Obit: Adams, Chancey #2 (1869 - 1886)
Transcriber: Steven Lavey
----Source: Neillsville Times,
December 21, 1886
LAST NAME: Adams
FIRST NAME: Chancey
DATE:
NEWSPAPER:
NEWSPAPER LOCATION: Neillsville, Wisconsin
STATE: Wisconsin
TRANSCRIBED TEXT:
Republican and Press, December 16, 1886: The funeral of Mr. Chancey Adams was attended by the largest concourse of people ever met in the M.E. Church at York Center. There was not room for another person. An excellent sermon was delivered by Rev. Mr. Douty. The services were held on Sabbath morning; the day being fair all the neighbors and friends turned out to offer their sympathy to the sorrowing ones. While parents in sorrow mourn, faith exclaims:
In Eden's more celestial soil,
Transplanted in the sky,
Our loved one shall forever smile,
And never more shall die.
The Neillsville Times, December 21, 1886: On Dec. 9th death entered the family of our friend S.A. Adams and took their only son, Chancey. He was 17 years of age, he was sick about 4 weeks with typhoid fever. He was attended by Dr. Adams of Spencer.
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Chancey Adams
1869 - December 16, 1886
The 1870 Census for Elysian Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota lists a Chancey
(age 4) living with his parents, Samuel (age 31) and Melissa (age 27) Adams.
That census also shows that Chancey Adams was born in Minnesota. Subsequently as
a boy, Chancey Adams came to to York Township with his parents in 1878; most
likely to the Samuel Adams homestead, located in Section 4, across the road from
the farm belonging to his aunt and uncle, Emily (nee Adams) and David Rogers.
The 1880 Census for York Township, Clark County, Wisconsin lists a Chancey Adams
as the 14-year-old son of Samuel A. Adams, a pioneer of York Township. The
Neillsville Times' 21 December 1886 death notice indicates that Chancey Adams
was 17 years old when he died which would imply he was born in 1869. However,
the age in death notice is probably an error since the 1870 Census and 1880
Census indicate he was born in 1866; therefore he may have been about 20 years
old when he died. That same death notice that Chancey Adams died after being ill
for four weeks with typhoid fever.
Early records of the York Center Methodist Church show a Chancey Adams being
baptized on August 18, 1884.
Chancey Adams was an older brother of Cynthia Adams, who later became Cynthia
Young, and whose only child was Alice Young Benedict, wife of Rollie Benedict.
Chancey Adams died as a young man (about twenty years old) of typhoid fever.
Other immediate family members of Chancey Adams that are buried at York Center
Cemetery include: his father, Samuel Adams, his mother, Melissa (nee Heath)
Adams; his grandfather, Jeremiah Heath; his brother, Hubert Adams; his sister,
Mary Adams; his other sister, Cynthia (nee Adams) Young; and his brother-in-law,
Edwin Young.
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