People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

VFiUiwm E. Item* The subject of this sketch was born in Miami county, this state, April 1,1851, being at the time of his death 45 years and 24 days old. At the age of six years he removed to Jasper county with his parents, Isaac and Anna Adams, now deceased. He was the sixth of eight children, of whom two brothers and three sisters survive him. He was married to Anna Abbott, only daughter of John and Louiza Abbott of Johnson county in 1876 and has since resided there. He leaves a wife and seven children in comfortable circumstances, have a good farm and house three miles south of Franklin. He united in 1871 with the Baptists, and later became a member of the Young’s Creek Christian church, and has lived a consistent Christian life. He was one of the trustees of the church and also of the conference, and was to have been ordained a deacon at the next regular meeting. Friday morning last the sad news reached his Rensselaer relatives that he had met with an accident and could not recover. His brother Joseph left for his bed side but arrived too late to see him alive. He died Friday evening in great pain. It appears that in tearing down an old house preparatory to building a new one, the heavy frame fell in an unexpected direction, crushing down before he could escape. The funeral which took place Sunday was attended by fully 2,000 people and was pathetic in the extreme, as he was truly beloved by all his neighbors. His brothers, Joseph and Marion, and sister Mrs. Wm. Hoover, were present at the funeral.