FATHER: Charles Walters (1862-1943)
MOTHER: Laura Green Hudgins (1867-1937)
MARRIED: Hardy Adams (1889-1947)
March 12, 1913 (Roanoke, VA)
CHILDREN:
WILLIE DOUGLAS ADAMS (1914-1974)
Charlie Allen Adams (1915-1918)
Rosa Lillian Adams (Smith) (b.1919)
James Monroe ("Dickie") Adams (1931-1986)
John Robert ("Bobby") Adams (1931-1987)
My great-grandmother suffered typhoid fever before she got married, and wore a large bow to cover her head during the wedding so no one would see that the typhoid had thinned her hair. Worse, it moved into her left leg and would be the source of problems for decades to come.
When she and my great-grandfather were living on Lynchburg Avenue in Roanoke and went out to a field picking strawberries, she ended up with poison oak on both legs. Her right leg healed but her left leg, because of the typhoid, became all but crippled and shot through with red streaks. The lightest bruises could cause major problems. She went to countless doctors and took numerous shots, but it wasn't until the 1940's when she found a new medicine that would heal it: penicillin. Some years later, though, she hit her leg again and this time it stayed damaged until she died.
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