Note: Mollie is the name she went by though she was born Mary Capitola Adams in Holmes County, Ohio.
(Corrected full name provided by Lynne Adams Farr (lafarr) from Israel Adams Civil War pension application.)
Mollie Adams got her start as a girl working in Nolan's nine-room brothel in 1890.
She ran her own three-room operation a year later and was up to a seven-room establishment by 1893. By 1910, Adams was wealthy enough to commission a house from the Waco architectural firm Scott & Pearson – the company that designed First Baptist Church of Waco and what's now the Dr Pepper Museum.
Mollie Adams 1910 home, at 408 North 2nd Street, must have set tongues wagging with its indoor plumbing, electrical fixtures, two sitting parlors, a dance hall, a bar and fireplace, a bell system wired to every room, and red velvet chairs in the waiting room. Her portrait, painted by a New York artist for $500, hung over the fireplace mantel.
Though wealthy during her tenure as a Reservation madam, Adams was snubbed socially and died in an indigent home at 29 1/2 South 3rd Street, Waco in 1944. Her last house, located at 2nd Street and Jefferson Avenue, burned to the ground in 1964, though it had been vacant for some time.
A wave of Mexican migration, stemming from the violent chaos on the Mexico-Texas border during the early 20th century's Mexican Revolution, started shifting the population mix of the Reservation and its neighborhood in the 1910's.
As the Reservation's bordellos and cribs closed in 1917, more Mexican-American families moved in and the area once known as Two Street found a new name and reputation as Calle Dos.
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Census data:
1870 Census, Riley Township, Putnam County, Ohio:
Israel Adams (26, Ohio) Farmer laborer
Mary (23, Ohio) Wife
Willie (3, Ohio) Son
Mary E (1, Ohio) Daughter
1880 Census, Ohio:
Census shows her living with her family.
J P Adams (1844, Ohio) Head
Mary Adams (1848, Ohio) Wife
Henry Adams (1867, Ohio) Son
Mary Adams (1868, Ohio) Dau.
Elmo Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Elis Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Lizzie Adams (1874, Ohio) Dau.
Rosa Adams (1877, Texas) Dau.
(Waco Directory)
1886/1887 - 130 Bridge Street between 1st Street, Square.
1890/1891 - (Boarder, Miss Stella Nolan)
1892/1893 - 126 North 1st Street, corner of Washington
1900 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 126 N. 1st Street and having 7 boarders listed as (Prostitutes), including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being married for 10 years, but no man is listed.
Mollie Adams (Aug 1868, Ohio, Married 10) Head
Sammie Moore (32, Texas, Widow)
Rosa Adams (May 1877, Texas, Single) Sister
Florence Campbell (Oct 1880, Missouri, Single)
Estella Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Nannie Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Hazel Winters (Aug 1876, S.Dakota, Widow)
Vera Smith (Aug 1879, Georgia, Single)
1910 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 408 North 2nd Street and having 6 boarders including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being divorced.
Mollie Adams (41, Ohio, Divorced) Head
Rose Adams (32, Texas, Single) Sister
Iva McKennie (22, Oregon, Married)
Daisy Ellis (25, Texas, Divorced)
Effie Martin (20, Kansas, Divorced, 2 kids both have passed)
Annie Kasin (26, Ohio, Married)
Clara Sherman (18, Kansas, single)
1920 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 414 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with her widowed mother.
Mollie Adams (50, Ohio, Single) Head
Mrs. Mary J Dick (73, Ohio, Widowed) Mother
1930 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 308 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with one boarder.
Mollie Adams (60, Ohio, Single) Head - rooming house.
Irene M Patterson (27, Texas, Single) Hotel Waitress
1935 Waco: (Per 1940 census)
Roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (58, TX) Head, Widower
Carolina Garcia (35, TX) Daughter
Elias (9, TX) Grandson
Micela (7, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (5, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (67, OH) Roomer, Widow
1940 Census, Waco:
Census shows her as a roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (63, TX) Head, Widower - Odd jobs laborer.
Carolina Garcia (40, TX) Daughter, Widow - Seamstress
Elias (14, TX) Grandson
Micela (12, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (10, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (72, OH) Roomer, Widow
(states her highest grade of school was the 4th grade)
(Corrected full name provided by Lynne Adams Farr (lafarr) from Israel Adams Civil War pension application.)
Mollie Adams got her start as a girl working in Nolan's nine-room brothel in 1890.
She ran her own three-room operation a year later and was up to a seven-room establishment by 1893. By 1910, Adams was wealthy enough to commission a house from the Waco architectural firm Scott & Pearson – the company that designed First Baptist Church of Waco and what's now the Dr Pepper Museum.
Mollie Adams 1910 home, at 408 North 2nd Street, must have set tongues wagging with its indoor plumbing, electrical fixtures, two sitting parlors, a dance hall, a bar and fireplace, a bell system wired to every room, and red velvet chairs in the waiting room. Her portrait, painted by a New York artist for $500, hung over the fireplace mantel.
Though wealthy during her tenure as a Reservation madam, Adams was snubbed socially and died in an indigent home at 29 1/2 South 3rd Street, Waco in 1944. Her last house, located at 2nd Street and Jefferson Avenue, burned to the ground in 1964, though it had been vacant for some time.
A wave of Mexican migration, stemming from the violent chaos on the Mexico-Texas border during the early 20th century's Mexican Revolution, started shifting the population mix of the Reservation and its neighborhood in the 1910's.
As the Reservation's bordellos and cribs closed in 1917, more Mexican-American families moved in and the area once known as Two Street found a new name and reputation as Calle Dos.
************************
Census data:
1870 Census, Riley Township, Putnam County, Ohio:
Israel Adams (26, Ohio) Farmer laborer
Mary (23, Ohio) Wife
Willie (3, Ohio) Son
Mary E (1, Ohio) Daughter
1880 Census, Ohio:
Census shows her living with her family.
J P Adams (1844, Ohio) Head
Mary Adams (1848, Ohio) Wife
Henry Adams (1867, Ohio) Son
Mary Adams (1868, Ohio) Dau.
Elmo Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Elis Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Lizzie Adams (1874, Ohio) Dau.
Rosa Adams (1877, Texas) Dau.
(Waco Directory)
1886/1887 - 130 Bridge Street between 1st Street, Square.
1890/1891 - (Boarder, Miss Stella Nolan)
1892/1893 - 126 North 1st Street, corner of Washington
1900 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 126 N. 1st Street and having 7 boarders listed as (Prostitutes), including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being married for 10 years, but no man is listed.
Mollie Adams (Aug 1868, Ohio, Married 10) Head
Sammie Moore (32, Texas, Widow)
Rosa Adams (May 1877, Texas, Single) Sister
Florence Campbell (Oct 1880, Missouri, Single)
Estella Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Nannie Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Hazel Winters (Aug 1876, S.Dakota, Widow)
Vera Smith (Aug 1879, Georgia, Single)
1910 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 408 North 2nd Street and having 6 boarders including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being divorced.
Mollie Adams (41, Ohio, Divorced) Head
Rose Adams (32, Texas, Single) Sister
Iva McKennie (22, Oregon, Married)
Daisy Ellis (25, Texas, Divorced)
Effie Martin (20, Kansas, Divorced, 2 kids both have passed)
Annie Kasin (26, Ohio, Married)
Clara Sherman (18, Kansas, single)
1920 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 414 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with her widowed mother.
Mollie Adams (50, Ohio, Single) Head
Mrs. Mary J Dick (73, Ohio, Widowed) Mother
1930 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 308 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with one boarder.
Mollie Adams (60, Ohio, Single) Head - rooming house.
Irene M Patterson (27, Texas, Single) Hotel Waitress
1935 Waco: (Per 1940 census)
Roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (58, TX) Head, Widower
Carolina Garcia (35, TX) Daughter
Elias (9, TX) Grandson
Micela (7, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (5, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (67, OH) Roomer, Widow
1940 Census, Waco:
Census shows her as a roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (63, TX) Head, Widower - Odd jobs laborer.
Carolina Garcia (40, TX) Daughter, Widow - Seamstress
Elias (14, TX) Grandson
Micela (12, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (10, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (72, OH) Roomer, Widow
(states her highest grade of school was the 4th grade)
Note: Mollie is the name she went by though she was born Mary Capitola Adams in Holmes County, Ohio.
(Corrected full name provided by Lynne Adams Farr (lafarr) from Israel Adams Civil War pension application.)
Mollie Adams got her start as a girl working in Nolan's nine-room brothel in 1890.
She ran her own three-room operation a year later and was up to a seven-room establishment by 1893. By 1910, Adams was wealthy enough to commission a house from the Waco architectural firm Scott & Pearson – the company that designed First Baptist Church of Waco and what's now the Dr Pepper Museum.
Mollie Adams 1910 home, at 408 North 2nd Street, must have set tongues wagging with its indoor plumbing, electrical fixtures, two sitting parlors, a dance hall, a bar and fireplace, a bell system wired to every room, and red velvet chairs in the waiting room. Her portrait, painted by a New York artist for $500, hung over the fireplace mantel.
Though wealthy during her tenure as a Reservation madam, Adams was snubbed socially and died in an indigent home at 29 1/2 South 3rd Street, Waco in 1944. Her last house, located at 2nd Street and Jefferson Avenue, burned to the ground in 1964, though it had been vacant for some time.
A wave of Mexican migration, stemming from the violent chaos on the Mexico-Texas border during the early 20th century's Mexican Revolution, started shifting the population mix of the Reservation and its neighborhood in the 1910's.
As the Reservation's bordellos and cribs closed in 1917, more Mexican-American families moved in and the area once known as Two Street found a new name and reputation as Calle Dos.
************************
Census data:
1870 Census, Riley Township, Putnam County, Ohio:
Israel Adams (26, Ohio) Farmer laborer
Mary (23, Ohio) Wife
Willie (3, Ohio) Son
Mary E (1, Ohio) Daughter
1880 Census, Ohio:
Census shows her living with her family.
J P Adams (1844, Ohio) Head
Mary Adams (1848, Ohio) Wife
Henry Adams (1867, Ohio) Son
Mary Adams (1868, Ohio) Dau.
Elmo Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Elis Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Lizzie Adams (1874, Ohio) Dau.
Rosa Adams (1877, Texas) Dau.
(Waco Directory)
1886/1887 - 130 Bridge Street between 1st Street, Square.
1890/1891 - (Boarder, Miss Stella Nolan)
1892/1893 - 126 North 1st Street, corner of Washington
1900 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 126 N. 1st Street and having 7 boarders listed as (Prostitutes), including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being married for 10 years, but no man is listed.
Mollie Adams (Aug 1868, Ohio, Married 10) Head
Sammie Moore (32, Texas, Widow)
Rosa Adams (May 1877, Texas, Single) Sister
Florence Campbell (Oct 1880, Missouri, Single)
Estella Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Nannie Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Hazel Winters (Aug 1876, S.Dakota, Widow)
Vera Smith (Aug 1879, Georgia, Single)
1910 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 408 North 2nd Street and having 6 boarders including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being divorced.
Mollie Adams (41, Ohio, Divorced) Head
Rose Adams (32, Texas, Single) Sister
Iva McKennie (22, Oregon, Married)
Daisy Ellis (25, Texas, Divorced)
Effie Martin (20, Kansas, Divorced, 2 kids both have passed)
Annie Kasin (26, Ohio, Married)
Clara Sherman (18, Kansas, single)
1920 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 414 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with her widowed mother.
Mollie Adams (50, Ohio, Single) Head
Mrs. Mary J Dick (73, Ohio, Widowed) Mother
1930 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 308 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with one boarder.
Mollie Adams (60, Ohio, Single) Head - rooming house.
Irene M Patterson (27, Texas, Single) Hotel Waitress
1935 Waco: (Per 1940 census)
Roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (58, TX) Head, Widower
Carolina Garcia (35, TX) Daughter
Elias (9, TX) Grandson
Micela (7, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (5, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (67, OH) Roomer, Widow
1940 Census, Waco:
Census shows her as a roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (63, TX) Head, Widower - Odd jobs laborer.
Carolina Garcia (40, TX) Daughter, Widow - Seamstress
Elias (14, TX) Grandson
Micela (12, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (10, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (72, OH) Roomer, Widow
(states her highest grade of school was the 4th grade)
(Corrected full name provided by Lynne Adams Farr (lafarr) from Israel Adams Civil War pension application.)
Mollie Adams got her start as a girl working in Nolan's nine-room brothel in 1890.
She ran her own three-room operation a year later and was up to a seven-room establishment by 1893. By 1910, Adams was wealthy enough to commission a house from the Waco architectural firm Scott & Pearson – the company that designed First Baptist Church of Waco and what's now the Dr Pepper Museum.
Mollie Adams 1910 home, at 408 North 2nd Street, must have set tongues wagging with its indoor plumbing, electrical fixtures, two sitting parlors, a dance hall, a bar and fireplace, a bell system wired to every room, and red velvet chairs in the waiting room. Her portrait, painted by a New York artist for $500, hung over the fireplace mantel.
Though wealthy during her tenure as a Reservation madam, Adams was snubbed socially and died in an indigent home at 29 1/2 South 3rd Street, Waco in 1944. Her last house, located at 2nd Street and Jefferson Avenue, burned to the ground in 1964, though it had been vacant for some time.
A wave of Mexican migration, stemming from the violent chaos on the Mexico-Texas border during the early 20th century's Mexican Revolution, started shifting the population mix of the Reservation and its neighborhood in the 1910's.
As the Reservation's bordellos and cribs closed in 1917, more Mexican-American families moved in and the area once known as Two Street found a new name and reputation as Calle Dos.
************************
Census data:
1870 Census, Riley Township, Putnam County, Ohio:
Israel Adams (26, Ohio) Farmer laborer
Mary (23, Ohio) Wife
Willie (3, Ohio) Son
Mary E (1, Ohio) Daughter
1880 Census, Ohio:
Census shows her living with her family.
J P Adams (1844, Ohio) Head
Mary Adams (1848, Ohio) Wife
Henry Adams (1867, Ohio) Son
Mary Adams (1868, Ohio) Dau.
Elmo Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Elis Adams (1871, Ohio) Son
Lizzie Adams (1874, Ohio) Dau.
Rosa Adams (1877, Texas) Dau.
(Waco Directory)
1886/1887 - 130 Bridge Street between 1st Street, Square.
1890/1891 - (Boarder, Miss Stella Nolan)
1892/1893 - 126 North 1st Street, corner of Washington
1900 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 126 N. 1st Street and having 7 boarders listed as (Prostitutes), including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being married for 10 years, but no man is listed.
Mollie Adams (Aug 1868, Ohio, Married 10) Head
Sammie Moore (32, Texas, Widow)
Rosa Adams (May 1877, Texas, Single) Sister
Florence Campbell (Oct 1880, Missouri, Single)
Estella Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Nannie Snodgrass (18, Virginia, Single)
Hazel Winters (Aug 1876, S.Dakota, Widow)
Vera Smith (Aug 1879, Georgia, Single)
1910 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 408 North 2nd Street and having 6 boarders including her younger sister, Rose. It also shows her as being divorced.
Mollie Adams (41, Ohio, Divorced) Head
Rose Adams (32, Texas, Single) Sister
Iva McKennie (22, Oregon, Married)
Daisy Ellis (25, Texas, Divorced)
Effie Martin (20, Kansas, Divorced, 2 kids both have passed)
Annie Kasin (26, Ohio, Married)
Clara Sherman (18, Kansas, single)
1920 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 414 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with her widowed mother.
Mollie Adams (50, Ohio, Single) Head
Mrs. Mary J Dick (73, Ohio, Widowed) Mother
1930 Census, Waco:
Census shows her owning the home at 308 North 2nd Street & Jefferson with one boarder.
Mollie Adams (60, Ohio, Single) Head - rooming house.
Irene M Patterson (27, Texas, Single) Hotel Waitress
1935 Waco: (Per 1940 census)
Roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (58, TX) Head, Widower
Carolina Garcia (35, TX) Daughter
Elias (9, TX) Grandson
Micela (7, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (5, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (67, OH) Roomer, Widow
1940 Census, Waco:
Census shows her as a roomer in the 300 block of North 4th Street.
Eli Deleon (63, TX) Head, Widower - Odd jobs laborer.
Carolina Garcia (40, TX) Daughter, Widow - Seamstress
Elias (14, TX) Grandson
Micela (12, TX) Granddaughter
Frances (10, TX) Granddaughter
Mollie Adams (72, OH) Roomer, Widow
(states her highest grade of school was the 4th grade)
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