James Taylor Adams collected material on various Adams/Addams/Addoms/ Adamson and connected families throughout the United States. Most of the material was collected between 1921 and 1954. Many of the families were from Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee. He also collected material for a history of the first settlers of Wise County, Virginia, so some of the families have ties to Wise County. Includes the Ball, Breeding, Bolling/Bowling,...

Th Indian Creek Regular Baptist Church of Christ was organized in 1867.

For these cases the courts sat in chancery which meant it acted as a court of equity. Equity law is a body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines which supplement or override common and statute law to protect rights and enforce duties defined or fixed by substantive law. The courts usually dealt with cases which did not need a jury, such as divorces or foreclosures. Orders are judgments based on those laws.