Individual Details

Arkansas Delayed Birth Certificate #507
Weymouth Donald Adamson born 9 Jun 1915, Chester, Crawford Co, AR. His father was Ray Weymouth Adamson, age 31, born Pierce City, MO, a Bridgeman by occupation. His mother was Mary May Harrison, age 21, born Winslow, AR. He was born alive at 10 AM.

1930 Census. Living with his uncle Clarence Harrison - sister Joan was there, too. Their mother deceased.

According to Ernie's birth/death certificates:
Ernie's Mother: Mary May Harrison, daughter of Elisha and Edith Harrison was born Winslow, Ark. in 1894
Father: Ray Weymouth Adamson was born Pierce City, Mo. in 1884
Ernie died Mountainburg, Ark.; August 6, 1982; Age 67; respiratory failure-had emphysema for 20 years before death; Cremated at Benton County Crematory in Rogers, Ark; interred in Mountainburg. He never remarried; according to his niece, he was a concrete finisher by trade.
Ernie had two sisters- Joan Teague, younger than he and lived in Mountainburg
Bernice Pence who had lived in Kansas, probably Junction City. Bernice had two children, Dale & Sue, that JoEllen taught in school at Chester, Arkansas. He also had a younger brother, Jack, listed in the 1920 census as an infant, although no one seems to know about him - it's likely he died very young.
JoEllen Comstock & Ernie eloped. They lived in Nashville, Tennessee where Kay [author of this genealogy] was born, Van Buren, AR and in Kansas, near his sister Bernice.

Married by Felix J. Sanders, Minister of Methodist Church, Franklin, Simpson Co, KY. Witnesses: Mrs. Alfred Mitchell and Felix J. Sanders, Jr.

1940 Census. Ward 23, Nashville, Davidson, TN. ED 99-162, Sheet 3 B, Mrs. Oda Mai Britt was the enumerator. Taken 3 Apr 1940. Three families were living at 1617 Russell Street. Google maps show that address to still be residential, bungalow-type wood frame houses. I'm not sure how the house would have been divided three ways. The owner, Maggie Davis, a widow age 66, and her unmarried sister, Mattie Boyd, age 67, lived there. Phillip & Irene Brown lived there. Mattie and Irene had given information to the enumerator. So much is wrong with my parents' listing that it's obvious whoever gave the data, didn't know them very well!
Ernie is listed unexplainably as Wm. F. Adamson, age 23 [he was 25], Clerk in a dry goods store. "Joe" Ellen, wife, said to be 22 [she was 24], and had worked as a waitress for 16 weeks out of the year. She had told me she did this while pregnant. I was listed as Kay "B", age 3 months. Since I was never called Kay until after JoEllen remarried in 1946, that's very strange. All of us were marked as born in Tennessee, but both Ernie & JoEllen were born in Crawford County, AR. They were said to have lived in the "same place" in 1935, but probably JoEllen was in college at Russellville, and Ernie living with his sister in Chester in Crawford Co. They were paying $10 a month rent, while Phillip & Irene were paying only $4 a month. Presumably they had a bigger apartment, or had to pay extra for a baby.

We must have come back to Fayetteville - this is the big house on the corner of Willow & Maple where I'm in a lot of pictures the winter of 1940-41. We didn't stay in Nashville....
16 Oct 1940 World War II - Young Men's Draft
Weymouth Donald Adamson was living at 504 N. Willow, Fayetteville, Washington Co, AR. He was born in Chester, on 9 Jun 1915 and was 25 years old. His wife JoEllen Adamson also living at 504 N. Willow, would always know his address. He was employed by Lee Keller at Lee's Snooker Parlor, 408 W. Dickson, Fayetteville. He was 5'11" tall, 150 lb.s Gray eyes, black hair.

Birth	9 Jun 1915	Chester, Crawford County, Arkansas
Marriage	24 Aug 1939	Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky - JOSIE ELLEN COMSTOCK
Divorce	8 Jun 1944	Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas - JOSIE ELLEN COMSTOCK
Death	6 Aug 1982	Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

Spouse	JOSIE ELLEN COMSTOCK (1916 - 2008)
Child	KAREN KAY Adamson [Adopted name McKIM] (1940 - )

Father	RAY WEYMOUTH ADAMSON (1884 - 1958)
Mother	MARY MAY HARRISON (1894 - 1929)
Sibling	Bernice Irene Adamson (1912 - 2005)
Sibling	Jack Thomas Adamson (1919 - 1921)
Sibling	Joan Helen Adamson (1923 - 1981)