ADAMS, Mary Emma Culver

ADAMS, CULVER, JOHNSON, MATHERS

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 9/14/2014 at 19:19:24

Mrs. J. L. Adams, a former resident of Emerson, but more recently of Corning, died Friday night, October 9, at the Jennie Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, following a long illness.

Funeral services were held in Corning Monday afternoon and the body was brought to Emerson for burial beside her husband who passed on some years ago.

Mrs. Adams lived in Emerson and vicinity a number of years ago. She was a sister of George and John Culver and of Mrs. Briggs, the mother of C. W. Briggs of Emerson. She is the last of the original Culver family, well known to all our older people.

For the past few years she has made her home in Corning with her younger daughters, Lura and Vena.
Malvern Leader, October 15, 1931, page 6.

The community is saddened to learn of the death of one of its much beloved citizens last Friday, when Mrs. Mary E. Adams succumbed at Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Council Buffs, Iowa, following an operation which it was hoped might relieve a very serious condition. Funeral services were held from the Hilliard Funeral Home Monday, October 12, 1931 at 2 p.m., conducted by Rev. A. M. Eastman. Interment was made at Emerson, Iowa.

Mary E. Culver was born at Athens, Ohio on September 30, 1862, and passed away October 9, 1931 at the age of 69 years, and 9 days. When three years of age she was brought by her parents to Iowa and located her Emerson, where she grew to womanhood.

She was united in marriage to John Lee Adams on August 7, 1881, to which seven children were born, all of whom are left to mourn the mother's departure, except Lynn Lee, who died in infancy. In 1882, they moved to Wayne County, Nebraska, where they made their home until 1893, when they returned to Emerson. In 1906 they moved to Mt. Etna, and in 1917 to Corning, where the family has since resided. The husband and father passed away April 6, 1929.

In early childhood Mrs. Adams united with the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church near Emerson. She was reared in a Christian home of the early pioneer type and had instilled into her life a loyalty to her church and a devotion to the Christian life which has been a source of comfort and strength throughout life. This has in a very definite sense, been her stay in the recent weeks of illness as she approached the "valley of the shadow of death." Her faith, consecration, and devotion to her home, church, and her God was not only her constant support, but it is now the consolation and hope of the loved ones who remain. While her going breaks the tenderest fountains of many hearts, yet she is spared much suffering which might have been hers to bear had she been permitted to live longer.

She leaves to mourn their loss, six children, Mrs. Lulu Johnson of Clarinda, Mrs. Josephine Mathers of Creston, Willard D. of Beatrice, Nebraska, Lavenia and Lenore N. of Corning, and Russell C. of Mt. Clemons, Michigan; ten grandchildren, one great grandchild, and other relatives and many friends.
Adams County Free Press, October 15, 1931, page 1