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Rufus Adams

Birth	:	Mar 1828 Adams County, Illinois, USA
Death	:	2 Nov 1876 Genoa, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
Burial	:	Manahath Cemetery, Glassboro, Gloucester County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.7154236, -75.1141129
Inscription	:	Aged 48 yrs & 9 mos Born Adams Co, Illinois
Description	:	Rufus was twenty two when he and his family, headed by their father, Elias, made the trek across the Great Plain to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah Territory. They were with the Packer family in a division of wagons headed by John Bair, the former Branch President in Garden Grove. Elias had served as President of the Pisgah Branch, so they were well acquainted. This group traveled with Captain David Evans, who had lived near the Adams family at Payson, Illinois. The year was 1850. In the spring of 1851, census taker, Edison D. Rich, listed the... Read More	Rufus was twenty two when he and his family, headed by their father, Elias, made the trek across the Great Plain to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah Territory. They were with the Packer family in a division of wagons headed by John Bair, the former Branch President in Garden Grove. Elias had served as President of the Pisgah Branch, so they were well acquainted. This group traveled with Captain David Evans, who had lived near the Adams family at Payson, Illinois. The year was 1850. In the spring of 1851, census taker, Edison D. Rich, listed the Elias Adams family and their homestead along the mountainside, north of "Kay's Ward", which would later be called Kaysville and included the east canyon on his property, which is still known as Adams Canyon. This is where the younger children grew up and where Rufus stayed to help his father establish a homestead until late in 1851. Even though no formal government had yet been organized, this Territorial Census showed Rufus still on the Adams' farm at that time. The Adams children reported that late in the summer several families had camped on the creek north of their father's home and later left for Nevada. Twenty three year old Rufus went with them, continued on to California, but later returned over the high Sierra Nevada Mountains, eventually settling in Carson Valley. He evidently returned to the Utah homestead, bring from California gifts of gold to his family. His brother, John Quincy, would later settle in Genoa Valley with his family and Rufus The new Territory of Nevada had been created in 1861 when John and Rufus, decided to try their hand at gold panning while ranging some of their sheep at Carson County, Jacks Valley, Utah Territory. Trips back and forth to and from Genoa would prove to be successful in both ventures. Younger brother, Joseph, then nineteen, went with them and freighted between Nevada and California two years before returning home to Utah. Their father had been a rifleman in the War of 1812, was a hardened frontiersman and taught his sons many things they needed to learn about prospering and becoming gentlemen at the same time. Elias was a brick mason and also taught that trade, plus business and finance techniques to his sons. During the 1860/70's, the Adams brothers owned 400 acres at Geona and built a second home there. Their Genoa home was twenty five miles from the Comstock Lode of silver ore. The Adams boys used clay from their farm to manufacture bricks for buildings in the Lode's town of Virginia City, the Carson City United States Mint and the Genoa Court House. Their two story brick home located there also provided 21 rooms to be rented out to freighters on the route to California. They were able to sell their dry farm hay to passing freighters and also corral up to fifty teams at a time. Rufus became a blacksmith and gunsmith. Pioneering and gold hunting in the Nevada streams, he never married. Prior to his death he maade a will, leavig $500.00 to each of his sisters and brothers, and $250.00 to be paid yearly to his father ans step-mother until their deaths. His brother, John, was the administrator of the estate and faithfully carried out every detain of the will.

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Where is Rufus Adams's memorial?
Rufus Adams's memorial is located at: Manahath Cemetery, Glassboro, Gloucester County, USA.
When did Rufus Adams death?
Rufus Adams death on 2 Nov 1876 in Genoa, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Rufus Adams's memorial?
Latitude: 39.7154236
Longitude: -75.1141129

Family Members:

Parent

Elias Adams Sr.

(1792 - 1886)

Siblings

(1824 - 1852)

(1824 - 1852)

(1826 - 1826)

(1830 - 1841)

(1832 - 1910)

Anna Maria Adams Shepard

(1834 - 1929)

George Washington Adams

(1836 - 1903)

Sylvester Cadwell Adams

(1837 - 1842)

Catherine Adams Pilling

(1838 - 1935)

Joseph Samuel Adams

(1841 - 1901)

Elias Adams Jr.

(1843 - 1912)

Caroline Adams Stoddard

(1845 - 1928)

Joshua Adams

(1848 - 1935)

Malinda Jane Adams Burton

(1852 - 1944)

Hyrum Railey Adams

(1855 - 1943)

Flowers:

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