The Monroe News-Star.
January 31, 1925
Page 3

FUNERAL IS HELD FOR DR. ADAMS IN SHREVEPORT.

Monroe People in Attendance at Services. Had Distinguished Career.

A number of Monroe relatives and friends of Dr. William M. Adams, who died yesterday afternoon following an operation at St. Francis sanitarium, accompanied the body on the 7:15 o'clock train over the V. S. & P. railroad this morning to Shreveport where at 12:30 o'clock p.m. an impressive funeral services was conducted at the residence, 1748 Irving place.

The Masonic order of Shreveport had charge of the services, Dr. Adams having been for many years most active in this order. The assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church, Shreveport, was the officiating clergyman. After the services were conducted, burial took place in Forest Park Cemetery.

While a number of Monroe people went to Shreveport by the morning train, several others went overland by auto. Among those were Rev. Frank Tripp, Dr. C. H. Moseley and Russell Adams and G. T. Adams, brothers of the deceased.

All that medical skill could afford was brought to the aid of Dr. Adams himself a physician, in the endeavor to save the man's life after illness for the past several months, due to a disease of the kidneys, had become most serious. A trip was made to New Orleans where expert surgeons and specialists were called into consultation. Dr. Adams left New Orleans to come to Monroe for a short stay with his brother Dr. J. L. Adams, and it was decided to operate at the St. Francis sanitarium yesterday.

Dr. Urban Maes, and Dr. J. Reeves, both of New Orleans and widely-known surgeons, came to Monroe yesterday to perform the operation that it was hoped might save the patient's life. These surgeons assisted by local physicians, operated on Dr. Adams but the latter failed to have sufficient rallying powers to recuperate and his death occurred about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

Dr. William Matthew Adams was born in Hillsboro, Ark., June 25, 1871. There he lived until he was five years of age when he removed to [Marion], La., spending his early boyhood days there. He was graduated from Everett Academy in 1898 and later graduated from Tulane University in 1903.

Dr. Adams located, soon after his graduation, at Homer where he practiced medicine until 1912 when he removed to Shreveport. During the last few years he had become well known and was regarded as one of the most successful and skillful physicians of his city.

Surviving Dr. Adams are his widow and three daughters, also his aged mother and six brothers and three sisters. The oldest daughter, Miss Eloise Adams, is in the senior class of Centenary College.

Dr. Adams was interested in all fraternal and civic movements of Shreveport and Louisiana. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of his home city and was an active member of the Masonic order and one of the most active members of the Shreveport Kiwanis club.

*Dr. Adams daughter Alvern Adams married future governor Jimmie Davis (of "You Are My Sunshine" fame) in the Adams home, named Eglin House. Coincidentally, Elgin House was built by Arthur D. Eglin, the maternal grandfather of Governor John J. McKeithen, in 1899. Alvern and Jimmie Davis were married in the home in 1936.