Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Bryant
First Name	Adeline
Middle Name
Maiden Name	Putnam
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Wilson, NH
Date of Birth	1815-05-18
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1908-08-09
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 8-13-1908, p.5
Obituary	Mrs. Nathaniel Bryant Mrs. Adeline Bryant, one of the oldest residents of Dexter, died at home on High street, Sunday, August 9th, at 3.30 p. m. She was the daughter of Dr. John and Mary Herrick Putnam of Wilson, New Hampshire, in which town she was born May 18, 1815. She thus reached the great age of ninety-three years, and was the last survivor of twelve children born to her parents. When a Young woman, she married Capt. Nathaniel Bryant of Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, Maine, where they resided several years, and where their eldest child was born. About 1840, they removed to Dexter, and made their home on the farm which she has since lived, and on which she died. Capt. and Mrs. Bryant were blessed with four children; Emma, who became the wife of the late George Proctor, Samuel, who died in infancy, Mary H., who became the wife of the late Dr. W. R. Baynum, and has herself practised her husband's profession since his death, and Charles B., who died April 15, 1870, in his twenty-first year. Capt. Bryant passed away October 21, 1883, aged seventy- five years, and his wife has survived him almost a quarter of a century. The Bryants resided in the Flynt house, so-called, now the home of Ralph 0. Blethen, for many years, and their large farm embraced nearly all that section of the village lying east of Spring and Pleasant streets, besides the present farm. Capt. Bryant laid out Free, High, Maple, Center and other street and sold off the abutting land for houselots. Some thirty-three years ago he built the homestead on High street, where he himself died, and where his widow has now passed from mortal life. In the '50's and early '60's, Capt. and Mrs. Bryant were very extensively engaged in farming, operating, besides the home farm, two other large farms, the Coolidge place and the Batchelder place, so -called, both lying east of the village, one on the old Charleston road and the other on the Garland road. At one time they had sixty-two cows and eight hundred sheep. Well does the writer remember the buttermaking on a large scale, carried on under the supervision of Mrs. Bryant, by Miss Carpenter, an expert dairymaid from Orange county, New York, with an abundance of spring water piped into the dairy, and the churning done by horse-power. Mrs. Bryant, the head of a very large household, then in her prime, was a woman of great physical endurance, mental strength, dignity and force of character. Of kindly and neighborly disposition, she was helpful and efficient in cases of sickness. For many years she was connected with the First Universalist church of Dexter, but her religious views were broader and freer than any church creed. She was a firm believer in the immortal life, which she has now entered. S. P.