Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Adams was born on 9 March 1845, in Baddeley Edge, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Adams, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Mountford, was 29. He married Selina Criddle on 26 March 1867, in Littleton, Morgan, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1861 and lived in Soda Springs, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States in 1919. He died on 13 December 1923, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Meadow Cemetery, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Adams, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Joseph Adams, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Joseph Adams, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
Earliest dated memorial in Find A Grave predates year cemetery was established: Sarah Lees Stott BIRTH 22 Aug 1800 DEATH 10 Mar 1849 (aged 48) CENOTAPH Meadow Cemetery, Meadow, Millard County, Utah, USA PLOT B6416 MEMORIAL ID 41454481
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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