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2  SOUR S332582
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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #4194, Date of Import: Sep 6, 1999]
Margaret Adams, 2nd child of G.Allen & Florence (Brown) Adams.
My Mother, Margaret Elizabeth Adams was born June 13, 1903 at home on
Reynolds Street, Wickford.  As a young girl she suffered from rheumatic
fever that left her with a rheumatic heart condition all her life.  At the
age of 15 she also contracted infantile paralysis (poliomylitis) which
caused her right leg to be  smaller and weaker than her left.  In spite of
these disabilities, she led an active life and was a very good swimmer.
She took piano lessons from Mrs. Kingsley as a girl and was a very
competent pianist.
She was also an excellent student and very good at art.  She was a
graduate of North Kingstown High School and Pembroke College, Brown
University in 1925, where she was a biology major. She took the train to
Providence each day with a group from South County, among them Ada Dykstra
Stedman of the class of '25, who were attending college or going to
business.
After graduation, she met Armand "Al" Joly while working in the clerical
department at Browne and Sharpe Mfg. Co. in Providence with her Wickford
friend Marjorie Horton.
They married on June 21, 1928 at Calavary Baptist Church,Prov., where her
honor attendant was Elizabeth "Liz" Sanford , who was a classmate, class
of 1925.     They lived in a small apartment in Providence for a short
time afterwhich they moved to Reynolds Street, Wickford, the home of her
father, George Allen Adams. On April 3, 1930 her first daughter, Anita
Elizabeth was born followed by Carolyn Perkins on June 9, 1932.
During her lifetime,Mother was an avid reader and lively debater on many
timely subjects. She wasa member of the Pettaquamscutt Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Legion Auxiliary, the
North Kingstown Women's Club and theChi Omega Mother's Club of URI. She
also was accompanist for the Junior Choirat the First Baptist Church in
Wickford when Carolyn and I were in the choir.She and her circle of
friends were avid bridge players. When my sister and Iwere in
college(URI), Mother was on the Board of Canvassers for the Town of North
Kingstown. Mother died just one month short of her 62nd birthday from the
effects of congestive heart failure caused by having had rheumatic fever
at the age of five years and a heart attack in 1953. She died suddenly on
May 13,1965 of an aortic anuerysm at home in Wickford while I was there
trying to get the doctor and rescue squad to arrive. She was the proud
Grandmother of six grandchildren when she died: John, Carol, David and
James Easterbrooks and Richard and Thomas Johnson. Susan Margaret Johnson
was born in 1970.
Compiled byAnita Joly Easterbrooks            October 1, 1993, updated on
May 13, 1994 the 29th anniversary of her death
Coincidentally, in the Providence Journal today the obituary of Elizabeth
Sanford Velleca who died May 12, 1994 at the age of 90 years in Bristol,
R.I.
was seen.  Mother would have been 91 on June 13,1994.