CHAPEL HILL, Tenn.--Rev. S. O. McAdoo, 81, minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Sewanee, died yesterday at Franklin County Hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Watson Funeral Home, Winchester. Graveside services will be at 1:30 at Swanson Cemetery, Chapel Hill.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary Francis Reynolds McAdoo; a daughter, Mrs. Bessie Furguson, Nashville; five sisters, Mrs. Noella Bragg, Mrs. Anna Qualls, Mrs. George Weeks, Miss Mamie McAdoo, Mrs. Lucille Forsythe, Murfreesboro.
[Source: The Nashville Tennessean, June 17, 1971, page 68]

Death: Samuel O McAdoo, 81, pastor of Sewanee (Tenn). church, died June 16 at Winchester, Tenn. His home was at Cowan, Tenn. Services were conducted by Ky Curry in Winchester June 18.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Frances Reynolds McAdoo; a daughter, Mrs. Bessie Ferguson; and five sisters.
Mr. McAdoo entered the ministry from Murfreesboro (Tenn.) church in 1922 and was ordained by the former McMinnville Presbytery in 1923. He served congregations in Lebanon, Clarksville, Cookeville, McMinnville, McGready, Chattanooga, Elk, and Murfreesboro Presbyteries. He helped in organizing Second church, Chattanooga.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 20, 1971, page 4]

Only a Few Left
Ray--On June 16, 1971, Rev. Samuel Osborne McAdoo of Cowan, Tenn. passed away in death. And with his going largely passed a way of approach to church programs used by a group of men who followed the years of 1906 in the denomination. Only a few of these faithful souls are left.
Born in Rutherford County, Tennessee in 1890, he passed his early life as a carpenter and contractor. Upon entering the ministry, he did his preparation educationally through the guidance of both Bethel College and Vanderbilt. his pastorates were several in both Tennessee and Alabama. he also did considerable evangelistic and youth camp work as called for.
Brother McAdoo's last pastorate, where he was still in charge, was at Sewanee, where he had been for 14 years.
One daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Bessie Ferguson, is a nurse in Nashville area.
He was married again in 1963, to Miss Frances Reynolds of Chapel Hill, Tenn. They had bought a home in Cowan, where she had continued her music teaching career, piano, even in his years of failing health having a class of 31 pupils.
There are several sisters in the McAdoo family, most of them residing in Rutherford County, Tenn.
He hammered out and chipped away at his job as he conceived it, letting the chips fall where they would. And he found it hard to accept the changes of the age. He and I seldom saw eye to eye on issues. Yet I was asked to conduct his funeral. At heart he loved dearly the church and felt called on to combat present trends and attitudes and methods of approaches.
So we write the "Amen" to his life.
                           Ky Curry
                           Winchester, Tennessee
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 20, 1971, page 5]