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Joseph Adams

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Joseph Adams

Birth
Austria
Death
26 Dec 1893 (aged 81)
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 9, row 12, grave 59
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On December 27, 1893, The Mankato Review published the following notice: Joseph Adams died at his residence, 510 North Second Street, last night at 12 o"clock, at the advanced age of 81 years. He leaves a wife of the same age and two children–one son residing at Alma City, and a daughter, Mrs Peter Maher of North Mankato. The deceased has been in failing health for several months, and old age was the only visible cause of death.The funeral service will occur from the German Catholic Church tomorrow at 10 o'clock.•
Jozef Adamec came to America from Bohemia in 1852 with his wife Marie Maly and three children, Catherine, Joseph J. and Francis. After a brief time in the eastern United States, they moved to Wisconsin by 1856 and homesteaded a 40 acre farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin. They left for Minnesota in about 1867. Joseph was a stonecutter in Mankato. The family's youngest son died of typhus after enlisting in the Civil War efforts in 1861 at the age of 17. He is buried in Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, KY. After Joseph's death, his wife Marie went to live with her son Joseph J. and his wife Margaret on their farm in Freedom, Waseca, MN.
On December 27, 1893, The Mankato Review published the following notice: Joseph Adams died at his residence, 510 North Second Street, last night at 12 o"clock, at the advanced age of 81 years. He leaves a wife of the same age and two children–one son residing at Alma City, and a daughter, Mrs Peter Maher of North Mankato. The deceased has been in failing health for several months, and old age was the only visible cause of death.The funeral service will occur from the German Catholic Church tomorrow at 10 o'clock.•
Jozef Adamec came to America from Bohemia in 1852 with his wife Marie Maly and three children, Catherine, Joseph J. and Francis. After a brief time in the eastern United States, they moved to Wisconsin by 1856 and homesteaded a 40 acre farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin. They left for Minnesota in about 1867. Joseph was a stonecutter in Mankato. The family's youngest son died of typhus after enlisting in the Civil War efforts in 1861 at the age of 17. He is buried in Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, KY. After Joseph's death, his wife Marie went to live with her son Joseph J. and his wife Margaret on their farm in Freedom, Waseca, MN.


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