General Notes

[Joanne's Tree.1 GED.GED]

2  SOUR S332582
3  DATA
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]
My Grandmother, Florence Bucklin Browne, was born October 14, 1868 in East
Providence, R.I. when her father (Warren Bradford Knowles Browne) was boss
farmer on afarm owned by a Bucklin family.  Hence came her middle name
Bucklin. Later the family moved into Providence proper where she attended
a Providence grammar school and was graduated in 1882.  In the fall of the
same year her mother (Maria Augusta Bates) died Oct. 10, 1882. (From notes
of my Uncle Joseph E. Adams) He said his mother talked very little of her
home life after her mother's death but he believed she kept house for her
father and helped care for her retarded brother, Arthur until her father
remarried.  My Uncle sensed that during this period of her life she was
very unhappy. When she was 18 years of age, she returned to school and
entered the Girl's Dept. of the Providence High School where for the next
four years she pursued the classical course of studies and was graduated
in June of 1890.  She then obtained a teaching position in theLittle
Compton, R.I. School system.  This was no doubt arranaged for by her older
sister, Clara who had previously taught in Little Compton.  Here Clara met
and married a well-to-do eligible bachelor who was 21 years her senior.
Florence taught here and lived or boarded with her sister's family until
her marriage to my grandfather, George Allen Adams in 1896. They set up
housekeeping on the 2nd floor of Mike Ryan's house in downtown Wickford.
The Ryan family occupied the 1st floor.  Mike Ryan owned a grocery store
and meat market across the street on Brown Street which is still in
operation by the Ryan family.  It was here their first child, Lawrence
Ebenezer Adams was born. In about 1900, my grandfather purchased a plot of
land in back of the Town Hall belonging to the Reynolds sisters (hence the
name, Reynolds Street), and had a house constructed thereon.  Here my
Mother, Margaret and my Uncle Joe were born. My grandmother and
Grandfather were married for 26 years.  During that period according to my
uncle's notes, she performed the duties of a housewife: cooking, washing,
cleaning, canning, ironing, etc. and rearing 3 children. He had the
distinct impression that she was not overly fond of housework and probably
would havebeen happier as a school teacher. In 1919 she entered the
Newport Hospital for the removal of a breast tumor.  She had had a breast
lump for years but chose to ignore it.  The operation was too late as the
disease had already spread down her arm. She went to Newport periodically
for x-ray therapy which appeared to retard the spread of the disease.
However 6 months before her death she grew too weak to travel. Her neice,
Louise Retan Wilbour came to Wickford from Little Compton to help care for
her. She died of
liver cancer at home September 30, 1922 and was interred in the Adams'
plot in Elm Grove Cemetery, Allenton, R.I. (At the time my Mother was 19
years of age and Uncle Joe was 17 years,Uncle Larry was 25, being six
years older than Mother).
Notes by Joseph E. Adams 1980 and Anita J. Easterbrooks 1993