Adamson, Benj.

ADAMSON, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 12/4/2008 at 06:50:24

ADAMSON, Benj.; Farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Newton; born in Tennessee in 1818; moved to Indiana in 1824; thence to Platt Co., Mo., in 1840; thence to this county in 1846. Has 173 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Married Sarah A. WILLIAMS in 1841; she was born in Wayne Co., Ind., in1825; they have two children-Nettie A. and Lillie M. Members of the M. E. Church; Greenbacker. ~ "Palo Alto Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)