Edith A. Brady Adcock was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on May 3, 1892 to William and Haidee Doswell Brady. She married Oscar Perry Adcock on October 22, 1912 in Jackson, Michigan. The couple had nine children, Donald, Robert, Samuel, Arthur, Thomas, Phillip, Helen, and MaryAnne. All of the Adcock children graduated from Holt High School.

Oscar Adcock originally taught country school and later became a banker. He sold life insurance and in 1924 Lincoln National Life Insurance asked him to set up an agency in Lansing. Oscar and Edith moved their family to Holt in 1924 when Oscar established his Insurance Agency in Lansing.

Edith Adcock joined the congregation of the Holt United Methodist Church in September 1936, months after the death of her husband in February 1936. He had earned enough money from selling insurance that Edith was able to keep the family home in Holt as an anchor for her family. During World War II she was a Blue Star mother having five of her sons serving overseas.

From April 1949 through April 1961, for twelve years, Edith served as Clerk of Delhi Township. She was reelected every year without ever running a campaign. She was the first woman elected to public office in Delhi Township and worked alongside John B. Fay, Delhi’s longest serving Supervisor.

Later in life Edith loved to play bridge and remained living in Holt in a three-bedroom home. She was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 510, and the Holt Rebekkah Lodge #446 I.O.O.F.

Edith Adcock died June 29, 1975, at age 83, with 34 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren.