3rd great grandmother
Married John Wesley Adams on 07/22/1852
Mrs. George W. ALEXANDER, 5945 South Flower Street, Los Angeles,
California, has written a brief story of the life of her mother, the late Mrs. Susan
P. ADAMS, formerly of Jefferson County.
Susan Polly GILBERT was born April 10th, 1836 in Washington County, Ohio;
died June 3, 1919. Her parents were Eli GILBERT, Jr., born in Waterbury,
Chitadon County, Vermont; and Lucy (FAIRCHILDS) GILBERT, born in Preston
Henanko County, New York. Her parents both passed away on the same day,
January 20th, 1878; the mother survived the father by seven hours, and they were
both laid to rest in the same grave in the Gilbert Cemetery near
Waltonville, Illinois. Several brothers and numerous other relatives have been laid
to rest in the same cemetery; her husband, John ADAMS, also three sons,
Charley, James, Wilson and Eli Mathew, and a daughter, Lucy Elvira BRAVARD.
Mother was the fourth child born in a family of eight, and survived the
entire family for a number of years; she attained the greatest age of any of
them, being eighty-three years and fifty-four days at her death.
At the age of two years, and when her next younger brother, Eli Wilson,
was an infant, her parents moved from Washington County, Ohio, to Jefferson
County, Illinois, where they resided until death, and where many of their
descendants still reside.
After mother's children were all grown she took an orphan daughter of
Elvira's, Susan Elizabeth BRAVARD and raised her to womanhood...
3rd great grandmother
Married John Wesley Adams on 07/22/1852
Mrs. George W. ALEXANDER, 5945 South Flower Street, Los Angeles,
California, has written a brief story of the life of her mother, the late Mrs. Susan
P. ADAMS, formerly of Jefferson County.
Susan Polly GILBERT was born April 10th, 1836 in Washington County, Ohio;
died June 3, 1919. Her parents were Eli GILBERT, Jr., born in Waterbury,
Chitadon County, Vermont; and Lucy (FAIRCHILDS) GILBERT, born in Preston
Henanko County, New York. Her parents both passed away on the same day,
January 20th, 1878; the mother survived the father by seven hours, and they were
both laid to rest in the same grave in the Gilbert Cemetery near
Waltonville, Illinois. Several brothers and numerous other relatives have been laid
to rest in the same cemetery; her husband, John ADAMS, also three sons,
Charley, James, Wilson and Eli Mathew, and a daughter, Lucy Elvira BRAVARD.
Mother was the fourth child born in a family of eight, and survived the
entire family for a number of years; she attained the greatest age of any of
them, being eighty-three years and fifty-four days at her death.
At the age of two years, and when her next younger brother, Eli Wilson,
was an infant, her parents moved from Washington County, Ohio, to Jefferson
County, Illinois, where they resided until death, and where many of their
descendants still reside.
After mother's children were all grown she took an orphan daughter of
Elvira's, Susan Elizabeth BRAVARD and raised her to womanhood...
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