♀Marie (surname unknown)

Marie (dates unknown) was the wife of John Adams and the mother of Mary Adams (1850–1940) of Chicago. She was the great-great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Mary Adams (1850–1940), Mary’s son Frank Frederick William Schulz (1882–1961) and his daughter Bernice Reinette Schulz (1905–1993). She is known only from her daughter’s death certificate of 1940, which names Mary’s parents as John Adams and Marie; her maiden name, her dates and her own parents are not known. The census of 1880 gives the birthplace of Mary’s mother as Prussia. Searches of the Chicago censuses of 1850 and 1860 found no Adams household with a daughter of Mary’s age. A Chicago census of 1870 lists a teamster named John Adam with his wife Marie, aged forty-two and born in Mecklenburg, and daughters named Frederike and Emma, names that fit Mary’s family, but the household has not been proved to be hers, and Mecklenburg does not agree with the Prussia of the 1880 census.