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MAK Project _ Adams, Allen T.
December, 2008
The Mary Alma Kay Powers Project This month’s feature family from the Genealogy Department of the Donnellson Library comes from the Personal Ancestral Files of the Adams Family Tree. The following was found in the notes section of his personal file. It was taken from “Biographical Review” found in the Keokuk Public Library, Pages 48-50. Perhaps you are related to this family, or maybe recognize some of the names listed. Information on the Adams Family Tree is taken verbatim from Mary Alma Powers Kay original notes.
“Allen T. Adams, one of the earlier settlers of Lee County, Iowa, is numbered among the oldest residents of the county; he was born December 16, 1826 in Adams County, Ohio, to one of the pioneer families of that State and son of Robert and Nancy (Oxchier) Adams. The father died in Ohio, but the mother came west and located in Whiteside County, Illinois. She later moved to Iowa and joined her son in Lee County; she died in Scotland County, Missouri at the remarkable age of 106 years. She was the mother of six children of whom only three survive, the two other being Chambers Adams of Whiteside County, Illinois and Sarah A., wife of Thomas Walker, of near Kirksville, Missouri. Mr. Adams was first married near Rome, Ohio in 1846 to Miss Margaret Candlass. She died in 1873, and was buried at Yellow Banks Cemetery, being the mother of eleven children of whom eight survive.Coming to Lee County in l857, he was variously employed for four years. In 1861 he went to Scotland County, Missouri where he soon after enlisted in
Company B First Northeast Missouri Regiment of the Home Guards under Colonel Moore and Captain James Best. He was engaged in battle at Athens and
in scouting and skirmish duty for five months. At the expiration of that period the regiment was regularly organized, and left the State, but Mr. Adams was
then in such feeble health as to prevent his re-enlistment. He returned to Iowa, locating in 1865 on his present farm in Jackson Township, where he has ever
since resided. Here he has been highly successful, and occupies an enviable position among the leading agriculturists and largest land owners of Lee County, owning approximately 350 acres of fertile farming land well improved and unusually productive. The farm, which was originally all located in Jackson Township, has been divided into two tracts by a change in the channel of the Des Moines River, so that a portion now lies outside the township. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are well known throughout this vicinity as life long Methodists, and are members of the Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, whose house of worship Mr. Adams helped to build and in whose welfare he has even taken the deepest interest, contributing generously to its support and to its various charitable enterprises. All public movements of a worthy nature have commanded his attention and study, and he was in former years an active and helpful member of the Grange, which derived substantial benefit from his influential position and standing in the community, and he is also known as a prominent member of the Republican Party in Jackson Township. Although he has never aspired to the holding of public office, he has at various times consented to discharge the duties of several minor official positions with a view to serving the interest of the community in which he lives, and for this he deserves credit, for he has always applied justified the confidence of his fellow citizens.
The public schools have been the especial object of his care and solicitude, and he has at times occupied the office of school director in order to keep more intimately in touch with this characteristically American institution, which is the foundation stone of the Nation's liberties and one of the chief factors in her progress and continued greatness. In fact, every movement or institution calculated to promote the general welfare has elicited his sympathy and aid, and ever since casting his first ballot for General William Henry Harrison for President of the United States he has conscientiously observed all the duties of citizenship, and in consequence enjoys today the admiration and respect of those who know him for the uprightness and strict integrity which mark his life record, while his personal loyalty and the social virtues of his character have made him a host of his friends.
Because there is confusion and inconsistency in the family tree, we are simply listing the names found in this particular family. If you know or are related to this family, please contact the Genealogy Department at the Donnellson Library so we can clear up the confusion.
The names are as follows: Allen T Adams, first wife, Margaret McCandlass; second wife Mrs. Amanda Blakemoore; Amanda’s son Edward Blakemoore & wife Alice Wittich; Richard Blakemoore; Alberta Blakemoore; Charles Blakemoore; Louise Blakemoore; Mary C Adams & husband Jacob Shook; Mrs. Louisa Evans; Mrs. Anna Leckermeyer; Mrs. Allen Sharp; Mrs. Bertha Teten; Joseph M Shook; Francis R Shook; Walker E Shook; Ralph E Shook; Robert Adams & wife Margaret Danford; Mary Adams; Cora Adams; Katherine Adams; Lydia Adams; William Adams & wife Belle Sharp; Viola Adams; Ruby Adams’ William Adams; Joseph Adams & wife Belle Forsythe; Nora Adams; Ruby Adams; Nancy Forsythe & husband Frank Croison; Margaret Forsythe;
Allen Adams & wife Katherine Fletcher; Pearl Adams; Allen V Adams; Lida M Adams; John Adams & wife Emma High; Lizzie Adams & husband William Lee; Joseph Adams; James Adams & wife Jenette Sharp; Walter Adams & Irene Oilar; Ida & husband Alonzo McCandlass; Margaret Adams & husband Charles Wright.”~Taken from the Mary Alma Kay Powers original notes and submitted by Brenda Anderson
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