William Green Adams
and Mary "Polly" Webb

William Green Adams b 21 Jan 1820 Jellico River, Whitley Co, KY, d 29 Jun 1862 Wise Co, VA s/o William Green "Billy Grit" Adams and Mary Ann "Polly" Adams. William Green Adams m. 25 Apr 1840 Hazard, Perry Co KY to Mary "Polly" Webb b 14 Mar 1818 Floyd Co KY d Feb 1890 Mayking, Letcher Co KY d/o Benjamin Webb and Jane "Jennie" Adams. William Green Adams was one of Letcher County's foremost farmers and a miller as well as an elder of the Baptist church. When the Civil War broke out, he was commissioned a captain in the Union Army. However, he was shot by snipers and killed on June 29, 1862, on Pound River in Wise County, VA. (1850 Letcher Co KY Census and 1860 Letcher Co KY Census). Children of William Green Adams and Mary "Polly" Webb;

I. Benjamin F Adams b 4 Jul 1840 m. Susannah Holbrook b 1834 Perry Co KY d/o William B Holbrook and Sarah "Sally" Adams.

II. Sarah Adams b 7 May 1850

III. Lettie Jane Adams b 23 Jan 1853 Letcher Co KY d 8 Sept 1883 buried Thornton Cemetery, Letcher Co KY; m. 20 Mar 1873 Whitesburg, Letcher Co KY to Archelous Hammonds b 19 May 1856 d 22 Oct 1910 Knott Co KY buried Hale Cemetery, Wolfpen, Knott Co KY; s/o Ephraim Thomas Hammonds and Drucilla Craft.

IV. Mary Ellen Adams b 11 Aug 1854 Letcher Co KY d Apr 1889 buried Webb Cemetery Mayking, Letcher Co KY; m. Rev Willis Kirk Collier b 23 Jul 1859 d 8 May 1943 buried Goose Creek, Letcher Co KY, s/o William D Collier and Rebecca Meade.

V. Miles Mayo Adams b 18 Jul 1855

VI. Simpson Evans Adams b 29 Oct 1857 Letcher Co KY d 6 Apr 1935 buried Webb Cemetery, Mayking, Letcher Co KY m. 23 Feb 1880 Letcher Co KY to Sarah Webb b 20 Jan 1863 Bottom Fork, Letcher Co KY d 8 Mar 1942 Letcher Co KY buried Webb Cemetery, Mayking, Letcher Co KY d/o Edward T Webb and Elizabeth Elizabeth "Betty" Adams.