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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. George M. Adamson, farmer and physician of Lafayette Township, was born October 14, 1830, in Henry County, Ga., a son of William C. and Elizabeth (Crawly) Adamson, natives of Georgia. William C. Adamson was born in 1797, a son of Greenbury Adamson and (Coats) Adamson, natives of Maryland and Georgia, respectively. Greenbury Adamson was born near Rockford, Md., a son of Seabron Adamson. Sebron Adamson was born in England, in Amsterdam City, of Scottish descent, and with Frederick Adamson came to the United States before the Revolutionary War (in which they both served), settling in Maryland. The paternal grandmother was of Scotch descent. William C. Adamson, father of our subject, was a large planter of Georgia, owning about 1,000 acres of land, and from fifteen to twenty slaves. He died July 13, 1879. Elizabeth (Crawly) Adamson was a daughter of Charles Crawly, who was born in Virginia about 1750, and died in 1850. She died December 25, 1865. She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom are still living, viz.: Charles Quincy (a merchant of Atlanta, Ga.), William L. (a farmer and merchant of Carroll County, Ga.), Nancy C. (now Mrs. Milton Dorough, of Bowdon, Ga.), George M. (the subject of this sketch), Simon Frederick (a farmer of Alabama), Samuel M. (a farmer and Baptist minister of Alabama), and James Greenbury (a farmer of Carroll County, Ga.). Those deceased are Augustus M. (died in Henry County, Ga.), Nathaniel T. (died while in the Confederate army), and John W. (who died in Bowdon, Ga.). John W. Adamson moved to the locality where Bowdon was afterward established, in 1854, and was one of the founders of that place. He had a family of nine children, all of whom received a good education, two becoming prominent lawyers and well known men. Dr. G. M. Adamson, our subject, was educated at Bowdon, Ga. He studied medicine in an office in Randolph County, Ala., and then attended the medical college at Augusta, Ga. In 1859 he came to Arkansas, locating in Lafayette County, where he commenced to practice medicine. In 1863 he went to Columbia County, where he remained until 1867, when he returned to this county, locating on his present farm, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession and farming. He has always enjoyed a good practice, and has been equally as successful in farming, owning 360 acres of land, 240 acres where he lives, and 120 acres of timber land, and has over 100 acres under cultivation, raising cotton principally. Dr. Adamson was married January 1, 1861, to Miss Martha C. Butler, born in South Carolina (Orangeburg District), June 28, 1830, a daughter of Thomas and Rachel Butler, natives of South Carolina, and the fruits of this union have been five children, three of whom are still living, viz.: Elizabeth Elenor (was born in Columbia County, June 15, 1864, and was married to John W. Wilson, December 31, 1884, is now the mother of three children, viz.: George Robert, Martha Madieleine and Elizabeth Hattie Dee; she is now living in this township), Martha Lee (was born in Columbia County, September 10, 1865, was married to Daniel Green Jeffus, September 16, 1886, and is now the mother of two children, only one living, viz., Martha Cathrine, now living in this township), Madieleine Nancy (was born in Ouachita County, December 23, 1870, still at home with her parents). Dr. Adamson, Mrs. Adamson and three children are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, and of the County Wheel. His wife and three daughters are members of the O. E. S. He is a leading Democrat, and one of the best known men in the county, and takes an active interest in all laudable public enterprises.

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