ned Craig, Lubbock; Mrs. Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo.; T.J. Clay, Amarillo; and Teddy Clay, Chowchilla, Calif.
Cora's children are Mrs. Price Barrett, Shamrock, Tex.; Mrs. O.B. Fore, Lon Comer, and Mrs. David Stephenson, all of Plainview, Tex.; and Leo Comer, Silverton, Tex."
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The Daily Ardmoreite
Sunday, August 6, 1967
"ADAMS TRIPLETS OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
It isn't everyone who receives personal birthday greeting from the President of the United States. Especially 80 years after having been cited by another President.
But then it isn't an ordinary thing to be a triplet either, yet all these distinctions belong to an Ardmore resident, Grover Cleveland Adams and to his sisters Mrs. Tom (Nettie May) Clay, Lubbock, and Mrs. Sam (Cora Lea) Comer, Plainview, Tex. The three reached their 80th milestone Saturday.
Grove Cleveland, who was president when the triplets were born Aug. 5, 1887, was so pleased that the male member of the trio had been named for him that he sent the parents a personal letter and an autographed photograph of himself.
Not to be outdone, President Lyndon Baines Johnson already is on record for his congratulations mailed to each of the trio. The card reads: "The President and Mrs. Johnson join in sending warm congratulations on your birthday and best wishes for the happiness in the years to come."
The triplets celebrate every years now. The 1967 events are special, rounding out a decade, and began Saturday with an open house reception at the home of Mrs. Clay at 3103 43rd St. Lubbock. Scores of friends and relatives attended.
Today at 1 p.m. luncheon for all the kinfolks is taking place at a church Youth Center in Lubbock, 1810 Main St.
Figures are not available but it is known that only a comparative few sets of triplets have survived to celebrate an 80th anniversary. The event is so unusual as to have rated mention in newspapers throughout the United States, including in newspaper States, including the New York Times.
The triplets were born in Collin County Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams who already were parents of six. At the age of sic weeks, so rare a phenomenon were the triplets, the infants became an 'exhibit' at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, at request of Fair authorities. They attracted wide interest, naturally.
The father was a farmer. The family moved to Ardmore - or rather Provence - five years later, and Grover has resided her ever since. The two sisters moved after their marriages, Mrs. Comer to Lockney, Tex., then Plainview. Mrs. Clay was a Shamrock, Tex. resident from 1913 to 1945 later residing at Hereford and Lubbock. ...
Another greeting cherished by the Ardmore member of the triplets is a personal letter of congratulations from Rep. Carl Albert, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. Albert requested a group photograph, should one be made today."
Researched & compiled by Virginia Brown
March 2016
Photo provided by Matthew Adams from Ancestry
June 19, 2010
Robert & Nancy Adams Family in 1907
From left to right:
Zona Jones (holding baby) Viola Jones (baby) Hugh Jones (standing) Elmer Hathaway (little boy in front) Dr. W. G. Hathaway (standing with mustache) Media Hathaway (standing behind baby 2) Dessie Hathaway (baby 2) Nettie Adams (standing behind man with beard) Robert L Adams (seated, man with beard) Nancy Adams (seated to Robert Adams' left) Jessie Adams (held by Nancy Adams) Grover Cleveland Adams (standing behind Nancy Adams) Cora Adams (standing to Grover Cleveland Adams' left) John Easley (standing behind baby 3) Beatrice Easley (baby 3) Ella Easley (standing to John Easley's left) Walter Easley (small boy next to Beatrice with arm resting on Beatrice) Robert Finley (young boy to Walter Easley's left) Archie L. Finley (standing to Ella Easley's left) Mary Finley (standing to A. L. Finley's left) Pearl Finley (seated in front of A. L. Finley) Murbey Finley (small girl seated on stool far right of picture)
Click on photo to enlarge
Permission to post photo given by Matthew Adams on March 19, 2016
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Laid to rest next to her husband, Robert, & children: R.R. & Jesse Adams.
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Nancy's parents were:
Samuel M Wilson 1827–1870
Mary Polly Doty 1825–1863
Nancy & her siblings:
Alfred S Wilson 1848–1922
Nancy Miranda Wilson 1851–1931
Mary E Wilson 1852–1920
John D Wilson 1857–
Half brothers from her father's marriage to Louisa Stiles after the death of her mother.
George Wilson 1865–
James H Wilson 1867–
William J Wilson 1869–
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Nancy married Robert Lynch Adams in Barry Co, MO on February 2, 1872.
Their children were:
Mary M Adams 1873–1965
Frances Adams 1877–1883
Ella Elizabeth Adams 1880–1960
Jessie Robert Adams 1881–1908
Alameda "Media" A Adams 1882–1961
Sammie Arizona "Zona" Adams 1885–1965
Robert R. Adams 1885–1892
Grover Cleveland Adams 1887–1969
Nettie Mae Adams 1887–1972
Cora Lea Adams 1887–1969
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On July 7, 1900,
Robert & Nancy, ages 53 & 49, were renting a home in
Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory where Robert farmed to support the family. Their children were:
Annie A Adams 17
Arazne Adams 15
Gover L Adams 12
Nettie M Adams12
Cora A Adams 12
Robert Adams
Part of Census unreadable.
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Robert died on Christmas Eve, 1907
The Daily Ardmoreite
Tuesday, February 24, 1931
"PIONEER WOMAN DIES IN ARDMORE
Impressive Funeral Services for Mrs. Nancy Adams Held at Home at Provence.
Funeral of Mrs. Nancy Adams, 82, pioneer Carter county citizen, who died in an Ardmore sanitarium last night, was to be held this afternoon from her home at Provence. The religious service of the Methodist Episcopal church will be conducted by Rev. Charles L. Brooks, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city.
Mrs. Adams' grandsons, Kermit Adams, Elmer Hathaway, Robert Finley, Richard and Robert Jones and Aubrey Easley, were to act as the active pallbearers. The honorary ones include Teddy Clay, G.C. Adams, Jr., Walter Easley, Shelton and Paul Hathaway and Lloyd Jones. Burial arrangements were in charge of the Bettes funeral home.
Death of Mrs. Adams removes one of this county's oldest pioneers. The family had lived here nearly 40 years. Mrs. Adams and her husband having come to this section in the early territorial days from Collin County, Texas.
Mrs. Adams was born in Missouri, January 1851. She married Robert L. Adams at Aurora, Mo., in 1871 and to them 10 children were born, seven of whom are living. They moved to Texas and within a few years settled on a farm near Terrell later moving to Provence where Mrs. Adams lived the last quarter of a century. She became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 16. ..."
Last part of obituary too dark to read.
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The following was contributed by Find A Grave member, Leah Stubbs (#48433522), on March 16, 2016.
"Nancy Miranda Wilson was a daughter of Samuel M Wilson and Mary Polly Dotty.
Samuel and Mary had four children together, including Nancy: Alfred, Mary, Nancy, and John.
After Mary Polly (Dotty) Wilson died, Samuel married 2nd to Louisa Stiles (16 Feb 1863 in Barry County, Missouri). This union bore three children, the half-siblings to Nancy: George, James, and William."
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Robert & Nancy had triplets, which often made the news.
The Daily Ardmoreite
Thursday, August 5, 1965
"TRIO GROWS UP IN ARDMORE
ADAMS TRIPLETS MARKING THEIR 78TH BIRTHDAY
They made their first public appearance at the Texas Fair in Dallas when they were six weeks old.
President Grover Cleveland was so pleased he sent a letter of congratulations and a picture of himself. They've been written up in numerous newspapers across the nation, even the New York Times.
But today is a very special occasion for the Adams triplets because they're marking their 78th birthday. The triplets were born August 5, 1887, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams on a farm between McKinney and Farmersville, Tex. They wee named in order of birth, Grover Cleveland, Nettie, and Cora, and were the seventh, eighth and ninth children of a family of 10.
The letter from then President Grover Cleveland came after he had been informed of the triplets' birth and that the boy had been named in his honor. Other letters followed in later years.
But Grover Adams recalled sadly, "All his letters were destroyed in a fire. You know, they probably would be worth quite a lot now, wouldn't they?"
When the triplets were one year old, their family moved to Indian Territory and four years later, they became residents of Ardmore. It was here they grew up, and went to school and married.
Grover has lived here ever since, but the girls went west with their husbands.
Nettie, who is now Mrs. Tom Clay, moved to Shamrrock, Tex., in 1913, but she now resides in Lubbock.
Cora Adams Comer moved to Lockney, Tex., in 1914, and lived there until her husband's death in 1957, when she moved to Plainview, Tex.
Grover is a retired school teacher and lives at 414 12th Ave, NW. He taught more than 40 years and still substitutes.
The trio usually tries to get together every year for their birthday celebration. They didn't celebrate their 77th birthday, because of illness, so their last get-together was when they were 76 in Lubbock in 1963.
This year the triplets decided to meet in Ardmore, and more birthday parties are planned. Nettie has been known to say, "We'll have them until we're 100, and then we'll quit."
Grover sad he believes, although he isn't sure, that they are the oldest living triplets in the United States.
The girls arrived in town Monday, but left Wednesday for home. The triplets aren't together today, their birthday, but they had fun the two days they did spend with each other.
They were the honorees at a birthday dinner held Tuesday night at the Adams Boys Triple A Ranch north of town. About 15 family members were present.
Although there was no previous record of multiple births in the Adams family, both Nettie and Cora gave birth to two sets of twins.
Of the eight only four survived, Mrs. Marvin Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Johnnie Howell, Lubbock, are Nettie's daughters. The twin brother of T.J. Clay, Amarillo, died at birth.
Cora's only living twin is Lou Comer of Silverton, Tex.
Grover has six children; Kermit Adams, 409 R St. NW; Mrs. Vernon Carruth, Midland, Tex.; G.C. Adams, Jr., and Dick Adams, Edmond; Mrs. George Shumar, Clovis, N.M.; and Mrs. Jack L. Sloan, 916 Ash.
Nettie's children are Mrs. Howell and zMrs. Ned Craig, Lubbock; Mrs. Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo.; T.J. Clay, Amarillo; and Teddy Clay, Chowchilla, Calif.
Cora's children are Mrs. Price Barrett, Shamrock, Tex.; Mrs. O.B. Fore, Lon Comer, and Mrs. David Stephenson, all of Plainview, Tex.; and Leo Comer, Silverton, Tex."
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The Daily Ardmoreite
Sunday, August 6, 1967
"ADAMS TRIPLETS OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
It isn't everyone who receives personal birthday greeting from the President of the United States. Especially 80 years after having been cited by another President.
But then it isn't an ordinary thing to be a triplet either, yet all these distinctions belong to an Ardmore resident, Grover Cleveland Adams and to his sisters Mrs. Tom (Nettie May) Clay, Lubbock, and Mrs. Sam (Cora Lea) Comer, Plainview, Tex. The three reached their 80th milestone Saturday.
Grove Cleveland, who was president when the triplets were born Aug. 5, 1887, was so pleased that the male member of the trio had been named for him that he sent the parents a personal letter and an autographed photograph of himself.
Not to be outdone, President Lyndon Baines Johnson already is on record for his congratulations mailed to each of the trio. The card reads: "The President and Mrs. Johnson join in sending warm congratulations on your birthday and best wishes for the happiness in the years to come."
The triplets celebrate every years now. The 1967 events are special, rounding out a decade, and began Saturday with an open house reception at the home of Mrs. Clay at 3103 43rd St. Lubbock. Scores of friends and relatives attended.
Today at 1 p.m. luncheon for all the kinfolks is taking place at a church Youth Center in Lubbock, 1810 Main St.
Figures are not available but it is known that only a comparative few sets of triplets have survived to celebrate an 80th anniversary. The event is so unusual as to have rated mention in newspapers throughout the United States, including in newspaper States, including the New York Times.
The triplets were born in Collin County Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams who already were parents of six. At the age of sic weeks, so rare a phenomenon were the triplets, the infants became an 'exhibit' at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, at request of Fair authorities. They attracted wide interest, naturally.
The father was a farmer. The family moved to Ardmore - or rather Provence - five years later, and Grover has resided her ever since. The two sisters moved after their marriages, Mrs. Comer to Lockney, Tex., then Plainview. Mrs. Clay was a Shamrock, Tex. resident from 1913 to 1945 later residing at Hereford and Lubbock. ...
Another greeting cherished by the Ardmore member of the triplets is a personal letter of congratulations from Rep. Carl Albert, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. Albert requested a group photograph, should one be made today."
Researched & compiled by Virginia Brown
March 2016
June 19, 2010
Robert & Nancy Adams Family in 1907
From left to right:
Zona Jones (holding baby) Viola Jones (baby) Hugh Jones (standing) Elmer Hathaway (little boy in front) Dr. W. G. Hathaway (standing with mustache) Media Hathaway (standing behind baby 2) Dessie Hathaway (baby 2) Nettie Adams (standing behind man with beard) Robert L Adams (seated, man with beard) Nancy Adams (seated to Robert Adams' left) Jessie Adams (held by Nancy Adams) Grover Cleveland Adams (standing behind Nancy Adams) Cora Adams (standing to Grover Cleveland Adams' left) John Easley (standing behind baby 3) Beatrice Easley (baby 3) Ella Easley (standing to John Easley's left) Walter Easley (small boy next to Beatrice with arm resting on Beatrice) Robert Finley (young boy to Walter Easley's left) Archie L. Finley (standing to Ella Easley's left) Mary Finley (standing to A. L. Finley's left) Pearl Finley (seated in front of A. L. Finley) Murbey Finley (small girl seated on stool far right of picture)
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Permission to post photo given by Matthew Adams on March 19, 2016
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Laid to rest next to her husband, Robert, & children: R.R. & Jesse Adams.
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Nancy's parents were:
Samuel M Wilson 1827–1870
Mary Polly Doty 1825–1863
Nancy & her siblings:
Alfred S Wilson 1848–1922
Nancy Miranda Wilson 1851–1931
Mary E Wilson 1852–1920
John D Wilson 1857–
Half brothers from her father's marriage to Louisa Stiles after the death of her mother.
George Wilson 1865–
James H Wilson 1867–
William J Wilson 1869–
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Nancy married Robert Lynch Adams in Barry Co, MO on February 2, 1872.
Their children were:
Mary M Adams 1873–1965
Frances Adams 1877–1883
Ella Elizabeth Adams 1880–1960
Jessie Robert Adams 1881–1908
Alameda "Media" A Adams 1882–1961
Sammie Arizona "Zona" Adams 1885–1965
Robert R. Adams 1885–1892
Grover Cleveland Adams 1887–1969
Nettie Mae Adams 1887–1972
Cora Lea Adams 1887–1969
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On July 7, 1900,
Robert & Nancy, ages 53 & 49, were renting a home in
Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory where Robert farmed to support the family. Their children were:
Annie A Adams 17
Arazne Adams 15
Gover L Adams 12
Nettie M Adams12
Cora A Adams 12
Robert Adams
Part of Census unreadable.
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Robert died on Christmas Eve, 1907
The Daily Ardmoreite
Tuesday, February 24, 1931
"PIONEER WOMAN DIES IN ARDMORE
Impressive Funeral Services for Mrs. Nancy Adams Held at Home at Provence.
Funeral of Mrs. Nancy Adams, 82, pioneer Carter county citizen, who died in an Ardmore sanitarium last night, was to be held this afternoon from her home at Provence. The religious service of the Methodist Episcopal church will be conducted by Rev. Charles L. Brooks, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city.
Mrs. Adams' grandsons, Kermit Adams, Elmer Hathaway, Robert Finley, Richard and Robert Jones and Aubrey Easley, were to act as the active pallbearers. The honorary ones include Teddy Clay, G.C. Adams, Jr., Walter Easley, Shelton and Paul Hathaway and Lloyd Jones. Burial arrangements were in charge of the Bettes funeral home.
Death of Mrs. Adams removes one of this county's oldest pioneers. The family had lived here nearly 40 years. Mrs. Adams and her husband having come to this section in the early territorial days from Collin County, Texas.
Mrs. Adams was born in Missouri, January 1851. She married Robert L. Adams at Aurora, Mo., in 1871 and to them 10 children were born, seven of whom are living. They moved to Texas and within a few years settled on a farm near Terrell later moving to Provence where Mrs. Adams lived the last quarter of a century. She became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 16. ..."
Last part of obituary too dark to read.
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The following was contributed by Find A Grave member, Leah Stubbs (#48433522), on March 16, 2016.
"Nancy Miranda Wilson was a daughter of Samuel M Wilson and Mary Polly Dotty.
Samuel and Mary had four children together, including Nancy: Alfred, Mary, Nancy, and John.
After Mary Polly (Dotty) Wilson died, Samuel married 2nd to Louisa Stiles (16 Feb 1863 in Barry County, Missouri). This union bore three children, the half-siblings to Nancy: George, James, and William."
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Robert & Nancy had triplets, which often made the news.
The Daily Ardmoreite
Thursday, August 5, 1965
"TRIO GROWS UP IN ARDMORE
ADAMS TRIPLETS MARKING THEIR 78TH BIRTHDAY
They made their first public appearance at the Texas Fair in Dallas when they were six weeks old.
President Grover Cleveland was so pleased he sent a letter of congratulations and a picture of himself. They've been written up in numerous newspapers across the nation, even the New York Times.
But today is a very special occasion for the Adams triplets because they're marking their 78th birthday. The triplets were born August 5, 1887, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams on a farm between McKinney and Farmersville, Tex. They wee named in order of birth, Grover Cleveland, Nettie, and Cora, and were the seventh, eighth and ninth children of a family of 10.
The letter from then President Grover Cleveland came after he had been informed of the triplets' birth and that the boy had been named in his honor. Other letters followed in later years.
But Grover Adams recalled sadly, "All his letters were destroyed in a fire. You know, they probably would be worth quite a lot now, wouldn't they?"
When the triplets were one year old, their family moved to Indian Territory and four years later, they became residents of Ardmore. It was here they grew up, and went to school and married.
Grover has lived here ever since, but the girls went west with their husbands.
Nettie, who is now Mrs. Tom Clay, moved to Shamrrock, Tex., in 1913, but she now resides in Lubbock.
Cora Adams Comer moved to Lockney, Tex., in 1914, and lived there until her husband's death in 1957, when she moved to Plainview, Tex.
Grover is a retired school teacher and lives at 414 12th Ave, NW. He taught more than 40 years and still substitutes.
The trio usually tries to get together every year for their birthday celebration. They didn't celebrate their 77th birthday, because of illness, so their last get-together was when they were 76 in Lubbock in 1963.
This year the triplets decided to meet in Ardmore, and more birthday parties are planned. Nettie has been known to say, "We'll have them until we're 100, and then we'll quit."
Grover sad he believes, although he isn't sure, that they are the oldest living triplets in the United States.
The girls arrived in town Monday, but left Wednesday for home. The triplets aren't together today, their birthday, but they had fun the two days they did spend with each other.
They were the honorees at a birthday dinner held Tuesday night at the Adams Boys Triple A Ranch north of town. About 15 family members were present.
Although there was no previous record of multiple births in the Adams family, both Nettie and Cora gave birth to two sets of twins.
Of the eight only four survived, Mrs. Marvin Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Johnnie Howell, Lubbock, are Nettie's daughters. The twin brother of T.J. Clay, Amarillo, died at birth.
Cora's only living twin is Lou Comer of Silverton, Tex.
Grover has six children; Kermit Adams, 409 R St. NW; Mrs. Vernon Carruth, Midland, Tex.; G.C. Adams, Jr., and Dick Adams, Edmond; Mrs. George Shumar, Clovis, N.M.; and Mrs. Jack L. Sloan, 916 Ash.
Nettie's children are Mrs. Howell and zMrs. Ned Craig, Lubbock; Mrs. Glasscock, Cheyenne, Wyo.; T.J. Clay, Amarillo; and Teddy Clay, Chowchilla, Calif.
Cora's children are Mrs. Price Barrett, Shamrock, Tex.; Mrs. O.B. Fore, Lon Comer, and Mrs. David Stephenson, all of Plainview, Tex.; and Leo Comer, Silverton, Tex."
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The Daily Ardmoreite
Sunday, August 6, 1967
"ADAMS TRIPLETS OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
It isn't everyone who receives personal birthday greeting from the President of the United States. Especially 80 years after having been cited by another President.
But then it isn't an ordinary thing to be a triplet either, yet all these distinctions belong to an Ardmore resident, Grover Cleveland Adams and to his sisters Mrs. Tom (Nettie May) Clay, Lubbock, and Mrs. Sam (Cora Lea) Comer, Plainview, Tex. The three reached their 80th milestone Saturday.
Grove Cleveland, who was president when the triplets were born Aug. 5, 1887, was so pleased that the male member of the trio had been named for him that he sent the parents a personal letter and an autographed photograph of himself.
Not to be outdone, President Lyndon Baines Johnson already is on record for his congratulations mailed to each of the trio. The card reads: "The President and Mrs. Johnson join in sending warm congratulations on your birthday and best wishes for the happiness in the years to come."
The triplets celebrate every years now. The 1967 events are special, rounding out a decade, and began Saturday with an open house reception at the home of Mrs. Clay at 3103 43rd St. Lubbock. Scores of friends and relatives attended.
Today at 1 p.m. luncheon for all the kinfolks is taking place at a church Youth Center in Lubbock, 1810 Main St.
Figures are not available but it is known that only a comparative few sets of triplets have survived to celebrate an 80th anniversary. The event is so unusual as to have rated mention in newspapers throughout the United States, including in newspaper States, including the New York Times.
The triplets were born in Collin County Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Adams who already were parents of six. At the age of sic weeks, so rare a phenomenon were the triplets, the infants became an 'exhibit' at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, at request of Fair authorities. They attracted wide interest, naturally.
The father was a farmer. The family moved to Ardmore - or rather Provence - five years later, and Grover has resided her ever since. The two sisters moved after their marriages, Mrs. Comer to Lockney, Tex., then Plainview. Mrs. Clay was a Shamrock, Tex. resident from 1913 to 1945 later residing at Hereford and Lubbock. ...
Another greeting cherished by the Ardmore member of the triplets is a personal letter of congratulations from Rep. Carl Albert, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. Albert requested a group photograph, should one be made today."
Researched & compiled by Virginia Brown
March 2016
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