Oliver Judson Adcock passed away Monday, December 27, 1976, at the Ft. Collins rest home, Fort Collins, Colo.Funeral services will be held Thursday morning December 30, 1976, at 10:30 a.m. at the Hatfield Funeral Home in Coldwater, Kans. Interment will be in Wilmore cemetery, Wilmore, Kans.
Mr. Adcock was born December 30, 1887 in Caney county, Missouri and was 88 years old at the time of his death. He was a former Wilmore resident.
Survivors include his wife, Lena, of Ft. Collins, Colo., two daughters, Mrs. Walsie Hansen, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Kathryn Dickenson, Wichita; two sons, Jerry of Jacksonville, Fla., and Jack of Alamosa, Colo.
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by Marla (Skiles) Schwiethale, 25 May 2005:I had a great uncle, Oliver Judson Adcock, who farmed in the Wilmore, KS, area in the early 1900's. They are buried in the Wilmore Cemetery. He married Lena (Harville) Adcock, she was a sister to Mary (Harville) Jenkins. Uncle Judson & Aunt Lena had four children, Jack, who resides in Alamosa, CO, Walsie, who resides in New Mexico, Kathryn (Adcock) Dickenson, who lives in Wichita, & Jerry Adcock, who lives in Washington State.
(I have to deviate from the original story here, because of something so unusual happening back in 1998.) We were travelling through AZ on our way to CA to attend a cousin's 50th wedding anniversary. My husband's mother, having lived as a small girl in CA, never had stopped to see the Grand Canyon. So, we took her to the Grand Canyon & rode the travel bus around the south & west rim of the canyon. We got to the Crow's Nest, as far as you could go & the bus driver let the people visit the little shop that was there. We decided to stay on the bus & wait, as my mother-in-law was exhausted from getting on & off the bus along the way. There was a bus driver who was still on the bus, but he wasn't driving, but training a new bus driver. He struck up a conversation with us. Upon finding out that we were from KS, he immediately got caught up with the fact that he was also from KS. Well, to make a long story short, he was from Wilmore, KS. I happened to mention that my great uncle Judson Adcock was from Wilmore. He just about exploded. Come to find out, he is the son of Mary (Harville) Jenkins, sister of my great aunt Lena (Harville) Adcock. His name is Bob Jenkins. Small world, isn't it.
A couple by the name of Roy & Martha (Ridge) Cline (now deceased) who made their home for many years in Coldwater, KS. Martha was either a student at Friends University or Ft. Hays State, & became friends with my mother, Zella (Snell) Skiles, originally from St. John,KS. They had two daughters named Myrna K. (Cline) Bensing & Beth Cline, (I think). I just found a small note from Myrna on your website, so I have e-mailed her.
My ancestors, the Henry Clay & Elizabeth Jane (Allen) Freeman family from Liberty, Union County, IN, traveled by train from IN to Wellington, KS. They loaded all of their possessions onto a couple of wagons along with their family of six children, & settled near Mayfield, KS, in Sumner Co., KS in August 1884. In the year 1887 & 1890, they added two more children. Mr. Freeman farmed until he retired & moved to Conway Springs, Sumner Co., KS, in 1904. My grandmother, Della C. Freeman, married Charles Daniel Skiles, who came with his parents & siblings from Ladoga, Montgomery Co., IN, in the late 1890's. All of this taking place during the time that history was being made in Comanche Co., KS.
I did want to add a few more things about the Wright family. Bishop Milton Wright was a circuit-riding minister back in Ohio & Indiana for the Presbyterian church. His two oldest sons, Reuchlin & Loren, both lived in KS at one time. Reuchlin, the oldest farmed in NE KS, while Loren was more the wanderer & rode the Rock Island train to the end, that being Coldwater, KS. Eventually, both Reuchlin & his family & Loren ended up moving back to Dayton, OH, where the entire family lived there. Remember the story about the bicycle shop in Dayton that Wilbur & Orville had before they introduced the world to the airplane. Something else about the Wright family, is the fact that my great grandfather, John David Snell, who moved to St. John, Stafford Co., KS in 1918, had an older sister, Elizabeth Alice (Snell) who married a man by the name of Thomas Charles Wright, a cousin to the famous Milton Wright family. That was something that was told to we grandkids from our grandfather, Walter Snell, who farmed for many years near St. John, in Stafford Co., KS. I have yet to make the connection. Hopefully this is one of those connections which I will be able to prove some day.
Jerry, hopefully, now, you will be able to piece the information I've just given you with what I gave you yesterday. Perhaps there is someone in the Coldwater/Wilmore area that still remembers the names of the people that I mentioned from that area.
Sincerely,
Marla (Skiles) Schwiethale
Wichita, KS
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Comanche County, Kansas - List of the 1,321 men who registered in Comanche County for the draft.
Draft Registration card: Oliver Judson Adcock, Coldwater, Comanche County, Kansas.
United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls.
Thanks to Shirley Brier for finding, transcribing and contributing the above news article to this web site and to Marla (Skiles) Schwiethale for her comments!
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