From Yearbook, Old Settlers Association,1866-1897, p. 137. 47
Moses Adams, of Cedar township, who came here in '39. Mr. Adams is 80 years of age, and cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison two days after he was 21 years of age. (date of reunion not known) [b. about 1819]
Description by Miles K. Lewis in 1900 Old Settlers Association Yearbook, p. 11: Mose Adams, who to my personal knowledge bached all alone. I staid over night with Mose and he used an old broken saucer for a lamp, with a wick torn from his underwear, the same being dipped in fried meat grease and lit with a spark from his old flint lock youger, and that lamp gave such a brilliant light that we could hardly tell one card from the other.