Beckham County, OK - Obits: James William Adair, Jr., 1918
20 July 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ADAIR, JAMES WILLIAM Jr.
(17 Oct 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham County, OK):
JAMES WILLIAN ADAIR, Jr.
After an illness of a week from pneumonia following influenza, James
William Adair, Jr., died last Saturday at his home in Elk City.
William as he was called had been head clerk in W. E. Allen's Grocery
store for a number of years and was well known to our people, always
greeting the customers and friends with a cheerful word and happy smile. 
He possessed many sterling virtues and all knew of his devotion to his
wife and little boys and to his aged parents.  Many times had he worked
all day in the store and assisted the invalid wife in the house work on
his return home.
No doubt the loving care he has bestowed upon her has been the means of
her life being prolonged.  When told he might not recover, he talked
optomistic(sic) and said he was sure he would get up again, yet later told
his wife he was not afraid to go, bidding her a very affectionate goodbye.
A large number of friends, followed the remains of this loved husband,
father and friend to the Fairlawn cemetery, Sunday afternoon, where
funeral services were held, Grubitz & Son being in charge.  Flowers
covered the beautiful casket, being sent from the Yeoman Lodge of which he
was a member, the M. E. Church South, M. E. Aid Society and friends.
The pall bearers were Messrs Walter Thomas, H. O. Hiren, Lee Parker, Geo.
Wann, Jno. Forsyth and Dr. Geo. E. Elliott.
At the grave Rev. M. T. Allen led the earnest prayer.  Rev. Posey read the
139th Psalm, after which both ministers made a few remarks.
James William Adair, Jr., was born in Mulberry, Tenn., October 9th, 1882,
died in Elk City, Okla., October 12th, 1918, aged 36 years and 3 days.  He
left Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1900, coming as far west as Weatherford, and
assisted his father in a store at Claude.  He came to Elk City in 1903
assisting at the telephone switchboard, his father being one of the
members of the telephone company.
He was married to Miss Maggie Verheins, Weatherford, June 16, 1906.  Two
sons, Ralph, aged ten and Allen, aged seven, who with the wife, aged
parents, three sisters, Mrs. Lena Flournoy of Chireno, Texas, Ethel and
Lillian Adair of Elk City and one brother, Weston Adair, of Depew, Okla.,
are left to mourn his departure.
May the sorrowing ones be comforted by the Great Physician.