James Moore Adams
1849 - 1932 (83 years)
Generation: 1
1. James Moore Adams was born on 1 Jan 1849 in Oakdale, Washington County, Illinois; died on 12 Mar 1932 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Census: 1900, Alban, Nuckolls County, Nebraska
- Census: 1910, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas
- Census: 1920, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas
- Census: 1930, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas
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.
Name:
son of William A. Adams and Mary A. Getty
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104784366/james-moore-adams
Plot: 637 GJames married Rachael McKeown on 30 Sep 1880 in Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa. Rachael (daughter of Henry McKeown and Rebecca Paxton) was born on 20 Feb 1853 in Des Moines County, Iowa; died on 12 Jun 1934 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Mary Rebecca Adams was born on 1 Sep 1881 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 13 Dec 1974 in Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- William Henry Adams was born on 2 Oct 1882 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died in 1975; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Grant, Perkins County, Nebraska.
- Ida Pearl Adams was born on 14 Dec 1883 in Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 29 Jan 1933 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- James Renwick Adams was born on 17 Apr 1886 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 10 Mar 1967 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- Richard Cameron Adams was born on 9 Apr 1888 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 22 Mar 1948 in Mount Clare, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Beulah Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska, US.
- Hannah Moore Adams was born on 14 Jul 1890 in Nebraska; died on 17 Jun 1961 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- Ella Rachael Adams was born on 8 Mar 1892 in Nebraska; died on 5 Oct 1967 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- Clara Viola Adams was born in Jun 1893 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 29 Jun 1971 in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
- Andrew Calvin Adams was born on 23 Mar 1897 in Nebraska; died on 13 Feb 1990 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; was buried in Haxtun Cemetery, Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado.