Harriett Avis Crosby Adams (1893-1966)
Harriett Avis Crosby Adams, daughter of Charles William Crosby and Cicely Turner Crosby grew up in a large family on a plantation in the Landsford community of Chester County, SC. She became a nurse and worked with Dr. W.W. Fennel at the Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, SC where she had received her training. Her work caused her to travel to the Town Of Kershaw in Lancaster County, SC to provide in-home nursing to a person who was in need of her services for an extended period. While in Kershaw, she met a young man, Lewis P. Adams. After Avis had left Kershaw and returned home, Lewis joined the Army as the US entered World War One. On June 29, 1919, soon after the war was over and Lewis had returned from overseas duty, he and Avis were married. They built a house in Kershaw and began raising a family that consisted of one son and three daughters, the youngest two of whom were twins. During the 1930s the family relocated to Pageland, SC, where Lewis worked as a butcher and operated a grocery store/meat market that he co-owned, and later became the sole owner. They returned to Kershaw in 1940 soon after their oldest daughter graduated from Pageland High School. For a period during World War Two, Avis worked for the war effort in a U.S. Rubber Plant in Charlotte, NC. For most of the rest of Avis's life she was a wife, mother, and grandmother who was able to enjoy her children and grandchildren, all of whom lived no more than a few miles away. Sadly, she lost her son and her husband during the last half of the 1950s. Her remaining children and their families continued to gather at her house and in her back yard and had good times on a weekly or more frequent basis until Avis passed away in 1966. She was buried beside Lewis in the Kershaw City Cemetery.
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Harriett Avis Crosby Adams, daughter of Charles William Crosby and Cicely Turner Crosby grew up in a large family on a plantation in the Landsford community of Chester County, SC. She became a nurse and worked with Dr. W.W. Fennel at the Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, SC where she had received her training. Her work caused her to travel to the Town Of Kershaw in Lancaster County, SC to provide in-home nursing to a person who was in need of her services for an extended period. While in Kershaw, she met a young man, Lewis P. Adams. After Avis had left Kershaw and returned home, Lewis joined the Army as the US entered World War One. On June 29, 1919, soon after the war was over and Lewis had returned from overseas duty, he and Avis were married. They built a house in Kershaw and began raising a family that consisted of one son and three daughters, the youngest two of whom were twins. During the 1930s the family relocated to Pageland, SC, where Lewis worked as a butcher and operated a grocery store/meat market that he co-owned, and later became the sole owner. They returned to Kershaw in 1940 soon after their oldest daughter graduated from Pageland High School. For a period during World War Two, Avis worked for the war effort in a U.S. Rubber Plant in Charlotte, NC. For most of the rest of Avis's life she was a wife, mother, and grandmother who was able to enjoy her children and grandchildren, all of whom lived no more than a few miles away. Sadly, she lost her son and her husband during the last half of the 1950s. Her remaining children and their families continued to gather at her house and in her back yard and had good times on a weekly or more frequent basis until Avis passed away in 1966. She was buried beside Lewis in the Kershaw City Cemetery.
Contributor: KB (48987330)
Harriett Avis Crosby Adams (1893-1966)
Harriett Avis Crosby Adams, daughter of Charles William Crosby and Cicely Turner Crosby grew up in a large family on a plantation in the Landsford community of Chester County, SC. She became a nurse and worked with Dr. W.W. Fennel at the Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, SC where she had received her training. Her work caused her to travel to the Town Of Kershaw in Lancaster County, SC to provide in-home nursing to a person who was in need of her services for an extended period. While in Kershaw, she met a young man, Lewis P. Adams. After Avis had left Kershaw and returned home, Lewis joined the Army as the US entered World War One. On June 29, 1919, soon after the war was over and Lewis had returned from overseas duty, he and Avis were married. They built a house in Kershaw and began raising a family that consisted of one son and three daughters, the youngest two of whom were twins. During the 1930s the family relocated to Pageland, SC, where Lewis worked as a butcher and operated a grocery store/meat market that he co-owned, and later became the sole owner. They returned to Kershaw in 1940 soon after their oldest daughter graduated from Pageland High School. For a period during World War Two, Avis worked for the war effort in a U.S. Rubber Plant in Charlotte, NC. For most of the rest of Avis's life she was a wife, mother, and grandmother who was able to enjoy her children and grandchildren, all of whom lived no more than a few miles away. Sadly, she lost her son and her husband during the last half of the 1950s. Her remaining children and their families continued to gather at her house and in her back yard and had good times on a weekly or more frequent basis until Avis passed away in 1966. She was buried beside Lewis in the Kershaw City Cemetery.
Contributor: KB (48987330)
Harriett Avis Crosby Adams, daughter of Charles William Crosby and Cicely Turner Crosby grew up in a large family on a plantation in the Landsford community of Chester County, SC. She became a nurse and worked with Dr. W.W. Fennel at the Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, SC where she had received her training. Her work caused her to travel to the Town Of Kershaw in Lancaster County, SC to provide in-home nursing to a person who was in need of her services for an extended period. While in Kershaw, she met a young man, Lewis P. Adams. After Avis had left Kershaw and returned home, Lewis joined the Army as the US entered World War One. On June 29, 1919, soon after the war was over and Lewis had returned from overseas duty, he and Avis were married. They built a house in Kershaw and began raising a family that consisted of one son and three daughters, the youngest two of whom were twins. During the 1930s the family relocated to Pageland, SC, where Lewis worked as a butcher and operated a grocery store/meat market that he co-owned, and later became the sole owner. They returned to Kershaw in 1940 soon after their oldest daughter graduated from Pageland High School. For a period during World War Two, Avis worked for the war effort in a U.S. Rubber Plant in Charlotte, NC. For most of the rest of Avis's life she was a wife, mother, and grandmother who was able to enjoy her children and grandchildren, all of whom lived no more than a few miles away. Sadly, she lost her son and her husband during the last half of the 1950s. Her remaining children and their families continued to gather at her house and in her back yard and had good times on a weekly or more frequent basis until Avis passed away in 1966. She was buried beside Lewis in the Kershaw City Cemetery.
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