Co D 10th MINN INF is the inscription on the grave marker, it means: "Company D 10th Minnesota Infantry" as William Adams served he Union Army in the American Civil War after immigrating from Norway the year is began, 1861. He and wife Caroline had 12 Children I have verified, and own land in the Minnesota farming community of Maywood, in Benton County for years before her death on Christmas Day 1914. William lived another 21 years, mostly in Maywood with Son Theodore and his wife Earlay. They both died suddenly, he in 1930 at 53 and she in 1931 at 38, breaking up the family and sending William to live with another in St. Cloud, where he passed away in 1935 at the age of 91.
Co D 10th MINN INF is the inscription on the grave marker, it means: "Company D 10th Minnesota Infantry" as William Adams served he Union Army in the American Civil War after immigrating from Norway the year is began, 1861. He and wife Caroline had 12 Children I have verified, and own land in the Minnesota farming community of Maywood, in Benton County for years before her death on Christmas Day 1914. William lived another 21 years, mostly in Maywood with Son Theodore and his wife Earlay. They both died suddenly, he in 1930 at 53 and she in 1931 at 38, breaking up the family and sending William to live with another in St. Cloud, where he passed away in 1935 at the age of 91.
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