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Last of Irish Ridge Pioneers Dies in Terrell
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1947
 

TERRELL -- Mrs. Annie Brennan Adams, 87, last of the original settlers on Irish Ridge, died March 18 in the home of her son, S. K. Adams.

Funeral services, with Requiem Mass, were held the following Thursday in St. Martin's Church, Talty, Rev. Francis Brady officiating.

Six of Mrs. Adams' grandsons, Joseph N., Joseph C., Clem, Ray and Curtis Adams and Michael Donnely, Jr. served as pallbearers.

Native of Quebec

Annie Brennan, born in Quebec March 12, 1860, married J.L. Adams Feb. 9, 1881, and came to Texas in 1883, locating first in Collin Co., then in Evening Star, three miles north of Terrell, and finally in Talty, where she resided sixty-four years.

Mrs. Adams lived a devout Catholic life and was the soul of honor. The Adams home was always open to their many friends and neighbors, and the younger set gathered there for their festivities. She will be remembered by a wide circle of Catholic and Protestant friends.

Seven Children

Survivors include six sons, Clem, Joseph L. Jr., Kirt and Ray Adams, all of Talty; Frank, of Dallas, and Lloyd, Caddo Mills; a daughter, Sister M. Celine, Tyler; seventeen grand-children; twenty-five great-grand-children; three sisters, Mmes. Rosa Corbitt, Kate Corcoran and Brigit Code, all of Dallas, and a number of neices and nephews.

One of Mrs. Adams' granddaughters is a School-Sister of Notre Dame, Sister M. Brendan, in Conway Ark.; likewise a niece, Sister M. Bernard, superior of St. Gregory's School, Tyler. Another niece, Sister Regis, is a Sister of Charity, in St. Louis. Mrs. Adams was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph L. Adams, Sr., who died in 1939, and by two children.

Note: According to the Texas Death Index, Annie Adams died on March 18, 1947 in Kaufman County.

 

 
     

 

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