Funeral services for Ben E. Adams, 55, of Macon, Ga., who died suddenly from a heart attack Wednesday, will be held at 11:30 this morning at Macon. The body will be taken to Abbeville, Ga., for burial.
Mr. Adams was the editor of the Georgia Farm Bureau News and was former state editor of the Macon Telegraph. He was a former member of the South Carolina legislature from Richland county and at one time was editor of the weekly Carolina Free Press at Columbia.
He also had worked on the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier and the Columbia Record. He made unsuccessful campaigns for congress and for governor of South Carolina, his governor's campaign being in 1938.
He was stricken with a heart attack following an address to the Southern States Forest Fire commission at Macon.
He was a native of Upson county, Georgia, and was a veteran of World War I. He had served as educational director of the Southern Forest Fire commission, which has headquarters in Birmingham. He spoke before this group at a meeting of its sixth annual convention Wednesday afternoon a few hours before his death.
Mr. Adams was active in several fraternal organizations and was widely known in South Carolina and Georgia.
His son, Joseph Adams, is a student at Carlisie school, in Bamberg. Other survivors include on brother, Albert Adams, of Atlanta, and four sisters.
In 1933 he married Miss Christine Dukes of Columbia, who survives.
After leaving Columbia, Mr. Adams was a resident of Atlanta for some time and later went to Macon as telegraph editor of the Macon Telegraph. He later became secretary of the Southern States Forest Fire commission, and then became connected with the Farm Bureau organization.
The State (Columbia, S.C.) - Friday, May 4, 1945.
Mr. Adams was the editor of the Georgia Farm Bureau News and was former state editor of the Macon Telegraph. He was a former member of the South Carolina legislature from Richland county and at one time was editor of the weekly Carolina Free Press at Columbia.
He also had worked on the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier and the Columbia Record. He made unsuccessful campaigns for congress and for governor of South Carolina, his governor's campaign being in 1938.
He was stricken with a heart attack following an address to the Southern States Forest Fire commission at Macon.
He was a native of Upson county, Georgia, and was a veteran of World War I. He had served as educational director of the Southern Forest Fire commission, which has headquarters in Birmingham. He spoke before this group at a meeting of its sixth annual convention Wednesday afternoon a few hours before his death.
Mr. Adams was active in several fraternal organizations and was widely known in South Carolina and Georgia.
His son, Joseph Adams, is a student at Carlisie school, in Bamberg. Other survivors include on brother, Albert Adams, of Atlanta, and four sisters.
In 1933 he married Miss Christine Dukes of Columbia, who survives.
After leaving Columbia, Mr. Adams was a resident of Atlanta for some time and later went to Macon as telegraph editor of the Macon Telegraph. He later became secretary of the Southern States Forest Fire commission, and then became connected with the Farm Bureau organization.
The State (Columbia, S.C.) - Friday, May 4, 1945.
Funeral services for Ben E. Adams, 55, of Macon, Ga., who died suddenly from a heart attack Wednesday, will be held at 11:30 this morning at Macon. The body will be taken to Abbeville, Ga., for burial.
Mr. Adams was the editor of the Georgia Farm Bureau News and was former state editor of the Macon Telegraph. He was a former member of the South Carolina legislature from Richland county and at one time was editor of the weekly Carolina Free Press at Columbia.
He also had worked on the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier and the Columbia Record. He made unsuccessful campaigns for congress and for governor of South Carolina, his governor's campaign being in 1938.
He was stricken with a heart attack following an address to the Southern States Forest Fire commission at Macon.
He was a native of Upson county, Georgia, and was a veteran of World War I. He had served as educational director of the Southern Forest Fire commission, which has headquarters in Birmingham. He spoke before this group at a meeting of its sixth annual convention Wednesday afternoon a few hours before his death.
Mr. Adams was active in several fraternal organizations and was widely known in South Carolina and Georgia.
His son, Joseph Adams, is a student at Carlisie school, in Bamberg. Other survivors include on brother, Albert Adams, of Atlanta, and four sisters.
In 1933 he married Miss Christine Dukes of Columbia, who survives.
After leaving Columbia, Mr. Adams was a resident of Atlanta for some time and later went to Macon as telegraph editor of the Macon Telegraph. He later became secretary of the Southern States Forest Fire commission, and then became connected with the Farm Bureau organization.
The State (Columbia, S.C.) - Friday, May 4, 1945.
Mr. Adams was the editor of the Georgia Farm Bureau News and was former state editor of the Macon Telegraph. He was a former member of the South Carolina legislature from Richland county and at one time was editor of the weekly Carolina Free Press at Columbia.
He also had worked on the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier and the Columbia Record. He made unsuccessful campaigns for congress and for governor of South Carolina, his governor's campaign being in 1938.
He was stricken with a heart attack following an address to the Southern States Forest Fire commission at Macon.
He was a native of Upson county, Georgia, and was a veteran of World War I. He had served as educational director of the Southern Forest Fire commission, which has headquarters in Birmingham. He spoke before this group at a meeting of its sixth annual convention Wednesday afternoon a few hours before his death.
Mr. Adams was active in several fraternal organizations and was widely known in South Carolina and Georgia.
His son, Joseph Adams, is a student at Carlisie school, in Bamberg. Other survivors include on brother, Albert Adams, of Atlanta, and four sisters.
In 1933 he married Miss Christine Dukes of Columbia, who survives.
After leaving Columbia, Mr. Adams was a resident of Atlanta for some time and later went to Macon as telegraph editor of the Macon Telegraph. He later became secretary of the Southern States Forest Fire commission, and then became connected with the Farm Bureau organization.
The State (Columbia, S.C.) - Friday, May 4, 1945.
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