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Sharon--So glad to get your info on George HAIRGROVE and an Adams connection. While that story goes around and around about Pres. Adams, there has never been proof. I've read several books on Adams, both wives of both Pres. Adams, and their genealogies and never a connection. There ususally is a "grain of truth" in the old stories and if YOU have a marriage between an Adams and Hairgrove--bingo--there's a "grain of truth". That is what I have suspected to find all along. I would be MOST interested in your documentaion on that marriage. Where were they married, year, etc.?
Now, to the Stephen Marion Hairgrove. I descend from him and his wife, Mary "Polly" Brown. They were married in August 1805 in NC right before they emigrated to Bedford County, TN. Stephen's birthdate is July 24, 1784 and died Dec 11, 1858. He has a tombstone in the Buena Vista Cemetery of Shelby County, TX. (This cemetery is online under Shelby County from the US GenWeb Project) While I do believe the headstone was put up long after his death by descendants, I still feel the dates are accurate because of his service in the War of 1812. Luckily, he has an extensive file of application papers in his file when he was wrangling with the US govt for a pension. Check his pension file. The amazing thing in his file, is that in his desperation to prove his family information, he ripped out the birth and death page of his family Bible and sent it to Washington, DC. Lucky for us that he did because now it is preserved (hopefully forever) in the Archives. It even has the Bible publication info on the backside.
One of the early Hairgrove compilers (on Stephen's line) was Silas Brown Wright who compiled two small volumes on his family lines in 1954. While I will be forever grateful to him for getting the work done while so many "old timers" were still alive to tell information, he did publish the works with many errors in them. His work was put into the LDS papers and files and has been copied over and over again into people's "documentation". Now it is sometimes hard to figure out where info came from. I am trying to go back over his work and document it with primary sources or reexamine sources.
By the way, I am interested in your cousin's sources. If his/her info came from Wright's work or LDS files, that will tell me something. If it came from other independent sources or from different branches of the family in differing parts of the country, that will be a definite new twist. I have known of a George Hairgrove "out there" but never a definite clue that he was closely related. [I have always suspected most Hairgroves are related somehow if they spell it that way.]
This is what S.B.Wright lists as Stephen William and Mary(he did not say Ann) HAIRGROVE's children:
Briton HAIRGROVE b. 18 July 1781
Burrel HAIRGROVE b. 14 Sept 1783
Steph Marion HAIRGROVE b. 24 July 1784
William HAIRGROVE b. 17 Sept 1786
He also lists an exact birth and death date for Stephen William as : b. 4 Aug 1750 and d. 24 Feb 1804
Mary he lists as: b. 14 Sept 1751 and d. 18 Aug 1802. Where did he get those exact dates??
Now, is this documented? NO, nowhere I know of or have found. But it is repeated over and over. This is an area that definitely needs more work. Other than Wright's book as far back as 1954, I know of no one who has tied SMarion with SWilliam. There are some other Hairgroves on 1790 SC census.
Yes, it could be that Stephen William and George were brothers. It is interesting that that there is a Newell Hairgrove among George's children. Stephen Marion named a son Newell Adams (b. 25 Apr 1810.) Newell moved to Aberdeen Mississippi in 1836, married, started a family, then joined his parents in Shelby County, TX later. And, I've seen info on an Asa Hairgrove before.
Well, your question is still not answered, is it! It would be very interesting to see what your cousin's sources are and how old they are. If they are older than 1954, you may have something big. Please let me know!!!
Debbie
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