Disosway, Annie R., d. 1927

Cornelius Ryerss Disosway was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1801, and graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in 1820. He received a master's degree from Wesleyan College in 1838, and worked as a lawyer until his retirement in 1873. He died on November 20, 1889. He and his wife, Eliza Wilkins of Baltimore, Maryland, married on May 8, 1832, and had four children: Annie R., Sarah Louisa (d. September 8, 1921), William Wilkins, and Mary.

Eliza Wilkins had at least two sisters, Louisa and Achsa, who lived in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War. Annie R. Disosway married Henry Kingsland Adams of Bloomingdale, New York, on September 4, 1871, and had at least two daughters. She died on November 12, 1927, at the age of 91.

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