Edward Adcock (1801-1885)

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Name:	Edward ADCOCK
Gender:	Male
Born:	24 February 1801
Died:	7 August 1885

Born 24 February 1801, in or near Richmond VA OR in Buckingham co VA.

Resided Virginia; to Tennessee as a child; to North Otter twp Macoupin co IL, 1829.

Died 7 August 1885, home of John Swift, Macoupin co IL.

Interred Oak Grove cemetery, near Modesto, IL, 8 August 1885 (unmarked).

Parents

1. Henry ADCOCK (ca1775?-1824?)
2. Sarah (unknown) (ca1775?-1853?)

Married

1. Agnes RICHARDS (1810?-1853?), Tennessee, ca 1827.
2. Sarah A. (HODGES) SWIFT (1816-1888), 28 March 1854, Salem IL.

Children

With Agnes RICHARDS:

1. (daughter, name unknown, born 1825-1830, died 1840-1850)
   "[The] 1830 census lists a girl under 5 & also lists her in 1840 census, but does not list her in 1850 or on the probate record when Edward died in 1885." [Evelyn Frey]
2. John H. "Henry" ADCOCK (1828-1910)
3. Edmund H. ADCOCK (1829-1905)
4. Beverly ADCOCK (1831-1905)
5. Caleb D.? ADCOCK (1834-1863)
6. Sarah A. COVEY BRISTOW (1836-1913)
7. William A. ADCOCK (ca1841-ca1879)
8. Charity SHORES CARTER (1842-1902)
9. James J. "Jeff" ADCOCK (1846-1929)
10. Martha A. ADCOCK (1850-?)

With Sarah A. (HODGES) SWIFT:

11. Merida G. "Green" ADCOCK (1856-1941)
12. Elizabeth L. ENGLAND (1858-1930)

Obituaries

Carlinville Democrat, Thursday, 13 August 1885, page 1.

Edward Adcock, residing some seven miles northeast of this place [Palmyra], died last Friday aged 84 years. He came to this county in 1829.

Girard Gazette, Thursday, 13 August 1885, page 4 col 4 "North Otter Notes"

Died Friday morning last, Uncle Edward Adcock, at the advanced age of 84 years. His remains were interred in the Chapman's Point cemetery Saturday.

Sources

• 1830 federal census, 1840 federal census, 1850 federal census, Macoupin co., IL.
• Obituaries of Beverly ADCOCK (1831-1905).
• Obituaries of Diana E. "Sis" (DALTON) ADCOCK (1851-1919).
• Obituaries of Edmund H. ADCOCK (1829-1905).
• Obituaries of Edward ADCOCK (1801-1885).
• Obituaries of John H. "Henry" ADCOCK (1828-1910).
• Obituaries of Hester A. (COVERDILL) ADCOCK (1828-1913).
• Obituaries of James J. "Jeff" ADCOCK (1846-1929).
• Obituaries of Maria L. "Louise" (EADS) ADCOCK (1838-1918).
• Obituaries of Martha A. (SWIFT) ADCOCK (1839-1911).
• Obituaries of F. P. BRISTOW (1813-1905).
• Hodges Genealogy & Family History (1994), page XIX (family of Agnes RICHARDS).
• Notes of Evelyn Frey, Myrtle Sailors.