Amy Goodwyn Adams (1848 - 1928)

Born 5 Sep 1848 in Richland County, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Jun 1928 at age 79 in Richland County, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Amy Goodwyn Adams was the daughter of James Uriah Adams and Sarah Hopkins Adams, the last survivor of thirteen children. Amy received her early education at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina but her education was cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War. Unmarried, she devoted her life to rearing a group of nephews and nieces. She had been a resident of Lower Richland County, South Carolina for 46 years when she died in 1928.

Sources

• Hopkins, Laura Jervey. Lower Richland Planters: Hopkins, Adams, Weston and Related Families of South Carolina. Columbia: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1976, p 307.
• Meynard, Virginia G. History of Lower Richland County and Its Early Planters. Columbia, South Carolina: The R. L. Bryan Company, 2010, p 223.
• William Arba Ellis, ed., Norwich University, 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor (Montpelier, Vermont: The Capital City Press, 1911), 2:47.
• Obituary published in The Sunday Record, Columbia, South Carolina on 17 Jun 1928.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75518172/amy-goodwyn-adams