More on the Adsit Family

Great grandfather, Charles Chapin Adsit lived in Chicago, Illinois, his entire life. I wrote about him in the following posts: City Directories as a census substitute and Adsit Family in Chicago.

This is a family that almost died out.

Charles' parents (my great great grandparents), James Monroe Adsit (1809 - 1894) and Susan Arville Chapin (1820 - 1906), had seven children:

1. Leonard D. Adsit (January 31, 1842, Chicago - April 8, 1880, Chicago)
2. Isabella F. Adsit (September 8, 1844, Chicago - September 3, 1916, Chicago)
3. James Monroe Adsit, Jr. (April 7, 1847, Chicago - March 30, 1926, Chicago)
4. Carolyn Jane Adsit (January 29, 1850, Chicago - May 6, 1922, Chicago)
5. Charles Chapin Adsit (July 14, 1853, Chicago - July 3, 1931, Atlantic City, NJ)
6. Frank S. Adsit (September 7, 1855, Chicago - April 7, 1859, Chicago)
7. Jeanie M. Adsit (December 19, 1860, Chicago - August 17, 1939, Chicago)

Only two of the above-listed children married:

2. Isabella, who married Ezra I. Wheeler, and had one daughter, Florence, who died at the age of five of "acute gastritis."

5. Charles, who first married Hattie L. Webster on November 22, 1881, in Evanston, Illinois. She died just nine and a half months later, on September 4, 1882. In a 1960 letter from Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, it is noted that "Child" of Chas. died "9 4 1882 at age ---". From this, I deduce that Hattie died in childbirth and the baby died, too.

Charles married Mary Bowman Ashby, of Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky, on October 30, 1890. They had two children: Charles Chapin Adsit, Jr. (July 3, 1892, Chicago - April 21, 1944, New York City) who never married, and my grandmother, Elizabeth Adsit (June 18, 1897, Chicago - December 6, 1983, Boston) who married my grandfather in 1919. They had only one child: my father, Charles McAlpin Pyle, Jr. who was a talented golfer.

Do contact me if you have an Adsit in your family tree, but we won't be any more closely related than fourth cousin (my brothers excluded).