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