The son of Peter Hoffman & Anna "Nancy" (Delon or Dillon) Adams, in 1860 he was a shoemaker living with his family in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 4" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg September 3, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded in the hand near Hatcher's Run, Virginia, on February 6, 1865, the injury cost him his left index finger. He was sent to a convalescent camp and honorably discharged the service to date June 2, 1865. He was described as "a kind and faithful soldier."
He married Dora Amanda Henderson March 31, 1868, in Philipsburg, Centre County, and fathered Franklin (b. 1869), James Albert (b. 10/05/71), Jennie (b. 10/10/73), Charles Edward (b. 11/18/75), Roberta (b. @1878), Harvey Ignatius (b. 09/29/80), Samuel Raymond (b. 07/11/89), and Edith Regina "Jane" (b. 01/10/92). By 1890, he was living in Franklin Township, Adams County. Amanda died in 1906, and he married twenty-year-old Dolly G. Lentz April 6, 1916, in Gettysburg, fathering Evelyn Roberta (b. 11/24/1921) and Lillian (b. ?)
Cause of his death is listed as "myocardial insufficiency following influenza" with "senile debility" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Skelly Post No. 9, G.A.R.
Obit in The Gettysburg Times March 11, 1926.
Largely attended Military funeral services were held at the G.A.R. post room, East Middle Street Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for John F. Adams, Civil War Veteran, who passed away at his home in Mt. Joy Township Sunday morning. Services at the post room were in charge of Captain James F. Bodley Superintendent of the National Cemetery. The Rev. L.B. Hafer offered prayer.
Services at the grave in the National Cemetery, where burial took place were in charge of Gettysburg Camp, 112 sons of Veterans in command of Post Commander G. Harry Roth, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hafer and the Rev. W.D.E. Scott, both members of the Gettysburg Camp furnished pallbearers and a firing squad. The bearers were E. F. Strausbaugh, Frank Wright, J. Warren Gilbert, E. L. Weikert Jr., William Shields Jr. and Harvey Sterner. The firing squad was in command of George Hughes.
Mr. Adams who was 77 years old, was a member of Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Dora Henderson, and his second wife, who survives, being Miss Dolly Lentz, one son and two daughters, Raymond S. Adams, York, and Misses Evelyn R. and Lillian Adams, both at home.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg September 3, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded in the hand near Hatcher's Run, Virginia, on February 6, 1865, the injury cost him his left index finger. He was sent to a convalescent camp and honorably discharged the service to date June 2, 1865. He was described as "a kind and faithful soldier."
He married Dora Amanda Henderson March 31, 1868, in Philipsburg, Centre County, and fathered Franklin (b. 1869), James Albert (b. 10/05/71), Jennie (b. 10/10/73), Charles Edward (b. 11/18/75), Roberta (b. @1878), Harvey Ignatius (b. 09/29/80), Samuel Raymond (b. 07/11/89), and Edith Regina "Jane" (b. 01/10/92). By 1890, he was living in Franklin Township, Adams County. Amanda died in 1906, and he married twenty-year-old Dolly G. Lentz April 6, 1916, in Gettysburg, fathering Evelyn Roberta (b. 11/24/1921) and Lillian (b. ?)
Cause of his death is listed as "myocardial insufficiency following influenza" with "senile debility" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Skelly Post No. 9, G.A.R.
Obit in The Gettysburg Times March 11, 1926.
Largely attended Military funeral services were held at the G.A.R. post room, East Middle Street Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for John F. Adams, Civil War Veteran, who passed away at his home in Mt. Joy Township Sunday morning. Services at the post room were in charge of Captain James F. Bodley Superintendent of the National Cemetery. The Rev. L.B. Hafer offered prayer.
Services at the grave in the National Cemetery, where burial took place were in charge of Gettysburg Camp, 112 sons of Veterans in command of Post Commander G. Harry Roth, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hafer and the Rev. W.D.E. Scott, both members of the Gettysburg Camp furnished pallbearers and a firing squad. The bearers were E. F. Strausbaugh, Frank Wright, J. Warren Gilbert, E. L. Weikert Jr., William Shields Jr. and Harvey Sterner. The firing squad was in command of George Hughes.
Mr. Adams who was 77 years old, was a member of Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Dora Henderson, and his second wife, who survives, being Miss Dolly Lentz, one son and two daughters, Raymond S. Adams, York, and Misses Evelyn R. and Lillian Adams, both at home.
The son of Peter Hoffman & Anna "Nancy" (Delon or Dillon) Adams, in 1860 he was a shoemaker living with his family in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 4" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg September 3, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded in the hand near Hatcher's Run, Virginia, on February 6, 1865, the injury cost him his left index finger. He was sent to a convalescent camp and honorably discharged the service to date June 2, 1865. He was described as "a kind and faithful soldier."
He married Dora Amanda Henderson March 31, 1868, in Philipsburg, Centre County, and fathered Franklin (b. 1869), James Albert (b. 10/05/71), Jennie (b. 10/10/73), Charles Edward (b. 11/18/75), Roberta (b. @1878), Harvey Ignatius (b. 09/29/80), Samuel Raymond (b. 07/11/89), and Edith Regina "Jane" (b. 01/10/92). By 1890, he was living in Franklin Township, Adams County. Amanda died in 1906, and he married twenty-year-old Dolly G. Lentz April 6, 1916, in Gettysburg, fathering Evelyn Roberta (b. 11/24/1921) and Lillian (b. ?)
Cause of his death is listed as "myocardial insufficiency following influenza" with "senile debility" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Skelly Post No. 9, G.A.R.
Obit in The Gettysburg Times March 11, 1926.
Largely attended Military funeral services were held at the G.A.R. post room, East Middle Street Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for John F. Adams, Civil War Veteran, who passed away at his home in Mt. Joy Township Sunday morning. Services at the post room were in charge of Captain James F. Bodley Superintendent of the National Cemetery. The Rev. L.B. Hafer offered prayer.
Services at the grave in the National Cemetery, where burial took place were in charge of Gettysburg Camp, 112 sons of Veterans in command of Post Commander G. Harry Roth, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hafer and the Rev. W.D.E. Scott, both members of the Gettysburg Camp furnished pallbearers and a firing squad. The bearers were E. F. Strausbaugh, Frank Wright, J. Warren Gilbert, E. L. Weikert Jr., William Shields Jr. and Harvey Sterner. The firing squad was in command of George Hughes.
Mr. Adams who was 77 years old, was a member of Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Dora Henderson, and his second wife, who survives, being Miss Dolly Lentz, one son and two daughters, Raymond S. Adams, York, and Misses Evelyn R. and Lillian Adams, both at home.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Chambersburg September 3, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded in the hand near Hatcher's Run, Virginia, on February 6, 1865, the injury cost him his left index finger. He was sent to a convalescent camp and honorably discharged the service to date June 2, 1865. He was described as "a kind and faithful soldier."
He married Dora Amanda Henderson March 31, 1868, in Philipsburg, Centre County, and fathered Franklin (b. 1869), James Albert (b. 10/05/71), Jennie (b. 10/10/73), Charles Edward (b. 11/18/75), Roberta (b. @1878), Harvey Ignatius (b. 09/29/80), Samuel Raymond (b. 07/11/89), and Edith Regina "Jane" (b. 01/10/92). By 1890, he was living in Franklin Township, Adams County. Amanda died in 1906, and he married twenty-year-old Dolly G. Lentz April 6, 1916, in Gettysburg, fathering Evelyn Roberta (b. 11/24/1921) and Lillian (b. ?)
Cause of his death is listed as "myocardial insufficiency following influenza" with "senile debility" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Skelly Post No. 9, G.A.R.
Obit in The Gettysburg Times March 11, 1926.
Largely attended Military funeral services were held at the G.A.R. post room, East Middle Street Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for John F. Adams, Civil War Veteran, who passed away at his home in Mt. Joy Township Sunday morning. Services at the post room were in charge of Captain James F. Bodley Superintendent of the National Cemetery. The Rev. L.B. Hafer offered prayer.
Services at the grave in the National Cemetery, where burial took place were in charge of Gettysburg Camp, 112 sons of Veterans in command of Post Commander G. Harry Roth, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hafer and the Rev. W.D.E. Scott, both members of the Gettysburg Camp furnished pallbearers and a firing squad. The bearers were E. F. Strausbaugh, Frank Wright, J. Warren Gilbert, E. L. Weikert Jr., William Shields Jr. and Harvey Sterner. The firing squad was in command of George Hughes.
Mr. Adams who was 77 years old, was a member of Co. K, 184th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Dora Henderson, and his second wife, who survives, being Miss Dolly Lentz, one son and two daughters, Raymond S. Adams, York, and Misses Evelyn R. and Lillian Adams, both at home.
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