Wheeler Pioneer Dies

SHAMROCK, Dec. 26 (Special) - W.W. Adams, 75-year-old pioneer resident of Wheeler County and father-in-law of Mrs. Marshall Adams of Shamrock, died at his home in Wheeler Tuesday following a cerebral hemorrhage.

Funeral services were held Friday at the First Methodist Church in Wheeler with Rev. O.A. McBrayer, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the Wheeler Cemetery with Kirk-Mason Funeral Home in charge.

Adams, a retired grocerman and farmer, had lived in Wheeler since 1916.

(Published in Wichita Falls Times, Wichita Falls, Texas · Sunday, December 27, 1953, Page 20)

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W.W. Adams, Brother Of Columbian, Dies

Funeral plans for W.W. Adams, 78, of Wheeler, Tex., the brother of Mrs. Joe Taylor of 2500 Craig Rd., were incomplete early today. He died Tuesday night at his home in Wheeler.

(Published in The Columbia Record, Columbia, South Carolina · Thursday, December 24, 1953, Page 24)

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Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965

Name: Walter W. Adams

Gender: Male

Marriage Date: 1902

Marriage Place: Montague, Texas, United States

Spouse: Lettie McRarey

FHL Film Number: 1024890

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Name: Walter Wynn Adams

Race: White

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1878

Residence Date: 1917-1918

Street Address: Wheeler

Residence Place: Wheeler County, Texas, USA

Physical Build: Stout

Height: Tall

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Spouse: Lettie Adams

U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942

Name: Walter Wynn Adams

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1878

Residence Place: Wheeler, Texas, USA

Military Draft Date: 1942

Relationship to Draftee: Head

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000

Name: Walter Wynn Adams

Death Date: 22 Dec 1953

Death County: Wheeler

Certificate: 66178

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982

Name: Walter Wynn Adams

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1878

Birth Place: Butler, Georgia

Gender: Male

Race: White

Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas

Father: J I Adams

Mother: Grace

Age at Death: 75

Death Date: 22 Dec 1953

Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA