1927, Photograph, PRG 280/1/10/496
A copy of a photograph published in the newspaper Observer, 20 August 1927, page 34, with the heading 'Sixty-three years married' and the caption, 'Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Adams, of Ardrossan, with the members of their family. Mr. and Mrs. Adams on August 1 celebrated the sixty-third anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Adams claims to be, not only the oldest South Australian living, being nearly 86 years of age; but that he is the eldest motor driver in the State. He is seen in the other photograph [on the page of the newspaper] at the wheel, and says he is game enough to go at 40 miles an hour if another motorist tries to pass him. Two generations of his descendants are shown on the footboard. The photograph was taken on the sixty-third anniversary of his wedding. Mrs. Adams is sitting beside him in the car, but in the shadow is hardly discernible. The grandchildren number 47, and the great-grandchildren 16'. Mrs. Adams was Eliza Stone before their marriage on 1 August 1864. Both William and Eliza Adams were born in South Australia. Another photograph taken on the same occasion, showing more of the family, is held at PRG 280/1/10/497.