Charles William Adams
Born: August 16, 1817
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Father: Benjamin Adams Jr.
Mother: Susannah Goodhue
Wife: Lucy Helen Everett 1828 – 1889
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
Children:
Thomas C. Adams Unknown – 1884
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
Edward Frederick Adams 1849 – 1899
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
Catherine Everett Adams Keller 1856 – 1921
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama)
Marshall Cranworth Adams 1869 – 1940
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee)
Occupation before War:
Attorney, Judge and Cotton Planter in Helena, Arkansas
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Arkansas State Secession Convention
1861: Major & Quartermaster for Arkansas State troops
1862: Colonel of 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
1862: Transferred to Arkansas to raise a new regiment
1862: Colonel of Adams Regiment until dissolved on December 16, 1862
1863: Assistant Adjutant & Chief of Staff to General Thomas Hindman
1864: Brigadier General who commanded Northern Sub-District, Arkansas
Occupation after War:
Attorney in Memphis, Tennessee Law Partner with Albert Pike
Died: September 9, 1878
Place of Death: Memphis, Tennessee
Age at time of Death: 61 years old
Cause of Death: Yellow Fever
Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
Buried On: September 10, 1878
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