1953 Utah Death Certificate
Heart

Joseph Smith Adams age 82
Farmer

1880 Census American Fork, Utah
Joshua Adams 46
Lydia M. Adams 49
Amos Adams 21
Sabina Adams 14
Melissa Adams 12
Joseph Adams 9
Living on Adams Street
grandfather Arza Adams same street

1900 Census American Fork, Utah
Joseph Adams 29, own farm
Jane Adams 28
Myrtle Adams 9
Amos D Adams 6
Jennie L Adams 4
(anon) Adams 1 month, Apr 1900
Living next to Joshua Adams

1910 Census American Fork, Utah
Jos S Adams 39
Jane Adams 38
John C Adams 11
Horace L Adams 10
Glen L Adams 7
Annie L Adams 5
Sterling H Adams 3
Lydia Violet Adams 11 months
Living outside incorporated city

1920 Census Marchfield, Cassia, Idaho
J S Adams 50, own farm
Jane Rushton Adams 48
Horace L Adams 19, farm labor
Glen Adams 17
Marie [Annie] Adams 15
Sarah Adams 13
Violet Adams 10
Vernon L Adams 7 years 2 months
Alta J Adams 5 years 2 months

1930 Census Albion, Cassia, Idaho
Glen Adams 27, head, farmer
Thora Adams 26, wife
La Voy Adams, son, 4 years 9 months
Vernon Adams 16, brother
Joseph Adams 59, father, farmer
Jane Adams 58, mother
Jane Adams 15, sister
Lester Adams 29, brother & partner, farmer
Alice E Adams 24, sister-in-law
Lyle Adams 6, nephew
Iris Adams 4 years 2 months, niece,
Devon Adams 2 years 4 months, nephew
Janette Adams 4 months, niece
Renting, radio

1940 Census Pleasant Grove, Utah
Jophes Adamson 69
Jane Adamson 68, housewife
Vernon Adamson 27, laborer, odd jobs
Own home

1953 Obituary:
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah County--
Joseph Smith Adams 82, long-time Utah and Idaho farmer, died of a heart ailment Saturday afternoon in an American Fork hospital.

Mr Adams, son of Joshua and Lydia Thornton Adams, was born in American Fork June 12 1870. He married Jane Rushton June 12, 1889, in Provo.

Survivors include his widow, Pleasant Grove; five sons: Glen Adams, Pleasant Grove; Vernon Adams, Springville, Utah County; Lester Adams, Boise, Ida.; Cleve Adams, Declo, Ida., and Sterling Adams, Allron, Ida.; four daughters: Mrs Ray (Myrtle) Carlson, Allron, Ida.; Mrs D E (LaRae) Willett, Oren, Utah County; Mrs Kenneth (Jane) Mott, Pleasant Grove and Mrs LaVoy (Violet) Sager, Oceanside, Cal.; 31 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs Melissa Anderson, Declo, Ida., and several half-brothers and half-sisters.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Anderson and Sons Mortuary Chapel at American Fork by Welby Cammon, bishop of Pleasant Groves First Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Salt Lake Tribune; Mon. June 1, 1953, P 26.