Most of what I know about the McAdorys and other early families who settled Jefferson County came from Jim Walker. Here's an article he wrote about the family's connection to McAdory school --
http://www.jefcoed.com/sites/Schools/McAdoryHS/Pages/AboutUs.aspx

Many of the early McAdory burials are located in Cedar Hill Cemetery, not far from the site of James McAdory's plantation home on Valley Creek. Thomas McAdory's home on Eastern Valley Road, Bessemer AL) is open to the public at different times of the year. THe first in this group is his marker at Cedar Hill.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=201&GScid=22034&GRid=38843837&CScnty=62&CSsr=21&
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38842799
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=201&GScid=22034&GRid=42131381&CScnty=62&CSsr=21&