Text Box: Text Box: George Washington Adair Family Newsletter Winter 2009 Text Box: Reunion 2009 George Washington Adair family Info here Photos # Text Box:

In remembrance of Gregory Edwin Adair
Text Box: Samuel Jefferson Adair’s father was Thomas Jefferson Adair (1771)and his mother was Rebecca Brown (1776)-a “Year of the Declaration of the War of Independence” baby. He was born in South Carolina, she hailed from Nashville, Tennessee. Read a biography of her compiled from the journals of Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. and James Richey by cousins Don and Caroline Adair Smith here . Text Box: Here is an interesting article found online about Thomas Adair’s family and mentioning Joseph Adair, Sr. “About 1730, Thomas Adair, with his family, migrated from County Antrim in Ireland, to Chester County, Pennsylvania….Joseph Adair, Sr. Born in Ireland immigrated to South Carolina where he fought in the American Revolution alongside William Berry and George Washington. He was one of the oldest soldiers in that war. His son and grandson also fought along side him as well as his grand daughter\'s husband, Capt. James Dillard….” Text Box: And, below, a companion article about another of Thomas’ sons, James, a brother to Joseph Adair, Sr. Text Box: James Robert Adair, Indian Trader and Author Could it be that the George Washington line of Adairs enjoyed a family connection and understanding of the prophetic teachings of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon that predated by sixty years their actual baptism into the Mormon faith? Can it be that this Book and its accounts of a Hebrew population which came to America in ancient times struck a familiar chord and found an attentive audience among members of the Adairs of South Carolina and Alabama from which the George Washington Adair line descends? Text Box: By the way, did you know there was an Adare Castle in Ireland? This is mentioned in the Thomas & Joseph article #here , but family researcher, Kerry Petersen has doubts that it was OUR family who lived in the castle.