Alyce Geraldine Adams and James Tarlton Burrell

ALYCE GERALDINE ADAMS, daughter of MYRA ELLA SHERWIN and JAMES R. ADAMS, was born January 25, 1913 in California,⁴⁵⁶ and died April 3, 2007.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California.⁴⁵⁶

She married JAMES TARLTON BURRELL on September 19, 1932 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.³⁵⁴¹ He was born in 1907, and died November 13, 1962.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California.⁴⁵⁶

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Personal Information

Alyce Geraldine Adams was a member of the First Congregational Church, Corona, California. ¹⁶⁸

Education

Alyce Geraldine Adams graduated from Brawley High School, California.¹⁶⁸

Obituaries

Press-Enterprise, April 5, 2007¹⁶⁸

ALYCE GERALDINE ADAMS BURRELL Born January 25, 1913, died April 3, 2007 from old age and exhaustion at the age of 94. As with all of us, Alyce was a biology entity - the evolutionary product of all her countless generations of ancestors since the beginning of time. Alyce had her 447 page book "A Sherwin - Shedd Genealogy" (about her mother's lineage) published in 1990. She was of English ancestry. Her earliest known ancestor, John Shedd, appeared in a Suffolk County, England tax record in 1327. Daniel Shedd emigrated from Finchingfield, Essex County England to Braintree, Massachusetts in 1643. The earliest Sherwin, John, emigrated from England to Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1667. Her great uncle William Fisk Sherwin, of Buckland and Ashfield, Mass., a Congregationalist, was a prolific composer of church music. Among his compositions most commonly used are "Break Thou The Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West". Alyce's grandparents, Sidney Sherwin and Mary Shedd, moved West in 1880 to homestead in DeSmet, South Dakota Territory, where Alyce's mother, Myra, was born. Also in DeSmet, was the Ingalls family whose daughter later became well known as the writer Laura Ingalls Wilder of "Little House on the Prairie" books. In 1894, after several years of drought, both families moved by covered wagon to near Springfield, Missouri which Mr. Sherwin had previously scouted out. Alyce's father, James Richard Adams, was from near Springfield, MO. His parents came from Tennessee. James was a school teacher there. In 1903 he moved his first wife and two very young daughters, Ruby and Mary,to Imperial County, California where tragically his wife soon died perhaps of bad water. Ruby and Mary were cared for in Missouri by James' cousin, Effie White, and her friend, Myra Sherwin. In the meantime James built a house in Imperial, California in 1907 and sent for his daughters and their caretakers. James and Myra married in 1909 then had three daughters, Grace, Marguerite, and Alyce. In 1919 the family moved to the new nearby town of Westmoreland where they started the "Home Restaurant". Alyce's mother was the cook and also baked several pies a day in a wood stove oven where summertime temperatures could reach 120 in the shade. There was no electricity or cooling systems. Alyce did very well in school, was on a swim team and graduated from Brawley High School, then graduated in 1931 from a secretarial course at Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles. she was an executive secretary during her working years, retiring form Aerojet, Corp. in 1976. In 1932 she married James T. Burrell, a U.S. Marine at the time from near the small country town of Davis City, Iowa. He was a Millwright at General Motors automobile assembly plant in South Gate, CA. for 27 years until his death in 1962 in Norwalk, CA. She was a resident of Crown Pointe in Corona for several years and a member of the First Congregational Church in Corona. Earlier she was active in the Corona Senior Citizens group and AARP. She enjoyed dancing and had traveled extensively. Alyce is survived by her two sons, James of Norco and Rex of Kauai, Hawaii; 5 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 5 nieces and 2 nephews. Funeral Arrangements under the direction of Corona, CA. - (951) 737-3244

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
January 2, 1920⁴⁶²⁴	Imperial, Imperial, California	James R. Adams Myra Ella Sherwin Grace Evelyn Adams Marguerite Adams Alyce Geraldine Adams
April 2, 1930⁶⁸⁵⁷	Westmoreland, Imperial, California	James R. Adams Myra Ella Sherwin Marguerite Adams Alyce Geraldine Adams
April 16, 1940²⁵³⁷	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California	Alyce Geraldine Adams James Tarlton Burrell
April 24, 1950⁹⁵¹⁵	South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California	Alyce Geraldine Adams James Tarlton Burrell