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William Denver [Jumbo] Adams

age: 60y 4m 12d; b Lawrence Co IL
Where died:   Mt Carmel
Son of:   Wiley Blount Adams (Mar 1852 TN-28 Oct 1909 Mt Carmel) & Martha Ellen Miller (Sep 1847 IL-21 Feb 1916; m1: Alfred Barnes) both buried Sand Hill Cem
Married:   20 Jun 1900 Wabash Nellie Tarpley*; divorced by 1930
Lived at:   1900-10 Mt Carmel 1920-30 Vincennes - Knox Co IN 1940 Mt Carmel
Children:
- Hazel Bennett* (12 Mar 1898 IN m: Philip Hoffee*)
- Estella/Stella (ca 1902 IL m: 18 Aug 1921 Lawrence Co IL Raum Spencer (9 May 1890 Bridgeport IL-10 May 1968 Saline Co IL)
- Eva Pearl* (19 Apr 1903 IL m2: Vern Burgener)
- Ida (ca 1907 IL; m: 2 Feb 1929 Lawrence Co IL Prentiss Clyde Davis; divorced; m2: 17 May 1938 Mt Pleasant MI Virgil V Dowty)
- Naomi Elizabeth* (4 Jul 1909 m: 1935 Irvin Hamm*)
- Lucille A* (1914 IL; m1: ? Broshears; m2: 1939 IN Joseph L Garrett; m3: 1947 James J Baker*); note: William was a pearl hunter on the Wabash River; sentenced to life in Chester prison for the shooting and murder of Frank Pate;