The Daily Oklahoman 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Funeral services, for William J. Adams 1005 East Sixth
street, who died Wednesday at a city hospital, will-be held at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon, at the Hahn funeral home. The Masonic
service will be conducted by Hiram lodge A. F. and A. M.
Interment will be in Fairlawn Cemetery.
Adams was an 89er making the run and settling fourteen miles
northwest of Oklahoma City. He remained but a short time.
Returning to Texas he engaged in railroading. He returned to
Oklahoma City in 1914, went to work for the Missouri-Kansas and
Texas railroad, xyz where be was shop superintendent when he died.
Adams died after an operation for appendicitis. He is survived
by a wife and two children, George G., and William T., 14 and
16; years old. An only sister, Mrs. Nannie Scheltllhardt of
Smithville, Texas, is expected to arrive in Oklahoma City,
Thursday.