Individual Details

Married Lydia Garner 6/25/1846 - Delaware County, IN.
Marriage to Lydia Garner recorded Delaware Co, Book C-2, p.207

Listed as a SchoolTeacher on the 1850 Census. He was living next door to Enoch Garner. Moses Adamson, age 25. Lydia A. 25 and Sarah age 2.

1860 Howard Co IN, Taylor Twp, p.631, Household 901. Moses Adamson age 35, Lydia 33, Enoch 12, Robt 6, Arminda 4, and Mary A., looks like age 21 but probably is age 2. No places of birth are given, presumably this enumerator put nothing for those born in Indiana.
[The child age 12, male, was listed as Sarah age 2, in 1850. Very strange. Enoch's grave marker does give 1848 as the year of his birth.]

Civil War Draft Registration in Howard Co, IN, 1863-1865 includes:
SubDist No. 48 - Moses Adamson, age 38, farmer, b. Indiana Class 2 [he was over 35 and married]
[his brother James M. was listed on the same page]

12 May 1868. Moses Adamson appointed Postmaster at Warren Grove, Jasper Co, Iowa. Discontinued 21 May 1872.

1870 Jasper Co, Iowa, Fairview Twp, Hh 308
Wm M. Bruce, age 27, b. Ohio
Sarah, age 25, b. Ohio. Eva, age 3, b. Ohio
Robert Adimson, age 16, b. IN.
Moses, 45, b. IN. Sarah, 45, b. Ohio. Arminda, 14, b. IN. Clementine Yerks, age 18, b. IN. David Yerks, age 15, b. IN

1880 Adair Co Iowa; Stuart, Dist 79, p.154, Hh 294
Moses Adamson, age 55, b. Indiana, parents b. TN
Sarah Ann, age 55, b. Ohio
Joseph Yerkes, age 25, stepson, blacksmith, b. IN
and in Hh 302
E. E. Sanderson, age 51, b. VT.
Arminda, wife, age 24, b. IN

1885 Iowa State Census. Moses Adamson, age 59, lived on Harrison Street, Stuart, Adair County. A Teamster, b. Indiana. Sarah A. Adamson was also age 59, Keeping House, b. Ohio. Clem Yerkes, age 33, was living with them, b. IN, no occupation listed.


1895 Iowa State Census. Stuart, Adair County.
Moses Adamson, age 71, b. IN
Sarah A., 71, b. IN
Viena C. Adamson, age 43, female, single, b. IN

1900 Adair Co Iowa, Stuart Twp, Hh 57
M. Adamson, b. Apr 1825, age 75, married 39 years, b. IN, parents b. TN
Sarah, wife, b. Apr 1825, age 75, had 9 children, 4 living, b. Ohio, father b. NJ, mother b. Pennsylvania
V. C. Yerkes, stepdaughter, b. Nov 1852, age 47, single, b. IN [In 1910, Vienna C. Yerkes, dressmaker, was living alone.]

Iowa State Census, 1905. Moses Adamson, b. 1826, Indiana, Married, Residence, Adair County.

1910 Census. Indianola, Ward 4, Warren Co, Iowa, Methodist Home for the Aged.
Moses Adamson, Inmate, age 85, widow, b. Indiana, father b. Tennesse, mother b. Ohio
Note: The Methodists still have a facility "Wesley at Home" in Indianola, Iowa.

His obituary:
Moses Adamson, a resident in this community for many years passed away at the Bible Home in Boone, Iowa, January 26, 1917, at the advanced age of 91 years, 9 months, and 11 days. It has been six or seven years since "Father Adamson," as he was familiarly called, left Stuart and went to Indianola to spend the remainder of his days at a ministerial home. On account of the home not being a paying proposition, Mr. Adamson was transferred to the Bible Home at Boone a little more than a year ago, when the Indianola home was closed. Mr. Adamson enjoyed fairly good health for one of his years, the cause of his death being old age.
Mr. Adamson was born April 15, 1825 in Wayne County, Indiana. His parents died when he was a small boy, after which he made his home with an uncle. He was married to Lydia Ann Garner, June 26, 1846. Five children were born, three of whom preceded their father to that better land. Enoch Adamson of Stuart and Mrs. Sanderson of Portland, Oregon, are the surviving members. Mrs. Adamson died in May 1861 and the following year or maybe longer, the deceased was again married, being united in marrige to Mrs. Sarah Ann Yerkes in Howard County, Indian, who died a number of years ago.
In April 1864, Mr. Adamson and family left their native state and came to Iowa, locating in Jasper County, following which residences were made near Guthrie Center and Menlo, and then they located in Stuart in April 1875.
His son E. Adamson, went to Boone and accompanied the remains to Stuart where the funeral was held from the Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Hardaway, who was Superintendant of the home at Indianola, and the remains laid to rest in the family lot in Oak Grove Cemetery. The pall bearers were John Myers, Adam Pote, G. Emerson, W. H. Parker, P. Hillgren. R. Tassell.

FindAGrave.com
Moses [1825-1917] and Sarah Ann Adamson [1825-1909] are buried Oak Grove Cemetery, Guthrie Co Iowa. Also on the same stone is the name Eli. D. Sanderson, born 1822, died 1906. Dates would indicate he was the first person buried in this plot. Sarah Ann was nee Hodges, and the widow Yerkes when she married Moses Adamson. I've no idea who Sanderson might have been. The 1900 Adair Co Census, Stuart Twp, Hh 136, has S. E. Sanderson, b. Nov 1823 in Vermont, age 78, married 28 years. His wife, Annie, b. Sept 1849 in Ohio as were her parents, age 50, has had one child. A Mrs. Sanderson was listed as one of the surviving children of Moses in 1917, but none of the daughters in the censuses in 1850 & 1860 seem consistent with this birth in 1849 in Ohio, nor the name Annie. However, the 1880 census did give E. E. Sanderson's wife as Arminda and she was age 24, b. IN.

Iowa Death Records on MyHeritage.com state that he was buried on January 28th, the day after his death. His occupation listed as 'retired house man'. His father was David Adamson.

Birth	15 Apr 1825	Wayne County, Indiana
Marriage	25 Jun 1846	Delaware County, Indiana - Lydia Ann Garner
Marriage	17 Oct 1861	Howard County, Indiana - Sarah Ann Hodge
Death	27 Jan 1917	Boone, Boone County, Iowa

Spouse	Lydia Ann Garner (1825 - 1861)
Child	Sarah ADAMSON (1848 - )
Child	Enoch ADAMSON (1848 - 1941)
Child	Robert ADAMSON (1854 - )
Child	Arminda ADAMSON (1856 - )
Child	Mary ADAMSON (1858 - )

Spouse

Sarah Ann Hodge (1825 - 1909)

Father	DAVID ADAMSON (1793 - 1828)
Mother	MARY ANNE Roberts ( - )
Sibling	Ann ADAMSON (1816 - 1892)
Sibling	ANDREW JACKSON ADAMSON (1817 - 1869)
Sibling	James Minor ADAMSON (1819 - 1884)
Sibling	Ruth ADAMSON (1821 - 1886)
Sibling	John R. ADAMSON (1822 - 1863)