A charter member of the Carroll County Historical Society, Deborah Adams is a seventh-generation Tennessean – at the very least. Her most notable ancestors are Captain Zaccheus Wilson (a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, a member of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina 1776, and a veteran of the Battle of Kings Mountain), and his twin brother Major David Wilson (Speaker of the House of Representatives for Territory South of the Ohio River, veteran of the Battle of Kings Mountain, and namesake of Wilson County, Tennessee). Her most interesting ancestor is Eliza Wilson Leach, who managed to get herself disowned by the wealthy Wilson clan, and who then gave birth to a daughter approximately six months after her marriage.

Learn more about Deborah (or Zenha) at www.deborah-adams.com