GREEN COUNTY RECORD OBITUARY – 06/30/1949
Flem B. Adkins, well-known building contractor in Louisville for the past 10 years and a native of Green County, died Monday in a Louisville hospital after a short illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 29 at the Summersville Nazarene Church, were conducted by Reverend Root and burial was in the family cemetery. Adkins, a carpenter by trade, injured his thumb sometime ago while working, and later developed blood poisoning, was taken to a hospital and lived only a few days. The son of Frank Adkins & Martha Hawkins, he was born August 4, 1888. In 1907 he married Jane Sidebottom and to this union 5 girls and 4 boys were born. He was a member of the Ladies Chapel Methodist Church. Besides his wife, he leaves his children, Mrs. Irene Oakes, Mrs. Josie Evene, Mrs. Elizabeth Elmore, Mrs. Christine Moran, Miss Emma Adkins, Frank, Raymond, Edwin and Flem Adkins Jr. Also surviving are 1 brother, Obe Adkins, 20 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Frank Perkins, Tom Adkins, Ezra Adkins, Clyde Russell, Jim Adkins and Noble Sidebottom.
GREEN COUNTY RECORD OBITUARY – 06/30/1949
Flem B. Adkins, well-known building contractor in Louisville for the past 10 years and a native of Green County, died Monday in a Louisville hospital after a short illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 29 at the Summersville Nazarene Church, were conducted by Reverend Root and burial was in the family cemetery. Adkins, a carpenter by trade, injured his thumb sometime ago while working, and later developed blood poisoning, was taken to a hospital and lived only a few days. The son of Frank Adkins & Martha Hawkins, he was born August 4, 1888. In 1907 he married Jane Sidebottom and to this union 5 girls and 4 boys were born. He was a member of the Ladies Chapel Methodist Church. Besides his wife, he leaves his children, Mrs. Irene Oakes, Mrs. Josie Evene, Mrs. Elizabeth Elmore, Mrs. Christine Moran, Miss Emma Adkins, Frank, Raymond, Edwin and Flem Adkins Jr. Also surviving are 1 brother, Obe Adkins, 20 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Frank Perkins, Tom Adkins, Ezra Adkins, Clyde Russell, Jim Adkins and Noble Sidebottom.
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