Robert Stanley Adams died Wednesday, September 14th at the age of 86, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jesse Speck in Rock Island. Mr. Adams was born April 30, 1863 in Cairo, Illinois. He was married November 06, 1884 in Montgomery, Alabama, to Alice V. Lee. For the past few years, he had made his home in Rock Island with Mrs. Speck. Funeral services were held yesterday, September 15, at 2:30 at the Methodist Church in Rock Island with Rev. Bruce Medford conducting. Interment was in Myrtle Cemetery, with Mill Funeral Home of Eagle Lake in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers were six grandsons: John, Haney and Jay Speck, Cecil Owers, Billy White and Hume Baker. Survivors include three sons, Garrett of Alice, Stanley of Houston and Jack of Houston and Jack of San Antonio; five daughters, Mrs. Cora Tisdel, San Antonio, Mrs. Weaver Harvey, Houston, Mrs. Jesse Speck. Rock Island, Mrs. W.A.Creswell, Fort Worth, and Mrs. Emery Rosendahl, of Newark, Now Jersey. Four sons preceded him in death. Twenty four grandchildren and thirty-two great grandchildren also survive.
Eagle Lake Headlight, September 16, 1949
Robert Stanley Adams died Wednesday, September 14th at the age of 86, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jesse Speck in Rock Island. Mr. Adams was born April 30, 1863 in Cairo, Illinois. He was married November 06, 1884 in Montgomery, Alabama, to Alice V. Lee. For the past few years, he had made his home in Rock Island with Mrs. Speck. Funeral services were held yesterday, September 15, at 2:30 at the Methodist Church in Rock Island with Rev. Bruce Medford conducting. Interment was in Myrtle Cemetery, with Mill Funeral Home of Eagle Lake in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers were six grandsons: John, Haney and Jay Speck, Cecil Owers, Billy White and Hume Baker. Survivors include three sons, Garrett of Alice, Stanley of Houston and Jack of Houston and Jack of San Antonio; five daughters, Mrs. Cora Tisdel, San Antonio, Mrs. Weaver Harvey, Houston, Mrs. Jesse Speck. Rock Island, Mrs. W.A.Creswell, Fort Worth, and Mrs. Emery Rosendahl, of Newark, Now Jersey. Four sons preceded him in death. Twenty four grandchildren and thirty-two great grandchildren also survive.
Eagle Lake Headlight, September 16, 1949
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