John Quincy Adams (1846-1907)

ADAMS, MOORE, HYDEN, GIBSON, KNUDSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/14/2017 at 18:57:07

From Nevada Representative November 8, 1907

OBITUARY

DEATH OF J. Q. ADAMS

John Quincy Adams died at his home in this city Thursday morning after an illness of years, although his condition had been critical but for a few days. He had long been a victim of locomotor ataxia, but within a couple of weeks various complications had set in; and his death followed in a couple of hours a fall that he had on Thursday morning at a time when he was alone, and the circumstances of which are not clear.

Mr. Adams was born June 18, 1846 in St. Lawrence county, New York, and died at Nevada, Iowa, November 7, 1907, aged 61 years, 4 months and 19 days. He continued to live in New York until he was eighteen years old, when he came with the family to Iowa. He lived for three years in Johnson and Clinton counties of this state, and was married in Jackson county, December 24, 1866, to Miss Fannie Moore, who with four of their five children survives him. They came to Story county the next year and located upon their farm in Richland township, where they resided for nearly twenty-five years. In the early '90s they removed to Nevada, where they have since resided. Their surviving children are Mrs. Amos Hyden and Mrs. M. B. Gibson of Nevada, Mrs. B. Knudson of Ames, and their son Frank at home. Mr. Adams was a man of ability and character, was successful upon the farm and has always been most highly esteemed by the people of the community. His long and hopeless illness has given to his death somewhat of the character of a release from suffering; but he will be mourned as a good husband and father and a most worthy citizen. His funeral will be conducted Sunday at eleven o'clock from the house by Rev. R. E. Shaw, taking the place of the morning services of the Methodist church.