This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1979.1.1.1 Message Board Post: OBITUARY for JOHN THOMAS ADAMS Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter, July 16, 1925 "John Thomas Adams was born September 15, 1844 in Putman County, Indiana and died in Hamburg July 8, 1925, aged 80 years 9 months and 22 days following a brief illness. He was married to Amanda Muller in 1864 and to this union 8 children were born, 1 girl dying in infancy. His wife died in 1890 and in 1893 he was married to Mary Goodwin who passed away in 1918. He leaves to mourn his children, 22 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren besides lots of friends. Funeral services were held from the Marion Goodwin home on Friday afternoon conducted by the Rev. John Zuck. Interment was made in the Hamburg cemetery. Mr. Adams was a resident of Hamburg for many years and followed the trade of a Plasterer. He early joined with the M.E. church and was a man respected by all." (note: Marion Goodwin was the son of John T. Adams' second wife, Mary Wilson/Goodwin/Adams.) Iowa Cemetery Records located at the Hamburg Public Library lists Amanda M. Adams, first wife of John T. Adams, as buried at Chamber (Singleton Cemetery) in Prairie Township, Iowa. This is close to Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa. She was born 28 Feb 1844 and died 6 Aug 1890. Do you have any information on his second wife, Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Goodwin/Adams?