Susan Mary (Knowles) Adams (1861 - 1944)

Born 8 Jan 1861 in Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of William Hamilton Adams — married 14 Jun 1889 in Key West, Monroe, Florida, USA

Descendants

Died 21 Jun 1944 at age 83 in Dad County, Florida, United States

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Susan (Knowles) Adams is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Susan was born 8 January 1861 in Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas, and she was baptized there on 25 August 1861.^[1] She was the daughter of Abraham Knowles and Charity Symonett.

She married William Hamilton Adams on 14 June 1889 in Key West in a ceremony performed by J.H.B. Someillan, Pastor of Trinity M.E. Church South.^[2]

Susan died on 21 June 1944 in Dade County,^[3] and she is buried in the Key West City Cemetery.^[4]

By 1900 the couple had 4 children, all of them living. Their Children included: Catherine b Oct 1889 Alice b Jan 1892 m Williams Randall b Oct 1897 Susan b Ap 1899

Maud b 1901 who married Charles Tift.

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The couple's presence on Matacumbe Key in 1900 is of interest. Along with several of her siblings, Susan seems to have emigrated from Rock Sound around 1889 to live in a farming community. Susan and her husband lived near the family of William and Amy Parker (parents of Edney Parker) , a family that became well known on Matacumbe..

The Adams dwelling was next to that of Susans's brother Thomas (b Sept 1872) who was newly married to Grace M (b. 1875) .

Abram Carey and Mary A (nee Knowles??) lived with their son Alonzo b Oct 1889 were in the next home- it is not clear that this couple was related- but this Abram was likely the second Spouse of Grace M Curry Knowles, married in 1912.

4 doorways away there lived Abram T (Thomas) Knowles b,.Aug 1866(spouse of Grace M. Curry b. 1875, do Matilda Curry married in 1900**) whose was a naturalized citizen. Abram's household included his newly wed brother Alexander b Jan 1878 and sister in law Mary L. (Mary Louise Russell.)

Mary passed away 1944 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and was buried at the Key West Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Oreste Lombardi, comp., Susan Mary Knowles, no. 1736, Rock Sound.ged, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014); citing "St. Patrick's register p 37."
2. ↑ Monroe County Marriage Licenses 3: 149, William H. Adams and Susan Mary Knowles, 14 June 1889; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89KN-YZDF?i=132&cat=341167  : accessed August 2016).
3. ↑ "Florida Death Index, 1877–1998," Mary Susan Adams, 1944, Dade County; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VV9Y-GM5 : accessed August 2016).
4. ↑ Donna Jean Robinson, "Mary Susan Knowles Adams," Memorial no. 141880483, posted 28 January 2015; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=141880483 : accessed August 2016). The memorial does include an image of "Mary Susan's" obituary.

• US Census 1900