Thomas T. Adams and Minerva J. Means

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Husband Thomas T. Adams ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1843 - Porter Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Adams (      -1851) 1
         Mother: Catharine McConahay (      -1885) 1

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       Marriage: 1865 3

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   Other Spouse: Martha Rebecca Travis (1848-      ) 2 3 - May 1869 2 3

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Wife Minerva J. Means ³

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         Father: Joseph Means (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M E. L. Adams ³

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           Born: May 1866 - Perry Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Rosie Miller (      -      ) 3

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2 F Ada P. Adams ³

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         Spouse: B. F. Ledig (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas T. Adams

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He remained on the old family homestead until after his father's death, and when his mother remarried in 1865, he then lived at the home of his step-father in Perry township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, until reaching manhood, acquiring his education in the schools of the neighborhood. In 1861, at the age of eighteen years, he joined Company A, 105th P. V. I., was sworn into the United States service at Washington, D. C., and spent the winter at Fort Lyons, near Alexandria. In April, 1862, he went by boat to Fortress Monroe, thence marched to Yorktown and participated in the siege at that place. He served under Capt. John Hastings, of Punxsutawney, and Col. McKnight, of Jefferson County, with the Army of the Potomac. After the siege of Yorktown Mr. Adams' regiment took part in the battle of Williamsburg, in May, 1862, driving the Confederates from the place, and in the next engagement, at Fair Oaks, lost about three hundred men in killed and wounded. Mr. Adams was among the latter, a minie ball having pierced his hand, and from June until September he was confined in hospital at New Haven. He was then sent to the convalescent camp near Fort Ellsworth, where he remained until January, 1863, when he was honorably discharged, and was later exempt from service on account of physical disability.
After his marriage in 1865 he located on a farm in Perry township, but later bought his father's old homestead, to which he removed in 1867, and made that place his home. His residence was built in 1870, and in 1887 his substantial barn was erected. He cleared and placed under cultivation twenty acres, and made many other improvements. He also had other real-estate holdings in Porter township.
His political support was given the men and measures of the Republican party, and he filled the offices of school director, supervisor, overseer of the poor and justice of the peace, being elected in 1893. The family was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Minerva J. Means

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from Jefferson Co, PA

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1285.

2 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 81.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1286.