Obituaries - Mc
Henry R. McAdams, Jr., 16, FORMERLY OF
CASEYVILLE, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:05 P.M. FRIDAY AT BOYD
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN CARROLLTON, FOLLOWING A HEAD-ON COLLISION
ON ROUTE 267, TWO MILES SOUTH OF CARROLLTON. HE WAS A JUNIOR AT
JERSEY COMM. HIGH SCHOOL. BORN IN BELLEVILLE, SON OF HENRY
McADAMS, SR. OF GRAFTON AND BARBARA (RAMAGE) McADAMS OF
CASEYVILLE, HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SUMMER LABORER WITH THE CITY OF
GRAFTON. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS, HE IS SURVIVED BY ONE
BROTHER, JAMES OF GRAFTON; ONE SISTER, MARGIE McADAMS OF
CASEYVILLE; PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, RUTH DEAN OF BRIGHTON; AND
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, BEE RAMAGE OF CASEYVILLE. VISITATION WILL
BE FROM 4 TO 9 P.M. SUNDAY AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE, WHERE A ROSARY WILL BE RECITED AT 7 P.M. SUNDAY. A
FUNERAL MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED AT 10:30 A.M. MONDAY AT ST.
FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JERSEYVILLE WITH THE REV. WILLIAM
HEMBROW AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN
JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE SENT TO THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OR
TO MASSES. [07 Jul 1984]
Leonard Henry McAdams, 92 YEAR OLD RESIDENT
OF 104 SUMNER STREET, JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT FIVE-FIVE O'CLOCK
TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN
MOVED FOR TREATMENT THE PRECEDING DAY. THE DECEDENT WAS A
RETIRED FARMER. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME
WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT ONE-THIRTY THIS
(THURSDAY) AFTERNOON. BURIAL WILL BE IN MEADOW BRANCH CEMETERY.
MR. McADAMS, SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH AND MARY SILKWOOD McADAMS,
WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 6 DEC 1869. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS
WIFE, MINNIE HASTINGS McADAMS; ONE SON, CLAY McADAMS OF
OTTERVILLE; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. ALMEDA ENGEL OF GREENFIELD,
MRS. VELMA SCONCE OF GRAFTON, MRS. RAYMOND GROPPEL OF GODFREY;
AND MRS. MAUDIE DORRIS OF ALTON; FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, AND
ELEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ONE DAUGHER, MRS. BEULAH WIENKE
PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. [04 Jan 1962]
Mrs. Myrtle McAdams, 73, DIED AT 12:06 P.M.
MONDAY AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL
AT TEN O'CLOCK THAT MORNING FROM THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS.
RUSSELL WILES, WHERE SHE HAD BEEN RESIDING FOR THREE YEARS. SHE
HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE
HELD AT THE MEHL FUNERAL HOME THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE
CONDUCTED BY THE REV. GLENN MANIS. INTERMENT WAS IN THE CITY
CEMETERY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS, HOWARD OF CARROLLTON;
HARVEY OF JERSEYVILLE AND HIRAMIE OF WILLIAMSVILLE, NY; FOUR
DAUGHTERS, MRS. RUSSELL WILES AND MRS. EVERETT PAINTER OF
CARROLLTON; MRS. HERMAN HOWARD OF WHITE HALL AND MRS. SAM
POLOTTO OF SPRINGFIELD; 17 GRANDCHILDREN AND 12 GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN.
Myrtle M. McAdams, 80, OF BERTMAN STREET,
DIED AT 4:05 A.M. TODAY AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. BORN IN
ELDRED, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND AUGUSTA (FISCHER)
SCHROEDER, SHE MARRIED ROBERT McADAMS AND HE PRECEDED HER IN
DEATH IN 1954. SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, PAUL McADAMS OF
JERSEYVILLE, AND HAROLD SECYMORE OF LYNN CENTER; THREE
DAUGHTERS, LORETTA McCOY OF JERSEYVILLE, BARBARA COX OF SHIPMAN
AND ROBERTA WEST OF EAST ALTON; A STEPDAUGHTER, JUNE HERMAN OF
ARGO, FLA.; 22 GRANDCHILDREN; 11 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; THREE
BROTHERS, RUSSELL SCHROEDER OF LEBANON, MO., WILBUR SCHRODER OF
ELDRED AND BILL SCHROEDER OF WHITE HALL; AND A SISTER, NINA
BETTER OF EAST ALTON. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 P.M.
SATURDAY AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. SERVICES
WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 2 P.M. SUNDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME WITH THE
REV. LLOYD YOUNKIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO FAITH TEMPLE IN JERSEYVILLE
WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER, OR NEW LIFE TABERNACLE AT DELHI.
Robert McAdams, 50, WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP
WAS FOUND BY HIS WIFE AT 6:15 A.M. ON 6 NOV AT THEIR HOME AT 306
E. EXCHANGE ST., JERSEYVILLE. McADAMS WAS A BUSINESS
REPRESENTATIVE OF LABOR LOCAL 646. HE WAS BORN ON 29 JAN 1931 IN
ELDRED, A SON OF THE LATE ROBERT A. McADAMS AND MYRTLE SCHROEDER
McADAMS WHO SURVIVES. HE MARRIED JOELLA LOCKHART ON 29 JUN 1951
IN POCAHANTAS, ARK. IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE AND MOTHER, HE IS
SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, ROBERT A. McADAMS AND MICHAEL J. McADAMS
OF JERSEYVILLE; A STEPSON, RICHARD E. LOCKHART OF AUBURN; THREE
DAUGHTERS, ANGELA ROADY, JOETTA PINKERTON AND JOLENE McADAMS OF
JERSEYVILLE; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, PAUL McADAMS OF
JERSEYVILLE; A HALF BROTHER, HAROLD SEYMORE OF LYNN CENTER;
THREE SISTERS, BARBARA COX OF SHIPMAN, ROBERTA WEST OF EAST
ALTON AND LORETTA McCOY OF JERSEYVILLE. SERVICES WERE HELD
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. VICTOR
DeSHEA OF HILLVIEW OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. THE FAITH TEMPLE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH HAS BEEN
NAMED AS A MEMORIAL. [Nov 1981]
William McAdams OF OTTERVILLE DIED, AGED 76
YEARS. HE WAS BORN IN MIDDLETOWN, BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, SON OF
THOMAS AND ELIZABETH McADAMS. THOMAS WAS A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND
AND WHEN 16 IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. AT PHILADELPHIA. THOMAS
McADAMS WAS MARRIED IN 1798 TO ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF JAMES AND
REBECCA NOBLE, WHO WERE NATIVES OF PENN; 8 CHILDREN WERE BORN.
MR. McADAMS WAS IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT
DETROIT. HE FOLLOWED FARMING THROUGH LIFE AND DIED IN 1833. HIS
WIFE DIED IN THE SPRING OF 1836. WILLIAM McADAMS WAS EDUCATED AT
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HIS NATIVE COUNTY AND WAS MARRIED IN NOV
1831 TO ELIZA, OLDEST CHILD OF JOSEPH AND NANCY FARIES, WHOSE
ANCESTRAL DESCENT WAS SCOTCH AND IRISH, AND WHO WERE AMONG THE
EARLY SETTLERS OF OHIO. THE RESULT OF THIS UNION WAS NINE
CHILDREN, SIX OF WHOM ARE LIVING: WILLIAM OF ALTON, MARY JANE,
WIFE OF JOHN AUTEN, DR. CHARLES OF WITICHA, LEWIS Y. OF WHITE
HALL, ELEANORA AND ANNA RESIDING AT HOME. HE BEGAN LIFE AS A
CARPENTER BUT CHANGED TO THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS, WHICH HE
FOLLOWED FOR 20 YEARS. HE CAME TO ILLINOIS IN 1864 AND RESIDED
HERE UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1872 WHEN HE MOVED TO THE VILLAGE OF
OTTERVILLE. THE FUNERAL WAS FROM THE BAPTIST CHURCH AT
OTTERVILLE. [Jersey County Democrat 20 Jul 1885]
James M. McCaherty, 64, OF ATWATER, A FORMER
JERSEYVILLE RESIDENT, DIED AT 12:05 P.M. ON 29 MAR AT
CARLINVILLE AREA HOSPITAL. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT ST.
JOSEPH'S CHURCH IN CARLINVILLE AND BURIAL WAS AT BETHEL RIDGE
CEMETERY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIDOW, THE FORMER LUCILLE DABBS;
FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. DALE JARMAN OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS. MICHAEL
LINK OF GILLESPIE, MRS. BARRY FEAZELL OF SPRINGFIELD, MARY AND
LINDA McCAHERTY OF CHICAGO; A BROTHER, LARRY, OF FLORISSANT, MO.
AND A HALF BROTHER, HARRY McCAHERTY OF HILLVIEW. [04 Apr 1928]
FINAL SERVICES FOR Mrs. Mary Jane McCarthy,
76, OF SPRINGFIELD, FORMERLY OF JERSEY COUNTY, WILL BE HELD AT
2:00 P.M. TOMORROW (FRIDAY) AT THE KANE BAPTIST CHURCH WITH REV.
JACK BROWN OFFICIATING. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 5:50 P.M. ON 4 JUL
AT ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL IN SPRINGFIELD. INTERMENT WILL BE IN THE
KANE CEMETERY. SHE WAS BORN ON 10 JUL 1895 IN JERSEY COUNTY, THE
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE SAMUEL AND MARY ANN FARREL HUFF. HER
HUSBAND, RALPH McCARTHY, PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SHE IS SURVIVED
BY ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. JAMES (EDITH) DeFRATES OF SPRINGFIELD; ONE
GRANDSON; AND ONE HALF SISTER, MRS. LILLIAN HOFFMAN OF ROXANA.
[06 Jul 1972]
Patrick McCarty, 90 YEARS OLD, DIED AT HOME
IN KANE; BODY BROUGHT TO JERSEYVILLE AND FUNERAL WAS BY REV. LEE
FROM ST. FRANCIS CHURCH. BURIAL WAS IN THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
[Jerseyville Republican 19 Jan 1905]
NELLIE B. MCGUIRE, 87, DIED AT 10 A.M.
THURSDAY, AUG. 27, 1987, AT GREENWOOD MANOR IN JERSEYVILLE,
AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. SHE WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, A
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WALTER G. AND AGNES (BROOKS) MOWEN. ON SEP.
1, 1920 IN GREENE COUNTY, SHE MARRIED JOHN J. "BUD" MCGUIRE SR.
HE DIED NOV.7, 1968. SHE AND HER HUSBAND OWNED AND OPERATED
MCGUIRE GROCERY IN JERSEYVILLE FROM 1930 UNTIL TIME OF HER
RETIREMENT IN 1956. SURVIVING ARE A SON, JOHN J. "JACK" MCGUIRE
JR. OF CHEYENNE, WYO., A DAUGHTER VERNA L. "PHIZZ" TURNER OF
MEDORA; SIX GRANDCHILDREN; SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND A
SISTER, EVA M. BRAY OF ALTON. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A
DAUGHTER, MARY PHYLLIS MCGUIRE, A BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS.
VISITATION IS FROM 8:30 TO 9:45 A.M. MONDAY AT GUBSER FUNERAL
HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. A FUNERAL MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED AT 10
A.M. MONDAY AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JERSEYILLE
WITH THE REV. HENRY SCHMIDT AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL WILL BE IN ST.
FRANCIS XAVIER CEMETERY. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO MASSES OR THE
CHURCH, WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER.
