Individual Details

Marriage record shows Mary as daughter of Andrew Adamson of Janesville. Henry Morehouse, Pastor
Marriage record sent by Bremer Genealogical Society as 5 Dec 1867. Other references give the date as 5 Dec 1866. Son Ulysses was born Oct of 1867, probably wasn't born two months before the marriage so I believe 1866 to be correct.

Civil War Pension.
Soldier: Benjamin F. Learner
Widow: Mary E. Learner
Served in Co. G, 47th Indiana Infantry
1870, Oct 17. Soldier filed as invalid. Application 160.943; Certificate 111.872
1925, Feb 16. Widow filed from Indiana, Application 1229.539. Certificale 959.634

10 Dec 1916 newspaper article
Golden Wedding Is Celebrated
Mr. & Mrs. B. F. Leaner Entertain at Farm Home
Long Happy Life Together
Many Friends call and congratulate coupld of the evening.
The handsome country place of B. F. and Mrs. Leaner, one and a hlaf miles east of Kokomo, was the scene today of one of its most happy gatherings, when sons and daughters and other relatives and friends assembled there to help them celebrate their golden wedding anniversary...
The children who were present to help in the celebrating were, E. M. Learner and family of Richmond, Ind., Leavitt Learner and family of Lorange, Louisiana; Dr. Harry Learner and son Wendell of Buffalo, N.Y.; Ulysses and Don Learner of Kokomo and Miss Ruth Learner who lives at home. All the children but one, Ernest Learner, who travels out of Detroit, Mich., were home....
(blurred out) Miss Mary Emily Adamson lived with her parents on the old Adamson homestead four and a half miles east of Kokomo. The old brick house on the banks of Kokomo creek, now known as the Giphen home, is today one of the most picturesque landmarks of the county. it was at this home that Mr. Learned, back on a furlough from the war met and learned to love the girl who afterwards became his wife.
When the call to arms came at the opening of the Civil War, Mr. Learner was one of the first to respond for the protection of home and country and enlisted with the 57th Indiana Volunteers. He was four years in the service and during that time experienced some of the most severe hardships of war times. He was one of the few who escaped from the steamship explosion which occurred ten miles above Memphis. He was thrown into the water, and although painfully injured, managed by means of a board from the wreckage to float down the river to Memphis, where nearly exhausted from the explosion and exposure, was picked up and taken to the hospital. He was compelled to remain in the hospital for several months and today bears scars which were the result of wounds received from the explosion.
At the close of the war, when the young soldier received his discharge from the army he returned to Kokomo to find that the girl who so many years has been his helpmate had moved with her parents to Janesville, Iowa, and enroute on a trip west with a friend he paid a visit to the home and renewed acquaintance. Later they were married, according to the custom of those days, at the little hotel in Janesville, with the bride's parents and Mrs. Horace Ashley, all deceased, as the only witnesses to the ceremony.
They resided for a short time in the Iowa town and then moved to a farm five miles east of Kokomo on the homestead taken as a claim from the government by Mr. Learner's father, Barnhanrt Learner. After a residence of many years on this farm they moved back to Iowa and after living there five years, returned to Howard County and took up their residence on the farm which now has been their home for the past fourteen years.....

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, Thursday, 7 Dec 1916, p.7
Ellis M. Learner, general secretary of the UMCA returned from Kokomo last night where he attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Learner.


Indiana Death Certificate #9729. Mary Emily Adamson Learner Died 5 March 1929; lived 2 miles East of Kokomo on Sycamore St, Center Twp, Howard Co, IN. Cause was acute indigestion and old age. She was widowed, her husband B. F. Learner. Mary was born 14 Jan 1847 in Indiana. Her parents were Andrew Jackson Adamson and Rachel Garner, both said born in Pennsylvania (they weren't). Ellis Learner was the informant. She was buried Crown Point Cemetery March 8th, 1929.

Mary Emily is buried Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo, IN.

Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Howard Co, IN, 5 Mar 1929
Widow of B. F. Leaner had Spent Most of Long Life in Howard County.
Mrs. Emma Learner, age eighty two, widow of P. F. Learner, passed away shortly before three o'clock Tuesday morning at her home just east of the city on the Sycamore road, following an illness that became marked only Sunday. There had been a gradual failing of strength over a long period, but until a few hours before the end came there was hope that she might recover.
Funeral arrangements have not been made, awaiting word from members of the family living at a distance.
Mrs. Learner was born January 14, 1847, in Delaware county, the daughter of Andrew Jackson and Rachel Garner Adamson. When she was eight years old the family moved to Howard county and lived here until during the Civil War when they moved to Iowa. She was the last of a family of eight children. One brother was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
At the close of the war, B. F. Learner, who was born and reared in Howard county and had known Miss Adamson here, journeyed to Iowa and there they were married on December 5, 1866. The first few years of their married life were spent at Shellrock, Iowa, after which they returned to Howard county, their home ever since. In Iowa they buried a little daughter, Lillian, who died at the age of two years.
Mrs. Learner was the mother of nine children, seven of whom survive. They are U. A., Ellis M., Donald H, and Mrs. Harrison Copp of Kokomo; L. C. of Baton Rouge, LA; Ernest R. and Dr. Harry W. of Buffalo, N.Y. A son, Perl H. died in 1913. The husband and father passed away January 31, 1925.
There are eleven living grandchildren: Mrs. Herbert McDowell of Los Angeles, Mrs. John F. Hopkins and Wendell and Mary L. Learner of Buffalo, NY; Frank L. Learner of Baton Rouge, LA; Raymond L. Learner of Louisville, KY; Mrs. Fred Gates, Ellis Moulder and Carl Osburn Leaner and Julia Ann and Frederick Copp of Kokomo.
Mrs. Learner had long been a member of the Hillsdale U. B. church in the vicinity of her home. Her long and busy life had been well spent. The neighborhood in which she passed away had been her home for many years, she had seen the dirt road give way to a paved highway and the isolation of the country become a thing of the past. She had enjoyed the material benefits of modern living and had contributed her part to its betterment in the upbuilding of the finer things of life.

Birth	14 Jan 1847	Indiana
Marriage	5 Dec 1866	Janesville, Bremer County, Iowa - Benjamin Franklin Learner
Death	5 Mar 1929	Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana

Spouse	Benjamin Franklin Learner (1842 - 1925)
Child	Ulysses Aaron Learner (1867 - 1943)
Child	Leavitt Charles "Levi" Learner (1869 - 1955)
Child	Lillian Learner (1871 - 1874)
Child	Ernest Ronald Learner (1874 - 1948)
Child	Pearl Harold Learner (1876 - 1913)
Child	Ellis Moulder Learner (1883 - 1962)
Child	Harry Wendell Learner (1886 - 1973)
Child	Donald Hartley Learner (1891 - 1970)
Child	Ruth Thelma Learner (1897 - 1990)

Father	ANDREW JACKSON ADAMSON (1817 - 1869)
Mother	RACHEL ANN GARNER (1816 - 1898)
Sibling	Edom Adamson (1835 - 1885)
Sibling	ENOCH REUBEN ADAMSON (1841 - 1910)
Sibling	John Wesley Adamson (1843 - 1864)
Sibling	Sarah E. ADAMSON (1846 - 1907)
Sibling	Rachel Ellen ADAMSON (1851 - 1855)
Sibling	Andrew Fredrick Adamson (1855 - 1913)
Sibling	Hester "Hattie" ADAMSON (1857 - 1890)