Woodville Republican., 1902-10-25
Geo. j. Adams.

/ ulSd OF typhOld IsVer al 1Ouro lns
frmary in New Orleans, on last
Friday evening, at 4 O'Clock, after
all illness of two months, and his
remains were inferred at Bowling
Green on Sunday morning. The
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Mr.. Shaw, of Centreville, who
had been friend of the deceased
since boyhood, and in his eulogy
he spoke as only friend can whose
heart is filled with grief.
The death of Mr.. Adams cast
deep gloom over the entire county,
and few were the hearts that did
not beat with sorrow upon hearing
of his death, and the number that
gathered at the grave testified to
the high esteem in which he was
held.
Mr.. Adams came to this town
from Clinton, La, about seventeen
years ago and engaged in the drug
business, and success has attended
him, due to his genial disposition
and business ability. By his jovial
and pleasing manners, he drew
friends to him, and by his frank
ness and manliness, kept them ever
true. He lived a life above the
little and petty things that are so
common to humanity, and prudery
and deceit were unknown to him.
There was no desire for show and
cant, and although his deeds of
charity and kindness were numer-
Gus, few knew how many homes
into which Mr.. Adams had brought
happiness, where sorrow and de-
spair had formerly held sway. We
can testify to many, and among
these bene6ciaries of his abundant
kindness, will his loss be sadly felt.
He was a gentleman of the old
school, whose every word and deed
were in the open, and he had a
horror for all that was insincere and
ignoble in man. He exacted from
others the same rectitude that he
ever exemplifed in his own life.
He lived one life and friend or enc
my found him ever the same. FL
deity to the convictions OF truth
and right were his strongest char
acteristics, and he lived up to them
as only a true man can. 1t is enough
to say that Mr.. Geo. Adams was a
true man in all the word signifies.
1t is with the deep regret, Of the
personal loss of a friend, that we
chronicle his death.
Why at this time, when he had
become so conspicuous in every new
enterprise i'll the town, he should
be taken, it is not for human to de-
eide. Mr.. Adams was elected Pres
dent of the Bank of Woodville
something over a year ago and
under his presidency this institu-
ton has enjoyed great prosperity.
His place will be hard to ELL. The
erection of the oil mill, now about
completed, was made possible main
ly through his influence and sup
port, and the beautiful Bank build
ing and City Hall will stand as a
monument to his memory, as it was
he who conceived the plan of its
erection. 1t will and should be al
ways known as adams Hall"
1t can be easily seen what an ir-
reparable loss his death will be to
the business interests of the town
but it will be even more keenly felt
in the social circle where he was
such leading spirit. No company
was complete without the jolly and
genial presence of Geo. Adams, as
he carried brightness into all of the
pleasures into which he entered
whether in the drawing room or the
field.
Mr.. Adams leaves a heartbroken
: wife, to whom at this time words
of sympathy fail to give balm to a
heart so stricken with grief, but we
join with the people of the entire
county in expressing to her their
profound coincidence in this time
of great bereavement, and trust that
she may find comfort in Him who
can alone wipe away sorrow. To
his aged mother, sisters and broth
ers we offer our sincerest sympathy,
and trust all who are now sorrow
, ing may find comfort in the ASST
rance that the world has been made