Adams - McKain
Veterans
Updated: 29 December 2009
(NOTE: This list includes members of the Adams, McKain &
related families who were veterans of America's wars and also peacetime
veterans. If you have knowledge of other veterans, please contact Jim Adams email: adamsmckain @ gmail.com) We welcome photographs, stories, letters, diaries, etc.
Helpful hints in searching for a military veteran.
French & Indian
War
- Lt. Joel Adams (b. 20 December 1729 in Suffield,
Hartford, CT, d. March 1820 in Marlboro, Windham, VT) married Elizabeth Fowler
in Suffield, Hartford, CT (b. 20 December 1729 in Greenfield, Huron, OH, d. 24
May 1814 in Thetford, Orange, VT). He was a soldier in the French War, and was
wounded in the Battle of Lake George, 1755. He held a Lieutenant's commission
under the English crown. He is said to have manumitted his slaves that they
might participate in the war for independence. He settled in Marlboro, Vt. His
will was probated Mar., 1820. He left his property to his wife, his sons Job,
Bildad, and Joel, Jr., and to his daughters Lucina Hale, Elizabeth Otis, and
Sarah Winchester; Joel Jr. was named executor. (From: Andrew Adams, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass.
and His Descendants 1635-1900
). This was the first significant (British) colonial victory over the
French in the French & Indian War.
American Revolution
- Horace Hale Adams
- Dr. Timothy Puffer
War of
1812
Mexican - American War
Civil War
- Isaac Leonard Bates, Corporal, Company C, 3rd
Michigan Cavalry, Sgt., Company D
- George Washington Alford, Corporal, 6th Regiment, Michigan Volunteers,
Company D
- David McKain, 1st Michigan Infantry (Battle of Bull Run)
- Luther Kinney
- Joseph Kinney (1826-1856). GAR marker next to grave in Kern Cemetery
- Warren G. Kinney (1829-1912) Co I, 13 MI Infantry marker next to gravestone in Kern Cemetery.
- Corp. Nathan S. Kinney, enl. Dec. 26, 1863; must. out Feb. 15, 1866. Twelfth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company H.
- Evander S. Mack, b. 1842, d. 1916. Co D 1st Mich E&M (great grandfather of Rollie & Bruce Morse)
Spanish - American War
WW1 ("The Great War")
WW2
Korean
War
Vietnam War
- George C. Adams, 2nd Lieut. US Army
- Daniel Adams
- Gerald C. Adams
- Dennis Munson
Desert Storm
Iraqi Freedom
Others:
- Jim Dentler
- Keri Throneberry
- Jeff Adams
- Doug Adams
- Tim Adams, US Army
- Mike West, US Navy
- Floyd Hurt, US Air Force, Aleutian Islands
- Horace Hale Adams