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Biographies of Keokuk, Iowa
Henry Clay Adams
Born August 7 1843, Washington County Iowa, and brought to Keokuk county by his parents the same year. He was raised
a farmer, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Infantry Iowa, during the late war, he was in Company D, and after serving
three years re-enlisted as a veteran. He was present at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, siege of Corinth, Vicksburg,
and in the Atlanta campaign, and with Sherman in his march to the sea, and participated in the grand review at
Washington. He was mustered out as orderly sergeant of Company D., after returning to his home he worked at the
trade of blacksmith, and in 1877 was elected sheriff, of Keokuk County, Iowa, and again in 1879, re-elected to
the same office. On the 1880 Keokuk County, Iowa Census showed him Sheriff and Jailer. |
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He married Miss Sophronia Minteer before July 18 1870, she was the daughter of Joseph
P. Minteer and Julia A. Daymode. She was born in Ohio. Of this union there was five children born,
1.) Estella "Stella" H. Adams b. July 1875 married Alexander J. Weller, after the death of her parents,
her brothers lived in the house with them.
2.) Daisy Adams b. August 1879 married Leslie J. Estes,
3.) Henry Clay Adams Jr. b. March 1882,
4.) Joseph Quincey Adams b. October 1883,
5.) Eugene Adams b. April 1887.
Sophronia died February 21 1897, and Henry Clay Adams Sr. died November 15 1893.
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