George Adams

MR. GEORGE ADAMS, of the First Ward, is by profession a wagon maker, and continued to work at it until about a year since. He was born on the 25th March, 1798, in the village of Rushangles, County of Suffolk, England.

On the 26th day of March, 1820, he married Miss Elizabeth Harnwell, of Bressingham, County of Norfolk, England. There were born unto Mr. Adams and his wife Elizabeth, thirteen children, five of whom died between the ages of one and three years.

Mr. Adams and his family emigrated to America in the year 1852. They left England on, the 27th of May, and landed in New York on the 8th day of July, thus making the sea voyage six weeks in duration. Mr. Adams settled in Mount Vernon in the year 1853.

His wife Elizabeth died October 2, 1863. On the 20th of November, 1870, he married, for his second wife, Mrs. E. O. France nee Wood, widow of the late Mr. Herman E. France, of this city. The present Mrs. Adams was born in the State of Vermont.


Source: Knox County Biographies, "Three Score and Ten Sketches", Compiled by John W. White, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1876


Transcribed and submitted by Sheryl McClure

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