Re: John David Adrian from Germany
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Re: John David Adrian from Germany
Bruce Wheat 5/31/01
The correct names are David Willoughby Adrian (not Willbur) and William M. Harvey Adrian (not Arvey). Their sister, Arlevia (Adrian) Gowder named a son David Willoughby Gowder and another Harvey L. Gowder. Harvey Adrian is buried at a Methodist Church Cemetery in Leesburg, Alabama.I have visited his gravesite.Willoughby Adrian also lived in Cherokee County, Alabama, but I have not located his burial place. Note that these men went by their middle names, as did their father, a common tradition among Germans in the 18th and early 19th centuries.