From The Belleville News-Democrat, 9 February 1944
James J. Adamson, 64, night chief of police at the Obear-Nester Glass Company's plant, 2000 East Broadway, East St. Louis, was found dead at the side of his bed at his home, 4503 West Main Street, at 10:30 o'clock last night.
His body was found by his wife, Mrs. Alice Adamson, who told police she went to the room to rouse her husband to report for duty. A physician was called and pronounced the man dead from an attack of apoplexy. He had been under the care of a physician.
Adamson, police sergeant in East St. Louis for 20 years, was born in Belleville, December 7, 1879. He married Alice Crossley Ingram, August 14, 1933.
Besides his wife he leaves a son, James H. Adamson, East St. Louis; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Ingram, St. Louis and a stepson, Clay J. Ingram of the U.S. Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Va. Three brothers: David Adamson, manager of St. Clair Country Club; Jack and Edward Adamson, both of near New Athens, also survive.
James J. Adamson, 64, night chief of police at the Obear-Nester Glass Company's plant, 2000 East Broadway, East St. Louis, was found dead at the side of his bed at his home, 4503 West Main Street, at 10:30 o'clock last night.
His body was found by his wife, Mrs. Alice Adamson, who told police she went to the room to rouse her husband to report for duty. A physician was called and pronounced the man dead from an attack of apoplexy. He had been under the care of a physician.
Adamson, police sergeant in East St. Louis for 20 years, was born in Belleville, December 7, 1879. He married Alice Crossley Ingram, August 14, 1933.
Besides his wife he leaves a son, James H. Adamson, East St. Louis; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Ingram, St. Louis and a stepson, Clay J. Ingram of the U.S. Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Va. Three brothers: David Adamson, manager of St. Clair Country Club; Jack and Edward Adamson, both of near New Athens, also survive.
From The Belleville News-Democrat, 9 February 1944
James J. Adamson, 64, night chief of police at the Obear-Nester Glass Company's plant, 2000 East Broadway, East St. Louis, was found dead at the side of his bed at his home, 4503 West Main Street, at 10:30 o'clock last night.
His body was found by his wife, Mrs. Alice Adamson, who told police she went to the room to rouse her husband to report for duty. A physician was called and pronounced the man dead from an attack of apoplexy. He had been under the care of a physician.
Adamson, police sergeant in East St. Louis for 20 years, was born in Belleville, December 7, 1879. He married Alice Crossley Ingram, August 14, 1933.
Besides his wife he leaves a son, James H. Adamson, East St. Louis; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Ingram, St. Louis and a stepson, Clay J. Ingram of the U.S. Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Va. Three brothers: David Adamson, manager of St. Clair Country Club; Jack and Edward Adamson, both of near New Athens, also survive.
James J. Adamson, 64, night chief of police at the Obear-Nester Glass Company's plant, 2000 East Broadway, East St. Louis, was found dead at the side of his bed at his home, 4503 West Main Street, at 10:30 o'clock last night.
His body was found by his wife, Mrs. Alice Adamson, who told police she went to the room to rouse her husband to report for duty. A physician was called and pronounced the man dead from an attack of apoplexy. He had been under the care of a physician.
Adamson, police sergeant in East St. Louis for 20 years, was born in Belleville, December 7, 1879. He married Alice Crossley Ingram, August 14, 1933.
Besides his wife he leaves a son, James H. Adamson, East St. Louis; a stepdaughter, Kathleen Ingram, St. Louis and a stepson, Clay J. Ingram of the U.S. Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Va. Three brothers: David Adamson, manager of St. Clair Country Club; Jack and Edward Adamson, both of near New Athens, also survive.
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