29 Mar 1894 – 7 Mar 1975
Husband of Ella Vida Cardon
Life Sketch by Roy Lambert Adams
The Carney school was two miles away, usually we went across and met the Erlick boys. If they were going to school that day, they put up a white cloth or something as a sign that they were going. If we were first we would put up a white cloth as a sign.
In 1908 the family moved by train to Clayton, New Mexico where we again went to grade school. In February of 1910 My mother died of pneumonia. My papa, Andrew Dow Adams, and I went to Kansas City to live with Minnie, my half sister. She ran a boarding house in a flat at 1214 Cherry Street. Here I graduated from Humbolt School , and also worked for Dr. Flynn, a cat and dog doctor.
The year 1913 found me back in New Mexico living alone up on the Cimmaron looking after cattle for Oscar Messenger, my brother in law. I also trapped foxes and vermin and shipped the hides to Denver. The Cimmaron was not far from Kenton, Oklahoma. Later I hauled freight to Kenton from Texline, Texas with Daniel Messenger, Oscar’s father. With Oscar I went down into Mexico and bought long horned cattle to feed and fatten them. Together we also dug wells.
The school house in Clayton, New Mexico was important for my social lifestyle, box luncheons, and debates were held. I hauled most of the cement used in the building of the power plant. Then the National Guard was used in the Mexico border troubles. I joined up and was stationed in Deming, New Mexico In 1915-1916. World War 1 was declared on the 7th of April 1917. It was three months later before I was taken into the regular army. I was wounded in France by shrapnel. I was mustered out of the army in California in 1919.
In December 1919 I came to Logan, Utah and went to school at the Agricultural College where I learned auto mechanics. I have built roads since 1923 in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, and Wyoming, or rather I have kept the machinery to build the roads in repair.
Some other things that I have done are helping build the red wood water pipeline to carry water for the Logan power company, and helped build the university stadium. I worked all winter to make bronze plaques to honor former students who were in World War 1. The plaques I made are still hanging in old main.
In 1921, I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, and married Ella Vida Cardon in the Beehive House in Salt Lake City. I was active in scouting, district ward teachers supervisor, and Secretary of the High Priest Group. I have lived in the same home since 1923-1924 in Logan.
His wife, Ella Vida Cardon Adams said, ” He is a favorite with children, gentle, wise, understanding, and loving. He has fished and hunted with his son, still does it. He has been slow to answer in anger, is temperate, hates gossip, and rarely uses sarcasm. We have the best children and in laws. Nettie Jimenez who lives in Twin Falls, and Kirk Leroy, a principal in Las Vegas. We have 10 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.”
Roy L. Adams
TWIN FALLS — Roy Lambert Adams, 80, Twin Falls, former Logan Utah, resident, died Friday at a local nursing home following a long illness.
Born March 29, 1894, in Carney, Akla., he moved to Logan in 1919, living there until he moved to Twin Falls in 1971.
In 1913 Mr. Adams was employed on the Oscar Messenger Ranch in Clayton, N.M., driving cattle in the last cattle drives along the Cimarron River. In 1915 he joined the New Mexico National Guard when border problems developed between the United States and Mexico and he was stanioned in Deming, N.M.
When World War I was declared on April 7, 1917, his National Guard unit was activated into the regular army and Mr. Adams was wounded in combat in France in 1918.
In December of 1919 he moved to Logan where he was involved in a training program in auto and engine mechanics at UtahState Agricultural College where he met Ella Vida Cardon. They were married in the Beehive House in Salt Lake City on May 6, 1921. The rites were later solemnized in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. Mrs. Adams died May 10, 1972.
Employed until his retirement by the Carl E. Nelson Construction Co. as foreman and master mechanic, Mr. Adams was formerly employed with Logan City and the Olaf Nelson Construction Co.
Actively involved with the Disabled American Veterans, he also served as post commander and later was district commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Adams was converted to the LDS Church in 1921 and was active in the Logan Sixth Ward as a high priest.
Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Henrietta (Robert) Jimenez, Twin Falls; one son, Kirk Adams, Las Vegas, Nev.; 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mr. Adams will be at noon Tuesday at the Logan Sixth Ward LDS Church by Bishop Dennis J. Alder. Military rites will be conducted in the Logan City Cemetery.
Friends may call at White Mortuary today and Monday evening.
