Person:Hazel Adcock (2)

Biography of Hazel Lee Adcock

Hazel Lee Adcock was born 17 April, 1907 in Bernice, Union Parish, Louisiana and was the fifth of the seven children of John Berry and Loretta Jane Gray Adcock. She learned piano and while in high school would play the piano at the local movie theater during the showing of the silent films, fitting the music to the happenings on the screen. After graduation she married Harris S. Williams on February 13, 1926 in her family home. They had two children, a girl born in November 1926 and a boy born in May 1930. She and Harris were divorced in March 1941 in El Dorado, Arkansas. Later, in August that year, she was married in El Dorado to James Clyde Williamson of Bristol, Virginia and them moved with her two children to Bristol. During World War II, she taught school in Sullivan County, TN Later she enrolled in a Licensed Practical Nurse's training program at Holston Valley Community Hospital in Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN and, after graduation, continued to work there. Her second husband, James C. Williamson, died in December 1955 and a couple of years later she moved to Marin County, California where she continued her nursing career licensed in California as an LVN. Later she was living and working in San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, where she met and later married Paul Wayne Palmer in April 1961. During this time she was quite active in her Seventh-day Adventist church. She developed abdominal cancer and after more than five years treatment, died August 1969 at the age of sixty-two in a convalescent hospital in Bakersfield California, having been taken there by her son to be near him for daily visitation. She was returned to the San Francisco Bay area for burial in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, a San Francisco suburb.

1. ↑ Union, Louisiana, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Thirteenth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T624. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   P 6B.

   John B Adcock, Photographer, E.D. 0136
   John B Adcock, M age 39, b. AL; Loretta Adcock, F age 32, b.TN; Willie S Adcock, M age 12, b. TX; Maggie L Adcock, F age 9, b. LA; Henry T Adcock, M age 7, b. LA; George A Adcock, M age 5, b. LA; Hazel L Adcock, F age 3; L Fannie Adcock (mother) F age 57, b. AL

2.   Union, Louisiana, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Fourteenth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T625. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   P 5A.

   John B Adcock, Photographer, E.D. 129
   John B Adcock, M age 49, b. AL; Laretta J Adcock, F age 41, b.TN; Margaret L Adcock, F age 18, b. LA; Henry T Adcock, M age 17, b. LA; George A Adcock, M age 15, b. LA; Hazel L Adcock, F age 12, b. LA; Christine L Adcock, F age 7, b.LA; Mabel V Adcock, F age 6, b. LA

3.   Union, Louisiana, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Fifteenth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T626. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   P 2B.

   Williams, Harris S, E. D. 18, Police Jury Ward 10, Union, Louisiana, Laborer
   Harris S Williams, M age 26, b.LA; Hazel L Williams, F age 22, b. LA; Ruth Williams, F age 3, b. LA

4.   Union, Arkansas, United States. 1940 U.S.Census Population Schedule
   P 6B.

   Williams, H S,E. D. 70-37, Norphlet, Union, Arkansas, School Truck Driver
   H S Williams, M age 37, b. LA; Hazel Williams, F age 32, b. LA, Ruth Williams, F age 13, b. LA, (Living) Williams, M age 10, b. LA

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Find A Grave.