A submitter to RootsWeb.com says: "Note: Legal adoption was done on August 1, 1896 in Carroll County, Iowa" by James Benjamin Nowles and Eliza Jane Dillivan (apparently a relative on his mother's side): James Benjamin Nowels and Eliza Jane Dillivan. Yet in the 1900 census, John was listed as their "hired boy" and their obituaries make no mention of him at all!
A submitter to RootsWeb.com says: "Note: Legal adoption was done on August 1, 1896 in Carroll County, Iowa" by James Benjamin Nowles and Eliza Jane Dillivan (apparently a relative on his mother's side): James Benjamin Nowels and Eliza Jane Dillivan. Yet in the 1900 census, John was listed as their "hired boy" and their obituaries make no mention of him at all!
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