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Francis Clinup Adkins

The Gazette Times 

September 14, 1906:    

Heppner, Oregon

Rev. Frank C. Adkins, a pioneer, and one of the most highly respected citizens of Morrow County, died very suddenly last Friday evening at his home near Heppner of heart failure. Up to within a few moments of his death he had been enjoying good health. A few minutes before his death he complained of feeling dizzy and the family telephoned for a physician, but before the doctor had started work on him, he was dead. 

Rev. Adkins was one of the best known citizens in this county, having come here with his parents in 1868; and, had continuously resided here ever since, with the exception of a few years when he was called elsewhere in the ministerial service. Owing to his failing health he retired from his ministerial work about two years ago and bought a ranch near this city (Heppner)  where he resided until his death. 

Besides a wife, five sons, two daughters--all of them resided at the family home--Mr. Adkins leaves two brothers and one sister: Jesse James Adkins of Rhea Creek, Dr. John Edward Adkins of Hillsboro, and Mary Jane Waddill of Kirksville Missouri. 

The funeral service was held in the South Methodist Church last Sunday at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and was the largest ever held in this city in point of attendance. Rev. Adkins high character and kind disposition won for him the friendship of all his acquaintances hence the great desire to say a last tribute of respect. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Joseph Buie, present pastor of the South Methodist Church in this city, whose eulogy upon the character of a man whose life was so worthy of emulation, left few dry eyes in the church, which was overflowed entirely beyond its capacity by friends of the bereaved family. 

Frank C. Adkins was born in Kirksville, Missouri, in the year of 1865 crossed the plains with his parents, to Lane County, this State, and then to Rhea Creek, Morrow County, where he has since made his home. 

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