Whitney, Betty Adair

Asa Rogers Adair (1845 or 1846-1923 or 1932), son of James Adair II of Ireland and Jane Anna Swart of Virginia, was raised in Giles County, Virginia, and served in the Confederate army the last year of the war. In the 1870s, he went into the cattle business in Texas and drove cattle to Utah, Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. In 1879, he began mining in the Custer and Chaffee Counties of Colorado and owned several lodes.

Emma May Keyser Adair (1865-1952) grew up in Pennsylvania and Ellis, Kansas, and lived in Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas.

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