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| Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Volume XXVI Lansing, Michigan W. S. George & Co., State Printers & Binders Page 34 - 35 BAY COUNTY |
| MRS. CAROLINE ADAMS WIGHT. - Mrs. Caroline Adams Wight was born in Ludlowville, N. Y., February 9, 1823. |
| She was the second child and elder daughter of the Rev. Wm. M. and Sophia Farnsworth Adams, both of whom were from distinguished revolutionary families. Mr. Adams was a gentleman of the old school, polished, and dignified in manner, a warm friend of the evangelist, Chas. G. Finney, and of Rev. Wm. Wisner, well known through western New York as both preacher and pastor. |
| Mrs. Adams was a woman of great beauty of person an sweetness of disposition and both parents were warmly loved and honored by all who knew them. |
| Mrs. Wight was carefully educated at home and at a private school in Athens, Penn., and when at the age of fourteen her father came west to Painesville, Ohio, she attended what is now known as Lake Erie Seminary. Mr. Adams, however, soon removed to Rockton, Ill. Here on May 31, 1840, when but just seventeen years of age, she was married to J. Ambrose Wight, a union which lasted to within six months of fifty-years. Mr. and Mrs. Wight, after a brief residences in Rockton and Rockford, removed to Chicago, at that time in its childhood. Their home was near 12th street, beyond the confines of the city, and the conditions of living were primitive. They early united with the Second Presbyterian church, then newly formed, a connection lasting for twelve years, when Mr. Wight was licensed to preach and Mrs. Wight entered upon the duties of a minister's wife. She was active in the church and socially as far as health and the care of a family of children allowed. During the war she was an active worker in the sanitary commission. |
| In August, 1865, she came to Bay City where the remainder of her life was spent. Here she sang in the choir, taught in the Sabbath school, organized and for eighteen years was president of the Woman's Missionary Society, and was an important factor in the social life of the church and city until failing health laid her aside. She was the mother of seven children, tow of whom died in infancy and one, a son, perished in the wreck of the U. S. S. Huron, in his early manhood. Mrs. Wight passed away from earth on January 13, 1892. |
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