Joseph Burrows Adams (1881 - 1950)

Born 4 Feb 1881 in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States

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Biography

Joseph Adams was born on 4 February 1881 in Parowan, Utah. He was the son of Charles Adams and Sarah Davenport.

In 1903 he was called to be a missionary in Mexico for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was set apart by Patriarch John Smith on 25 May 1903.^[1] He had been to Mexico previously and had met a woman named Isabel Chamberlain while traveling there. They married on 6 January 1904^[2] and both spent the next several years in Mexico.

Sources

1. ↑ "Utah, Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1937," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDW-Y62M : 26 February 2016), Joseph B Adams, Mexico; records extracted by FamilySearch and images digitized by Church History library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; citing Missionary Register v. 3, Missionary department missionary registers 1860-1959, CR 301 22, Church History Library, Salt lake City, Utah.
2. ↑ "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL1-3LT : 25 January 2016), Joseph B Adams and Hannah Isabel Chamberlain, 1904.

See Also

• https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/joseph-b-adams-1881?lang=eng
• https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/22415754
• Obituary: https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/13903804
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH6H-YZQ : accessed 13 February 2017), Joseph B Adams, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet 14A, line 31, family 256, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2416; FHL microfilm 2,342,150.
• "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-S4C5 : 4 September 2015), Isabel Adams in entry for Joseph B Adams, 1917; citing Passport Application, New Jersey, United States, source certificate #53830, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, Roll 364, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,533,085.