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Show John Alma Adams Laid at Final Rest Funeral services for John A. Adams, pioneer and lifelong resident of this city, were conducted Wednesday Wednes-day in the stake tabernacle. Death occurred at his home here Sunday at 5:20 p. m., from causes incident of old age. He was born August 5, 1850, at Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of William H. and Martha Jennings Adams, both of whom came to Utah with the early pioneers. When he was but two months old hs moved with his father to Pleasant Grove,! and has resided here since that time. I At the time of his death he had lived in Pleasant Grove longer than any other resident. He married Mary A. Frampton July 29, 1877. He is survived by the following children; John L., William H., Benjamin F., and Larsen all of Pleasant Grove; Silas E. Adams, and Mrs. G. W. Fork; and Mrs. A. R. Green of Salt Lake City; and by one brother Joseph H. Adams also of Pleasant Grove. Forty-three grandchildren grand-children and eleven great-grandchildren also survive. Services were opened with a duet, "Teach Me to Pray" by Ivern Payne. The invocation was offered by G. E. Oscarson followed by a solo, "I'm A Pilgrim" by John Halliday, Jr. The life sketch below was read by Mrs. Cynthia Olpin, a granddaughter. Speakers at the services included Martin M. Larson, F. S. Humphries, David Gourley and Bishop J. A. West. Musical numbers interspersing the speakers were a violin solo, "Air on G String" by Prof. LeRoy Robertson, vocal solo, "A Perfect Day" by Gertrude Ger-trude Gourley, and "Going Home" by Roy Fage. - The benediction was rendered by Bishop Burton H. Adams and the dedication of the grave by Joseph H. 1 Adams. Interment was in the Pleas-; Pleas-; ant Grove cemetery. 1 A Short Biographical Sketch of I JOHN ALMA ADAMS ! John Alma Adams was born at S'alt Lake City on August 5, 1850, the fifth and youngest child of William Will-iam H- and Martha Jennings Adams. Ad-ams. When he was but two months old his father brought the family to Pleasant Grove- They spent the first winter in a wagon box, raised from the ground by means of two house logs. This first home was located on the corner of Locust Avenue Ave-nue on the present site of the home of Bessie Wright. His mother died when he was two years and eleven I days old, and for the next six years his father wfas both father and mother to the children. His grandmother, grand-mother, Mary Adams, kept house for the family- I When John was about eight years ! of age his father remarried. Francis 1 Crosland became his step-mother. 1 After this marriage they moved outside out-side of the old fort to a house lo-: lo-: cated just a few feet north of the present Jos. Adams residence- This i became the Adams home where I John lived, played, worked, and grew to manhood. He worked hard on this farm with his older brother, William; raising barley, oats, wheat, oorn, sugar-cane, and artichokes. His first school was in the old mfeeting house where the Pleasant Grove Seminary now stands. He started to school late in the autumn when there was no opportunity to work, and he discontinued at the : first peep of spring- His fun as a youth and young man consisted of the usual self-I self-I made fun of horse -racing, horse-I horse-I pulling; cattle-pulling, rooster fight-I fight-I ing, and sleigh-riding. He was never a traveler, but always al-ways a "home-town" man- Though born in Salt Lake City he never traveled north of that place, and during the eighty-five years of his life he was never farther west than Camp Floyd, never farther east than Heber City, nor farther south than Fountain Green. He lived more days and slept more nights in Pleasant Grove than any other resident res-ident of the town. With tire exception ex-ception of two months spent in Salt Lake last winter he was able to count on his fingers the number of nights he ever spent outside of vhe town-He town-He was not a pubUc office-holder, but was always interested in public affairs; he held his own opinions and convictions and was never afraid to express them. He was always of a constructive nature a builder and mason by trade- Many of the old landmarks of the town are monuments of his labor. They include Clark's Opera House, the old Beer's Store, and the Public Library. He was ever faithful and diligent in his service to his church, serving for forty years as a ward teacher and at the time of his death held the office of a High Priest. His greatest sorrow came with th ' death of his wife on May 20. 1919 Sixteen years later this sorrow end ed with his own death, which oc curred August 4. He dragged firewood from Mahogany Ma-hogany mountain. It usually required re-quired three days to get a Wad, two days dragging by hand, and one day with cart and oxen. His wood pile was pronounced the best wood in town. He was married to Mary Alice Frampton on July 29, 1877, by Bishop Bish-op Brown in the old Frampton home. His costume was a beautiful brown suit, and a pair of fine quality blue top boots. The following February they were endowed in the old Endowment En-dowment House at Salt Lake City- They lived with his parents until 1878 when they moved into then-new then-new home a soft rock, slope roof house, which later became the back rooms of the Adams home. There were no carpets only a rough board floor, one coat of plaster, one window win-dow and two doors- The rocks he hewed with his own hands and he built the house himself. He made adobes for the partition walls with clay from the 'clay hill' and the sand he hauled from Lindon. That winter they warmed the house with green maple which he hauled from Twin Peaks. Some years later he bought eight acres, east of his home, and made his farm from this oak patch with a grubbing hoe and an ox .team. On his farm he spent the remainder of his life, and from this hard toil he raised his family of nine children-eight children-eight ofl whom reached maturity and seven of whom are still living. |