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
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
1923–1995 Male
1923–2010 Female
Parents and Siblings
1892–1972 Male
1896–1963 Female
Siblings (2)
1923–2010 Female
– Female
World Events (8)
1927
Age 4
1929
Age 6
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
Age 24
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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