Breckinridge-Hancock-Hardin County KyArchives Obituaries.....ADAIR, David Lafayette April 19, 1904
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Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, April 20, 1904
OBITUARY
Page 1, Column 4
Gen. D. L. ADAIR DEAD
     General D. L. ADAIR, a veteran of the Mexican War, and one of the best known 
men of this section of the state, died suddenly of heart failure at 9:00 a.m. 
yesterday, April 19, 1904, at Hawesville, Ky (Hancock County).  He was about 75 
years of age.  He is survived by his wife, three sons and three daughters.  His 
children are:
Ike C. ADAIR of Fordsville, Ky (Ohio County)
John S. ADAIR of Stephensport, Ky (Breckinridge County)
William ADAIR of Texas
Mrs. Mary WHITWORTH of Hawesville, Ky 
Miss Ellen ADAIR of Hawesville, Ky
Miss Dood ADAIR of Hawesville, Ky
His sons are all prominent and well-known business men.


Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, April 27, 1904
Page 6, Column 3
SKETCH OF GENERAL ADAIR  (taken from the Hancock Clarion Newspaper)
     The announcement of the death of General ADAIR which was made Tuesday 
morning, came as one of the greatest surprises and shocks the community ever 
sustained.  The end came suddenly.
     He was at the pump securing water, when he was stricken with vertigo, 
resulting from stomach trouble, it is thought.  Physicians were called, but he 
passed away in about an hour.
     The funeral occurred Wednesday, April 20, 1904, from his residence, and 
burial was in the Hawesville Cemetery, the service being conducted By the 
Reverend E. R. BENNETT, and T. H. SMITH, of the Public Schools, which closed that 
afternoon.
The active PALLBEARERS were chosen from the Attorney's and Court Officers with 
whom he had been thrown all his life, and the funeral was one of the largest ever 
seen here.
     David Lafayette ADAIR was born in Elizabethtown, Ky in Hardin County in 
1824, therefore was nearly 80 years old.  At the age of 14, he came to Hancock 
County, and has resided here practically ever since.  He served all through the 
War with Mexico in 1847-1848, and there gained his title of General.  In 1850 he 
was married to Miss Sarah A., the daughter of William STERRETT.  Besides his 
wife, there is left to survive him the following children:
William S. ADAIR, a prominent newspaper man of Ft. Worth, Texas
John S. ADAIR, Cashier of the Bank of Stephensport, Ky., and former Judge of 
Hancock County, Ky.
Ike C. ADAIR, Cashier of the Bank f Fordsville, Ky & Capitalist
Mrs. Mary WHITWORTH and the Misses ELiza (?Ellen) and Dood ADAIR, all of whom are 
at home, and the latter being Postmistress of Hawesville.
     Anything an adequate presentation of the life and character of General Adair 
in the space of this short newspaper article, would be out of the question.  In 
brief, he was a kindly, generous-hearted person, who, probably was never 
appreciated, at his true worth.  We never remember to have met and conversed with 
a man of such general information and deep learning as he.  He was a master of 
the sciences.  He was a lawyer, jurist, naturalist, mineralogist, teacher in the 
deep sense, student thinker, horticulturist, journalist, civil engineer, and 
soldier.
     He often filled posts of honor in Hancock County, but nearly always by 
appointment.  He was not a success as a candidate, since the wiles of the 
demagogue, and such conduct as was necessary to bring success was entirely 
foreign to his manly makeup.  In fact, practical politics was disgusting to him, 
although he was broad and deep in his views on public questions.  We do not 
expect to see another like him in our time.  May his soul rest in peace.

  

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