Youngest child of Dr. Jabez Penniman and his wife Frances "Montezuma" (widow of Ethan Allen), Adelia married first, in 1823, George Y. Harrington (1801-1826), who quickly died of consumption, leaving her with two small boys. In 1830 Adelia married Dr. Robert Moody (1801-1841), an Irish doctor who had settled at Burlington. They lived in a house on Union St., at the head of Adams. They had five daughters before Dr. Moody perished in a wagon accident in 1841. According to newspaper accounts, at least part of the roof of the Union St. house of "Mrs. Dr. Moody" blew off in a storm in 1845. Adelia's son George Harrington died in 1849, of the consumption that had killed his father; about 1850 William C. Harrington, her other son, fled his Burlington debts to become a Nevada silver miner. Two of her daughters (Frances Anne Moody and Julietta Moody) married Peaslees and moved to Dubuque; two others (Mary [Moody] Howe and Melzina Hopkins [Moody] Blackman) lived in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the youngest, Ellen Miranda Moody, married Vermont historian Prof. John Ellsworth Goodrich of UVM. In her later years, Adelia was blind. She suffered a stroke on 18 November 1884 and died six days later. She was buried beside her first husband George Harrington, and a few rows from her second husband, Dr. Robert Moody.
Youngest child of Dr. Jabez Penniman and his wife Frances "Montezuma" (widow of Ethan Allen), Adelia married first, in 1823, George Y. Harrington (1801-1826), who quickly died of consumption, leaving her with two small boys. In 1830 Adelia married Dr. Robert Moody (1801-1841), an Irish doctor who had settled at Burlington. They lived in a house on Union St., at the head of Adams. They had five daughters before Dr. Moody perished in a wagon accident in 1841. According to newspaper accounts, at least part of the roof of the Union St. house of "Mrs. Dr. Moody" blew off in a storm in 1845. Adelia's son George Harrington died in 1849, of the consumption that had killed his father; about 1850 William C. Harrington, her other son, fled his Burlington debts to become a Nevada silver miner. Two of her daughters (Frances Anne Moody and Julietta Moody) married Peaslees and moved to Dubuque; two others (Mary [Moody] Howe and Melzina Hopkins [Moody] Blackman) lived in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the youngest, Ellen Miranda Moody, married Vermont historian Prof. John Ellsworth Goodrich of UVM. In her later years, Adelia was blind. She suffered a stroke on 18 November 1884 and died six days later. She was buried beside her first husband George Harrington, and a few rows from her second husband, Dr. Robert Moody.
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