NINTH GENERATION

349. CLAUDE MONROE ADAMS was born on 9 Oct 1905 in MOUNTAIN VIEW, MO. He died on 3 Jul 1987 in KANSAS CITY , MO. Claude Adams was a very talented, hard working, self taught, very loving father. He got a job with the Corp of Army Engineers in around 1938 and moved the family to Topeka, KS. While there, where there was adult education available, he acquired the books for some of the courses such as algebra, studied them at home and passed the course. Sometime during the Topeka stay he came across a huge black walnut tree that was felled along the river bank. He somehow managed to acquire the tree and have it cut up into lumber. With each move throughout the years the walnut lumber went with the family. During this time Claude made many things out of the lumber such as beautiful tables still in the possession of family members. Claude was a fine carpenter building a home on East 59th Street, Raytown, MO. in the late 1950's. During the early 1940's Claude took a job with A J Smith Engineering which ran a manufacturing plant in Liberty, MO. The plant had contracts for Quonset Huts, Army cot. etc during WW II. After the war the plant made shipping boxes for the caskets bring home the bodies of the service men killed in the war. Later it evolved into Black Sivall and Bryson, where Claude retired early 1970's. Gladys, Claude's wife of 42 years died of cancer in April, 1967. Later in Dec of 1967, Claude married Lavelle Rider Morris, Glady's best friend, making his children very happy. Claude and Lavelle were married for 20 years when Claude died of heart complications after surgery to correct an aneurysm on his aeorta artery.

He was married to GLADYS PEARL HAGGART (daughter of OTTO CLARENCE HAGGART and IDA LUVINA JACKSON) on 24 Apr 1925 in MANKATO, JEWELL CO, KS. GLADYS PEARL HAGGART was born on 9 Jul 1907 in OPPORTUNITY, WA. She died on 26 Apr 1967 in RAYTOWN MO. Gladys Pearl Haggart was the second daughter of Otto C Haggart and Ida Luvina Jackson. Ida died of consumption when Gladys was two years old leaving quite a void in the lives of Gladys and sister Maisie who was 10 years older than Gladys. The girls were to live in the households of various Haggart aunts and uncles in middle Kansas until Otto married his housekeeper Marybeth Pasedaiva Charley a widow with a daughter, Ruth and a son, Lee. Later, Otto, Jr and twins Delbert and Elbert, were born to them. Gladys always appreciated the family she and Claude established as she never felt a part of a family when she was growing up. Gladys worked hard doing all of the things a mother of five close in age children has to do to keep everyone fed and clothed. The family house at 3036 North 27th Street in Kansas City, Kansas was always full of extended family. Most of the teenagers in the Quindaro Methodist Church felt free to join the Adams family in their home. Claude and Gladys spent a good part of the time sponsoring the youth group of the church or just allowing the children to roll up the rugs and put records on and dance the night away. Grape juice and ham salad sandwiches were the order of the day when entertaining. Most holidays found the house full of brothers and sisters, cousins by the dozens. Claude and Glady's children always felt loved. Gladys died of cancer in Apr, 1967 at the home that she and Claude built in Raytown, Missouri. CLAUDE MONROE ADAMS and GLADYS PEARL HAGGART had the following children:

+400 i. CLAUDE MONROE JR ADAMS.
+401 ii. JACQUELINE ROSETTA ADAMS.
+402 iii. CLARENCE LEE ADAMS.
+403 iv. GENEVA MAE ADAMS.
+404 v. MARY LOUISA ADAMS.

He was married to LAVELLE RIDER MORRIS.