Mary Winona Shanabrook ^{3 4}

   Another name for Mary was "Minnie" Shanabrook.^{1 2 5 6 7}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Shamsebrook
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 20 Mar 1885
Birthplace: WINONA, WINONA, MINNESOTA
Father's Name: D.C.
Mother's Name: Mary
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C75160-1
System Origin: Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number: 1377831
Reference Number: v 1 p 243

Source Citation
"Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDQJ-85S : accessed 13 July 2012), Shanabrook, 1885.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1885 Minnesota State Census in Winona, MN in May 1885. ⁷

1885 Minnesota State Census
Page 285, Family 829
Winona, Winona County, Minnesota
Minnie Schanbrook..3..MN

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - Obvious there must be an error by the enumerator in the age of Minnie who was born during the year of 1885. Perhaps the "3" entered by the enumerator should have been "3 months".
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• She appeared on the 1895 Wisconsin State Census in Mauston, WI in 20 June 1895. ⁸

1895 Wisconsin State Census
Page 5
Mauston, Juneau County, Wisconsin
Mary Shanabrook..Head
3 white females: (Iva, Margaret, and Mary; Anna was married in 1888)

(Mary was living with her mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 9 June 1900. ⁴

1900 US Census
Sheet 6A, District 137, Family 149, Roll 1819
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home rented
Mary W. Shannabrook..Daughter..Mar 1885..15..MN..At School

(Living with mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 April 1910. ⁵

1910 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 173, Family 22, Roll 1739
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, no mortgage
Minnie Shanabrook..Daughter..25..MN..Telephone Operator

(Living with mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 January 1920. ¹

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 219, Family 32, Roll 2018
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Farm rented
Minnie Adams..Wife..34..MN

(Living with husband, 2 sons, and widowed mother-in-law.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, WI on 24 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 23, Family 186, Roll 2614
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Home owned
Minnie Adams..Wife..45..MN..married at 28

(Living with husband and 4 children.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Winona Daily News on 17 January 1966 in Winona, MN.

Mrs. Minne Adams, 83, died Saturday afternoon at her home.

The former Minnie Shanabrook, she was born March 20, 1885 to Mr. and Mrs. David Shanabrook, Winona. She was married to Earl Adams in 1913 and he died in September 1938. The couple farmed near Trempealeau where she had lived for 60 years prior to her death.

She was a member of the Trempealeau Federated Church and its women's groups, a charter member of the South Centerville Homemakers Club and the Royal Neighbors of America.

Survivors are: Three sons, Robert, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Gerald, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Warren, Trempealeau; one daughter, Mrs. Patrick (Mildred) Kelley, La Crosse, and 14 grandchildren. Three brothers and three sisters have died.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Federated Church, the Rev. George Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Centerville. Friends may call at Smith Mortuary, Galesville, today from 7 to 9 p.m., and at the church Tuesday after 2:30 p.m.

(Source: Winona Daily News, Winona, Minnesota, 17 Jan 1966, page 9)
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• She was buried on 18 January 1966 in the Evergreen Cemetery in Centerville, WI.

Find A Grave Memorial #130156761
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Mary married Earl James Adams, son of Leonard Wood Adams and Mary Electa Blake, on 26 March 1913 in Trempealeau, WI.^{1 2} (Earl James Adams was born on 28 March 1885 in , Trempealeau County, WI,^{1 2 9} died on 7 September 1939 in Madison, WI ⁹ and was buried on 14 September 1939 in Evergreen Cemetery, Centerville, WI ⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They resided in Trempealeau, WI in January 1919.
In Jan 1919, her mother's obituary listed her as one of the surviving children:
- Mrs. Earl J. (Mary) Adams
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• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 15 January 1920. ¹

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 219, Family 32, Roll 2018
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Farm rented
Earl Adams..Head..34..WI..Farmer, General farming
Minnie Adams..Wife..34..MN
Robert Adams..Son..5..WI
Gerald Adams..Son..4y 2m..WI
Mary Adams..Mother..75..NY..Widowed
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• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, WI on 24 April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 23, Dwelling 185, Family 186, Roll 2614
Trempealeau Township, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned
Earl Adams..Head..45..WI..married at 27..Farmer, General Farm
Minnie Adams..Wife..45..MN..married at 28
Robert Adams..Son..15..WI
Gerald Adams..Son..14..WI
Warren Adams..Son..9..WI
Mildred Adams..Dau..6..WI
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