Posted on: Fayette Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Fayette/110 Surname: Adams, Holdren ------------------------- I am trying to find more information on one of my great grandfathers, William Adams, who, at the age of 42, enlisted in Company K, 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served with the unit until his discharge on June 13, 1865. I note that on the day of his enlistment, August 1, 1862, one Phillip C. Adams, age 37, also joined the same unit. I have no further information about Phillip C. Adams, but I wonder if he might have been a brother of William. Both were of relatively advanced years for enlisting in an infantry regiment. Does anyone have information on either of these men. All I know of William is that he was born in Ohio, possibly in Ross County, in 1820, and married my great grandmother, Mary Holdren, on September 12, 1844, possibly in Clarksburg in Ross County. By the time of the 1850 census, William and Mary Haldren, were living on a farm in Wayne Township, Fayette County, Ohio. By the 1860 census they had moved to a farm in Paint Township, also in Fayette County. Sometime after the Civil War, they moved to Benton County, Missouri. William died there on August 26, 1884, Mary in October, 1897. They had at least five children: Mary Josephine, Wesley, Jane, Millie and Nathaniel. One thing more: The 1840 census for Ross county, Ohio shows that a Holdren family and an Adams family may have been living on adjacent farms. Heading the Adams family was an Emanuel Adams, while the head of that Holdren family was either an Enoch or Archibald. The census records are unclear on that point. But I speculate that when whey were young, William and Mary may have been neighbors. Does any of this ring bells with anyone? I would appreciate whatever information I might get on these families. Martin Smith, Bainbridge Island, Washington state.