John Adams was born July 29, 1866 in Layton, Utah.
His wife, Margaret (Wiggill) Adams was born October
22, 1865 in Layton, Utah. For 10 years after their
marriage, the family lived in Layton, Utah.

In May 1898, with teams and two covered wagons,
they started for Canada. Four wagons made up the con-
voy. Arthur Green was the teamster for the second
Adams wagon. The other two wagons were owned and
driven by Henry Talbot and Eli Wiggill. Thirty head of
horses were driven along with the convoy. The route they
followed took them through Brigham City, Logan,
Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, Butte, and Helena (where mud
was up to the wheels in the streets, and the horses decided
to follow the board sidewalks which crowded the
pedestrians into the doorways of the buildings).

They had four children when they came to Canada;
Five more children were born in Canada.

The family first lived at Aetna, then Milk River
Ridge, and then Kimball. In 1918 they moved to Babb,
Montana then later to Browning, Montana.

John owned and ran a threshing machine, and owned
a dance hall at Kimball. Later he gave this hall to the
L.D.S. Church as part of Del Bonita Church.

John Adams died May 2, 1937 and his wife, Margaret
died January 19, 1944 at Polson, Montana. Both are
buried in Utah.

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