Remains
of Cyrus Boyd Adsit, who was so tragically killed in an airplane crash at
Kansas City, Mo., at noon on Sept. 3rd, arriced here Sunday morning,
accompanied by his brother Claude R. Adsit,
Garrett, Ind.
Boyd
was born April 17, 1894, the second son of Fred and
Gertrude Adsit on the homestead, three miles south of Conneaut
Lake.
Since
manhood he has been engaged in civil engineering the past 9 years having
been spent at this work in western cities, the greater part of the past
two years being engaged as highway inspector of the state of Missouri, and
located at Kansas City, where he met his untimely death.
During
the World War, he trained at Camp Lee and served over seas with the 105th
Ammunition company, later being discharged from the hospital at
Pittsburgh, early in 1919.
Surviving
are his son Frederick, Jr., Greenville, Pa.,
his widow, mother, Mrs. Gertrude Adsit, two
sisters, Mrs. J.I. Cleveland and Mrs. Pearl Steadman,
this place, and a brother, C.R. Adsit of Garret, Ind.
Private services were held from his mother's home at this place, Sunday
afternoon at 3'oclock, conducted by Rev. H.G.
McVicker, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Sox boyhood
chums and relatives acting as bearers, namely, Howard
J. Tiffany, Floyd Adsit, Harry Adist, Clare Sweeten and Chas. Clark.
Interment was in the family plot at Adsit
cemetery, where the American Legion was in charge of the service.
As many of us would have done, Boyd in company with a friend, accepted an
invitation from a pilot on the airfield at Kansas City, to take a plane
ride. The pilot had just come in by plane, and on the face of this,
his ability would be accepted as good, but a matter of fact he was a
student pilot with only eight hours of solo flying to his credit.
So
in good faith, the fateful ride was started and in seven minutes the plane
was a wreck with Boyd and his companion instantly killed.
Authentic
word, and newspaper clippings of Kansas City, speaks of Boyd
Adsit in his work, as being efficient, steady and full of promise
for greater tasks which the future would hold, and with sorrow and regret
they seem to miss their comrade among their ranks.
The
passing on, or going West, as comrades of the War would think, casts a
cloud of sorrow, for one of the number, in prime of life and possibilities
open, to be taken to join the Great Army of departed Comrades.
Conneaut Lake Breeze Sept 10, 1929
Submitted
by Janice Stevens