Levi ADAMSON

                   L.P. as he was commonly called was associated with a rather large mercantile business, however, upon his return from the civil war he found that the mercantile business had gone into banruptcy. A few years later he put in the first four or saw mill in Jacksboro, Texas. He was the first mayor of Jacksboro and was county judge of Jack couty for two terms.

He had established this successful business in the frontier of the west when a three year drought in the late 1870's ruined the country. He was compelled to move his family to where he could secrue work. He moved to Mckinney , Texas where he reamined until his death.

He was a freemason and a member of the methodist church.
                  

                   Attened Private school under a teacher name mr. Moore. larkin became a teacher as well and taught for several years.

Larkin served four years in the Confederate army as a calvalryman and returned home without injury.

He was a lifelong Methodist and lived the teachings thereof.

He lived on the farm formerly owned by his uncle Larkin until his death. He owned and operated a cotton gin for many years, located on the bank of honey creek, not far  from his home. A younger brother John  thomas was a business partner. Lrkin's health seemed to have been imparied as a resultof working to closely in the operation of the gin and was generally believed to have hastened his death.
                  

                   Nancy and carson partly raised four of her brother's children in addition to their own. They lived on and operated a farm in Denton, Texas. for about 35 years.

Nancy was a member of the methodist church and carson was a member of the baptist church.
                  

                   Purchased the interest form all his brothers and sisters in the family farm in weston texas.
                  

                   Little concrete information is known of Henry sutton adamson and his family. Henry adamson, wife Mary, and six children are listed as living in Judkins twp in the 1900 woodward  county oklahoma census. It appears mary was a third wife instead of a second as Collin county marriage records show H.S. Adamson married V.P. Culwell On 2/18/1886. It is recorded that henry and mary had three boys Louis, Sidney, and lawrence. However, there were also three girls in the household that had the Adamson name; Willis, may and Lizze, This had led to the assumption that the tree girls were from Mary's previous marriage and became step-daughters of Henry, Taking the adamson name.

He lived in Weston, Texas for several years, farming most of the time. However, he went up into the panhandle of Texas about 1890 to work for the Santa Fe railroad. In about 1907, he had an accident while performing his duty which was the direct cause of his death a couple of years later. he was a roadmaster over a section of track out of Canadian , Texas. He never recovered from the accident. Some sources believe he went to Dnver, Colorado and buried there.


He was a member of the methodist church
                  

                   Like the other younger children of the family, had little chance at school and therefore, had a limited education. She was a member of the methodist church.


Martha and Henry Peter lived in Sanger all their married life. Henry worked for the railroad.
                  

                   Dock adamson grew up with a limited amount of schooling, however, he seemed to possess more natural ability than his siblings. He was siaid to have been a natural frontiersman as wellas a real cow man. During his later teens he was helping heis brother at a cotton gin, got caught in the saws and lost his right arm at the shoulder. however, he never seemed to look back as a result of his misfortune.

It was in the early 1880's that he went west, got a job with the old rocking chair ranch in collingsworth county, a 500,000 acre spread, owned by an English capitalist. The wagon Boss was the late Edd Bromley whose widow and son Bill lived on the ranch Edd left to themin Donley county. Edd told John Thomas adamson  first hand that all the years that Dock Adamson worked for him, it was never necessary to help or wait on him for anything. he was always ready and did his part.

Dock worked for this organization for about 12 years, and every dollar that he could possibly spare he invested in land and cattle. In about 1898 he sold all of his holdings in collingsworth county rounded up all of his cattle and drove them to Gage, oklahoma where he puchased a small rach of about  3,000 acreas. He fulfilled his lifelong dream and operated this successful ranch until june 7, 1907.

Dock Adamson was murdered on his ranch by Snowden Baily( who married his stepdaughter Mable watson a few years prior) while mending fences on his ranch. No one was ever able to suggest any other motive except that Dock Adamson was murdered for his property. The overall picture indicates that there was a conspiracy plot that preceded his death.

His widow, Ida, subsequently married a friend of hers by the name Harry Thompson.

Dock was a member of the Methodist church.
                  

                   parents both born in Missouri

OCCUPATION: Teacher (1880), Grocer (1881), Peddler (1900)

History of Simon Granville Clayton
Unknown author - accessed from Ancestry World Tree

Simon served four years in the Confederate Army. He was attending school when the war broke out. Was captured and imprisoned on Governer's Island, New York (or Possibly Hilton Head, South Carolina) for almost a year.  Was discharged from the army as a Leiutinant.After the war, he taught school for several years and operated a grocery in Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas.Family records do not show a second marriage for Simon, but an assumption can be made as records of application for Confederate widow's pensions show that	1. Simon Granville Adamson married in Wichita county, Texas in 1892	2. years of birth and death and county match those of Simon Granville Adamson	3. Rank and length of service in confederate army are in agreement	4. Simon was a recorded prisoner of war	5. Simon was listed as being from Collin County, TexasIf the assumption is correct that Simon married twice, this resolves a conflict with his marriage dates 1888 and 1892.Moved to Collinsworth Co , Texas in about 1880. Kate died in 1888 and rests on a hillside near Cottonwood Creek. Simon was forced to give up his holdings. He took the children to his sisters in Denton Co. Texas.  He had located an ideal place for a ranch in Collingsworth Co., Texas. The census records do show that his two youngest children lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Nancy and Carson Hankins in Denton.Another source stated that he deserted his wife and children when he left one morning and failed to return. If this is true, then it must have been Alice Catharine that he deserted.He migrated west and wrote a column for the Denver post and the Phoenix Herald for several years. He later went to San Francisco, where he survived the disastrous earthquake of 1906. He then located to Ogle Flats, New Mexico where he started a community post office. He also carried a stock of merchandise.Several years later, according to the story, a traveling piano turner was tuning a piano for Simon's brother , John Thomas in Hedley, Texas and told him that there was a man in New Mexico that looked just like him. John Thomas wrote to his brother in care of the postmaster, and Simon, who was the postmaster, got the letter. Simon returned to Hedley around 1910.His health failed him late in 1910. He died at his brother John Thomas house in Hedley, Texas in 1911. Simon was a Freemason and a member of the Methodist church.