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MONONGALIA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Chris & Kerry
cmac4330@chesapeake.net
December 12, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.151 & 152
WILLIAM H. ADAMS. Well known and prominent in Morgantown and throughout
Monongalia County, William H. Adams has had the career of a prosperous and
progressive farmer, and has spent his life so far in the Cheat Neck neighborhood
of Union District. Mr. Adams is one of the able members of the present County
Court.
He was born in the Cheat Neck community, November 14, 1865, son of Jacob and
Mary (Beatty) Adams. This is a family that has been in West Virginia for more
than a century. Jacob Adams was born in Preston County in 1823. His father was
Thomas Adams, a native of England, and a pioneer of Preston County. Jacob Adams
moved to the Cheat Neck neighborhood of Monongalia County when a young man and
married there Mary Beatty, who was born in that community in 1837, daughter of
Robert Beatty, a pioneer settler. Jacob Adams devoted his life to farming, and
died at his home at Cheat Neck in 1915, having survived his wife since 1905.
William H. Adams grew up on a farm, his education being acquired in the common
schools, and his energies, study and abilities have been absorbed by the farming
industry since young manhood. He owns a fine farm at Cheat Neck, and in addition
to the productiveness of the soil approximately forty-five acres are underlaid
with a vein of Freeport coal. Mr. Adams has always striven to do his part as a
citizen, held the office of justice of the peace several years, and was elected
to the County Court in 1918 for a term of six years. He is a member of Pine
Knob Lodge No. 559, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Brownfield,
Pennsylvania, is a working member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and votes as
a republican.
Mr. Adams married Nora E. Walls, who was born in Preston County, West Virginia,
daughter of Ezra and Tithe (Shaw) Walls. The two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Adams
are Ethel, born in 1901, and Hildred, born in 1911.
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