1940 Census
Missouri
Lizzie Adams F 48 Illinois
Bryant Adams M 22 Missouri
James Adams M 18 Missouri
Clarence Adams M 16 Missouri
Irene Adams F 14 Missouri
Clayton Adams M 8 Missouri
Richard Adams M 6 Missouri∼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, their 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.
Missouri
Lizzie Adams F 48 Illinois
Bryant Adams M 22 Missouri
James Adams M 18 Missouri
Clarence Adams M 16 Missouri
Irene Adams F 14 Missouri
Clayton Adams M 8 Missouri
Richard Adams M 6 Missouri∼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, their 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.
1940 Census
Missouri
Lizzie Adams F 48 Illinois
Bryant Adams M 22 Missouri
James Adams M 18 Missouri
Clarence Adams M 16 Missouri
Irene Adams F 14 Missouri
Clayton Adams M 8 Missouri
Richard Adams M 6 Missouri∼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, their 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.
Missouri
Lizzie Adams F 48 Illinois
Bryant Adams M 22 Missouri
James Adams M 18 Missouri
Clarence Adams M 16 Missouri
Irene Adams F 14 Missouri
Clayton Adams M 8 Missouri
Richard Adams M 6 Missouri∼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, their 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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