General Notes

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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #4194, Date of Import: Sep 6, 1999]
George Allen Adams was born Nov. 18, 1867 at Tower Hill. Married (1st)
Nellie Hull July 27, 1887. She died Sept. 24, 1887 of consumption. Married
(2nd) Apr. 29, 1896 Florence B. Brown.
G. Allen Adams was born in South Kingstown on River Road, now called
Middlebridge Road, in a small Cape Cod cottage still in existence.  It now
includes a small restaurant on the property near the road .  At age 19, he
married a childhood sweetheart, Nellie Hull of Torrey Road who was ill of
consumption (tuberculosis).  She died within a few months of their
marriage. After her death he became a school teacher in Chepachet, R.I.,
riding hisbicycle and boarding during the week. During his time as a
teacher there, he met Florence Bucklin Brown, also a school teacher. They
were subsequently married and had three children. He was a teacher, then
Principal at the Wickford Academy, called the North Kingstown Grammar and
High School,now the Wickford Elementary School. On his retirement from
teaching, he became a permanent Tax Assessor in the Town of North
Kingstown , working in the Town Hall across from his house on Reynolds
Street. He was also the Town Moderator for North Kingstown Town Meetings
for 40 years, presiding at his last meeting just a few days before his
death in April of 1943.
He was one of the founding members of the Barn Museum on the Reynolds
sisters property (The Spinning Wheel) on Boston NeckRd.  It is now called
South County Museum, having moved from Scrabbletown Rd.& Rt. 2 to
Canonchet Farm, Narragansett. He was a member of the S.A.R., a decendent
of Maj. Ebenezer Adams.
Notes by his grandaughter Anita E. Joly Easterbrooks - November 18, 1992