Charles W. Adams and Alice Weddle

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Husband Charles W. Adams ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 May 1840 - Virginia 1
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         Father: Charles Adams (Abt 1800-1843) 1
         Mother: Charlotte Yates (Abt 1805-1868) 1

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       Marriage: 1884 1

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   Other Spouse: Sarah "Sadie" Weddle (Abt 1847-1882) 1 2 - 1863 1

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Wife Alice Weddle ¹

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         Father: [Father] Weddle (      -      )
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Children

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1 F Charlotte Adams ¹

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           Born: 1885 1
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2 M Charles W. Adams ¹

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           Born: 1891 1
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General Notes: Husband - Charles W. Adams

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He received a limited education at the public schools of the neighborhood of his home, but being fatherless had to commence work very early in life. When eleven years old he entered upon a three years' apprenticeship to the harness business in Taylor County, Virginia, and before finishing, attended school for a time, but in this his opportunities were of necessity much circumscribed. After finishing his trade, he moved to Marion County, where his mother died.
Under the President's call, in 1863, for "more men" to suppress the Rebellion, Mr. Adams enlisted in Company E, Sixth West Virginia Cavalry, and served in Virginia and West Virginia to the close of the struggle. He participated in many engagements, but was never wounded, though he had a narrow escape from capture on November 28, 1864, when he was obliged to swim the Potomac to save falling into the hands of the enemy. Along with him was a personal friend, James A. Taggart, who was a better swimmer; Mr. Adams struck a stiff current and thought he would drown before getting out of it, so called to his comrade, who was swimming ahead of him, for help. Taggart responded by turning back, with true patriotic friendship, and by dint of much struggling he succeeded in reaching the shore. Thoroughly exhausted, he laid down among some weeds, while the enemy passed by fortunately without seeing him. His wife was with him up to the time of his plunge into the river, and she fell into the hands of the Confederates, who, after searching her trunk, released her without further molestation.
At the close of the war Mr. Adams was sent to the plains of Nebraska and Colorado, on Indian service, and in this as in his war experiences, he escaped injury of any kind. In 1866 he returned to West Virginia, and in 1867 settled down to his trade in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he carried on a harness business for his own account until 1874, in which year he came to Washington, Pennsylvania, and embarked in the harness trade, which he carried on with success until 1890, when he sold out and engaged in the real-estate and insurance business.
He was a member of the G. A. R., W. Templeton Post, of Washington, also of the I. O. O. F. He and his wife were members of the First M. E. Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1146.

2 John Wilson White, Hugh Wilson and his Family (Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Company, 1918), Pg 40.