Nancy Fountain White Adair

2. These Jan 2002 emails are from Amy Von Cannon, a family researcher and descendent of Joshua and member of the Reorganized LDS, who lives in Iowa : a. "I will double check my 1852 Census, I believe that there were Mangums also with the Samuel Adair listed on that census. I hope that I copied the whole page with the actual date that the census was taken. The family story here is that Samuel was a scout for the wagon train, maybe that would explain two different dates of being there, and here. And it was said by the Allen family that Samuel escorted Andrew Allen's wife to Utah, when Nancy and Andrew deserted their spouses (Samuel Adair and Eunice Allen) and I found that the Allen family was there in Utah under the name of Jude Allen family in LDS records. Maybe if we see what date the Jude Allen family got there it would answer the 1848 question. My Joshua was born in 12-25-1849 it would have been a fast trip if he was in Utah in 1848. So many questions. If you need any documents researched here in Ia, point me in the right direction and I'll go get them. I'm so close to the actual location of this whole mystery." b. "Yes he left a story. I will send it on to you. I have to say that he was very ill and died within the month of writing it and many of the facts in the story were twisted and names were wrong. And the rest is right on the money. I guess when a story is handed down for 140 years it changes a little with each that handle it until it's written down. You were asking about dates. I have census registry off of Ancestry.com that lists Samuel and Samuel Newton in Pottawattamie County in 1850/1851/1852. I have the actual census of 1850 and 1852 and Samuel is with Thomas Adair in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs. We have three different dates on Joshua for birth 1847/48/49 its listed different on baptism and other documents. If you look up Joshua on LDS you will find him under Joshua (L) and Joshua Tumer which both are wrong, it Joshua Tumeric. I didn't copy the whole page with Mangum's on it too, but Andrew Allen is 7 lines under Samuel on Census of the Settlement. Also Jemima was on the 1851 with Joshua and the id # for Jemima was IA05655 and Joshua was IA05658 they were separated by 3 numbers. There were more Adairs and the numbers run like a family unit. On the family history it lists the parents of Joshua from KY, I have found that Joshua didn't really have an idea where they originally came from, he listed in many census's, different places of origin for both parents. I found his mother and she originated from Va. I have a picture of Nancy, but not of Joshua." c. Amy provided the following copy of Joshua's biography from a grandson of Joshua. [Kerry's note: the items regarding wives for Samuel, George, and Newton, and the Guardian Angels is standard anti-mormon rhetoric rampant in the late 1800's with no basis of truth as family research has confirmed; it sounds like typical RLDS "propaganda" of the same period and under which influence Joshua was involved. Also the author is misinformed perhaps about Samuel in that he did not know Nancy before the death of his first wife Rebecca Mangum in Apr 1848 and was not married to Nancy until Iowa and is not the father of Benjamin, Lucy, nor Nancy. Finally the birthdate of 1847 for Joshua appears erroneous in light of other available sources such as the death certificate and obituary.]: "Adair Family History. This family history was written by Marvin C. Adair. The family name of Adair is a patriarchal name, not an occupational name. It originated with the Earl of Adair of Scotland. This is recorded in the books of heraldy. Research by the American Historical Society has proven the family name has been prominent in American history. We have a bicentennial flag from them honoring the family as a Bicentennial Family in 1976. Permission was given the name of Marvin C. Adair to be placed in a book of bicentennial families in the Library of Congress. Family history as related by Grandfather Joshua T. Adair and Grandmother Arilla Eliza Rickman Adair. This branch of the Adair family with Samuel Adair as father and his wife who's maiden name O'Bannion came from the territory of Kentucky. They joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints somewhere between Kentucky and Kaneville, IA, now known as Council Bluffs. Their family consisted of Newton, George, Benjamin, Lucy, Nancy and Joshua, my grandfather who was born December 25, 1847 in Kaneville. When Joshua was 18 months old, Great Grandfather Samuel and his sons, Newton and George took four wives and followed Brigham Young to Salt Lake City, Utah. Great Grandmother Adair, two boys Benjamin and Joshua and the two girls Lucy and Nancy were forced to hide for safety from the 'Guardian Angels' of the Brighamite faction because the girls were old enough to be given in marriage and were desired by the sons of the Brighamites. Great Grandmother obtained a legal separation and later married a man whose surname was Allen and raised that part of the family. While Joshua was still young, he lived with and worked for the magistrate of Kaneville. While there, he read for the law. He was admitted to the bar to practice law at Soldier, IA. As he worked and studied he traveled in the summer with a man named Kaywoodie and his freight wagon from Kaneville to Preparation Settlement in Western Iowa. There he met Arilla Eliza Rickman. They married in 1869. The Rickman family had joined the original church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints somewhere between New Amsterdam and Kirtland, OH. Arilla's mother, Rebecca, is said to have broken her dishes for the Kirtland Temple building. She and her husband, John Rickman, were acquainted with Joseph Jr. and Emma Smith. They stated that Joseph and Emma were the most handsome couple they had ever seen. Grandmother was a very small girl when they reached Preparation Settlement where she lived and met and married Joshua T. Adair. To this union was born eight sons and five daughters. John William (Marvin's father), Benjamin, Daniel, Anna, Florence and Mary were born in Iowa where Grandfather farmed and practiced law. He traveled from settlement to settlement as the circuit lawyer and judge. In 1883, he traveled with the cavalry as legal representative and on the way back home, he stayed overnight in Decatur, NE. He liked it. A year later, he moved his family there. More children were born. Walter, Samuel, Clyde, Ralph, Thomas, Margaret (Rita Foster's grandmother) and Lillie. Grandpa practiced law and did carpentry while living in Decatur. Later he moved to Macy and was magistrate until about 1936. As far as I know, all of the J. T. Adair family were baptized in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. To John Wm. and Isabelle L. James was born one son, Marvin C. Great Grandfather Samuel Adair, I was told was head scout of the Mormon train. George was counselor to the Mormon Bishop. Newton was a founder of the Mormon colonies in Arizona. Grandfather went to Utah to visit his brothers and his nephews came and visited in this (Decatur-Macy) area. Marvin sent me a single typewritten page, front and back with the information on it after I contacted him in the '80's for some info on our family background. Marvin also told me in a phone conversation that our family had come here from Scotland in 1625, not for reasons of escaping religious persecution in Scotland, but to set up their own kingdom. I did some research with the Mormons one evening and we think that the Samuel Adair mentioned in the Who's Who In Mormon History of Utah is our ancestor. My phone number is 417-962-9621. Please feel free to call. This is so exciting. I learn more about us everytime I read this history Marvin gave me. Till I hear from you on this. Rita. Sorry I forgot relationship to Samuel. It reads like this: 1. Samuel Adair 2. Joshua Tumeric Adair 3. John William Adair 4. Marvin Clyde Adair 5. Betty Lou Adair 6. Amy L. Morris, I would be Samuels GGGgranddaughter" d. 20 Feb 2002: "At this time Nancy is as much a mystery to us. I don't think that Nancy was in the RLDS church either. She seemed to marry men that were in some way connected to the LDS church. The names that we have for Nancy at this time, (order really unknown) Maiden name?? We have Nancy Fountain White Adair Allen Maynard O'Banion . We have a marriage listing for Andrew Allen & Nancy Maynard, but were not really sure this is our Nancy and Andrew. Then we have the oldest family member which would be Nancy's Ggrandson remembering that her Maiden name was Fountain. We have Evan O'Banion and Nancy's Marriage listing, and Emma's death certificate records Nancy's maiden name as White. Emma is Nancy's last child, her father is Andrew Allen. And Joshua as Samuel's son for Adair. We have no information on Nancy's life before Iowa of 1849; we cannot find her before Iowa and we lost her after 1880. She is not buried with any of her husbands. I don't know what any of the children's last names are previous marriages. I was thinking on going to the FHC and checking all names listed as surnames for Nancy in LDS membership file and cross reference names in Iowa census. I have a cousin that is from Emma's line and I will talk to her a little more about Nancy. But, I believe that I've gotten very far on Nancy because I started out with no name at all just a surname that was apparently her fourth or fifth husband's surname. Nancy's son Benjamin went to Deadwood, S. Dakota, that is what my uncle said. The only thing I have on birth place is Virginia and that seems to be consistent in all Censuses that she has been on as hers and her parents' birth place. I have almost everything on Joshua's family and have been trying to get it on a gen file, but I'm not very computer savvy. But will sit down and get it done now. And I'm working on getting that copy of Joshua's picture. My sister and I both think that Joshua looks like the picture of George that was on the family Bio."

3. 25 Aug 2002 email from Jeannie Aldredge at : a. No one is certain of Nancy's middle and last name. Jeannie uses Nancy Fountain White and she indicates Barbara L. Eades, an associated family researcher, has found some records showing "F." as a middle initial. b. She is awaiting an obituary from the Logan, IA and the Woodbine, IA newspapers which both reported the death of a Nancy O'Banion in Harrison County, IA. Evan O'Banion was in the Harrison County area. The obituary may help determine an answer to the problem cited in the next entry. Follo-up of 31 Aug 2002: Not the right Nancy O'Banion; James H. O'Banion, son of Evans O'Banion, married to Nancy Boone who died in 1907 and is buried in Woodbine, Iowa. c. No information on the Maynard/Mainard possible name of Nancy. d. Joshua's obituary lists his father but not his mother. Was he disconnected from her? It also appears according to Jeannie that none of her children may have taken her in in her old age if she was in fact Nancy O'Banion when she died. e. The following info is from the 1982 Monona County History Book under a section regarding Jordan Township: "Finally, in 1873, the primary election took place and the following were elected as Jordan Township's first officers: George Montague, President; J.T. Adair, Clerk; Samuel Rickman and Thomas Rickman, Directors; and J.M. Ballantyne, Treasurer." "The first marriage in the township was that of Daniel Butler, sometimes known as Daniel Rickman, and Miss Eunice Allen." Jeannie's notes: Joshua was married to Eliza Arilla Rickman and Joshua's mother, Nancy, was married to Andrew Allen. Andrew Allen's first wife, believed to be Eunice. Since the info from the book refers to Eunice as a "Miss", probably not the same person, but could be in error. Another researcher, Barbara Eades, states: Andrew & Eunice may have had a daughter by the name of Eunice. Eunice, Andrew's wife was quite elderly when she left Iowa with her grown children and headed for Salt Lake City. She rode on the back of the wagon of her son Luke (boy I hope his name was Luke been a while since I looked at this). She never saw Andrew or the children that stayed in IA again and died in UT.

4. Here is a major problem. The Harrison County, Iowa records cited under "Marriage" below shows Nancy Allen and Evans O'Banion marrying in 1868; this causes a big conflict with the 1880 census for Belvidere, Monona, Iowa where we had Nancy Allen showing at age 69 born in VA living with a daughter Mary Lamb, age 42 born in TN. The 1880 census meshes better with the 1850 census for Iowa where we locate Samuel Adair and Nancy, age 39 born in Virginia, and several children including Mary, age 13 born in TN. Nancy and Mary's ages and birthplaces correlate correctly. So how could Nancy Allen marry O'Banion in 1868 and still be listed as Nancy Allen in the 1880 census? The Nancy Allen of the O'Banion marriage could be most likely a totally different person and a red herring. O'Bannion, Evans: website http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaharris/marriage/ba.htm indexes marriages for Harrison County, Iowa; it shows Nancy Allen marrying Evans O'Banion on 5 Jul 1868.

5. Email from Amy VunCannon 7 Sep 2002: "The relationship of the Adairs and the Allens through my branch's story is that Nancy left Samuel when Joshua was eighteen months old for Andrew Allen, she and Andrew both had decided not to follow the wagon train, both Samuel and Eunice Allen(spouses) were members of the LDS and they both went on to Utah, but I have found no record of Andrew or Nancy as members. But the funny thing is that Nancy's last husband (Evan O'Banion) was a active LDS. I believe one of the Allen researchers told me that there was a story in the family that Nancy and Andrew were deserted by their spouses and they in turn headed off to Utah together, because a woman couldn't travel in the train without a male companion and Samuel was that companion to Eunice until they got there. I figure that makes sense to me -- they both needed something from each other, she probably helped with Samuel's children. No proof though, just family tales."

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Marriage 1 Unknown Married: Bef 1837 in of, , Tennessee Children Mary b: Abt 1837 in , , Tennessee Robert b: Abt 1843 in , , Tennessee Benjamin b: Abt 1845 in , , Tennessee

Marriage 2 Samuel Jefferson ADAIR b: 28 MAR 1806 in , Laurens, South Carolina Married: Abt 1849 in Of, Pottawattamie, Iowa Children Joshua Tumer ADAIR b: 25 DEC 1849 in Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Pottawattamie, Iowa

Marriage 3 Evan O'BANNION

Marriage 4 Andrew ALLEN

1. NANCY FOUNTAIN2 WHITE (MALE1) was born Bet. 1811 - 1812 in Virginia or Tennessee. She married (1) MALE MAYNARD. He was born Abt. 1810. She married (2) SAMUEL JEFFERSON ADAIR Abt. 1849 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, son of THOMAS ADAIR and REBECCA BROWN. He was born March 28, 1806 in Laurens County, South Carolina, and died July 06, 1889 in At the home of his son, George Washington Adair, Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. She married (3) ANDREW ALLEN September 17, 1854 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, son of JUDE ALLEN and SARAH PHILBRICK. He was born 1786 in New York, Massachusetts or Epsom, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, and died January 10, 1867 in Harrison County, Iowa. She married (4) EVANS O'BANION July 05, 1868 in Harrison County, Iowa, son of JAMES O'BANION and MARY MASON. He was born April 22, 1799 in Washington County, Kentucky, and died June 09, 1874 in Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa.

• Joshua Turner Adair

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