Adam Madison
Inheriting his Fathers business Adam Madison also inherited his Mother, who had been too busy enjoying her life than to worry about his childhood. The past year had not been kind to Jane Thomas, and her pretty 16 year old daughter Eliza ,Jane herself a pretty woman in her own right who was often confused by people as being Eliza’s sister not her Mother , had suffered the passing of her husband,Eliza’s Father from Black Lung Diseas from working in the mine, leaving his wife almost penniless after they had paid for the funeral. Hers and her daughters wages combined from working in Adam Madison’s giant cotton mill hardly supported them, and after they paid the rent ,and the small amount of food they purchased each week there was little left for candles and coal …