Sam Adair

Dr. Samuel Lowery Adair V came from a long line of medical professionals that migrated from England and ended up in Clark County, Indiana near Jeffersonville. The first Sam Adair started the family tradition of medicine. Adair was a doctor and the undertaker in Jeffersonville during the time Jeffersonville was infamous for its illicit gambling and liquor. Adair was the doctor who cared for Branham's first wife Hope during her death and also the family physician. In some versions of William Branham's stage persona, Branham claimed to have prophesied that Adair's clinic would be established in Jeffersonville.

SAMUEL LOWERY ADAIR, M. D. Undoubtedly the family name of Adair brings to mind very frequently in Clark County, Indiana, grateful memories of medical efficiency and scientific care, reaching back over a long interval, for the present worthy bearer of the name and professional title of Dr. Samuel L. Adair is the third here in direct descent, and, like his father and grandfather, is held in honor and affection. The Adair family was established in the United States in 1815, by his grandfather, whose name he bears. The first Dr. Samuel L. Adair was born in England, but was professionally educated at Cincinnati, Ohio, and from that city came to New Washington, Indiana, in 1830.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

I said, "What is it, Dr. Adair?" He said, "Well, Billy," said, "do you think that this city needs a clinic?" I said, "Every city needs a clinic, doctor." And he said, "Do you think that I'd be worthy to have that clinic?" I said, "If there's anybody, I think you'd be."
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In the prayer I raised up, and I seen his clinic, what it was to be. I said, "Dr. Adair, forget about that place down there." He just told me, said, "If God will give me that clinic, I'll promise Him now, that I'll put a big sign up in front that if people are not able for their medicine and their operations and things, as long as I'm able to afford it, I'll never charge a poor person a penny for it." And I said, "Well, that's mighty nice; they need it." But I said, "That's just asking for the sake of the people." So then I seen the clinic, I said, "Dr. Adair, your clinic will not be down there, for THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, it'll set on the corner of Maple and Wall Street
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His son, Samuel Lowery Adair II, also a physician, trained at a medical school in Louisville Kentucky, just across the river from Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Samuel L.. Adair II was born at New Washington, Indiana, and during the war between the states was represented by a substitute, as he felt he could be of greater service to his fellow-citizens' cause by following his profession than by bearing arms. From youth he had taken a keen interest in medical science, receiving his early education therein under the preceptorship of his father, and then attending the Hospital College of Medicine, of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1875, having received his degree of Doctor of Medicine the previous year from the Kentucky School of Medicine. He was a man of great public spirit, and a leader of his calling at New Washington, where his death occurred. He married Jane Shrader, of Clark County, who was of German descent, and they became the parents of four children.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

Sam's father, Sam Lowery Adair IV, started the family practice in Jeffersonville in 1926. In 1931 when the "Indiana 150 Years Of American Development" was published, he had a successful practice described as "large" and "lucrative" in general medicine and surgery. Fraternally, he was a well-known Mason.

Samuel L. Adair, of this review, received his early education in the grade schools of Clark County, following which he enrolled as a student in the medical department of Kentucky University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class of 1904. At that time he returned to New Washington, where he was engaged successfully in practice until 1926, then locating at Jeffersonville, where he has since built up a large and lucrative practice in general medicine and surgery. Doctor Adair has established an unassailable standing as a thoroughly reliable and talented member of his calling, and his position in the esteem and confidence of his fellow-practitioners is evidenced by the fact that he was president of the Clark County Medical Society in 1927, and secretary of that organization in 1928. He also belongs to the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is a member of the staff of the Clark County Memorial Hospital. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps, but was not called upon for active service. He has splendidly-equipped offices at 453 1/2 Spring Street. Fraternally Doctor Adair belongs to the Masons, the Eagles, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Lions Club. Doctor Adair married Miss Grace E. Thompson, of Hendricks County, Indiana, who died in December, 1928, and to this union there were born two children: Samuel L. IV the fourth of the same name in straight succession to adopt medicine as a profession, who is now a medical student at the University of Louisville, Kentucky; and Juanita G., who is also attending that well-known institution.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

But though he was well-established in the city of Jeffersonville, Sam Adair IV was suffering internally. In 1934, he placed the barrel of a shotgun to his face and took his own life. His son and Branham's associate, Sam L Adair V, would immediately take over his practice. But the medical clinic was not originally on the corner of Maple and Wall Street as Branham had prophesied. His father's clinic was located at 447 Spring Street in Jeffersonville.

In some versions of William Branham's stage persona, Branham claimed that Juanita was present at the time of Hope Branham (Brumbach)'s death. Juanita was Dr. Sam Adair V's sister, who was also in the medical profession. Other versions of Branham's stage persona describe different women, with the names "Hilda", "Louise", and "Evelyn"