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Lena Smith <I>Cook</I> Adams

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Lena Smith Cook Adams

Birth
Union County, South Carolina, USA
Death
7 Jan 1940 (aged 67)
Union County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Jonesville, Union County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Lena Smith Cook Adams, 67, of Union, SC, died Sunday, January 7, 1940, at her home following an illness of one week.

Daughter of the late Smith Cook (1820–1872) and Malinda Cook Adams (1842–1927); wife of the late John Thomas Adams (1859–1929), married July 23, 1893.

Survivors include her daughters, Kate Adams Garner (1900–1971) and Frances Mahala Adams Vaughan (1904–1997); seven sons, Robert Smith Adams (1894–1963), Johnnie Ambers Adams (1896–1976), Joseph Franklin Adams (1898–1985), Ruben Bishop Adams (1902–1976), Hoyle Adams (1906–1958), David Talmadge Adams (1908–1984), and Bunyan Welton Adams (1915–1986); one sister, Fannie Charles; brother, Joe Cooke; two half-sisters, Mrs. J.B. Adams and Florence Adams; and two half-brothers, J. T. Adams, and Foster Adams.

Also predeceased by an infant daughter, Lena Adams.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 pm, Monday, January 8, 1940, at Foster's Chapel Methodist Church by Rev. C.W. Watson and Rev. A.J. Boling; interment in the church cemetery.

Edgar Funeral Home
Union, SC
Lena Smith Cook Adams, 67, of Union, SC, died Sunday, January 7, 1940, at her home following an illness of one week.

Daughter of the late Smith Cook (1820–1872) and Malinda Cook Adams (1842–1927); wife of the late John Thomas Adams (1859–1929), married July 23, 1893.

Survivors include her daughters, Kate Adams Garner (1900–1971) and Frances Mahala Adams Vaughan (1904–1997); seven sons, Robert Smith Adams (1894–1963), Johnnie Ambers Adams (1896–1976), Joseph Franklin Adams (1898–1985), Ruben Bishop Adams (1902–1976), Hoyle Adams (1906–1958), David Talmadge Adams (1908–1984), and Bunyan Welton Adams (1915–1986); one sister, Fannie Charles; brother, Joe Cooke; two half-sisters, Mrs. J.B. Adams and Florence Adams; and two half-brothers, J. T. Adams, and Foster Adams.

Also predeceased by an infant daughter, Lena Adams.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 pm, Monday, January 8, 1940, at Foster's Chapel Methodist Church by Rev. C.W. Watson and Rev. A.J. Boling; interment in the church cemetery.

Edgar Funeral Home
Union, SC


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  • Maintained by: Patricia
  • Originally Created by: Frank & Lillian
  • Added: May 1, 2004
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8710046/lena_smith-adams: accessed ), memorial page for Lena Smith Cook Adams (1 Mar 1872–7 Jan 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8710046, citing Foster Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jonesville, Union County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Patricia (contributor 47533805).