Minerva R. Adams (b. Randall) (1817-1906) was born in Maine and died in Oconto, Wisconsin. She married Samuel C. Adams, a sailor, and they lived in Bowdoin, Maine, until the 1850s, when they moved to Fort Howard, Wisconsin. Samuel served in the American Civil War as a private in Company G of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry of the Union Army from 1863 to 1865. Two of their daughters, Victoria H. Sargent and Laura E. Sargent, were Mary Baker Eddy's students and were instrumental in establishing Christian Science in Oconto, and Laura served in Eddy's household for many years. Sometime before 1870 the Adamses moved to Oconto and remained there for the rest of their lives. Minerva took Primary class instruction with her daughter, Laura, and she joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1893.

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