LUCY WARD³ THORNTON (GEORGE WASHINGTON², GEORGE¹)¹ was born 21 Mar 1811², and died 22 Sep 1840². She married RICHARD ADAMS^3,4. He was born 07 Feb 1800⁵, and died 11 Jun 1851⁵.

More About RICHARD ADAMS:
Residence: Richmond, Virginia^6,7,8

Children of LUCY THORNTON and RICHARD ADAMS are:

i. MARY ELIZABETH⁴ ADAMS^9,10,11, b. 1830¹²; d. 1871¹²; m. (1) POPE¹²; d. Unknown; m. (2) GENERAL GEORGE WYTHE RANDOLPH^13,14, 10 Apr 1852¹⁵; b. 10 Mar 1818¹⁵; d. 04 Apr 1867, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia¹⁶.

More About MARY ELIZABETH ADAMS:
Burial: 1871, "Monticello," Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia¹⁷

More About GENERAL GEORGE WYTHE RANDOLPH:
Burial: Apr 1867, "Monticello," Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia¹⁷
Occupation: Attorney ¹⁸
Public Office: Confederate Secretary of War^19,20

ii. CATHERINE ADAMS²¹, d. Unknown.

iii. SAMUEL GOODE ADAMS²¹, d. Unknown; m. MARY CAMPBELL²¹; b. , Mobile, Alabama²¹; d. Unknown.

More About SAMUEL GOODE ADAMS:
Residence: Mobile, Alabama²¹

1. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I , (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 5.
2. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 119.
3. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 238.
4. Scott, Mary Wingfield, Houses of Old Richmond, (Bonanza Books, New York, 1941.), 14.
5. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 5.
6. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 238.
7. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 119.
8. Scott, Mary Wingfield, Houses of Old Richmond, (Bonanza Books, New York, 1941.), 14, "In 1817-18 Samuel G Adams, father of Richard III, was living in the house [Richard Adams House.] On June 21, 1825 Richard Adams sold to Loftin N Ellett Lots 79 and 80, 'on Richmond Hill', for the small sum of $3,040, pitiable when compared with the valuation set on them by the second Richard but explicable by the depression of 1819 and its disastrous effect on the Adams fortune."
9. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 238.
10. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 119, 171.
11. Randolph, G, Randolphs of Virginia, The.
12. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 171.
13. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 238.
14. Randolph, G, Randolphs of Virginia, The.
15. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 171.
16. Brock, Dr R A, VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS, Volume I, (H H Hardesty, Publisher, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.), 138.
17. Tombstone.
18. Brock, Dr R A, VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS, Volume I, (H H Hardesty, Publisher, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.), 137.
19. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 238, "...lieutenant United States Army, birgadier-general Confederate States Army."
20. Brock, Dr R A, VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS, Volume I, (H H Hardesty, Publisher, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.), 137, "...entered the Confederate Service as Major of the Howitzer Battalion, of Richmond, and for gallantry at the battle of Bethel was made a brigadier-general."
21. Brown, Stuart E, Jr., Myers, Lorraine F, Chappel, Eileen M, Pocahontas' Descendants, (The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985), 119.