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- Missionary for the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. He and his wife Belle applied for passports and sailed on the Empress of Asia on 30 August 1917 to serve in the mission in Tak Hing in Kwant Tung Province. They also applied for a passport in 1923 when their passport family photo also included two of their children.
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- The friends of Belle Edgar and Rich Adams will be interested to know of the announcement made March 23 at the Edgar home, that Belle Edgar, ’14, and Rich Adams ’13 have recently been appointed missionaries to China, and will sail about September first.
Cooper Courier, Sterling, Kansas. Tuesday, 27 March 1917.
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- An engagement that will be of interest to a large circle of friends of the young couple was announced last Friday evening, to a company of the young lady friends of Miss Belle Edgar, who informed her friends of her coming marriage to Richard C. Adams who is now a student in the White Bible school in New York City completing his preparations to leave in the fall as a missionary to China. The announcement of the coming nuptials was made at a delightful little affair which was given Friday evening by Miss Edgar at her home. An interesting feature of the affair was the fact that the announcement of her engagement was made on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of her parents and the affair was also a celebration of that event. The announcement was made in a unique manner. Printed slips were passed bearing two statements, both of which were badly ‘pied.” When the jumbled letter were property arranged the first was found to be a statement of the anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar and the second told of the coming wedding. When the coming event was know the bride-to-be was showered with good wishes by the guests. During the evening a two course lunch was served and later the guest inspected the pretty new Edgar home from garret to cellar. The date of the coming wedding was not announced, but it will be an event of the coming summer and the couple will leave the first of September to take up their work in China. Miss Edgar is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Edgar of this city and Mr. Adams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Adams, also of Sterling. Both are graduates of Cooper college and have a large circle of friends in Sterling and community to whom the announcement of the coming nuptials will be of much interest. After finishing his course at Cooper, Mr. Adams took a course in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and became a licensed minister. After finished his course there he went to New York to make special preparation for his missionary work.
The Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, Kansas. Thursday, 29 March 1917.
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- Miss Mary Adams, who has been laboring in China since the fall of 1912, leaving home Oct. 28, of that year and Rev. Richard C. Adams and Belle Edgar Adams, his wife, who sailed from the home land Aug. 30, 1917, to take up the work in China.
The Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, Kansas. Thursday, 29 November 1917.
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- Rev. R.C. Adams, about 59, pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the Beulah community, died in his sleep Monday night at his home, southeast of Mt. Clare.
Rev. Adams had been troubled with a heart ailment for a number of years. Monday he had helped Mrs. Adams about the home, but in the evening complained of not feeling well before an early retirement.
Born in the same community in which he died, Mr. Adams had spent 18 years in missionary work, five years of this time in China, the remainder among the Oklahoma Indians. The past five years he occupied the pulpit in the Beulah church. Last year he served as president of the county ministerial association.
Funeral services, as yet indefinite, will probably he held tomorrow.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, March 25, 1948
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- Services Friday For Rev. Adams
Funeral services for Rev. R.C. Adams were held in the Beulah Reformed Presbyterian church, Friday, April 26, at 2 p.m. Rev. Lester Kilpatrick offered the opening prayer, Rev. D.C. Ward brought a message of sympathy from the Indian Mission and Rev. A.J. McFarland from the church at large. Rev. J.E. McElroy brought a comforting message based on Hebrews 11:10. A trio consisting of Mrs. Dave Hansen, Mrs. Maurice Graham and Mrs. Ed Borowicz sang three psalms.
Richard Cameron Adams, son of James M. and Rachel McKeown Adams, was born in the Beulah community, Nuckolls County, Neb., April 9, 1888, and passed away at his home near Mt. Carle, Neb., March 23, 1948, age 59 years, 11 months and 14 days.
He was baptized as an infant in the Beulah church ad at twelve years of age united with the Reformed Presbyterian church in this same congregation. He finished his early school training in the country schools of his home community. He moved with his parents to Sterling, Kan., in January 1906. After graduating from Sterling College in 1913 he entered the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., and finished the course in the spring of 1916. The following year he attended the Biblical Seminary in New York preparatory for Foreign Mission services. He was licensed to preach by Kansas Presbytery on April 24, 1915, and was ordained to the gospel ministry for work in china on July 22, 1917. He preached at Minneola, Kan., two summers while attending seminary.
On July 17, 1917, he married Belle Edgar of Sterling, Kan. Together they made the long journey to their new field of labor in China where they labored until the year, 1924, when they with their three children returned to American, and, on account of unsettled conditions in China, were not able to resume work there. For several months he ministered to the Stafford, Kan., congregation.
In September, 1926, he began work as Superintendent of the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla. After almost sixteen years of service there, he returned in June 1942, to Beulah as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian congregation where he worshipped as a boy.
He is survived by his wife, five children, Roy, of Geneva college, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Mrs. E.E. Graham of Stafford, Kan.; Marion of Superior, Neb.; Bruce at home; and Ruth of Sterling College, Sterling, Kan.; one grandchildren, Melville Adams; three brothers, Will of Grant, Neb.; J.R. of Sterling, Kan.; and Andrew of Madrid, Nev.; and four sisters, Mary of Tak Hing, South China; Mrs. J.A. Heasty, Doleib Hill, Sudan; and Ella and Mrs. T.W. Patton, Sterling, Kan.
The Superior Express, Superior, Nebraska. Thursday, 1 April 1948.
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