Daughter of John Adams and Mary Ann Howe
"Miss Jean Adams, for 25 years a missionary in Foochow, China, died yesterday at the home of her sister, Mrs. John S. Wilson, of Moorewood Gardens. Miss Adams was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of the late John and Mary Rowe Adams. In 1900 she was appointed as a missionary of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church. She acted as a self-supporting missionary, founding and carrying on work among widows in the industrial section of Foochow. She gave up the work about two years ago. Since that time she had made her home in Pittsburgh and California. She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Charles Deens, of Beaver, and Mrs. Wilson. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the funeral home of Thomas B. Moreland. Burial will be in Southside cemetery"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 January 1929, page 30
Daughter of John Adams and Mary Ann Howe
"Miss Jean Adams, for 25 years a missionary in Foochow, China, died yesterday at the home of her sister, Mrs. John S. Wilson, of Moorewood Gardens. Miss Adams was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of the late John and Mary Rowe Adams. In 1900 she was appointed as a missionary of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church. She acted as a self-supporting missionary, founding and carrying on work among widows in the industrial section of Foochow. She gave up the work about two years ago. Since that time she had made her home in Pittsburgh and California. She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Charles Deens, of Beaver, and Mrs. Wilson. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the funeral home of Thomas B. Moreland. Burial will be in Southside cemetery"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 January 1929, page 30
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