Clinton MO - John Adair, long a resident of Pinos Altos, N.M., succumbed to the inevitable on the night of February 23, 1895. The cause of his death was a combination of la grippe and pneumonia. He was born at Independence August 3, 1834 and was a son of Abner J. Adair of Kentucky, who was one of those that assisted in the laying off of the town of Independence and the first to own property and live there. In his 18th year, John R. Adair went to California by way of New Mexico and spent several years in the wilds of that country, exploring and prospecting, suffering the pangs of hunger and thirst and having many close and serious contests with the red men. When our civil war was at its hottest, with a number of others, he came to Missouri and joined Gen. Shelby's command. After the war, he freighted for two or three years to the mountains. He then prospected for gold in the wilds of southwest New Mexico and Arizona and succeeded in securing some rich mines in what is now called Grant county, N.M. He had many serious encounters and narrow escapes with the wily and deadly Apache. He married a beautiful and well-educated girl of a noble family of Spanish descent. He served as assessor of Grant county and had the implicit confidence of all acquaintances. He was kind, liberal and charitable and an entertaining companion, bold and fearless. Leaves a wife and children to mourn his loss. He helped to open and subdue the wilderness, fearing neither man nor devil. He has gone to his rest. So passed away one of the old frontiersman.
Clinton MO - John Adair, long a resident of Pinos Altos, N.M., succumbed to the inevitable on the night of February 23, 1895. The cause of his death was a combination of la grippe and pneumonia. He was born at Independence August 3, 1834 and was a son of Abner J. Adair of Kentucky, who was one of those that assisted in the laying off of the town of Independence and the first to own property and live there. In his 18th year, John R. Adair went to California by way of New Mexico and spent several years in the wilds of that country, exploring and prospecting, suffering the pangs of hunger and thirst and having many close and serious contests with the red men. When our civil war was at its hottest, with a number of others, he came to Missouri and joined Gen. Shelby's command. After the war, he freighted for two or three years to the mountains. He then prospected for gold in the wilds of southwest New Mexico and Arizona and succeeded in securing some rich mines in what is now called Grant county, N.M. He had many serious encounters and narrow escapes with the wily and deadly Apache. He married a beautiful and well-educated girl of a noble family of Spanish descent. He served as assessor of Grant county and had the implicit confidence of all acquaintances. He was kind, liberal and charitable and an entertaining companion, bold and fearless. Leaves a wife and children to mourn his loss. He helped to open and subdue the wilderness, fearing neither man nor devil. He has gone to his rest. So passed away one of the old frontiersman.
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