History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . every causehaving for its object the moral and material advancement of his community. Thad S. Adams is a native of Hendricks county, born in Union town-ship November 6, 1853, the son of Solomon and Nancy (Griffith) Adams was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, in 1799, a son ofThomas Adams. He grew up in Kentucky and there married Nancy Griffith,who was born in Bath county, Kentucky, in 1811, a daughter of JacksonGriffith. While she was a child her parents removed to Switzerland county,Indiana, where s
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . every causehaving for its object the moral and material advancement of his community. Thad S. Adams is a native of Hendricks county, born in Union town-ship November 6, 1853, the son of Solomon and Nancy (Griffith) Adams was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, in 1799, a son ofThomas Adams. He grew up in Kentucky and there married Nancy Griffith,who was born in Bath county, Kentucky, in 1811, a daughter of JacksonGriffith. While she was a child her parents removed to Switzerland county,Indiana, where she grew up. Solomon Adams and wife came to Hendrickscounty in an early day, and he entered government land in Marion township,where they lived for some years and then removed to Union township andentered other land and established their permanent home. He was a life-long farmer and for many years was assessor of Union township. He wasoriginally a Douglas Democrat, but from the opening of the war he was aRepublican, He and his wife were charter members of the Christian church. THAD S. ADAMS HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 345 at Lizton. Solomon Adams died in 1863 and two weeks later his wife fol-lowed him in death. Of the eleven children born to Solomon and NancyAdams four were in the Union army during our great civil conflict. Ga-briel H. Adams and Joshua G. Adams were in the Fifty-first Indiana \ol-unteers. Dr. Thomas J. Adams and Hiram F. Adams were members ofthe Ninth Indiana Cavalry. Hiram was killed in Mississippi while in theservice. Dr. Thomas J. was in active service until the close of the war, afterwhich he located at North Salem, Hendricks county, and is mentioned atlength elsewhere in this volume. Thad S. Adams was but ten years old when death deprived him of hisparents. For the following two years he lived with a brother in the stateof Illinois, and then came to North Salem, Hendricks county, and made hishome with another brother, Dr. Thomas J. Adams. During these yearsh
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