BEDFORD MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1901 Marion Adams died at his home on West 13th street Thursday at 6 o'clock, of cancer, after a long illness. Funeral at the house today, Friday, at 10 o'clock a.m., services by Rev. Hyde. Burial at Green Hill. ********** FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1901 OBITUARY. Francis Marion Adams, born May 1, 1851, in Rock Castle county State of Kentucky, departed this life December 5th, 1901. November 17th, 1872, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Cox, to which union eight children were born. His widow and six children survive him. In life he was a kind, loving, affectionate and considerate husband and father. About eighteen years ago he became an active member of the M. E. Church at Salem, Ind., later removing to Bedford, where he had since resided. His suffering for years was keen, his patience inexhaustible, his faith was in God. He was the heart of the love of his widow and children; his marrow, nerve and muscle sustained them. He was of the common people a "working man" yes, undismayed and strong he industriously labored for his loved ones until by his great affliction and suffering his strength weakened, and muscles relaxed as an invalid. "O could this verse his fair example spread And teach the living, while it praised the dead. Then, reader! Should it speak his hope divine; Not to record his faith, but strengthen thine; Then should his every virtue stand confest, Till every virtue kindled in thy breast, But, if thy slight the monitory strain, And his had liv'd, to thee at least, in vain Yet, let his death and awful lesson give, The dying Christian speak to all that live, Enough for his for here his ashes rest, Till God's own plaudit shall his worth attest, And write 'Prepare to die on every breast.'"