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- Clarence Reed ADAMS
- Birth: May 25, 1898 in Newton County, Arkansas
- Death: December 20, 1964 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas
- Father: George W. ADAMS; b: 1854 in Franklin County, Arkansas
- Mother: Nancy MACKEY; b: 23 Sep 1870 in Arkansas
- Married 29 Aug 1920 Deller Lee SMITH in Newton County, Arkansas
- Della Lee SMITH
- Birth: 26 Jan 1902 in Arkansas
- Father: William Esau "Little Ece" SMITH; b: 4 Aug 1876 in Arkansas
- Mother: Mary Willie FLOOD; b: 16 Feb 1881 in Arkansas
(Special) — Clarence Reed Adams, 66, a resident of Dickens County since 1947, died at 6 p.m. Sunday at Crosbyton Hospital following a lengthy illness.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church here. Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
Adams was a native of Bendar, Arkansas.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Della Adams; four sons, Zenis Adams, Dickens, Durward Adams, Amherst, C.R. Adams Jr., Amarillo, and Raymond Adams, Amarillo; five daughters, Mr. K.E. McCoy, Abilene, Mrs. J.C. Walser, Abilene, Mrs. Robert Atkins, Idalou, Mrs. Durwood Tullis, Snyder, and Mrs. Charles Copeland, Lubbock; three brothers, Willie Adams, California, Blain Adams, Vascilo, California, and Nealy Adams, Harrison, Arkansas; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Hatley, Chowchilla, California, Mrs. Oma Clark, Chowchilla, and Mrs. Bonnie Pierce, Shawnee, Oklahoma; 42 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
©The Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1964
transcribed by Linda Hughes
Services for Della Lee Adams, 72, who died at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in a Crosbyton hospital following an extended illness, will be at 4 p.m. today in Dickens Baptist Church with the Rev. Rob Redard, pastor, officiating.Assisting will be the Rev. Lester Garrett of Anson. Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
A native of Vendor, Arkansas, she married C.R. Adams, August 28, 1921 in Vendor. She moved to Dickens County in 1947. Adams died in 1964. She was a Baptist.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Kenneth McCoy and Mrs J. C. Walser, both of Abilene, Mrs. Robert Atkins of Amarillo, Mrs. Laverne Tullis of Snyder and Mrs. Charles Copeland of Lubbock; four sons, Zenis and Raymond, both of Dickens, Deward of Tulia and Junior of Amarillo; two sisters, Mrs. Eller Rickets of Emerson, Arkansas, and Mrs. Ruth Smith of Vendor, Arkansas; six brothers, Walter, Noel, Homer and Verlon Smith, all of Harris, Arkansas, Herman Smith of Kansas City, Mo. and Claud Smith of Vendor, Arkansas; 44 grandchildren; and 46 great grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, 1974
transcribed by Linda Hughes
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