Isabella Adams

Isabella Adams

• Father: Hugh Adams b. 10 October 1830, d. 27 September 1865
• Mother: Barbara Lyall b. 2 March 1831, d. 7 August 1918

• Isabella Adams was born on 27 September 1853 in Edinburgh, Parish of St. Cuthbert's, Midlothian, Scotland, at 1 South James Street.
• She was baptized/christened on 8 October 1853 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, by the Rev. Mr. Davi(d)son, Dean Street Church.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall, accompanied by Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, departed on 13 May 1857 from Scotland departing Glasgow on the Glasgow & New York Steam Navigation Company Steamship Glasgow.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall arrived in the Port of New York on 29 May 1857, accompanied by Isabella Adams, Barbara Mill Adams and Margaret Adams and the family went on from there to Canada.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall appeared in the 14 January 1861 provincial census of "Canada" in Toronto, York County, Canada West (later Ontario), at Sayre Street, St. John's Ward. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and William Adams. It seems very likely that servant William Adams (age 25) is Hugh's brother William, enumerated as a five-year-old in the family's 1841 household.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall arrived in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, circa 1863, accompanied by Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and Barbara T. Adams.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1865 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and Barbara T. Adams.
• David Harwood and Barbara Lyall, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, William A. Harwood, Annie E. Harwood, John L. Harwood, William Phillip Adams, Barbara T. Adams and Anna Adams. Daughter Margaret Adams (age 14) is not enumerated with in the household.
• She was working in a bakery, according to the 1870 census.
• Barbara Lyall appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1875 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams, Barbara T. Adams, Anna Adams, John L. Harwood and Lyall Harwood. And David Harwood is enumerated in a boarding house elsewhere in Buffalo.
• She married John Eyeington, son of George Eyeington and Sarah Harwood, circa 1876.
• John Eyeington and Isabella Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 84 Puffer Street. Other members of the household included Bessie M. Eyeington, George Eyeington and Ann Eyeington.
• John Eyeington and Isabella Adams appeared in the New York state census of 16 February 1892 in Evans, Erie County, New York, enumerated next to the household of Milon and Ida Bundy.. Other members of the household included Bessie M. Eyeington, Gertrude B. Eyeington and Oliver Clark Eyeington.
• John Eyeington and Isabella Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Angola, Erie County, New York. Other members of the household included Isabel L. Eyeington.
• John Eyeington and Isabella Adams appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at Orchard Street. Other members of the household included Isabel L. Eyeington.
• The following appeared on 8 March 1915 in the Buffalo Evening News: A reception was given Mrs. B. M. Harwood upon the occasion of her 84th birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. David Grant, 360 Fourteenth street, last Tuesday, which was attended by 35 guests, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs William P. Adams and Mrs. Grant were the hostesses.
       The members of the Women's association of Bethany Presbyterian church presented Mrs. Harwood with a book, "The Hearthstone," descriptive of her native land, Scotland. Many friends remembered her with gifts of flowers and other tokens. A short service was conducted by Mrs. Frederick Harper and a musical program was given by Mrs. Rosencrans and others.
       Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. John Eyeington and daughter, Miss Isabel Eyeington, Mrs. A. J. Bundy and Milon Bundy.
• Isabella Adams became a widow at the 1916 death of her husband John Eyeington.
• Julius Cleveland Schwert and Isabel L. Eyeington appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Angola, Erie County, New York, at Mill Street. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams.
• Julius Cleveland Schwert and Isabel L. Eyeington appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Angola, Erie County, New York, at 73 Mill Street. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Dean E. Schwert.
• At the time of her death Isabella Adams was living in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, at 314 Bedford Avenue NW with her daughter Gertrude Stokes.
• Isabella Adams died on 4 July 1933 at age 79 in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, at Mercy Hospital . Hier death was officially witnessed by Gertrude B. Eyeington.
• She was interred at Forest Avenue Cemetery, Angola, Erie County, New York.
• A single grave marker identifies the graves of John Eyeington and Isabella Adams.

• Last Edited: 1 Dec 2014