Robert Lee Adams Family

Robert Lee Adams (1864-1932) was born and raised in Williamstown, Kentucky. He met and married a lovely woman, Lou Mattie (last name unknown) (1868-1948). They had several children:

1. Pearl Adams (1889-1956) - married Walter Daniels (1880-1963)
2. Carl Adams (1891-1966) - married Susie (1895-1991)
3. Olier Adams (1901-1955) - married Julia (1902-1963)
4. ttis Adams (1894- 979) - married Margaret born 1909
5. Griffin Adams ( 1888-1972) - married Lulu
6. Harold Adams (1923-1992) - married Eloise
7. Russell Adams ( unknown )

Very little is known about Robert Lee Adams, but my mother used to always call Lou Mattie "mommie". No one ever called her anything else. Most of the children stayed in Williamstown or Butler area. Pearl is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Erlanger; Carl, Olier, Ottis, Griffin and Harold Adams are buried in Flour Creek Cemetery, Butler, and it is unknown where Russell is buried.

Pearl Adams married Walter Daniels and had five children. (Living in the Butler area before moving to Covington):
1. Beulah Lee Daniels (1904-1997) - married Charles Traylor
2. Edna Daniels (1908-1987) - married Robert Gee
3. Virgil Daniels (1910-1988) - married several times
4. Irene Daniels (unknown) - married George Bunger (1912 - 1996)
5. Nole Daniels (unknown) - spent most of his life in a mental hospital.

Shortly after the youngest was born Walter left the family. Pearl had to raise the children on her own. She supported the children by taking various sewing jobs. When Irene grew up and got married Pearl lived with Irene and her family until her death of cancer. Irene and Pearl supported the family by sewing ties for a company in Cincinnati. Uncle George made tarps, including one of the ones that once covered the Reds Baseball Field.

Irene married George Bunger and had two children:
1. James Bunger
2. Gloria Jean Bunger

Beulah married a young man, Charles Traylor, who changed his name to Charles L Metzer at the tender age of 17 so that he could serve in the Quartermaster Corps during World War 1. He made it to sergeant before leaving the services. All of his military records are under that name. Charles died of  tuberculosis at a young age. The young widow, Beulah, moved her children (Kathleen, Irene, and Patrick) to her sister's home and went to work as a seamstress in a Covington factory.

She later met and married Edmond Simpson who raised her children as his own. He came from "the hills of Tennessee" and was raised with many of the cast members of the Original Hee Haw show. Archie Campbell, Grandpa Jones, and Junior Samples knew my Grandfather. One of Grandpa's favorite sayings was "Let's went" when he was ready to go somewhere. He was a wonderful man.

Irene met and married William Joseph Smith (1931-1986). These are my parents. William "Bud" was once a minor league Reds player. He could hit a ball better than anyone I had ever seen. He never made it to the minors. Bud opened his own interior decorating/painting company until they moved to Gardenia, California where our family lived for 13 years before moving back to our roots in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Father bought and ran a farm in Peach Grove until his death of Colon cancer. Karen Simpson (living in Florence but the rest of my siblings are living in Pendleton/Campbell counties).

Submitted by Karen Simpson, kdoopy23@fuse.net

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