Jeremiah Adams
Jeremiah Adams, 71, of 10224 Linwood Rd., LaRue died at 2 p.m. Friday Nov 14, 1975 in his home.
He was born in Bowling Green Township and was married in 1926 to Eva Lavon Dutton, who survives. - A lifelong farmer, he was a former employe of Quaker Oats Co., and a former member of Bowling Green Grange.
Also surviving are 3 sons, Charles J.. Alfred E. and Jerry W. of LaRue; 2 daughters, Mrs Ernest (Alice K.) Spitzer of Michigan, and Mrs. Dan (Joan) Miller of LaRue; 13 grandchildren and 3 greatgrandchildren.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in Stofcheck Funeral Home, LaRue, by the Rev. Floyd Jepsen. Burial will be in LaRue Cemetery. Friends mav call Sunday at the funeral home, where they will be received by the family 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Eva L. Adams
BELLEFONTALNE - Eva L. Adams, age 90, of Bellefontaine, formerly of LaRue, died Sunday, March 7, 1999, at approximately 10 a.m. at her residence.
She was born Sept. 7,1908, in Marion County, to the late Virden and Lucy (Cleveland) Dutton.
In April 1926, she married Jeremiah Adams and he died Nov. 14,1975.
She was a homemaker and worked in the kitchen at Quaker Oats. Former member of the Good Friends Club at LaRue and member of the former Bowling Green Grange.
She is survived by one son, Jerry W. Adams of LaRue; two daughters, Alice Spitzer of Bellefontaine and Mrs. Joan (Dan) Miller of LaRue, 13 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren; one brother, Donald Dutton; one sister, Rachel Fern Berry of Marion; and one sister-in-law, Stella Dutton of Caledonia.
Two sons, Charles J. and Alfred E.; one daughter Norma Adams; two grandsons, Steven Andrew Spitzer and David Michael Miller; one brother, Damon Dutton; and four sisters, Irma Hickman, Arwilda Gardner, Virginia Corbin and Verla Gamble, are deceased.
Funeral services will be held Thursday March 11, 1999, at 11 a.m. at the Stofcheck Funeral Home in LaRue. Minister will be the Rev. Debra Berry. Burial in the LaRue cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in LaRue from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday.
Those who wish may make contributions to the American Heart Association.
. Four of the great-granddaughters of Hudson Berry married four of the sons of James W. and Emily Leave11. Sallie Gambrell, the youngest sister of James Bruton Gambrell, married Dr. B. F. Leaven. Corra Alice Berry, the oldest daughter of Nathan Manley Berry, married George W. Leave11. Her younger sister, Lizzie Berry, married Fountaine S. Leave11. Mettle Lou Berry, a daughter of Joel Halbert Berry, married Dr. R. M. Leave11. Throughout all the subsequent years, the Berrys, the Gambrel's, and the Leavells, who were closely related by blood and marriage, were intimately associated in the business, the educational, and the religious life of Mississippi and Texas.
Joel Halbert Berry, read the Circular Letter on the question of "The Sabbath and Its Observance" and heard Reverend Alexander Acker, a grandson of the Halberts, preach the annual sermon. So strong was the conviction of Joel Halbert Berry on the question of the observance of the Sabbath that three years later, when he left South Carolina and moved to Mississippi, he would not travel on Sunday. He and his family stopped on Saturday night for a religious observance of the Sabbath and then resumed their travel on Monday morning.
Joel Halbert Berry, still another son of William Berry, settled in the Pleasant Ridge Community which was south of Blue Mountain in what is now Union County. He was a very successful farmer and businessman. He and his wife had a family of six children: Martha Louise, Julius Simpson, William Edwin, James Addison, Cornelia Elizabeth, and Juliette Melinda. They and the Joel Bruton Gambrells were neighbors. Jane Gambrell, the wife of Joel Bruton Gambrell, and Joel Halbert Berry were first cousins since both were grandchildren of Hudson Berry.
. Four of the great-granddaughters of Hudson Berry married four of the sons of James W. and Emily Leave11. Sallie Gambrell, the youngest sister of James Bruton Gambrell, married Dr. B. F. Leaven. Corra Alice Berry, the oldest daughter of Nathan Manley Berry, married George W. Leave11. Her younger sister, Lizzie Berry, married Fountaine S. Leave11. Mettle Lou Berry, a daughter of Joel Halbert Berry, married Dr. R. M. Leave11. Throughout all the subsequent years, the Berrys, the Gambrel's, and the Leavells, who were closely related by blood and marriage, were intimately associated in the business, the educational, and the religious life of Mississippi and Texas.
Over in the Pleasant Ridge community, Joel H. Berry and his family and his cousin, Jane Gambrell, and her husband, Joel Bruton Gambrel!, helped establish the Fellowship Baptist Church. His two sons, Reverend William Edwin Berry and Reverend Julius Simpson Berry, were ordained as ministers by this church. Dr. James B. Gambrell was licensed to preach by this church before he moved to Cherry Creek.
In these early days in northern Mississippi, there was a young Baptist preacher, Reverend Mark Perrin Lowrey, who became intimately acquainted with the Berrys, the Gambrells, the Leavells, the Machens, and the Burrisses. He, too, had settled in this section and had much influence over subsequent religious and educational activities in Mississippi and in the South.
Graduated from Harding High School, Marion, Ohio, and Bethesda School of Nursing.
Graduated from Harding High School, Marion, Ohio, and Bethesda School of Nursing.