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==Last rites==

==Last rites==

Adcock died at the age of seventy-four at Saint Frances Medical Center in Monroe. Services were held on Christmas Eve morning, 1991, at the Northminster Church in Monroe with the Reverends Harold D. Hughens and Donald W. Nixon officiating. Burial was in the Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery in Monroe. He was survived by his wife, the former Frances Aycock of Monroe, a native of Rayville; a daughter and son-in-law, Jan Adcock Melton (born 1943) and Paul Anders Melton, Sr. (born 1942), of Baton Rouge, and two grandsons, Jamar Adcock Melton (born 1970), a [[pediatrician]], and Paul A. Melton, Jr., (born 1972), a businessman, both of Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit>Jamar Adcock obituary,''[[Monroe News Star]],'' December 24, 1991</ref>.

Adcock died at the age of seventy-four at Saint Frances Medical Center in Monroe. Services were held on Christmas Eve morning, 1991, at the Northminster Church in Monroe with the Reverends Harold D. Hughens and Donald W. Nixon officiating. Burial was in the Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery in Monroe. He was survived by his wife, the former Frances Aycock of Monroe, a native of Rayville; a daughter and son-in-law, Jan Adcock Melton (born 1943) and Paul Anders Melton, Sr. (born 1942), of Baton Rouge, and two grandsons, Jamar Adcock Melton (born 1970), a [[pediatrician]], and Paul A. Melton, Jr., (born 1972), a businessman, both of Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit>Jamar Adcock obituary, ''[[Monroe News Star]],'' December 24, 1991.</ref>

Adcock and a group of friends formed the Northminster Church in 1989. It is affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists, a fellowship dedicated to the preservation of historic Baptist principles and freedoms. He was a [[Sunday school]] teacher and a [[deacon]].<ref name=obit/>

Adcock and a group of friends formed the Northminster Church in 1989. It is affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists, a fellowship dedicated to the preservation of historic Baptist principles and freedoms. He was a [[Sunday school]] teacher and a [[deacon]].<ref name=obit/>

Billy Boles, in a 2004 interview with Sam Hanna, Jr., of the weekly [[newspaper]], ''The Ouachita Citizen'' in West Monroe, recalled his friend Jamar Adcock: "I miss Jamar every day. He was just a great friend. There was not one thing that I could ask and he wouldn't do."<ref>''The Ouachita Citizen,'' published by the late Sam Hanna, Sr, and then Sam Hanna, Jr., West Monroe, [[Louisiana]], 2004; article no longer accessible on-line.</ref>

Billy Boles, in a 2004 interview with Sam Hanna, Jr., of the weekly [[newspaper]], ''The Ouachita Citizen'' in West Monroe, recalled his friend Jamar Adcock: "I miss Jamar every day. He was just a great friend. There was not one thing that I could ask and he wouldn't do."<ref>''The Ouachita Citizen,'' published by the late Sam Hanna, Sr, and then Sam Hanna, Jr., West Monroe, [[Louisiana]], 2004; article no longer accessible on-line.</ref>