Buried Civil War Veteran Honored In Banner County

George Thomas Adcock was born in Henry County, Kentucky, on July 18, 1848. He was the son of Elijah and Susana Adcock, which was sometimes spelled as Atcock or even Adtock.

He was the 4th of a known 5 children. By 1860, he was listed as a farm laborer for the James G. Evans and Nancy Lyons Evans family in New Salem, Illinois. One of their daughters was a 3-year old named Ida Evans.

At the age of 15 years and 10 months, he enlisted May 15, 1864, for a 100-day enlistment period in Company G of the 137th Illinois at Quincy with a transfer to Company I on June 6, 1864.

He was mustered out September 24, 1864 at Springfield, Illinois. After a short time, he joined Company L of the 7th Illinois Cavalry on February 22, 1865, for a 1-year term at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, but was later mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 4, 1865. In 1904, he applied for and was granted his Civil War pension.

He was married to Ida Evans, on November 8, 1874 in Springhill, Johnson County, Kansas, by a Methodist pastor. Even though the marriage occurred in Kansas, they returned to Belmont, Iroquois County, Illinois, before moving west where they would be found in 1900 – in Little Horse Creek, Laramie County, Wyoming.

His daughter Nora's birth indicated that they were living in Wyoming by 1883. Ida would be his loyal companion until he died. Their children were to be George, who died as an infant in 1876 in Illinois; Robert, who lived until 1949; and Nora, who lived until 1980.

George T. Adcock died of carcinoma at age 72 on February 8, 1921 in Pine Bluffs, Laramie County,

Wyoming. He was buried in the Hull Community Cemetery which is also known as the Pleasant

Hill Cemetery in the Harrisburg area in Banner County, Nebraska east of LaGrange, Wyoming

where he had lived part of his life. He was survived by his widow, Ida, who would die July 16,

1946 and children, Robert Adcock and Nora Adcock Dunn.