Polly Dodge

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• Obituary: Oswego Paladium, Friday Evening, Page 1, 7 Aug 1885, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. OBITUARY

Mrs. Polly Adams

Another land mark gone. Mrs. Polly Adams, widow of the late Samuel Adams, died at the residence of her son William Adams, in Oswego Town August 7tb, 1885. Mrs. Adams was born in the state of Connecticut in the year 1795. She was the daughter of Wm. Dodge, a revolutionary soldier who served in Washington's army during most of the war. In l807 she removed with hex father from Connecticut to Redman, Jefferson county, N. Y. and resided there until 1853 when she removed with her husband and family to Oswego where she. resided until her death. She survived her husband twenty years. She has lost five children and three survive, Mrs. Clarissa Greenwood and William and Philo Adams. She lived to see all her brothers and sisters pass away, with the exception of Mrs. Chester Dodge, her sister-in-law, mother of Mr. Wm. G. Cook, of
this city. Mrs. Adams was a woman of rare intelligence, her mind stored with general knowledge and with the history of the United States and a general knowledge of the history of the old world. She was ever ready to entertain listeners with ____ anecdotes of the American revolution and in relation to scenes of the war of 1812 that passed under her observation on the frontier. Mrs. Adams has been a member of the Congregational church since quite young, having united with the church at Rodman, N. Y., and the Congregational church in Oswego of which she was a member at her death. She was a devoted Christian and she always let her light shine as an example to all that this world is not our home but for a brief period at the longest. She passed away in full faith of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.

Polly married Samuel Adams.