John Adams was born January 7, 1854, at
Raunds, Northamptonshire, England. His parents
joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints and when John was eight years old they immi-
grated to America.

John married Sarah Ida Willis on December 4,
1889, at St. George, Utah. Six children were born to
them at Cedar City, Utah; three sons and three
daughters.

Because of shortage of good pasture land in Utah,
they loaded the family and belongings and livestock
on a train and arrived in Stirling in May 1904. Mr.
and Mrs. John Oler took the Adams family into their
home until they could build.

On an evening in December, 1911, while John and
son Tom were at the homestead at Tyrrell's Lake, an
overheated chimney caused a fire in the home at
Stirling and their home and contents were destroyed.
A son helped his mother, who was with child, through
the bedroom window and then she sent him back to
get the trunk containing their papers and pictures.
This was the only thing saved and it is still in the
Adams family. A daughter who had been milking, came
from the barn and threw her pail of milk on the fire.
The John Oler's again took the Adams family into
their home until May when they moved to the home-
stead at Tyrrell's Lake.

Three more children were born while at Stirling;
a daughter in 1906, and twins in 1912. A son was born at
the homestead in 1917.

John H. died March 3, 1925. Sarah died January
18, 1949. They are both buried in the Stirling ceme-
tery.

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