from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, October 29, 1903—page 1, column 5:
DEATH OF JUDGE ADAMS
Passing of A Well Known Son of Hendricks County
Judge J.G. Adams died at Lebanon Tuesday of paralysis. He was stricken early in the morning and his brothers, T.S. Adams, of Danville and Dr. Adams, of North Salem, reached his side before he died at 2 p.m.
Mr. Adams was born in Hendricks county Feb. 19, 1845. At the age of sixteen he enlisted at Lizton, Hendricks county, in Company C, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served four years and four months. He was in the battle of Shiloh, the two days' battle with Buell, the campaign from Pittsburg Landing to the siege of Corinth, participated in the battles of Stone River, Missionary Ridge, Dalton and Nashville. He was in General Streight's raid, marching and fighting with the command from Decatur, Ala. to Rome, Ga. He, with the rest of the brigade, was taken a prisoner near Rome, Ga., and confined four months at Belle Isle, near Richmond. He was finally paroled and then exchanged and later went to the front again, taking part in the closing engagements of the civil war. Mr. Adams was never wounded nor in the hospital and his regiment was never in a march or a single battle or skirmish in which he did not take part. He was not yet twenty-one when he received his discharge.
Judge Adams, following the civil war, attending the Northwestern University, now Butler College, at Indianapolis, for two years. He later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1871 at Danville. He was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney. In 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the circuit composed of Hendricks and Marion counties and in 1878 was elected judge of that circuit, after which he moved to Indianapolis, where he resided for six years. In 1885 he moved to Frankfort, where he practiced law until 1893, when he moved to Lebanon, where he has since resided. He leaves one child, a daughter. His wife died a few years ago.