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Mordecai Elmer Adams

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Mordecai Elmer Adams

Birth
Middletown, Lake County, California, USA
Death
10 Jan 1947 (aged 65)
Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, USA
Burial
Upper Lake, Lake County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.168251, Longitude: -122.8992233
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Lake County Bee, January 17, 1947

Residents of Upper Lake and community were saddened to learn of the death of Elmer M. Adams at the family home in Ukiah Friday afternoon, January 10. The deceased had been in poor health for the past two years but kept his friendly and kindly disposition. He has many friends who will miss him.

Mr. Adams was born in Middletown in the year 1881, and when a young man, came to Upper Lake with his widowed mother and three younger brothers and they bought what is now the George Haycock ranch in the Middlecreek section.

On October 3, 1908 he married Miss Grace Alley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Alley.

For the past twenty years he has resided in Ukiah where he was foreman of the Ukiah Highway until illness forced him to resign.

Besides his beloved wife he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Wilburn Brown of Potter Valley, and Mrs. Rene Marty of San Francisco; five grandchildren, Donna, Karen and Sandra Brown, Michael and Gene Marty and one brother, Emery Adams of Coalinga.

Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, January 13, from the Eversole Mortuary in Ukiah with interment in the Upper Lake Cemetery. Rev. Brown of the Ukiah Baptist Church officiated.

Sincere sympathy is extended to the family in their bereavement by a host of friends.
Lake County Bee, January 17, 1947

Residents of Upper Lake and community were saddened to learn of the death of Elmer M. Adams at the family home in Ukiah Friday afternoon, January 10. The deceased had been in poor health for the past two years but kept his friendly and kindly disposition. He has many friends who will miss him.

Mr. Adams was born in Middletown in the year 1881, and when a young man, came to Upper Lake with his widowed mother and three younger brothers and they bought what is now the George Haycock ranch in the Middlecreek section.

On October 3, 1908 he married Miss Grace Alley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Alley.

For the past twenty years he has resided in Ukiah where he was foreman of the Ukiah Highway until illness forced him to resign.

Besides his beloved wife he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Wilburn Brown of Potter Valley, and Mrs. Rene Marty of San Francisco; five grandchildren, Donna, Karen and Sandra Brown, Michael and Gene Marty and one brother, Emery Adams of Coalinga.

Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, January 13, from the Eversole Mortuary in Ukiah with interment in the Upper Lake Cemetery. Rev. Brown of the Ukiah Baptist Church officiated.

Sincere sympathy is extended to the family in their bereavement by a host of friends.


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