Earl James Adams ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 January 1920. ¹

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 219, Family 32, Roll 2018
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Farm rented
Earl Adams..Head..34..WI..Farmer, General farming

(Living with wife, 2 sons, and widowed mother.)
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• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, WI on 24 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 23, Family 186, Roll 2614
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned
Earl Adams..Head..45..WI..married at 27..Farmer, General Farm

(Living with wife and 4 children.)
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• He was buried on 14 September 1939 in the Evergreen Cemetery in Centerville, WI.

Find A Grave Memorial #130156762
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• His obituary was published in the Winona Republican-Herald on 14 September 1939 in Winona, MN.

Funeral services for Earl J. Adams were conducted at the home at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the Rev. N.E. Sininger officiating. Mr. Adams, who was 54 years old, died Tuesday morning at a Madison, Wis., hospital.

Mr. Adams spent all his life on his home farm, with the exception of one year in Montana. He married Miss Minnie Shanabrook of Trempealeau in March, 1913. He is also survived by four children, Robert of Columbus, Ohio, Gerald, Warren, and Mildred at home, and a sister, Mrs. Fayette Wright of Glendale, Calif.

Pallbearers were Harry Kribs, George Morrison, Erwin Hare, Ben Marsh, Robert Harris, and Fred Schallow.

(Source: Winona Republican-Herald, Winona, MN, 14 Sep 1939, page 2)
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Earl married Mary Winona Shanabrook, daughter of David Scott Shanabrook and Mary O'Keeffe, on 26 March 1913 in Trempealeau, WI.^{1 2} (Mary Winona Shanabrook was born on 20 March 1885 in Winona, MN,^{1 2 4 5 6 7} died on 15 January 1966 in Trempealeau, WI ⁷ and was buried on 18 January 1966 in Evergreen Cemetery, Centerville, WI ⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They resided in Trempealeau, WI in January 1919.
In Jan 1919, her mother's obituary listed her as one of the surviving children:
- Mrs. Earl J. (Mary) Adams
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• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 January 1920. ¹

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 219, Family 32, Roll 2018
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Farm rented
Earl Adams..Head..34..WI..Farmer, General farming
Minnie Adams..Wife..34..MN
Robert Adams..Son..5..WI
Gerald Adams..Son..4y 2m..WI
Mary Adams..Mother..75..NY..Widowed
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• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, WI on 24 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 23, Dwelling 185, Family 186, Roll 2614
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned
Earl Adams..Head..45..WI..married at 27..Farmer, General Farm
Minnie Adams..Wife..45..MN..married at 28
Robert Adams..Son..15..WI
Gerald Adams..Son..14..WI
Warren Adams..Son..9..WI
Mildred Adams..Dau..6..WI
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