James Moore Adams
1849 - 1932 (83 years)
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Name James Moore Adams - son of William A. Adams and Mary A. Getty [1]
Born 1 Jan 1849 Oakdale, Washington County, Illinois 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Census 1900 Alban, Nuckolls County, Nebraska Census 1910 Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Census 1920 Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Census 1930 Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Occupation farmer [3, 4] Died 12 Mar 1932 Sterling, Rice County, Kansas [1, 3] Buried Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas [1, 3] Person ID I576 McKeown Last Modified 28 Jun 2023
Family Rachael McKeown, b. 20 Feb 1853, Des Moines County, Iowa , d. 12 Jun 1934, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Age 81 years) Married 30 Sep 1880 Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa Children 1. Mary Rebecca Adams, b. 1 Sep 1881, Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 13 Dec 1974, Kansas (Age 93 years)+ 2. William Henry Adams, b. 2 Oct 1882, Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 1975 (Age 92 years)3. Ida Pearl Adams, b. 14 Dec 1883, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 29 Jan 1933, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Age 49 years)4. James Renwick Adams, b. 17 Apr 1886, Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 10 Mar 1967, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Age 80 years)+ 5. Richard Cameron Adams, b. 9 Apr 1888, Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 22 Mar 1948, Mount Clare, Nuckolls County, Nebraska (Age 59 years)6. Hannah Moore Adams, b. 14 Jul 1890, Nebraska , d. 17 Jun 1961, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (Age 70 years)7. Ella Rachael Adams, b. 8 Mar 1892, Nebraska , d. 5 Oct 1967, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Age 75 years)8. Clara Viola Adams, b. Jun 1893, Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska , d. 29 Jun 1971, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Age 78 years)+ 9. Andrew Calvin Adams, b. 23 Mar 1897, Nebraska , d. 13 Feb 1990, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado (Age 92 years)Last Modified 23 Oct 2017 Family ID F224 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1 Jan 1849 - Oakdale, Washington County, Illinois 
Married - 30 Sep 1880 - Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa 
Census - 1900 - Alban, Nuckolls County, Nebraska 
Census - 1910 - Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Census - 1920 - Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Census - 1930 - Sterling, Rice County, Kansas Died - 12 Mar 1932 - Sterling, Rice County, Kansas 
Buried - - Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Family of James M and Ella Adams James Moore Adams
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Notes - Death Calls Settler Closing Useful Life
J.M. Adams Dies at Sterling, Kan. – Helped in Organization of Beulah Covenanter Congregation
J.M. Adams, who homesteaded in Nuckolls county in 1880, died at his home in Sterling, Kan., March 12, at the age of 83 years. He lived, with his family, on the old homestead near Bostwick until 1906, when they moved to Sterling, to enable the children to enter the college there.
Mr. Adams was one of the organizers of Beulah Covenanter congregation.
Funeral services were held in Sterling and burial was in the Sterling Cemetery.
Obituary
James Moore Adams, the eldest son of William and Mary Adams, was born at Oakdale, Ill., Jan. 1, 1849 and departed this life at his home in Sterling, Kan., March 12, 1932, at the age of 83 years, 2 months and 11 days.
At the age of 22 he moved to Wahoo, Nebr., where he taught school one year. The next year, 1872, he took a homestead in Platte county, Nebraska where he lived for eight years.
On September 30, 1880, he was united in marriage with Miss Rachel McKeown near Mediapolis, Iowa. To this union were born nine children, four sons and five daughters.
After marriage Mr. Adams and his bride settled on a farm near Bostwick where they endured all the privations and hardships of early pioneers. Drought and grasshopper plague were met with characteristic stoicism and fortitude. For 25 years he worked to improve his farm home and became a progressive stock farmer. Here all his nine children were born. He helped to organized the Beulah congregation of which he was an elder and active member.
Mr. Adams having himself been deprived of a good education, resolved that all his children should have the opportunity of thorough college training. All the children with the exception of the eldest son have graduated from Sterling College. For three years Mr. Adams served on the College Board.
Mr. Adams was a life long member of the Covenanter church and has always taken an active interest in church work. He served in the capacity of elder and teach for fifty years. It was his greatest disappointment in his declining years that he was unable to attend church services.
Two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Adams celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Adams death is the first break to occur in the family circle as all the children and grand children are living.
Besides a host of friends Mr. Adams leaves to mourn his loss his wife, Mary, a missionary of Wan Fau, China; Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Adams and three children of Grant, Nebraska; Pearl, a teacher in Wichita, Kansas; J.P., a farmer at Sterling, Kansas; Rev. and Mrs. R.C. Adams and five children of Apache, Oklahoma; Rev. and Mrs. J.A. Heasty and two children of Doleib Hill, Sudan; Ella, in the home; Mr. and Mrs. Warnock Patton on a farm northeast of Sterling; Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Adams and daughter of Madrid, Nebraska; also two sisters, Mrs. Mary McClurkin of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Beaver Falls, Pa.
The Superior Express, Superior, Nebraska. Thursday, 17 March 1932.
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