Wilson Adams

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. ⁸⁴⁹ 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

• Occupation: farmer.

• faith: Cumberland Presbyterian.

• Politically: whig.

Wilson married Rachael Taylor on 21 Oct 1829. (Rachael Taylor was born in 1810 in Kentucky and died in 1883 in Monroe County, Indiana.)