Deborah Foster Adams

Deborah Foster Adams (Chickering)

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Daughter of Jabez and Deborah Dorothy (Alleyne) Chickering

Wife of William Joseph Adams, who she married on 26 August 1833

Deborah Forster Adams, the mother of Mary Lee Adams, was the third daughter of Jabez. She married William Joseph Adams, who was of the Class of 1822 at Harvard University. Mr. Adams was by profession a teacher.

Towards the end of his life, he was assistant librarian of the Boston Athenneum. During the Civil War the Adamses lived in the house in Highland Street which is the residence now of Miss Converse. They also had a long, low house, shaded by large trees, at the corner of Walnut and Myrtle Streets in East Dedham. They called it “Mill Cottage” and made it very attractive. 'They had three children. Besides Mary Lee, there was Charles Lawrence Adams, who had a share in his uncle’s business in Boston, but died suddenly of typhoid fever when he was a young man; and James Forster Alleyne Adams, who was always called “Alleyne” by his family. He was graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1868. During the Civil War he was acting surgeon in the navy, stationed at Tampa Bay, Florida.

Afterwards he studied in Europe at Dublin, Paris, and Vienna, and then settled at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He married Anna Elizabeth Nichols Bailey of Washington and was well known in all the western part of the state as a medical man. He was the senior warden of St. Stephen’s Church, Pittsfield, and was interested in religious and philanthropic works. He has left two descendants, Lilian Bailey Adams, who lives in the old Adams house in Pittsfield, and Rev. Charles Lawrence Adams, who was graduated at Harvard in 1900 and is the rector of the Episcopal Church in New Canaan, Conn. He married Adola, daughter of General Adolphus Greeley of the U.S. Army, the Arctic explorer. They have had one son who died at the age of two years, Alleyne Greeley Adams.

Age: 65y-5m-21d
Cause of Death: Brights Disease