According to records of the 1st Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carlisle, Adam was a brakeman on the railroad (probably the Pennsylvania Railroad) and was killed in a train accident. He died in Philadelphia but was buried in Carlisle.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Carlisle East Ward, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1332; Page: 249A; Image: 502; Family History Library Film: 552831. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1182; Family History Film: 1255182; Page: 4D; Enumeration District: 483; Image: 0593. Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census Source Information: Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2010. From originals housed at the Philadelphia City Archives. "Death Records."
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