JAMES BENNY ADAMS JR
1945-1959
  
Funeral services for James Benny Adams, Jr., 13, of
Wurtland, who was killed Saturday, July 4, 1959 when struck
by an automobile, will be conducted Tuesday at 11a.m. at the
United Baptist Church at Fuget, Ky.
  
The Rev. Lonzie Reed of Flat Gap, Ky., will officiate and
burial will follow in the Estep Cemetery in Johnson County.
  
The boy a son of Mrs. Elizabeth Dalton Adams and the late
James M. Adams was born in Wythe County Va., August 10,
1945. He was a seventh grade student at Wurtland Elementary
School. He was struck on US 23 at 3:30 p.m. Saturday by an
automobile operated by Issac Abrams, 51, instantly when the
car hit his bicycle one-half mile east of Greenup.
  
An inquest is scheduled at the Greenup County Courthouse
today and the driver of the car is being held in Greenup
County Jail pending the inquest.
  
Kentucky State Trooper, Robert Morrison, investigated the
accident and said the automobile skidded 150 feet after
striking the youth.
  
In addition to his mother, the youth is survived by five
sisters, Mrs. Lucille King, Greensburg, N.C., Mrs. Myrtle
Niemi and Mrs. Frances Lambert, both of Ashtabula, Ohio,
Mrs. Helen Alley of Kingsville, Ohio and Mrs. Virginia
Chapman of Wurtland.
  
The body has been removed from the Riggs-Sammons Funeral
Home to the Chapman residence at Wurtland where friends may
call.
  
Burial at the Estep Cemetery in Flatgap Ky.
  
PUBLICATION UNKNOWN
Published July 1959
   
Submitted By: Dianna Jaynes  

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