Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Adams, William C. 1824 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  WILLIAM C. ADAMS, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born February 12, 1824, in this
county. His father, Eli Adams, was of Kentucky pioneer stock, as his father,
William Adams, had settled there, where Elizabethtown now stands. Eli Adams, in
company with his uncle, James Baird who was afterward killed by the Indians,
came to this county in 1810, when this country was sparsely settled, and wild
beasts and still wilder men roamed through the forest. Here, amid the hardships
of pioneer life, he gained the good traits which characterized him in after
life; here he wooed and won for his wife Elizabeth Shaw, who was a daughter of
Joseph Shaw; she was the mother of thirteen children. Our subject was educated
in this county, where he afterward was joined in matrimony March 14, 1850, to
Lowduskey Johnson, born July 27, 1829, whose parents were pioneers of this
county. She is the mother of six children now living. They are Sarah E., Elisha
Goodwin, born October 20, 1852; Augustus, born October 1, 1854, he married
Rachael J. Postlewaite; John Franklin, born March 17, 1857; Sue, born January
26, 1861; Philander, born January 27, 1863; Ida D., born March 16, 1867. Mr. and
Mrs. Adams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and with their
children are exemplary citizens of their respective communities. He is the owner
of 558 acres of fine land, to the cultivation of which he gives considerable
attention; he has filled the office of School Treasurer for twenty-five years,
to the satisfaction of all concerned; is a Democrat in politics.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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