MARTIN LLOYD "MART" ADAMS
1910-1966
Rites were held at Flat Gap yesterday for two Johnson County
brothers, Sanford and Mark Adams, who died Saturday after a
two-car head-on collision near Flat Gap.
Two Morgan County youths, Harold Wright, 17, and Richard
Keaton, 16, also died in the accident.
Trooper Delmer Ison called it "one of the worst accidents in
Johnson County in recent years." The Adams brothers were
traveling east toward Paintsville on Route 172, and the
Wright car was heading west.
Trooper Ison said his investigation indicated that the
Wright car passed another vehicle where there was a slight
rise in the road, and apparently never saw the oncoming
Adams car until the two met head-on. Wright and Keaton were
pulled from their car, which was burning, by Arthur Ealey,
an employee of Paintsville Grocery, who lives nearby the
scene of the accident.Wright was dead, and the Keaton youth
died Saturday evening in Paintsville Hospital.
Sanford Adams was also killed instantly, and his brother was
pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Both Sanford,
70, and Mark, 56, were sons of the late John Elliott and
Rachel Anna Gilliam Adams.
Sanford was born December 8, 1896, and his brother on
February 6, 1910. Both lived at Fuget.
The Adams’s are survived by two brothers, Thurman, Paris,
and Fred, Greenup; and four sisters, Mrs. Versie Jenkins,
Columbus, Mrs. Clovie Fairchild, Thurman, Ohio, Mrs. Stella
Lemaster and Mrs. Levena Patrick, Paintsville. Mark Adams
also is survived by his wife, the former Nora Cantrell; two
sons, James, Barnetts Creek, and Willard, Fuget; and six
daughters, Mrs. Christine Austin, Paintsville, Mrs. Pauline
Jaynes, Nippa, Mrs. Edna C. Spradlin, Columbus, Lynda, Esta
and Lestia, all of Fuget.
Joint services were held Tuesday, April 26, at 11 a.m. at
the Bethel United Baptist Church in Flat Gap, with Lonza and
Arnold Reed officiating.
Burial was in the Adams family cemetery at Fuget.
The Jones-Preston Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
Published
April 1966
NOTE: h/o-Novia Cantrell Adams
Submitted By: Dianna Jaynes
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