In 1842, Amaziah was 24 years old and Adeline was 27 but we don't know anything more about their wedding - where was the wedding held?, did anyone else from their families attend?, did any friends attend?
We believe Adeline was born December 1815 to Isaiah Litchfield and Silence Wheelwright of Cohasset, Massachusetts. After her husband's death, she had to ask the probate court to ensure that her husband's administrators, (her brother-in-law John Shackford and her husband's business partner, Nathaniel George) released her husband's assets to her in accordance with his will. She remained in Malden living in Kimball Block, 2 Tremont St, and 15 Tremont Street.
Adeline died on 27 April 1886 of heart disease.
All posts on this website are a work in progress. We’d love to learn of any corrections or additions to the information shared. Also we’d love it if you’d like the post here or at http://www.facebook.com/shackfordgenealogy) as that helps share the post with others. Thanks!
SOURCES:
"Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 15 August 2014), Amaziah G Shackford m Adaline Litchfield.
Massachusetts "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 15 August 2014), Adaline Litchfield b Dec 1815.
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915, DEATHS REGISTERED in the City of Malden for the Year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, page 147, Adeline L Litchfield Shackford, death, 27 April 1886; digital images, Family Search (http://familysearch.org : accessed 11 August 2013
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1627-2001," digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 20 August 2014), Amaziah Shackford m Adeline Litchfield; >Suffolk>Boston>Marriages 1800-1849 vol 2, K-Z, Vol 2 Pgs 338-339
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915, DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE Town of Malden for the Year eighteen hundred and sixty nine, page 161, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7VW-RZQ, Amaziah G Shackford, death, 3 February 1869; digital images, Family Search (http://familysearch.org : accessed 10 August 2013).
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, , Amaziah G Shackford and Adeline Litchfield, 4 October 1842; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 August 2014); Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.
New England Historical Genealogical Society American Ancestors, Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 14 August 2014), Amaziah G Shackford, Case 41305:1
Copyright 2017 Joanne Shackford Parkes (sharing a link to this post is appreciated but please do not just copy this material and paste it elsewhere)