Ada was a "single mother" for most of her child rearing years. Her first husband: Robert Gleason McNulty (Robert Gleason MacNulty) died when he was 29 years old.( 05/02/1932). He died of "pleurisy" or "pneumonia". Ada had to supervise the selling of the home that Robert & she had in Spotsylvania, VA. Ada would tell us her story about how she had to leave with the 3 children to go to her mother-in-law's house in Rutherford, NJ. They all left by train. She had to get a job quickly to help with the money situation. She got a job at the Marine Midland bank in NYC as a secretary. She had graduated from Portland High School & from "The Gregg School of Shorthand & Typing for Secretaries" in Portland, ME. (While there, she "set a speed record" for typing). She was well equipped to be a secretary in the NYC Marine Midland Bank office. She met & later married her second husband, Charles Sheldon Pharis at that bank office. She died 03/20/1980 at the age of 78. She died at her daughter's home in Midland, Michigan. She is buried next to her 2nd husband, Charles Sheldon Pharis. The cemetery is: Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Westvale, NY. Ada, by the way, was one of the first young ladies that got her hair "bobbed" (cut short) in Portland, Maine. Burial: Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Westvale, Onondaga County, New York, USA.