Son of Elroy Eliphalet Adams and Carrie M. (Howard) McLaughlin of Weld Maine. He had siblings Clifton H., Sarah J., and Ethel Adams and step-siblings Lillie and Hannah McLaughlin. Sister Sarah died at age 20 of a brain embolism.
He married Ethel May York on August 16, 1911 in Wilton Maine. He was 22 and she was age 19. Marriage record indicated he was a farmer living in Salem, Franklin County, Maine and and Ethel was a school teacher of Wilton. She was the daughter of James K. York and Flora Ella (Adams) of Wilton.
In the 1930 census Alton and Ethel had children Ruth F. age 15, Floyd J. age 8, Glenn A. age 5 and baby Vera N. In that census Alton was a dairy farmer and owned his farm in Wilton. By 1940 they had added a son Merle V. then age 7 to the family. They had also lost their third child, a male, to premature birth in 1916 in Salem Maine.
Died age 83, resident of East Wilton, Franklin County, Maine.
He married Ethel May York on August 16, 1911 in Wilton Maine. He was 22 and she was age 19. Marriage record indicated he was a farmer living in Salem, Franklin County, Maine and and Ethel was a school teacher of Wilton. She was the daughter of James K. York and Flora Ella (Adams) of Wilton.
In the 1930 census Alton and Ethel had children Ruth F. age 15, Floyd J. age 8, Glenn A. age 5 and baby Vera N. In that census Alton was a dairy farmer and owned his farm in Wilton. By 1940 they had added a son Merle V. then age 7 to the family. They had also lost their third child, a male, to premature birth in 1916 in Salem Maine.
Died age 83, resident of East Wilton, Franklin County, Maine.
Son of Elroy Eliphalet Adams and Carrie M. (Howard) McLaughlin of Weld Maine. He had siblings Clifton H., Sarah J., and Ethel Adams and step-siblings Lillie and Hannah McLaughlin. Sister Sarah died at age 20 of a brain embolism.
He married Ethel May York on August 16, 1911 in Wilton Maine. He was 22 and she was age 19. Marriage record indicated he was a farmer living in Salem, Franklin County, Maine and and Ethel was a school teacher of Wilton. She was the daughter of James K. York and Flora Ella (Adams) of Wilton.
In the 1930 census Alton and Ethel had children Ruth F. age 15, Floyd J. age 8, Glenn A. age 5 and baby Vera N. In that census Alton was a dairy farmer and owned his farm in Wilton. By 1940 they had added a son Merle V. then age 7 to the family. They had also lost their third child, a male, to premature birth in 1916 in Salem Maine.
Died age 83, resident of East Wilton, Franklin County, Maine.
He married Ethel May York on August 16, 1911 in Wilton Maine. He was 22 and she was age 19. Marriage record indicated he was a farmer living in Salem, Franklin County, Maine and and Ethel was a school teacher of Wilton. She was the daughter of James K. York and Flora Ella (Adams) of Wilton.
In the 1930 census Alton and Ethel had children Ruth F. age 15, Floyd J. age 8, Glenn A. age 5 and baby Vera N. In that census Alton was a dairy farmer and owned his farm in Wilton. By 1940 they had added a son Merle V. then age 7 to the family. They had also lost their third child, a male, to premature birth in 1916 in Salem Maine.
Died age 83, resident of East Wilton, Franklin County, Maine.
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