Bryan Adair

FROM BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Of PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINITERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER BRYAN ADAIR: Elder Adair was born in Stephens MO near Columbia on May 28, 1905. His parentsrarely took him to church, neither of them being professors of religion. He was, however,taught that a church is a very sacred organization, and that there is a God in Heaven. At a young age, he was deeply burdened by religious things. As a young man, he began to search for a church and decided that the hard-shells were the only that believed as he did. In November of 1926, he united with the Old Cedar Church near Columbia, MO and was baptized by Elder G. E. Edwards. Within one month, he was trying to speak in public. Two years after being baptized, hewas married to Miss Adah Collins of Adair County, MO. He then moved his membership to Hazel Creek Church where she was a member. She passed away after only 16 months of marriage. He then married Miss Viola Copps and they had a baby girl. At the request of Hazel Creek Church, he was ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry on August 25, 1931, and since that time had the care of churches in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. He passed away on February 9, 1976.