The Sterling Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illinois

December 3, 1937 -  Tuesday, pg 7, col. 2

 

 

WALTER B. ADAMS

 

WALTER B. ADAMS SUCCUMBS TODAY

Funeral Rites Thursday At Dudley Chapel

 

Walter B. Adams, 73, lifelong resient of Prophetstown, passed away at 5 a.m. Tuesday at the Fred McCormick home south of Prophetstown where he had been confined.  Mr. Adams had been ill for two months and was being taken care of by Mr. McCormick.

 

Funeral services will be conducted from the F. L. Dudley funeral chapel Thursday at 2 p.m. with burial in Riverside cemetery, Prophetstown. The Rev. A. E. Simester, pastor of the M. E. church will officiate.

 

Mr. Adams was born at Prophetstown, May 15, 1864, a son of Archibald David and Mary Snyder Adams. He was never married and had been a farmer all of his life until he retired.  Surviving are one brother, Horace Adams of Guthrie, Okla., and one sister, Mrs. George Seiben of Houston, Tex.  There are several nieces and nephews.

 

Preceding him in death were four brothers, Frank, George B., Fred L., and Henry C. Adams and one sister, Elizabeth.