George Washington Adams was born ca 1840 in TN, GA or AR. He died in 1909 in Oklahoma. Not much is known about George Washington Adams, it is believed he may also be of Cherokee descent, as most of the Rogers married within a group of families that also claimed to be part Cherokee. He often gave different information on each census as to where he was born, where his parents were born, and so on. He claimed to be illiterate, but that seem unlikely as he wrote a testimony for one of his sister-in-law's, so that she could get her share of her father's civil war pension. He was in the Civil War, Union in the Arkansas First Infantry, Regiment I. In 1861 he married Louisa Rogers in Johnson County, Arkansas. They had four children:
Jason Arthur Adams b 1867
After the death of Louisa in 1881, George abandoned his children and disappeared. He remarried, but had no more children and the marriage didn't last.
Below are the descendants of Jason Arthur Adams. For the descendants of his brothers, click the links above. This information can be searched through the gedcom file on Rootsweb, the link is on the home page.
Jason Arthur Adams was born January 2, 1867 in Shoal Creek Township of Logan, Arkansas to George Washington Adams and Louisa Rogers. Jason was the eldest of the children. Louisa died November 16, 1882, and George abandoned the children. In 1897, Jason was in the Choctaw nation, Indian Territory, where he worked with Bill Trahern, brother of Margaret Trahern. Sometime in between 1896 and 1899, Robert Trahern, Margaret’s father, died, and she and Jason were married in Brazil Creek on June 11, 1899. Jason had been previously married to Amanda Sonora Ellington, August 24, 1892 and had two children Amos Franklin Adams in 1894, and Elsie Adams in 1896. Amanda died in 1898, and Jason left his children with her parents.
Margaret Trahern was born November 30, 1880, the second child of Robert Trahern and his wife, Cornelia. A Choctaw by birth, Margaret was born in the Skullyville County of the Mushulatubbee district of the Choctaw Nation. Cornelia died sometime between 1891-1893, and Admona and Margaret took on the responsibilities of raising the younger children. Susan Daniels, a cousin, was also living with the family. By 1899, Margaret, Susan and Addie were married, and the younger children are living with Addie and her husband, Robert Kincaid. All of the children of Robert Trahern are registered as Choctaw on the Dawes Rolls, as ½ Choctaw. Jason and Margaret’s three sons born before Oklahoma statehood are also registered. 
Family oral history states that Margaret and her siblings only registered as ½ Choctaw to avoid guardianship, and were in fact full blood. This tale has been handed down to descendants of all the lines, though it has not proven to be completely accurate. The children could have been no more than ¾ since Robert Trahern was the son of two half blood parents. Since no proof on Cornelia’s heredity exists, she may be in fact, a full blood Choctaw.
Margaret acquired 1,920 acres of mountain timber land in 1896, more than the normal allotments given to the Choctaw, and it is unclear how exactly she obtained this land. The soil was poor, and the family had a saw mill and a clearing on which they grew cotton. Blue Mountain is the name of the hill on the property, and Brazil Creek was located about a mile further south. In the early 1900’s a fire destroyed the family home, and all records and valuables were destroyed. The family then moved into one of the shacks built for the laborers, consisting of only three rooms. Around that time, Jason was arrested for bootlegging, and fined a fine of $1500.00. As family tells relate, the justice of the peace who prosecuted the case, was also involved in the operation, and fined the outrageous fine to Jason, and then offered him a chance to pay by signing over his son’s allotted lands in Southern Oklahoma. Attempts to regain the mineral rights were unsuccessful over many years, and as late as the 1920’s the justice of the peace threatened Sam Adams if he pursued the matter further. In the 1920’s Jason took out a loan against the farm for fencing, and the family lost the farm eighteen months later.
After the eviction from the farm, Jason and Margaret moved to Short Mountain, near Cowlington, Oklahoma, where Jason sharecropped. In 1925, the family was in Bixby, Oklahoma, where Jason worked on the construction of a bridge over the Arkansas River. In 1926, he worked for the Kramer Cattle Ranch, and in 1928, he worked for the Phillips Petroleum refinery near Barnsdall, Oklahoma. Jason suffered a stroke in 1930, and then had numerous complications that led to his death November 1, 1930.
The children all left home early, between the ages of 13 and 16, perhaps due to the financial strains on the family. Two of the children ended up in Texas, while the rest remained in Oklahoma and married and had families. Margaret lived next to her daughter Rena, in a duplex prior to her death. According to her descendants, Margaret spoke fluent Choctaw, and had a 4th grade education. Her daughter Roverta related that “ an old Choctaw man used to come by now and then, and she would go out to the fence and speak to him in Choctaw.” I have been unable to get more stories about Margaret from her descendants, like my grandfather, they aren’t big on talking about their past, and many have since passed on. Bertha Adams, did keep a lot of the family pictures, and provided a great deal of the information for Loren Adams when he wrote his book in 1988. According to my grandfather’s tales, Margaret refused to speak English the last few years of her life. My grandmother told me of Margaret, “she had to eat at a specific time, no matter what was going on, and she also insisted that first thing in the morning Rena come and braid her hair.”
The family information on Jason and Margaret Adams comes from “Reflections of Generations, a history of Selected American Families” by Loren Adams, 1988.
The children of Jason and Margaret Adams
i.CURTIS HALL6 ADAMS, b. June 23, 1900, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. February 28, 1982; m. (1) ELSIE YANCY, Bef. 1923; b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown; m. (2) RENA M. UNKNOWN, February 13, 1937; b. May 10, 1912; d. Unknown.
ii.JAMES ARTHUR ADAMS, b. May 19, 1903, McCurtain, Haskell Co., OK; d. June 2, 1966, Texas; m. (1) THELMA UNKNOWN, Unknown; b. Abt. 1900; d. Bef. 1966
iii.SAMUEL JEFFERSON ADAMS, b. July 25, 1905, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. May 18, 1980, Spiro, OK; m. (1) LONA IRENE WINN, November 11, 1925, Tucker, OK; b. May 3, 1909, Lona, OK; d. January 3, 1962, Spiro, OK; m. (2) RUTH DAVID RHODES, March 16, 1971; b. Aft. 1920.
iv.PAULINE ADAMS, b. August 30, 1907, mc Curtain, Oklahoma, Haskell Co.; d. March 15, 1983, Chicago, Illinois, Cook Co.; m. (1) MELVIN TYLER, Abt. 1920, Oklahoma; b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown; m. (2) CLAUDE HAGAR, August 2, 1924, Picher, Oklahoma, Ottawa Co.; b. Abt. 1889, Arkansas or Oklahoma; d. March 20, 1933, mc allester, Oklahoma; m. (3) UNKNOWN CALLOWAY, Abt. 1945; b. Abt. 1907; d. Unknown; m. (4) HAROLD PAHL, Unknown, unknown; b. October 16, 1914, Minnesota; d. February 1980.
v.RENA ADAMS, b. August 12, 1909, McCurtain, Haskell Co., OK; d. June 4, 1969; m. (1) EDGAR CAVELY, Abt. 1925; b. Abt. 1905; d. Unknown; m. (2) O.V. DAY, November 14, 1937; b. Abt. 1905; d. Unknown; m. (3) RAYMOND BLANCO, Aft. 1938; b. Abt. 1910; d. March 13, 1983.
vi.BERTHA VIOLA ADAMS, b. July 14, 1911, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. 2004; m. CHARLES EDWARD GEESMAN, February 1, 1941, Yuma, AZ; b. December 17, 1900, mena, AR; d. August 13, 1980, Oregon.
vii.HATTIE ADAMS, b. July 1, 1914, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. June 12, 1916, mc Curtain, Oklahoma.
viii.ROVERTA ADAMS, b. January 6, 1917, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. Unknown; m. JOHN TANKERSLY, Abt. 1945; b. Abt. 1915; d. Unknown.
ix.OLEON ADAMS, b. August 21, 1919, mc Curtain, Oklahoma; d. October 4, 1920, mc Curtain, Oklahoma.
