Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Adams, Clayton D. 1950
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, August 31, 1950


Ionia county’s first casualty reported killed in action in the Korean war was 
received here late Wednesday by a widowed Lyons mother. Pvt. Clayton D. Adams, 
18-year-old Ionia youth, was listed by the department of Army as killed in 
action in a telegram to his mother, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Adams, of Lyons, 
formerly of Ionia.  The telegram, similar to many of those received here 
during World War II., was received at Lyons Wednesday.  It read, “The 
secretary of the army has asked me to express his deepest regrets that your 
son, Pvt. Adams, Clayton D., was killed in action in Korea 12 August 50.  
Confirming letter follows, Edward F. Witsell, Major, USA, the adjutant general 
of the army.”

Pvt. Adams went into action only a few days before he was killed.  He wrote 
his mother as of Aug. 4 that he was in Korea and was 30 miles behind the front 
waiting as reserves for a group engaged in the front lines.  He left for Korea 
on July 20 and was en route only 13 days.  He was attached to the second 
division.  The letter Pvt. Adams wrote his mother was received in Lyons on 
August 12, the day he was killed in action.  

He enlisted in the army just after the free fair a year ago in Aug. and 
received his basic training at Camp Chafee, Ark.  He later was sent to Fort 
Lewis, Wash., and was receiving training as an army cook.

Before entering service he attended the Ionia public schools.  While in school 
he was an Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard carrier boy and later was employed as 
a miler in this office.  With his mother and younger brother he left Ionia 
returning to live in Missouri, thier former home, but returned to Ionia and 
Lyons within a short time.

Pvt. Adams was born in Akron, Mo. March 26, 1932.  His father died a number of 
years ago,  Survivors include his mother who lives in Lyons; brothers, Bill 
Richard, 17, of Lyons, Clarence of Ionia, Griff of Lyons, James of St. Louis, 
Mo., Bcc of Naylor, Mo.; and two sisters, Mrs. Spencer Seabrook of Lyons and 
Mrs. Richard Rigdon of Naylor, Mo.


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