KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest	4 Feb 2000	Volume 00 : Issue 32


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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:22:09 -0700
From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" <kanichi@theriver.com>
Subject:BIO: William L. Adams, born Garrard County, KY (parents Wilson ADAMS and Rachel 
TAYLOR both natives of KY), 

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Benton Township, p. 666-667

William L. ADAMS, including TAYLOR, PATTON, CANNON, plus SLUSS

William L. ADAMS, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of Garrard County, Ky., was born 
December 31, 1830, and is the eldest child of Wilson and Rachel (TAYLOR) ADAMS, both natives 
of Kentucky.  The maternal grandfather of our subject, Robert TAYLOR, was a first cousin to 
Gen. Zach TAYLOR, and a soldier of the Revolutionary war.  The paternal grandfather, Wilson 
ADAMS, was a soldier of the war of 1812; the father of our subject was a farmer by 
profession, a Whig in politics, and a Cumberland Presbyterian in religion.  He died in 1832; 
his widow afterward moving to this county, where she married Henry PATTON.  She became
a widow a second time, and died in 1883, aged seventy-three years, a member of sixty years’ 
standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  William L. ADAMS removed to Ellettsville with 
his step-father, where he attended school and grew to manhood, and when nineteen years old 
began life for himself on rented land. December 29, 1850, he married Elizabeth CANNON, of 
this county.  After this event, he located in Van Buren Township for two years, then removed 
to Macomb, Ill., then returned to this county, and afterward purchased a threshing
machine, which he operated until he abandoned the same for auctioneering, which he has followed for twenty-five years.  Mr. ADAMS served as Constable for some years
under Capt. SLUSS.  In 1879, he occupied his present farm of 161 acres. July 5, 1863, he 
enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 
which formed a part of the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Cumberland; he was honorably 
discharged, and is a member of the G.A.R.  Mr. and Mrs. ADAMS are parents of seven children 
- John W., Sarah J., Laura A. (deceased), Amanda E., Maggie R., Della E. and Morton G.
 
Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel


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