WILLIAM
F. MC ADOO,
farmer, post office Kennard, was born January 27, 1829, in County
Donegal, Ireland. His parents, George and Sarah
(Fletcher) McAdoo, came to America in 1848, with their family of
five children: William P., Mary J., Sarah, Catherine
and Esther. They located on a farm near Jamestown, Penn., where
they resided for three years, and then went to Crawford County, where they
lived five years, after which they purchased a portion of the Donaldson
farm in Sugar Grove Township, where they lived until his decease.
Politically George was a Democrat. He and his
wife were members of the United Presbyterian Church. He died September 9,
1872, in his seventy-first year. His widow still lives with her son, William
F., in her eighty-fifth year. William F. was
reared at home and educated in the common schools. He was married January
29, 1861, to Mrs. Maria Minnis (nee Dumars),
and lived for two years on a portion of the Donaldson
farm, when they bought a farm of 100 acres near Kennard, on which they
still live. There have been two children born to them: Fannie
E., wife of I. J. Lackey, and George
K. Politically our subject is a Democrat. He has filled the offices
of school director and road commissioner, and is a member of the United
Presbyterian Church. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, pages 1139-1140
