Editing Minnie Bell Sharp (section)

==Personal life==

[[File:Tappan Adney 001.jpg|thumb|Tappan Adney in about 1890]]On 12 September 1899, Sharp married Tappan Adney in Woodstock.<ref name="Helmuth" />{{rp|36}} While studying in New York she had stayed at a boarding house in [[Manhattan]] that was owned by Ruth Shaw Adney. At her invitation Mrs. Adney's son Tappan and daughter Mary Ruth visited the Sharp family in New Brunswick in the summer of 1887. Tappan Adney remained in New Brunswick until the fall of 1889 and returned several times in the following decade.<ref name = Helmuth>{{Cite book| publisher = Chapel Street Editions| last = Helmuth| first = Keith| title = Tappan Adney and the heritage of the St. John River Valley| location = Woodstock, New Brunswick| date = 2017}}</ref>{{rp|35-36}} Mary Ruth Adney worked with Sharp at the conservatory in Victoria from 1893 to 1896 and Tappan Adney visited the city for five months in 1895.<ref name="ladymusic" /> 

Minnie Bell and Tappan Adney had one child, Francis Glenn Adney (called Glenn). He was born in Woodstock in 1902. He attended [[McGill University]] in [[Montreal]] on scholarships and earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in Mathematics in 1923.<ref name="Helmuth" />{{rp|44}} He played the piano, and worked as a jazz musician and dance band leader in Montreal.<ref name=radio>{{Cite news| pages = 8| title = Today's radio programs| work = The Gazette| location = Montreal| url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119602925/glenn-adney-orchestra/ | date = 9 December 1924|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = 1 March 2023 }}{{Open access}}</ref> He worked as an [[actuary]] for the [[MetLife | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company]] in New York from the early 1930s until he retired in 1966. He died in 1983 in [[Ramsey, New Jersey]], where he had lived for 50 years.<ref name=glennobit>{{Cite news| pages = 25| title = Obituaries: F. Glenn Adney| work = The Record| location = Hackensack, New Jersey| date = 20 December 1983 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119751181/glenn-adney-obituary/|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = 1 March 2023}}{{Open access}}</ref>

She suffered from [[Fuchs' dystrophy]], a degenerative eye disease, and became blind in the last years of her life. In 1933 she and her husband returned to Woodstock from [[Verdun, Quebec]], where they had been living.<ref name="Helmuth" />{{rp|46,49}} Minnie Bell Sharp Adney died on 11 April, 1937.<ref name="Risk" /> She is buried in the Upper Woodstock Cemetery with her husband, who died in 1950.<ref name="Helmuth" />{{rp|xii}}