Elizabeth Coombs Adams
(1808-1903)
BIRTH
February 9, 1808
PLACE
DEATH
June 13, 1903
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Thomas Boylston Adams
(1772-1832)
MOTHER
Ann Harrod
(1774-1845)
SISTER
Abigail Smith Adams Angier
(1806-1845)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Coombs Adams (1808–1903) was a daughter of Thomas Boylston Adams and Ann Harrod, and a granddaughter of John and Abigail Adams. She never married and lived throughout her life in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her correspondence survives within the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, preserving family relationships across the nineteenth century. She belonged to the founding family’s later generations.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Coombs Adams’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Coombs Adams is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Coombs Adams died on Jun 13, 1903. Elizabeth Coombs Adams was a daughter of Thomas Boylston Adams and Ann Harrod, and a granddaughter of John and Abigail Adams. She never married and lived throughout her life in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her correspondence survives within the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, preserving family relationships across the nineteenth century. She belonged to the founding family’s later generations. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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