Parents: Charles and Sarah Adams
Brothers:
--OD Adams
--Charles Adams
--Earl L
--Joseph T
Sister: Mrs. Marian (Admas) Meek
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Enlisted at 18 years of age, September, 1864, in Company B, One Hundred Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteers, under Captain John B. Slade, the regiment being assigned to the Army of the Ohio under General Schofield. They were later attached to Sherman’s forces at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after some lively skirmishes returned to Charlotte, that state where they were discharged from service July 10, 1865. His brother Joseph T., was also in the army and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
After the close of Hostilities he returned to Ohio and on October 20, 1867, he was united in marriage at Cosesse, Whitley county, Indiana, to Miss Parthenia Saylor, who was born in Preble county, Ohio in 1850, a relative of the Hon. Henry B. Saylor, late of Huntington. The family is of German origin. At the age of ten years, her parents moved to Whitley county, Indiana, where they settled on a farm, and here Parthenia grew to womanhood and was educated in the district schools.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, namely: O.D., who was born October 10, 1869; Lulu D., who was born September 30, 1878; and Earl L. who was born February 24, 1883, and died January 27, 1900.
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Brothers:
--OD Adams
--Charles Adams
--Earl L
--Joseph T
Sister: Mrs. Marian (Admas) Meek
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Enlisted at 18 years of age, September, 1864, in Company B, One Hundred Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteers, under Captain John B. Slade, the regiment being assigned to the Army of the Ohio under General Schofield. They were later attached to Sherman’s forces at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after some lively skirmishes returned to Charlotte, that state where they were discharged from service July 10, 1865. His brother Joseph T., was also in the army and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
After the close of Hostilities he returned to Ohio and on October 20, 1867, he was united in marriage at Cosesse, Whitley county, Indiana, to Miss Parthenia Saylor, who was born in Preble county, Ohio in 1850, a relative of the Hon. Henry B. Saylor, late of Huntington. The family is of German origin. At the age of ten years, her parents moved to Whitley county, Indiana, where they settled on a farm, and here Parthenia grew to womanhood and was educated in the district schools.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, namely: O.D., who was born October 10, 1869; Lulu D., who was born September 30, 1878; and Earl L. who was born February 24, 1883, and died January 27, 1900.
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Parents: Charles and Sarah Adams
Brothers:
--OD Adams
--Charles Adams
--Earl L
--Joseph T
Sister: Mrs. Marian (Admas) Meek
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Enlisted at 18 years of age, September, 1864, in Company B, One Hundred Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteers, under Captain John B. Slade, the regiment being assigned to the Army of the Ohio under General Schofield. They were later attached to Sherman’s forces at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after some lively skirmishes returned to Charlotte, that state where they were discharged from service July 10, 1865. His brother Joseph T., was also in the army and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
After the close of Hostilities he returned to Ohio and on October 20, 1867, he was united in marriage at Cosesse, Whitley county, Indiana, to Miss Parthenia Saylor, who was born in Preble county, Ohio in 1850, a relative of the Hon. Henry B. Saylor, late of Huntington. The family is of German origin. At the age of ten years, her parents moved to Whitley county, Indiana, where they settled on a farm, and here Parthenia grew to womanhood and was educated in the district schools.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, namely: O.D., who was born October 10, 1869; Lulu D., who was born September 30, 1878; and Earl L. who was born February 24, 1883, and died January 27, 1900.
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Brothers:
--OD Adams
--Charles Adams
--Earl L
--Joseph T
Sister: Mrs. Marian (Admas) Meek
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Enlisted at 18 years of age, September, 1864, in Company B, One Hundred Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteers, under Captain John B. Slade, the regiment being assigned to the Army of the Ohio under General Schofield. They were later attached to Sherman’s forces at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after some lively skirmishes returned to Charlotte, that state where they were discharged from service July 10, 1865. His brother Joseph T., was also in the army and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
After the close of Hostilities he returned to Ohio and on October 20, 1867, he was united in marriage at Cosesse, Whitley county, Indiana, to Miss Parthenia Saylor, who was born in Preble county, Ohio in 1850, a relative of the Hon. Henry B. Saylor, late of Huntington. The family is of German origin. At the age of ten years, her parents moved to Whitley county, Indiana, where they settled on a farm, and here Parthenia grew to womanhood and was educated in the district schools.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, namely: O.D., who was born October 10, 1869; Lulu D., who was born September 30, 1878; and Earl L. who was born February 24, 1883, and died January 27, 1900.
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