Brief Life History of Flora Lilly
When Flora Lilly Adams was born on 9 January 1861, in Wabash, Illinois, United States, her father, George Claris Adams, was 27 and her mother, Jane Wood, was 21. She married Uen Linder Courter on 12 October 1880, in Wabash, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Wabash Precinct, Wabash, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Mount Carmel Precinct, Wabash, Illinois, United States for about 24 years. She died on 13 March 1934, in Mount Carmel, Wabash, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Wabash, Illinois, United States.
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- Flora Adams in household of George Adams, "United States Census, 1870"
- Flora Lilly Courter, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Flora Adams, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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