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Surnames: ADAMS, DUGGER, LAMB, HOUSTON, STIPP, QUANTIAS
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 12, 1923,Volume
XLVII, Number 22, Page 4, Columns 3 & 4, [Transcribed on April 26, 2006 by RLJ from
microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public
Library.]
The funeral services for the late deceased, Curtis W. ADAMS, a beloved citizen of
Bloomfield, were held in the Christian Church last Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The casket was taken to the church, followed by the relatives and an unusually large
concourse of friends and acquaintances. The casket was covered and entirely surrounded by
a profusion of beautiful flowers.
The processional, “Nearer My God to Thee,” was played by Mrs. Lillian CUSHMAN.
The choir sang, “Sometime We’ll Understand.”
The services were opened by Guy H. HUMPHREYS, who spoke in highly complimentary terms of
the deceased; His remarks were in part as follows:
Curtis W. ADAMS was the son of George and Sallie ADAMS. He was born in 1865 in Bedford,
Indiana. There he was reared and received his early education. His childhood and youth
was that of an n average boy in a good, Christian, middle-class home.
Like many another normal, virile boy of forty years ago, he was innocently adventurous.
The biggest thing in his little home town was the railroad. The bells, the whistles, the
movement, the excitement, the lure of the touch with the great outside world appealed to
him; and, when little more than a boy, he was “breaking” on a stone train between Bedford
and the old Dark Hollow quarries. Following up this line of work, he saw something of
this big country and grew in practical experience. At one time he had a run on the L
& N. out of Louisville, and at another time a run on the Southern Pacific out of
Oakland.
I was while he was a conductor on the old narrow gauge railroad from Bedford to Switz
City, with a layover at Bloomfield, that he made his first definite and lasting
friendships in this community. It was during this period that he became acquainted with
Miss Litta LAMB, a Bloomfield girl. Courtship, love and marriage followed and survived
until his death.
With more maturity of years, he gave up railroading, with its dangers and vicissitudes,
took a thorough course of business training in a first class business school; and in 1890
came to Bloomfield and assumed the local office management of the Dugger & Neal coal
interests. He continued in this position for twenty-three years, and until the
organization of the Bloomfield Trust Company in 1913, the executive officer of which
institution he became and continued until his death.
The social, fraternal, political and official connections and activities of Mr. ADAMS in
the town of Bloomfield and vicinity were many and varied. His love for, and loyalty to
his adopted home always put him in the forefront of every movement for its betterment.
“Cappy,” as he was affectionately and familiarly called, was, in the finest and cleanest
interpretations of the terms, a good sport, a good citizen and a good Christian. He was a
good sport and beloved by red-blooded men without being low, cheap or common. He was a
good citizen and respected by his fellowmen, without being carping, abusive or
hypocritical. He was a good Christian, orthodox in his faith and constant in his works,
without being bloodless, pharisaic or conventional. He professed no perfection and yet he
had no faults more that skin deep. Children loved him, women trusted him, men respected
him—because he was an ascertainable quantity standing four-square to every wind that blew.
He had more warm, personal friends than any man in Bloomfield, and there is no one of
those friends who would not be willing to take a chance and share whatever fate and future
the understanding God has for “Cappy” ADAMS.
Hobart HEDDEN, of the Worthington Trust Co., sang, “Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break,”
after which Elder T. A. COX spoke upon the home and church life of the deceased as viewed
by him as a local minister and friend of the family for over thirty years.
Elder J. W. MOODY read the scripture, and he was followed by Elder E. L. DAY, of
Indianapolis, who delivered the principal discourse.
At the conclusion of the services the male quartet sang, “Ill Go With You All the Way.”
The banks from the various towns of the county, who attended the funeral and acted as
honorary pall bearers, were: H. E. BERNS, Walter WAKEFIELD and Flem VANMETER, Jasonville;
George MORGAN, Marco; Joe MOSS, W. J. HAMILTON and Joe HASEMAN, Linton; Fred E. DYER and
Hobart HEDDEN, Worthington; Charles B. HOLLARS, Switz City; C. C KIRK, Ovid FIELDS and
Mell MITCHELL, Lyons; S. W. SLINKARD, Newberry; W. L. CAVINS, W. M. HAIG, C. E. DAVIS,
C.O. YOHO, E. L. STRICKLER, Oscar SMITH and William VANMETER, Bloomfield.
The relatives and friends from out of town, who attended the last sad rites, were: W. A.
MITCHELL, Robert N. PALMER, Volney L. HOUSTON, Jesse WINDSTANLEY, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
HATFIELD, Mrs. Isis MCDANIEL, Mrs. Hugh DODD, Mrs. C. H. STRUPE, Mrs. Julia WALHEISER,
Mrs. Ella SIMPSON, Mrs. Charles RAGSDALE and Mrs. Mamie STIPP, of Bedford; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank SHOULTY, of Dubuque, Iowa; Mrs. Leland F. QUANTIAS, of McPherson, Kansas; C. L.
SLINKARD and R. T. BURRELL, of Indianapolis; W. Peter DILL, of Bloomington; Mrs. E. H.
DUGGER, of Sullivan; Mrs. M. E. DUGGER and Mrs. O. E. DUGGER, of Dugger; Claude E. GREGG,
of Vincennes, and Mrs. W. J. HAMILTON, of Linton.
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Link to a 1908 Biography of Curtis W. ADAMS:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to another Obituary of Curtis W. ADAMS [1865IN-1923IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to the Obituary of his wife, Litta Louella (LAMB) ADAMS [1865IN-1945IN]
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to the Obituary of his father-in-law, John T. LAMB [1844IN—1911IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to the Obituary of his mother-in-law, Nancy E. (DUGGER) LAMB [1845IN—1935IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to an album containing the 1904 photo of the Curtis W. & Litta L. (LAMB) ADAMS
home in Bloomfield:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4291864163
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