Almira Hamblin Adair

2. The Tuachan Amphitheater and Center for the Arts in St. George bills itself as "Broadway in the Desert." It is beautifully set in the open in a red rock canyon. From Sep. 12 to Oct. 12, 2002 it presented "Utah! The Jacob Hamblin Story. I was able to attend. It was very well done and chronicled Jacob's struggle to peacefully deal with the Indian population. It also staged the early events of St. George area including the devastating flooding of the local river.

3. In the excerpts cited above from the book "Nutrioso and Her Neighbors," there are some things that appear to be hearsay and anecdotal. The following excellent excerpts prepared by Don Smith help clarify when the Adairs came from Utah to Arizona:

a. From Gennett (Adair) Clark Story [daughter of Samuel Newton Adair]: "So on the Eleventh day of November 1879 we left Washington on our way to Arizona. I thought then that we were going so far away that we would never see Utah or our home again. At Kanab my father' s brother George W. Adair and his family joined us. In my father's family there was father, mother, my brother Charlie, myself, Abe, Minia, Mary and the baby Anna then six months old. In my uncle's family there was Uncle George, Aunt Emily, their daughter Emily, sons Daniel, William, John, Newton and baby Ruth and Aunt Emily's brother John Tyler. They were daughter and son of Daniel Tyler of the Mormon Battalion. Each family had two wagons and each had a few head of cattle besides teams and riding horses... We landed in Concho on the eleventh of January 1880. Concho was a little town, mostly mexican. One family there was William Pulsifer another Mormon Battalion man and Uncle to Aunt Emily. He had bought a place there with three small rooms, flat dirt roof and facing the north and built like this (rectangle). They let Uncle George live in the East Room, my folks had the middle room and they lived in the west room. Pulsifers had three or four children so there was seven grown people and fifteen or sixteen children, but we managed to get along until spring, then Uncle George decided to move to a place called Nutrioso. The stories he had heard of Elk, Deer and Wild Turkeys interested him."

b. From Almira's Life Story [Almira Hamblin Adair, wife of Geo. Adair, Jr., son of Geo. and Ann Chestnut Adair]: "Both the Adair family and my family answered the call. The Adair family was to leave a few months before our family, so, we decided we would get married as we didn't want to be separated... There were 45 families in our company. Our Captain was Mr. John Mangum. A man of great courage, he had crossed the plains in earlier days.We were on the road seven days before we reached Lee's Ferry, on the Big Colorado. We were compelled to travel very slowly as we all had our cattle with us. In mother's herd there were about 250 head... The snow was about two feet deep by this time, but not so very cold. The next morning after the baby's birth we traveled on toward Sunset and arrived there the third day. This was a little Mormon settlement on the Little Colorado. The people who had come the year before had raised a crop so the travelers could get supplies. This little settlement was just across the Little Colorado from where Winslow is today. Just two weeks after our baby's birth, sister Jane's baby arrived, a girl. We stayed in Sunset two weeks and during that time my brother and brother-in-law put up a one roomed log cabin. Mother, brother Billy's family and Jane and her husband stayed there two months. As Baby and I were all right we went on after two weeks to Concho, where George's father and the rest of his people were. Father Adair and the Clark boys and George's Uncle Newton had been at Concho about two months when we came. They had put [up] cabins for shelter, planning to stay here until spring."

c. Don's summary on Samuel Jefferson Adair: "I think it's very significant that Samuel Jefferson Adair wasn't mentioned as traveling with either group. I think he went to Arizona in early summer of 1880. If you look in the ordinance index, Samuel Jefferson was sealed to Betsy Mangum & Marie Christiane Sorensen on the 10 of March 1880 in the St. George Temple. The rest of the family (George Washington, Samuel Jefferson & George Jr.) was already in Arizona. I don't think Samuel would have made the rugged trip back to Utah so soon if he had been in Arizona. I believe he went to Arizona with his brother Thomas Jefferson Adair soon after the sealing date, as he appears on the 1880 census in Show Low Creek, the same community as Thomas Jefferson Adair. Show Low Creek was later known as Fool's Hollow, which is approximately 30 miles from Concho. As we know Samuel & Anne moved on to St. John's a little later."

BIOGRAPHY: Father is William Haynes Hamblin (Jacob Hamblin's younger brother) and Betsey Jane Leavitt. Also noted in Ordinance Index as "Elmira".

BIRTH: Ordinance Index states 6 Aug 1858; Ancestral File states 26 Oct 1860 -- both are at Gunlock, Washington, Utah.

!ORDINANCES: Verified 16 Mar 2002. BAPTISM: Ordinance Index 1.02 notes "Pre-1970". Date shown is from Ancestral File. ENDOWMENT: Ordinance Index 1.02 St. George Temple, FHL Film 170577, ord. 236. SEALING TO PARENTS: Ordinance Index 1.02 notes "Pre-1970". SEALING TO SPOUSE: Ordinance Index 1.02 St. George Temple, FHL Film 170579, ord. 794.

SOURCES_MISC: Per Ancestral File. Change Date: 24 MAY 2003 at 09:10:20

Marriage 1 George Washington ADAIR b: 26 JAN 1861 in Santa Clara, Washington, Utah Married: 22 JAN 1879 in St. George, Washington, Utah

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