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During J.W.´s nine years as superintendent at Robertson, he became interested in new farming techniques --tractors and new varieties of grain sorghum instead of mule-drawn plows and hooked neck maize. In 1937 he bought a half section of land west of Ralls for $30 per acre and two years later drilled his first irrigation well, hoping that the farm would eventually pay for itself while he made a living teaching school.
In 1950 J. W. Adams married Ruth W. MARKS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Marshall WHEELER of Robertson community.
In 1952 J.W. and Ruth, both Texas Tech graduates, received Master´s degrees from West Texas State University while teaching at Tulia Public Schools. He was elementary principal and she taught high school English and journalism.
Ruth´s special love for English motivated their summer travels. While learning more about different areas of the country, they took English courses at the University of Colorado, Boston University, Brigham Young University, and Imperial College of London University while seeing literary England and Scotland. After these experiences J. W. also became an English teacher, and they spent the last ten years of their careers teaching English at the Floydada and Ralls schools.
In 1966 J. W.´s new career began when he took over the management of their farm on which they now live. At Ralls they are members of First Methodist Church, Ruth serves on Ralls Historical Museum Board, Crosby County Historical Commission, and has worked with Ralls Study Club. J. W. is an active Rotarian and serves his club in various capacities.
Source: "A History of Crosby County 1876-1977" © Crosby County Historical Commission 1978; Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas.
RALLS (Special) — Services for John William Adams, 79, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. David Ray, pastor, and the Rev. E. R. McGregor, retired Methodist minister, officiating.
Burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Adams died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Eisenhower Hospital in Palm Springs, Calif., after a brief illness.
The Crandall native moved to the South Plains in 1927 as a school teacher and in 1935 moved to Crosby County, where he served as superintendent of the Robertson school for nine years. He was principal at Tulia Elementary School in 1952 and spent the last 10 years of his teaching career as an English teacher in Floydada and Ralls. He married Ruth Wheeler Marks in Clayton, NM, July 15, 1950. He became a farmer in 1966. He was a member of the Ralls United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; a stepdaughter, Jennice Singer of Scott´s Valley, Calif.; a sister, Lydia Fenner of Midland; and a grandson.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, January 17, 1986
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
RALLS (Special) — Services for Ruth Wheeler Adams, 86, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. today in Ralls First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ron Colwell, pastor, and Chaplain Raymond Wolfe of Lubbock officiating.
Services are under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Mrs. Adams died Sunday, July 31, 1994, in Lubbock´s Carillon Retirement Center.
She was born April 27, 1908, near Robertson. She married J. W. Adams on July 15, 1950, in Clayton, NM. He died Jan. 15, 1986. They were awarded "Citizens Through the Years" by the Ralls Chamber of Commerce. She received a bachelor´s degree at Texas Tech University and a master´s degree from West Texas A&M. She was a school teacher until retiring in 1966. She was instrumental in the development of the Ralls Historical Museum, and she was a member of Ralls First United Methodist Church. She served on the Cuchara Chapel Board in Cuchara, Colo.
Survivors include a daughter, Jennice Marks Singer of Scotts Valley, Calif.; a brother, Rex Wheeler of Crosbyton; three sisters, Jessie Aycock and Marcia Lockwood, both of Lorenzo and Lola Smith of New Home; and a grandson.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 2, 1994
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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