Birth: 5 June 1909/10 Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, USA
Father: John Wesley Adams 1876-1947/8
Mother: Ellen Elizabeth Ryan 1886-1981
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 3 April 1931 in Worthing, South Dakota, USA
Wife: Marguerite Castle 1909-1976
Death: 14 November 1957 Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA
Buried: Saint Michaels Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA
Josephine (Mitzi) L Adams [Baustian] 1931-a2009
Pauline Eunice Adams [Hanson] 1932-2009
Justine June Adams [Lewis] c1935-a2009
Joseph (Bud) Adams c1936-a2009
James Edmund Adams a1941-a2009
Susan Adams [Thomas] a1941-a2009
He is not listed in the 1910 census when his parents were living in Sioux Ward 1, Woodbury, Iowa so I suspect he may have been born in 1910.
His sister was born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota in 1912.
In the 1920 census as James E Adams aged 9, born in Iowa and living with his parents (John W born in Wisconsin and Nellie born in South Dakota), two brothers (George W and John J), and three sisters (Catherine E, Dorothy M and Margaret L) at 522 South Watts Avenue, Sioux Falls Ward 5, Minnehaha, South Dakota.
In the 1930 census as James E Adams aged 20, born in Iowa, single, no stated employment, and living with his parents (John W born in Winconsin and Ellen E born in South Dakota), two brothers (George E and John J), three sisters (Dorothy M, Kathryn E and Margaret L) and a roomer (David O Dowd aged 55, born in Wisconsin, divorced, and no stated employment) at 522 South Walts Avenue, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota.
In the 1940 census as James Adams aged 30, born in Iowa, a stone mason for Wpa River Change, worked 25 weeks in 1939 income $350, unemployed for 156 weeks, worked 10 hours in week of 24 March, and living with his wife (Marquerite), two sons (John and Joseph), three daughters (Josphine, Justina and Pauline), father (John) and brother-in-law (Ralph Daniels - husband of Kathryn Emma) in a rented house at $8 per month at 324 S 3 Avenue, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota (same place as in 1935).
In the 1945 census as James E Adams aged 34, born in Sioux City Iowa, married in 1930 and living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Entry in the Social Security Death Index James Adams, born on 5 June 1909, social security number 504-01-1349 issued in South Dakota, in November 1957.
Entry in FindAGrave for James Edward Adams born 1909, married to Marguerite Castle Adams, daughter Pauline E Adams Hanson, and buried at Saint Michaels Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota. The gravestone shows "Adams/James E/1909-1957/Marguerite/1909-1976".
Daniel Swickhard has an entry for John E Adams born 1910, parents John Wesley and Ellen E Adams.
Walter R. Peterman has an entry for James Edward Adams born on 5 June 1909 in Sioux City, Iowa, parents John Wesley Adams and Ellen Elizabeth Ryan, his marriage to Marguerite Castle on 3 April 1931 in Worthing, South Dakota, his daughter Justina or June who married Dwane Lewis, and his death of cancer on 14 November 1957 in Sioux City, Iowa.
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Edward Adams born on 5 June 1909 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa USA, parents John Wesley Adams and Ellen Elizabeth Ryan, his marriage to Marquerite Castle on 3 April 1931 in Worthing, South Dakota, USA and his death from cancer on 14 November 1957 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa USA.
James Edward Adams was the first cousin once removed of Minnie Adetta Adams, mother of Zelda E Molloy, wife of Frank Bridger Lower, the fourth cousin once removed of Cyril Larby, my second cousin once removed.
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