Alameda Daily Argus
Alameda, California
28 Apr 1899, Fri • Page 1
SPANNED THE CENTURY
Mrs. Adams Lived Nealy a Hundred Years
She Left Four Generations of Descendants.
Mrs. Rhoda Adams an aged colored woman, who died Wednesday at the home of her grandson J. V. Campbell, 2185 Johnson Avenue, touched in the span of her life the beginning and the end of the century. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1804, making her 95 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born in slavery, and in her early life, was sold three times. Once the son of her old owner, who had wrecked his fortune by gambling, staked her on a poker game and lost. Finally, she was purchased by Major Daniels, who moved from Richmond to Texas, and from there in 1859 to San Francisco. In Texas the slave woman purchased her freedom, paying $1000 for it at the rate of $10 per month. She paid a small sum for her time, and ran a laundry, by which means she made the money to secure her freedom. She remained with the Daniels family and when they came to California, she came with them.
Mrs. Adams lived to see four generations of her descendants. She had two daughters both of whom are dead. She has living five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, a child three years of age. Her grandchildren are J. V. and C. R. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day.
Mrs. Adams remained active and alert until her last Illness. She was straight and erect and could outwalk her grandchildren. She had never known illness, and her death was due to a cancer and not to old age.
Her funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from the African M. E. Zion Church, San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco, California
30 Apr 1899, Sun • Page 6
ADAMS- In Alameda, April 26, Rhoda Adams, grandmother of J. V. and C. H. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day, a native of Ricmond, Va., aged 95. years.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral to-day ISunday), at 2 o'clock p. m., from Zlon A. M. E. Church, Stockton street, between Clay and Sacramento. Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery.
*Note: In 1901, the cemetery was forced out of San Francisco and the thirty five thousand (35,000) buried at Laurel Hill were moved to Cypress Lawn in Colma.
In doing so San Francisco relinquished a part of its own history for those buried at Laurel Hill during the second half of the nineteenth century, beginning in 1854, were true pioneers of the early West and although some had been moved individually by their families earlier, most were ultimately buried in vaults under a grass-covered mound that bears a memorial to their achievements.
Alameda, California
28 Apr 1899, Fri • Page 1
SPANNED THE CENTURY
Mrs. Adams Lived Nealy a Hundred Years
She Left Four Generations of Descendants.
Mrs. Rhoda Adams an aged colored woman, who died Wednesday at the home of her grandson J. V. Campbell, 2185 Johnson Avenue, touched in the span of her life the beginning and the end of the century. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1804, making her 95 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born in slavery, and in her early life, was sold three times. Once the son of her old owner, who had wrecked his fortune by gambling, staked her on a poker game and lost. Finally, she was purchased by Major Daniels, who moved from Richmond to Texas, and from there in 1859 to San Francisco. In Texas the slave woman purchased her freedom, paying $1000 for it at the rate of $10 per month. She paid a small sum for her time, and ran a laundry, by which means she made the money to secure her freedom. She remained with the Daniels family and when they came to California, she came with them.
Mrs. Adams lived to see four generations of her descendants. She had two daughters both of whom are dead. She has living five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, a child three years of age. Her grandchildren are J. V. and C. R. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day.
Mrs. Adams remained active and alert until her last Illness. She was straight and erect and could outwalk her grandchildren. She had never known illness, and her death was due to a cancer and not to old age.
Her funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from the African M. E. Zion Church, San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco, California
30 Apr 1899, Sun • Page 6
ADAMS- In Alameda, April 26, Rhoda Adams, grandmother of J. V. and C. H. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day, a native of Ricmond, Va., aged 95. years.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral to-day ISunday), at 2 o'clock p. m., from Zlon A. M. E. Church, Stockton street, between Clay and Sacramento. Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery.
*Note: In 1901, the cemetery was forced out of San Francisco and the thirty five thousand (35,000) buried at Laurel Hill were moved to Cypress Lawn in Colma.
In doing so San Francisco relinquished a part of its own history for those buried at Laurel Hill during the second half of the nineteenth century, beginning in 1854, were true pioneers of the early West and although some had been moved individually by their families earlier, most were ultimately buried in vaults under a grass-covered mound that bears a memorial to their achievements.
Alameda Daily Argus
Alameda, California
28 Apr 1899, Fri • Page 1
SPANNED THE CENTURY
Mrs. Adams Lived Nealy a Hundred Years
She Left Four Generations of Descendants.
Mrs. Rhoda Adams an aged colored woman, who died Wednesday at the home of her grandson J. V. Campbell, 2185 Johnson Avenue, touched in the span of her life the beginning and the end of the century. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1804, making her 95 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born in slavery, and in her early life, was sold three times. Once the son of her old owner, who had wrecked his fortune by gambling, staked her on a poker game and lost. Finally, she was purchased by Major Daniels, who moved from Richmond to Texas, and from there in 1859 to San Francisco. In Texas the slave woman purchased her freedom, paying $1000 for it at the rate of $10 per month. She paid a small sum for her time, and ran a laundry, by which means she made the money to secure her freedom. She remained with the Daniels family and when they came to California, she came with them.
Mrs. Adams lived to see four generations of her descendants. She had two daughters both of whom are dead. She has living five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, a child three years of age. Her grandchildren are J. V. and C. R. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day.
Mrs. Adams remained active and alert until her last Illness. She was straight and erect and could outwalk her grandchildren. She had never known illness, and her death was due to a cancer and not to old age.
Her funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from the African M. E. Zion Church, San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco, California
30 Apr 1899, Sun • Page 6
ADAMS- In Alameda, April 26, Rhoda Adams, grandmother of J. V. and C. H. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day, a native of Ricmond, Va., aged 95. years.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral to-day ISunday), at 2 o'clock p. m., from Zlon A. M. E. Church, Stockton street, between Clay and Sacramento. Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery.
*Note: In 1901, the cemetery was forced out of San Francisco and the thirty five thousand (35,000) buried at Laurel Hill were moved to Cypress Lawn in Colma.
In doing so San Francisco relinquished a part of its own history for those buried at Laurel Hill during the second half of the nineteenth century, beginning in 1854, were true pioneers of the early West and although some had been moved individually by their families earlier, most were ultimately buried in vaults under a grass-covered mound that bears a memorial to their achievements.
Alameda, California
28 Apr 1899, Fri • Page 1
SPANNED THE CENTURY
Mrs. Adams Lived Nealy a Hundred Years
She Left Four Generations of Descendants.
Mrs. Rhoda Adams an aged colored woman, who died Wednesday at the home of her grandson J. V. Campbell, 2185 Johnson Avenue, touched in the span of her life the beginning and the end of the century. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1804, making her 95 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born in slavery, and in her early life, was sold three times. Once the son of her old owner, who had wrecked his fortune by gambling, staked her on a poker game and lost. Finally, she was purchased by Major Daniels, who moved from Richmond to Texas, and from there in 1859 to San Francisco. In Texas the slave woman purchased her freedom, paying $1000 for it at the rate of $10 per month. She paid a small sum for her time, and ran a laundry, by which means she made the money to secure her freedom. She remained with the Daniels family and when they came to California, she came with them.
Mrs. Adams lived to see four generations of her descendants. She had two daughters both of whom are dead. She has living five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, a child three years of age. Her grandchildren are J. V. and C. R. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day.
Mrs. Adams remained active and alert until her last Illness. She was straight and erect and could outwalk her grandchildren. She had never known illness, and her death was due to a cancer and not to old age.
Her funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from the African M. E. Zion Church, San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco, California
30 Apr 1899, Sun • Page 6
ADAMS- In Alameda, April 26, Rhoda Adams, grandmother of J. V. and C. H. Campbell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rhoda Slaughter and Mrs. Eliza Day, a native of Ricmond, Va., aged 95. years.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral to-day ISunday), at 2 o'clock p. m., from Zlon A. M. E. Church, Stockton street, between Clay and Sacramento. Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery.
*Note: In 1901, the cemetery was forced out of San Francisco and the thirty five thousand (35,000) buried at Laurel Hill were moved to Cypress Lawn in Colma.
In doing so San Francisco relinquished a part of its own history for those buried at Laurel Hill during the second half of the nineteenth century, beginning in 1854, were true pioneers of the early West and although some had been moved individually by their families earlier, most were ultimately buried in vaults under a grass-covered mound that bears a memorial to their achievements.
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