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Mae Hettie <I>Oates</I> Adams

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Mae Hettie Oates Adams

Birth
Polk County, Texas, USA
Death
2 Dec 1958 (aged 83)
Newton, Newton County, Texas, USA
Burial
Holly Springs, Jasper County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Mae Hettie Oates was the 14th and youngest child born to Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates. Mae Hettie was born on her parents' farm near Sand Creek in Polk County. Mae Hettie was only three years old when her father, Robert Oates, died in 1878.
At the age of 19 years, Mae Hettie Oates married Robert Blackshire "Bob" Adams on October 15, 1894, in Lufkin, Texas.
Robert and Mae Hettie Oates Adams lived the first years of their marriage in Angelina County where Robert Adams worked as a laborer in a saw mill. From Angelina County, Robert and Mae Hettie Adams moved to Holly Springs in western Newton County where they settled and farmed.
Robert and Mae Hettie Adams had no children of their own. They helped raise the children of one of Robert's brothers, and they took in two foster daughters, Ethel and Lula Mae Lynch, who they reared as their own.
Robert and Mae Hettie Adams were married 54 years when Robert Adams died in the hospital in Jasper, Texas, in 1949. Mae Hettie Adams lived the last years of her life in the Goff Nursing Home in Newton, Texas.
At her death in 1958, Mae Hettie Oates Adams was survived by her two foster daughters, Ethel Kasten and Lula Mae Hanks.
Mae Hettie Adams was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates; her husband, Robert Adams; and her 13 siblings: Stephen M. Oates, Mary Oates Davison, Elizabeth Oates Griner, Charles Spencer Oates, Ephraim E. Oates, Susan Jane Oates Walding, James Robert Oates, Margaret Oates Gibson, Sarah Oates Gray, William Henderson Oates, John Calvin "Cab" Oates, Sina Oates Peavy, and Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland.
Mae Hettie Oates was the 14th and youngest child born to Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates. Mae Hettie was born on her parents' farm near Sand Creek in Polk County. Mae Hettie was only three years old when her father, Robert Oates, died in 1878.
At the age of 19 years, Mae Hettie Oates married Robert Blackshire "Bob" Adams on October 15, 1894, in Lufkin, Texas.
Robert and Mae Hettie Oates Adams lived the first years of their marriage in Angelina County where Robert Adams worked as a laborer in a saw mill. From Angelina County, Robert and Mae Hettie Adams moved to Holly Springs in western Newton County where they settled and farmed.
Robert and Mae Hettie Adams had no children of their own. They helped raise the children of one of Robert's brothers, and they took in two foster daughters, Ethel and Lula Mae Lynch, who they reared as their own.
Robert and Mae Hettie Adams were married 54 years when Robert Adams died in the hospital in Jasper, Texas, in 1949. Mae Hettie Adams lived the last years of her life in the Goff Nursing Home in Newton, Texas.
At her death in 1958, Mae Hettie Oates Adams was survived by her two foster daughters, Ethel Kasten and Lula Mae Hanks.
Mae Hettie Adams was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates; her husband, Robert Adams; and her 13 siblings: Stephen M. Oates, Mary Oates Davison, Elizabeth Oates Griner, Charles Spencer Oates, Ephraim E. Oates, Susan Jane Oates Walding, James Robert Oates, Margaret Oates Gibson, Sarah Oates Gray, William Henderson Oates, John Calvin "Cab" Oates, Sina Oates Peavy, and Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland.

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