Charles Tarr
Adair
Tumble Kills C. T, Adair
Retired farmer Suffers Fracture of Skull in fall Down12 Steps.
The wrong door was opened Friday night by Charles T. Adair,
and the 76-year old retired farmer plunged down a flight of 12 steps to his death.
Two doors, placed side by side, open out of the dinning room at the Adair home on the
Georgetown Pike- one leads to the kitchen and the other to the basement Stairway. Groping his way through the dark dining room apparently on his way to the Kitchen, Mr. Adair opened
the cellar door and stepped across the threshold.
Mrs. Martha Matherly, Adair’s housekeeper heard sounds of the fall, and she and her husband found Adair lying on the basement
floor. Mr. And Mrs. Matherly were unable to carry the injured man upstairs, and Matherly ran to a neighbor’s for help. When he returned, Adair was dead. After an inquest,
Coroner J. Harvey Kerr said he died of a fractured skull.
A native of Bourbon County, Mr. Adair was the son of the late Dr. John & Sally Ewalt Adair. He had been
a resident of Fayette County for the last 20 years, and was a member of the Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. P. E. (Margaret)
Wolfinbarger,of Georgia, Miss Mary Adair Adams of Olive Hill, Mrs. Frank (Anna Belle) Furtaw, of Grosse Point, Michigan, and Mrs. W. T. (Alice Francis) Perkins of Scott County; five sons,
William Bryan Adair, Lexington, John Jacob Adair of Detroit, Michigan, Jesse Adair, member of the United States Navy Aviation Corps, San Diego, Calif., Richard Adair, Los Angeles Calif,
and Charles T. Adair Jr., Michigan, two brothers Harry B. Adair, Kansas City, Mo., and William W. Adair of Marion ,Indiana, a sister Mrs. Robert, (Mary Eliza) Stolworthy of Georgia and
11 grandchildren.
The body was removed to Kerr Brothers Funeral Home. (Burial was in the Hill Crest Cemetery, Lexington).