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PIONEERS: FAMILY HISTORIES
CAPTAIN ABNER L. ADAMS, born in Tennessee
ca 1827, came to the Sand Springs Community
northeast of present Hawkins in the early 1850's. He
married Temperance Welbourne, daughter of William
Welbourne, an early settler in the area, in 1852. Captain
Adams farmed and later became a merchant in
Hawkins. He was elected to the state legislature in 1882
and died while in office. He and his wife, Temperance,
were buried in the Kay Family Cemetery.
Dr. R. C. Adams, son of Abner L. and Temperance
Adams, was born 1855 in the Sand Springs Com-
munity. He married Ollie Anderson, daughter of Dr.
Josiah W. Anderson who practiced medicine in the
Hawkins area from the time the town was founded un-
til around 1893.
Dr. Adams also practiced medicine in Hawkins for
many years. He and his wife, Ollie Anderson Adams,
were buried in the Kay Cemetery.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, born 1846 in Pike
County, Alabama, and his wife, Cerro Garde Berry
Adams, came to Hubbard, Texas in 1885, then two or
three years later moved to Wood County. They lived for
a time in Quitman then moved to Yantis. He was a
member of the Masonic Lodge in Winnsboro then later
affiliated with the Flora Lodge in Quitman. He was ini-
tiated in 1892.
John Quincy Adams fought for the South in the
Civil War, serving out of Alabama. He served as tax
assessor in Wood County from 1890 - 1894.
Source: Maudine Adams HoltJOHN C. ALLEN and his wife, Ophelia Johnson
Allen, came to Wood County from Rome, Georgia
about 1860 and settled in the present Mineola area.
They had three children: Ellie, who died in childhood,
Ethel, married -- Phug, and Walter who married
Habie Haines, daughter of C. H. and Elizabeth Varner
Haines. After his wife's death, Walter Allen married
Henrietta Bruton of Smith County.
Children of Walter Allen's first marriage were:
Varner, Clint, and Myrtle, who married J. F. Carson.
Children of the second marriage were: Linus, Ruby,
Walter, Dick, Ruth, Polly, Edward and Wilson
(Sweetie) Allen.
Source: Pauline Greer Allen
ROWLAND GWYNNE ANDREWS, born 23 June
1867 in Lebanon, Tennessee, rode horseback from his
Tennessee home to Winnsboro, Texas at the age of 16.
He came to join his widowed mother who was living
with an older son, a step-brother to Rowland Gwynne,
R. E. Skeen.
He worked a few years with his step-brother then
went into business for himself. In 1889, he returned to
Tennessee to marry his childhood sweetheart, Maggie
Norris, daughter of a well-to-do landowner and former
Tennessee legislator.
In 1896, R. G. Andrews built a large brick building
in Winnsboro for a general merchandise store. The
bricks were hand made to his specifications and the
store was one of the largest in Wood County. Accord-
ing to early county newspaper advertisements, Andrews58
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Wood County Historical Society. Wood County, 1850-1900, book, 1976; Quitman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91051/m1/66/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .