The Sterling genealogy

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THE STERLING GENEALOGY
2135 Josephine Corbin, was a missionary in South America for
seven years. Now working for the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of N. Y. City ; unm.
Three children d. in infancy.
897 SAMUEL STERLING ADAMS (brother of the above),
b. Apr. 16, 1818; m. Feb. 2, 1846, Lovina Lott, b. Feb. 17, 1821,
dau. of Isaac, granddau. of Zepheniah Lott, who enlisted as an
ensign in the Bucks Co. Militia in 1775 and 18 mos. later re-enlisted
as captain of the Fifth Co., First Battalion, Bucks Co. Militia.
Samuel, commonly called Sterling, Adams was a farmer at Me-
hoopany, Wyoming Co., Penn. He d. Aug. 29, 1901. She d.
Feb. 18, 1899.
Children
2139 t Sarah Elizabeth Adams, b. Mar. 22, 1847; m. Byron G.
White.
2140 Oscar Sterling Adams, b. Sept. 2, 1848 ; d. Oct. 17, 1867.
2141 t Charles Elmer Adams, b. Mar. 7, 1852; m. 1st, Mary M.
Packer, 2d, Marion S. Packer.
2142 Edgar Adelbert Adams, b. Oct. 4, 1854 ; unm. ; a telegraph
operator.
2143 Emily Adelia Adams (twin with Edgar), unm.; lives at
Mehoopany.
2144 George Lott Adams, b. Oct. 4, 1864 ; unm. ; a telegraph
operator.
898 MARY ADAMS (sister of the above), b. Sept. 28,
1821 ; m. in Jan. 1841, Robert Craig, b. in Belfast, Ireland, in
1815, son of John and Agnes (Alexander) Craig, natives of Scotland.
Mr. Craig was a farmer and lumber dealer at Peru, 111. He
d. in Princeton, 111., Apr. 21, 1892. Mary was living in Indianap-
olis, Ind., in 1903.
Children
2145 William H. Craig, b. Nov. 9, 1841 ; enlisted in Co. K,
104th 111. Vols., and was killed at Atlanta, Ga., Aug.
7, 1864.
2146 Robert Craig, b. in Jan., 1843 ; d. at Peru, Oct. 24, 1856.
2147 tjohn Alexander Craig, b. Dec. 31, 1846; m. Mary H.
Hanna.
2148 Mary Elizabeth Craig, b. Apr. 15, 1849; 1st, Ber-
ner, 2d, Apr. 18, 1889, James Ross, who d. Nov. 20,
1895. Has a dau., Harriet M. Berner, unm.