Phoebe Lurancy Adams

Brief Life History of Phoebe Lurancy

When Phoebe Lurancy Adams was born on 4 June 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Barnabas Lathrop Adams, was 56 and her mother, Hannah Gove Chase, was 34. She married Walter Scholes on 21 June 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Clark, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1920 and River Heights, Cache, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 3 April 1934, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Scholes
1868–1955
Phoebe Lurancy Adams
1869–1934
Marriage: 21 June 1893
Walter Adams Scholes
1895–1978
Phoebe Scholes
1897–1978
Amy Scholes
1898–1958
Sarah Scholes
1900–2001
Alma Adams Scholes
1902–1902
Alvin Adams Scholes
1902–1954
Elizabeth Scholes
1906–1918
Miriam Scholes
1910–2010
Francis William Adams Scholes
1912–2006

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  • Phebe L A Scholes in household of Walter Scholes, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Phoebe Lurancy Adams - birth-name: Phoebe Lurancy Adams
  • Phebe L. Adams, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1877 · Logan's First Stake is Formed

Eighteen years after the first ward was established and the population of the valley increased exponentially, the first Stake was established.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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