1875 - 1895
Loyal Fulton Adams, son of Silas H. and Mary E. Adams, died at 3:30
o’clock Tuesday morning, at his home on West High Street, aged 20 years, 10
months and 24 days.
Loyal Adams was born in Ceylon, Indiana in 1875.
In 1892, he graduated from the Portland High School receiving the highest
honors and winning the scholarship. From here he entered the Miami
Commercial College at Dayton, Ohio, where he graduated, at the head of his
class and further honored by having his diploma sent to the World’s Fair, at
Chicago, where it was exhibited as the best specimen of work done by the
students of that college.
During the time of his engagement with this
college, he was attacked by typhoid fever and came home where he was
detained in the care of the doctor for several weeks. Recovering from other
sickness he took a trip through various parts of the west and found much
relief in the orange fruit districts of California.
Returning home
again, he felt that he could not be idle and in 1894, he attended the
Commercial Business College of this city, where his health began to fail
again, and having his work here he went to Washington, D.C. in March. The
following May he left Washington and traveled East in South Carolina, where
he continued to feel so badly that he returned home.
While here and
during his last sickness, he was tenderly cared for by the family and
watched over by a host of friends, but no human power could arrest the
encroachment of the disease until death relieved his suffering.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence Thursday at 10 o’clock am
by J. S. Axtell, assisted by Rev. S. Armstrong. Interment was made in Green
Park Cemetery.
Portland Republican, Jay County, IN; Friday, December 13,
1895
Contributed by Jim Cox
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Loy, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Adams of Portland died on Tuesday last.
The funeral occurred Thursday at 10 o'clock a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Adams were at the funeral.
Decatur News; Adams County,
Indiana; November 16, 1895
Contributed by Karin King
Buried in Green Park Cemetery