Awesome research history....I have a feeling that mine might be as difficult, but I'm fascinated by all of the avenues you took & history you discovered. On the military records....I didn't get any names off the service records but the pension records tend to have more data....unfortunately for me my great grandpa(Johnson) disowned his parents his only contact was a Mrs. Rogers...how easy is that to find a connection w/ LOL Good luck & keep up the great detective work Alli > Was hoping if there were any descendents of Margaret Adams on the list, > they > might find something familiar in my Indiana Pa Adams line information. > > Received the information going back to grt grt grandma Anne Jane Adams > Allshouse including her death and burial from a relative. When she became > ill I took > over the search. > > The saga of where Lydia and the two girls were buried was a difficult one > to > unravel. Family story told how grt grt grandmother spoke of how she was > put in > a strawn strewn room along with my Grt grt grt grandmother Lydia Adams and > two other daughters (names we did not know) who died of smallpox in 1845 > in the > West Ward Pittsburgh. Were buried in the Methodist burying ground (where > Union > station now stands) that was later moved. > > The family lived with stories of the bones being dug up and used as gravel > along the rail road tracks, then of them being used as mortar between the > bricks > to build the station wall when it expanded. This story bothered me so much > especially since I could not get corroboration that it ever existed. I > spent 20 > years searching for it whenI finally located an 1852 map of land that had > been > appropriated for Union Station. Then researching translated German > newspapers > thanks to a wonderfully generous gentleman in Pittsburgh, to find where > the > reburials were moved to. > > In visiting Allegheny Cemetery concerning the reburials we only located a > single Adams, a child named Amanda Adams among the reburials in Section > 29, plot > # 1 is single interments from the Methodist cemetery that had been on > Liberty > St. I was told by the cemetery that often whole families were moved with > only > one headstone and reburied together. While I have been told by several > experts > that this is what had to have happened, this hasn't been proven for Lydia > and > her daughters yet. The only information they had on Amanda Adams is that > she > was 5 years 2 months 13 days old. No death date, burial date, or > information > about any family. > > It took me several more years to locate proof of a Small Pox outbreak in > Pittsburgh during the winter of 1845 - 1846. Having the family story of > Anne Jane > Adams Allshouse being placed in a straw strewn room with and watching her > mother Lydia Adams and two sisters die of small pox in 1845. I had > searched for > information on possible small pox epidemics in the past and never found > anything > for 1845. > > Found a sister Catherine E Adams Murray Oct 31 1839 - Aug 26 1921 from > Catherines affidavit for Anne Janes application for Finleys Civil War > pension. > Inresearching Catherine I found out her daughters signed as a witness on > that > affidavit. > > Found a death date for Lydia on familysearch.com of Dec 10th 1845. > > Then found a couple of references on the Historic Pittsburgh site: > Standard > History of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania / edited by Erasmus Wilson. Chicago : > H.R. > Cornell & Co., 1898. 1074 p. : ports. ; 26 cm. Page 623 "winter of 1845-6 > many > cases of small pox appeared here. Part of the old water works building was > fitted up for the reception of the poor patients by the director of the > poor". > FOUND the same quoted in these sources from the Historic Pittsburgh site > as > well. Author: Diller, Theodore, 1863- Title: Pioneer medicine in western > Pennsylvania, by Theodore Diller ... with a foreword by J.J. Buchanan, > M.D., with > twenty-six full page illustrations. Imprint: New York : P.B. Hoeber, inc., > 1927. > Physical Extent: xiv, 230 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. X. Epidemics (p. 177) > p. > 183 up for the reception of poor patients by the Directors of th Author: > Fleming, George Thornton, 1855-1928. Title: Vol. 2 History of Pittsburgh > and > environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American > revolution ... by > George Thornton Fleming ... Imprint: New York, Chicago, The American > historical > society, inc., 1922. Physical Extent: 5 v. front., plates, ports., maps, > plans. > 28cm. The Medical Fraternity (p. 259) p. 272 up for the reception of poor > patients by the Directors of th... Was referred to AIS but they had only > the same > references, nothing more. > > I wondered where Lydias children have been educated in the West Ward. I > have > found minimal information about a West Ward "Free" school, (sometimes > called > the pauper school) opened in 1838, school house was a 3 story brick > building on > Ferry St between 4th and Liberty, and was in use til approx 1847, a Mr & > Mrs > Creighton were in charge of it. Female Dept was taught by a Miss Emaline A > Evans with 120 students. Who were taught - orthography, reading, > penmanship, > arithmetic, geography, grammar, plain and variegated needle work etc... > This > information was located on a search of the Historic Pittsburgh site for > West Ward > School. Had also been referred to AIS for records, but they had nothing > but the > same references. > > My daughter and I went to the LDS family history center here in Florida. > With the help we received from the gal overseeing the center, finally > found more > children for Samuel and Lydia in baptisms for the dead with information > provided by Anne Jane. > > Husband > Samuel Adams born Feb 23, 1811 Indiana Co Pa. died - April 11, 1887 we do > not > know where yet. > > Wife > Lydia Ostander Adams born about 1820 Jefferson. Pa. died Dec 10, 1845 > Pittsburgh Pa > > Children: > Sarah Rebecca Adams b. 22 May 1838 of,, Armstrong, Pa d. 05 Dec 1913 > > George W. Adams b. 16 Jul 1843 of,, Indiana, Pa d. 06 Dec 1861 Mary Adams > b. > 20 Nov 1845 of,, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pa d. 31 Dec 1845 > > Ann Jane Adams Allshouse b. 20 Nov 1836 , Indiana Pa. Married Jan 14, 1856 > Finley Allshouse ME Church Irwin (1837 - 1901) Died April 12, 1923 in > Johnson > Hotel California Pa. Phillipsburg Cemetery (Section B Row #14 Allshouse, > Ann > Jane 1836 - 1923 next to her husband Finley) Date of Burial was April 15, > 1923 > Undertaker James E Hines Address Coal Center Pa. > > So I had found the information on one sister Catherine E Adams Murray. A > possible sister in the Amanda found at Allegheny Cemetery. Mary looked > good for > the name of the other daughter who died with Lydia as per Anne Janes story > about > two sisters dying with their mother, since the death dates are 21 days > apart. > > George looked like he is a likely candidate for having died in the Civil > War, > found some information which was corroborated with what another researcher > found on ancestry.com > George Adams , Enlistment Date: 12 October 1861 Distinguished Service: > DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Pennsylvania Unit > Numbers: > 2345 2345 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 12 October 1861 > Enlisted in > Company B, 78th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 12 October 1861. Died > Company B, 78th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 08 December 1861 in Camp > Negley, > KY > > In researching the outfit, I found that many soldiers died there around > that > time, not in battle, but from diseases due to the intolerable living > conditions. > > Am hoping to find out where he is buried from his miliary records. Also > hope > his records will mention parents and siblings. > > George was listed as the #1 Volunteer of Co.B of the 78th Regiment. Beside > him are two other boys named John B. Adams and Thomas B. Adams No#2 & > No#3. They > all enlisted at the same time. While George Adams in these records is > listed > as died. The others suffered disabilities and were discharged early, more > likely with disease. > > Am hoping to find information about John B., and Thomas B Adams being > related, brothers or possibly cousins? > > Laurie Beth Roman > > > ==== ADAMS Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE in MAIL mode use: Adams-l-request@rootsweb.com > To UNSUBSCRIBE in DIGEST mode use: Adams-D-request@rootsweb.com > List-Manager's Address: Adams-admin@rootsweb.com > Archives: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/a/d/ADAMS > For Virus help: http://www.wvi.com/~wb/virushelp.html > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >