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Caption: Displayed on Left Panel - John Adams
Additional Description: John J. and Martha Adams made a twenty hour day trip from Tennessee to arrive in what is now Pleasant Grove Township, Coles County Illinois in December, 1830. After Martha’s death in 1844, he married Nancy Dryden. In 1852 with the help of surveyor Thomas Lytle, he used part of his property to establish the town of Farmington, officially known as Campbell. Widowed again in 1854, he married Sarah Dryden in 1855. In the 1860’s, J.J., Sarah and some of their children lived in the house still standing on what was Madison Street.
Submitted: May 19, 2010, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p109958
File Size: 1.330 Megabytes

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