Obituaries: Dr. Wiley S. Adams, 1937, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 15, 1937 Winn Parish Enterprise

Dr. Adams, Native of Sikes, Dies in Birmingham, Ala.

Dr. Wiley S. Adams, aged 54, prominent Cherokee physician, passed away last
Thursday morning at the South Highlands infirmary, Birmingham, Ala., where he
had been ill for the preceding ten days and after having been ill for the past
three months.

The deceased was a native of Sikes, La., having gone to Cherokee in 1909,
immediately after his graduation from the University of Georgia, where he
received his M. D. degree, and opened his practice there, remaining in the
West Colbert city ever since.  He was a member of the Chief Colbert Masonic
Lodge No. 814, at Cherokee, and of the Zamora Temple in Birmingham; of the
Colbert County Medical Association, the State and National Medical 
Association, and the Baptist Church in Cherokee.  His many friends in this
section will learn with the deepest regret of his passing.

Dr. Adams is survived by his wife, five daughters, and one son; three
brothers, I. A. Adams of Florence, Watson Adams of Sikes, and Chester Adams of
Ft. Worth, Texas; five sisters, Mrs. Rube Parker and Miss Elizabeth Adams of
Sikes; Mrs. Tom Griffin and Mrs. Ethel Griffin of Truxno, Ark., and Mrs. Rosa
Smith of Quitman, La.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family
residence and interment was made in the Barton Cemetery.