Virginia Helen Adams

Female3 October 1923–18 May 2010

Brief Life History of Virginia Helen

When Virginia Helen Adams was born on 3 October 1923, in Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Walter Raymond Adams, was 30 and her mother, Pethena Mae Adams, was 27. She married Richard David Lyman on 22 November 1945. She died on 18 May 2010, in Colorado, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Sacred Heart of Mary Cemetery, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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Family Time Line

Richard David Lyman
1923–1995
Virginia Helen Adams
1923–2010
Marriage: 22 November 1945

Sources (8)

  • Virginia Lyman, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Virginia H. Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Virginia Helen Adams, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 November 1945
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1927

    Age 4

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    1929

    Age 6

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    1947 · The Presidential Succession Act

    Age 24

    The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.

    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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