Show LAYTON V I Demise of Prominent Davis County Citizen Special Correspondence Layton Davis Co Feb W v Adams whose serious Illness wise v chronicled In yesterdays News died last e evening hours be before tore fore Ills his death lie Ito wets was well voli as ever Af At After Atter ter he lie hud had taint oft one boot preparatory tory to retiring Wednesday night his looks and actions alarmed the thu family He lie was got Into led bed as soon as hie bie mind and itt f Immediately lapsed Into a state of in iii which con condition he lie remained until unit the final sum coin summons mons came Doctors Gleason and were called but all efforts to resuscitate tate time the patient wore vure another Instance where human skill was no match fur for the silent reaper Death was us primarily caused by the breaking of a blood vessel In his head Deceased wun as born in iii Hancock coun comi county comity ty III Feb 20 Ills parents were vere members of the Church of Jesus Christ Christof of saints with which Church ho cast his fortunes anti and to which he re ro remained loyal to the last Mr come caine to Utah with his parents In ha 1850 and has imae resided hero here ever since On April 1 1556 he lie mar married ned ried Mary Ann Alma which union was rue blessed With 10 children C 6 boys and 4 girls all of whom are living hiving and mar married ned ried Our postmaster and merchant HUfus Adams In isi a san nan of the tho deceased Ills His wife survives him George W Mains comes of sturdy New England stock his family belli bellia a branch of time tho famous dt Of tame His father was n a soldier In time war ot of 1512 Mr sir Adams wag vas a and Indulgent husband and Ami father anti and an tin nil all round good citizen It can be said ald of him In truth that hi hilife life lies lias the world Mr Adams lies has always been bean closely Identified with the religious education educational al ni and material immaterIal Interests of this local locality ity holding various positions portions of trust and responsibility He lie one of the tha first to experiment with dry farming on time the sand ridge In Davis county lie was very successful In iii tills this venture and soon became one of the tho most niost prosper prosperous ous us farmers In Davis county He lie was one of time the prime mover In him the establishment of if the Farmers Union store He lie was president and amid director for sev several eral cral years year of the company that oper operated this store In lii US lie took time the In Initiative in n organising the Adams Adama and Sons company which hiSS done n a gsa gen general eral merchandise business since that time and of which Mr Adams has hax been bean president The Tho community Is al at hi Imle sud auti sudden den passing and extend sympathy to time the bereaved Funeral arrange arrangements meats ments have not been matte made yet |