"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.
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GEN. WILL A. ADAMS (deceased) was born near Greenville, E. Tenn., October
24, 1839, and was the eldest of the family of David B. and Desdemona (Orto)
Adams, natives of Tennessee, and of Scotch descent, who moved to Brown
County, Ind., in 1849, where our subject was educated. During the
war--1861--he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers, at
which time he was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Brown County. He was made
Second Lieutenant, and, from efficiency and valor, promoted again and again,
until at the close of the war he was Colonel of the One Hundred and
Forty-fifth Indiana Regiment, and when discharged, a Brigadier General. He
was a brave, honorable, worthy officer, and an affable and respected
gentleman. After the war, he engaged in merchandising in Brown County, in
which, as in all his efforts, he was signally successful, and happy in
obtaining the confidence of the community. Mr. Adams married, July 9, 1861,
Miss Mary K. Butler, of Belmont County, Ohio, with an issue of four
children--Amanda (born September 19, 1865), Ada L. (born May 1, 1868, died
January 12, 1869), Edwin B. (born January 19, 1870, died August 6, 1876) and
Emma D. (born August 11, 1872). In the midst of his usefulness, and in all
his well-earned glory, the great ravager, consumption, laid untimely hands
upon him, and carried him through death to greater victory than any earth
had given him. He was a true member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. His funeral was large, and his body was
interred in the peerless ceremony of Freemasonry. In politics, he was
Republican. He left his widow well cared for, and provided for his children
a fair beginning.
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