Married Charles Ryan Adams 24 July 1901, Jefferson Co., IN
The Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio
2 July 1948
Train Hits Automobile
DAYTON (AP)--A nationally prominent Presbyterian minister and educator and his wife were killed last night in an auto-train collision at Bachman, O., 17 miles to the west.
Dead were:
Dr. Charles Ryan Adams, 73, Parkville, Mo.
Mrs. Myra Oldfather Adams, 72, his wife.
Identification was made by a friend, E.A. Twitchell of Springfield, O., who was a passenger on the fast Pennsylvania Railroad train that struck the Adams automobile.
Long after the bodies had been taken to Dayton, Twitchell heard their names. He made the identification in Dayton's Good Samaritan hospital after early reports gave the victims' names merely as Charles and Evelyn Adams of Parksville, Mo.
Dr. Adams and his wife were on vacation from their work at the Parkville Community (Presbyterian) church. He had been scheduled to speak at the Covenant Presbyterian church in Springfield, O., Sunday.
The state highway patrol said the mangled Adams machine was carried more than a mile by the speeding train. Mainline traffic of the Pennsylvania was held up for three hours while workmen cut the debris off the engine with torches. The road's crack Jeffersonian was among the delayed trains.
The body of Mrs. Adams was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the body of her husband was pinned within the car.
Dr. Adams had been pastor of the Parkville (Mo.) Community church since 1944. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1901 and before mowing to Parkville he had served churches in Greensburg, Ind., Fargo, N.D. Champaign, Ill., and Springfield, O. At Springfield, he was pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church from 1921 to 1936.
During the years of his ministry, Dr. Adams served as trustee of Western College for Women in Oxford, O., as dean of chapel at Park college, Kansas City, and secretary of the new era movement for the central district of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church.
A native of Indiana, he studied at Hanover (Ind.) college, University of Chicago and McCormick Theology seminary.
A son, Philip, is head of the Cincinnati art institute.
The Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio
2 July 1948
Train Hits Automobile
DAYTON (AP)--A nationally prominent Presbyterian minister and educator and his wife were killed last night in an auto-train collision at Bachman, O., 17 miles to the west.
Dead were:
Dr. Charles Ryan Adams, 73, Parkville, Mo.
Mrs. Myra Oldfather Adams, 72, his wife.
Identification was made by a friend, E.A. Twitchell of Springfield, O., who was a passenger on the fast Pennsylvania Railroad train that struck the Adams automobile.
Long after the bodies had been taken to Dayton, Twitchell heard their names. He made the identification in Dayton's Good Samaritan hospital after early reports gave the victims' names merely as Charles and Evelyn Adams of Parksville, Mo.
Dr. Adams and his wife were on vacation from their work at the Parkville Community (Presbyterian) church. He had been scheduled to speak at the Covenant Presbyterian church in Springfield, O., Sunday.
The state highway patrol said the mangled Adams machine was carried more than a mile by the speeding train. Mainline traffic of the Pennsylvania was held up for three hours while workmen cut the debris off the engine with torches. The road's crack Jeffersonian was among the delayed trains.
The body of Mrs. Adams was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the body of her husband was pinned within the car.
Dr. Adams had been pastor of the Parkville (Mo.) Community church since 1944. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1901 and before mowing to Parkville he had served churches in Greensburg, Ind., Fargo, N.D. Champaign, Ill., and Springfield, O. At Springfield, he was pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church from 1921 to 1936.
During the years of his ministry, Dr. Adams served as trustee of Western College for Women in Oxford, O., as dean of chapel at Park college, Kansas City, and secretary of the new era movement for the central district of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church.
A native of Indiana, he studied at Hanover (Ind.) college, University of Chicago and McCormick Theology seminary.
A son, Philip, is head of the Cincinnati art institute.
Married Charles Ryan Adams 24 July 1901, Jefferson Co., IN
The Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio
2 July 1948
Train Hits Automobile
DAYTON (AP)--A nationally prominent Presbyterian minister and educator and his wife were killed last night in an auto-train collision at Bachman, O., 17 miles to the west.
Dead were:
Dr. Charles Ryan Adams, 73, Parkville, Mo.
Mrs. Myra Oldfather Adams, 72, his wife.
Identification was made by a friend, E.A. Twitchell of Springfield, O., who was a passenger on the fast Pennsylvania Railroad train that struck the Adams automobile.
Long after the bodies had been taken to Dayton, Twitchell heard their names. He made the identification in Dayton's Good Samaritan hospital after early reports gave the victims' names merely as Charles and Evelyn Adams of Parksville, Mo.
Dr. Adams and his wife were on vacation from their work at the Parkville Community (Presbyterian) church. He had been scheduled to speak at the Covenant Presbyterian church in Springfield, O., Sunday.
The state highway patrol said the mangled Adams machine was carried more than a mile by the speeding train. Mainline traffic of the Pennsylvania was held up for three hours while workmen cut the debris off the engine with torches. The road's crack Jeffersonian was among the delayed trains.
The body of Mrs. Adams was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the body of her husband was pinned within the car.
Dr. Adams had been pastor of the Parkville (Mo.) Community church since 1944. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1901 and before mowing to Parkville he had served churches in Greensburg, Ind., Fargo, N.D. Champaign, Ill., and Springfield, O. At Springfield, he was pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church from 1921 to 1936.
During the years of his ministry, Dr. Adams served as trustee of Western College for Women in Oxford, O., as dean of chapel at Park college, Kansas City, and secretary of the new era movement for the central district of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church.
A native of Indiana, he studied at Hanover (Ind.) college, University of Chicago and McCormick Theology seminary.
A son, Philip, is head of the Cincinnati art institute.
The Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio
2 July 1948
Train Hits Automobile
DAYTON (AP)--A nationally prominent Presbyterian minister and educator and his wife were killed last night in an auto-train collision at Bachman, O., 17 miles to the west.
Dead were:
Dr. Charles Ryan Adams, 73, Parkville, Mo.
Mrs. Myra Oldfather Adams, 72, his wife.
Identification was made by a friend, E.A. Twitchell of Springfield, O., who was a passenger on the fast Pennsylvania Railroad train that struck the Adams automobile.
Long after the bodies had been taken to Dayton, Twitchell heard their names. He made the identification in Dayton's Good Samaritan hospital after early reports gave the victims' names merely as Charles and Evelyn Adams of Parksville, Mo.
Dr. Adams and his wife were on vacation from their work at the Parkville Community (Presbyterian) church. He had been scheduled to speak at the Covenant Presbyterian church in Springfield, O., Sunday.
The state highway patrol said the mangled Adams machine was carried more than a mile by the speeding train. Mainline traffic of the Pennsylvania was held up for three hours while workmen cut the debris off the engine with torches. The road's crack Jeffersonian was among the delayed trains.
The body of Mrs. Adams was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the body of her husband was pinned within the car.
Dr. Adams had been pastor of the Parkville (Mo.) Community church since 1944. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1901 and before mowing to Parkville he had served churches in Greensburg, Ind., Fargo, N.D. Champaign, Ill., and Springfield, O. At Springfield, he was pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church from 1921 to 1936.
During the years of his ministry, Dr. Adams served as trustee of Western College for Women in Oxford, O., as dean of chapel at Park college, Kansas City, and secretary of the new era movement for the central district of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church.
A native of Indiana, he studied at Hanover (Ind.) college, University of Chicago and McCormick Theology seminary.
A son, Philip, is head of the Cincinnati art institute.
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Born in Persia (Iran). Her father was a missionary there.
Charles Ryan Adams
January 5, 1874 July 1, 1948
A minister
of the Presbyterian Church
Myra Oldfather Adams
October 23, 1875 July 1, 1948
and in their death they were not divided
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