Descendants of
David Fleming
of Pitt County, North Carolina
thru his son Benjamin
Fifth of eight parts
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Generation No. 5
B155. ALLIE ELIZABETH7 FLEMING (William Benjamin6, Osmyn S.5, Luke4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born September 21, 1893 in Beaufort County, North Carolina; died April 15, 1960 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, according to her obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, April 15, 1960, p. 12 and Pitt County, North Carolina Families, Adams - Jinkins, Volume I, by Levis Allen Churchill, Greenville, North Carolina, April 1995, p. 82. However, if I transcribed it correctly, her grave marker at Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, North Carolina gives the date of her death as April 16, 1960. “Besie” married Charles Erastus Fleming (same as #B72 above) on February 21, 1917 in Belvoir, Pitt County, North Carolina, son of Edward Peter Fleming and Talitha House. He was born April 1, 1875 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died November 16, 1955 in Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Allie Elizabeth Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, April 15, 1960, p. 12:
RITES SATURDAY FOR MRS. C. E .FLEMING
Mrs. Allie E. Fleming, 66, widow of C. E. Fleming, died at Pitt Memorial Hospital at 6:15 Friday morning following two weeks of illness.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Wilkerson Chapel Saturday morning at 11 o’clock by her pastor, the Rev. Hoke Richie. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Fleming was reared and spent most of her married life in Pitt County. She lived in Rocky Mount for several years but for the past two years had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Warren Causey, near Grifton. Mr. Fleming died in 1955. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Rocky Mount.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Guy Whichard of Fairmount, Mrs. Warren E. Causey of Grifton, Mrs. Archie Henry of Florence, S. C., and Mrs. Harvey Brinson of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; two sons, C. E. Fleming, Jr. of Rocky Mount and Louis Fleming of Greenville; 13 grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Lyman Brown of Falkland, Mrs. Agnes Little of Williamston, and Mrs. H. T. Brown of Greenville; a brother, Carlton Fleming of Belvoir; and her stepmother, Mrs. Josephine Fleming of Belvoir.
Obituary of Charles Erastus Fleming
, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, November 17, 1955, p. 16:The Daily Reflector
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR CHARLES E. FLEMING
Mr. Charles E. Fleming, 80, died at his home, 223 South Tillery St., in Rocky Mount, at 4:25 o’clock Thursday (sic – Wednesday) afternoon after 10 months of illness.
uneral services will be conducted at the Wilkerson Chapel Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by the Rev. Hoke H. Ritchie, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rocky Mount. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming was born and reared in Pitt County, son of the late Edward Peter and Ann House Fleming, and was married to the former Allie Elizabeth Fleming. They made their home in Greenville until 1947 when they moved to Rocky Mount. Mr. Fleming was a farmer and salesman until his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and a member of the Retired Men’s Club.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Charles E. Fleming of Rocky Mount and J. Louis Fleming of Greenville; four daughters, Mrs. Warren Causey of Grifton, Mrs. Guy Whichard of Fairmont, and Evelyn and Martha of the home; and 11 grandchildren.
Issue listed above under (#B72),
Charles Erastus Fleming, before.
B157. ETHEL MARIAH7 FLEMING (William Benjamin6, Osmyn S.5, Luke4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 3, 1895, according to Emily Cheryl (Mayo) Malone. She married first Arthur Herbert Mayo on February 23, 1916 in Pitt County, North Carolina. He was born March 21, 1891 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died August 15, 1918 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He was buried in the Mayo Cemetery on the J.B. Ellis farm in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. She married second H. Lyman Brown.
From e-mail from Emily Cheryl (Mayo) Malone, Kinston, North Carolina, on September 30, 1999:
“Ethel Fleming and Lyman Brown had one daughter who now lives in Florida. She has two children and a couple of grandchildren. I will try to contact them and see if they will contribute information to be included in the genealogy.”
Issue:
Of Ethel Mariah Fleming and and Arthur Herbert Mayo
B322–––i.–––Arthur Benjamin8 Mayo, of whom below, born July 17, 1917 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died May 25, 1991 in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Issue:
Of Ethel Mariah Fleming and H. Lyman Brown
B323–––i.–––Betty Jean8 Brown, of whom below, born in 1934 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
B159. AGNES7 FLEMING (William Benjamin6, Osmyn S.5, Luke4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born about October 1899 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 30, 1981 in Martin General Hospital, Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Robert Jasper Little on June 5, 1919 in Pitt County, North Carolina, son of Christopher Crandall Little, Jr. and Emma Stancill. (Emma Stancill was a daughter of Theophilus Jones Stancill and Martha Johnston and was a brother of Theophilus Johnston “Offie” Stancill and Mattie A. Brown, #B122 above.) He was born September 18, 1890 in Beaufort County, North Carolina; died March 3, 1943 near Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and, according to his obituary below, was buried at Gum Swamp Free Will Baptist Church, Pitt County, North Carolina.
Obituary of Agnes Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, May 6, 1974, p. 2:
LITTLE
WILLIAMSTON –– Mrs. Agnes Fleming Little, age 81, died Friday night in Martin General Hospital in Williamston. Funeral services will be conducted today at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by Rev. Thurman Griffin, her pastor, and Rev. Ronnie Williamson. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Little was the wife of the late Robert Jasper Little and was a native of Pitt County. She lived in the Belvoir community for many years and was a former member of Gum Swamp F(ree) W(ill) B(aptist) Church. For the past 25 years she made her home in Williamston where she was a member of Reddicks Grove Baptist Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ben Hopkins of Williamston; three sons, Robert D. Little of Rt. 2, Washington, Julius T. and Thomas G. Little, both of Greenville; a sister, Mrs. Ethel Fleming Brown of Greenville; 12 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Little, 1009 W. Wright Rd., Greenville.
Obituary of Robert Jasper Little
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, March 4, 1943, p. 2:
ROBERT J. LITTLE DIED WEDNESDAY
Robert J. Little, 52, died at his home six miles from Greenville, one mile south of the Falkland highway, at 6:20 o’clock Wednesday night. He had been in ill health for more than a year.
Pallbearers will be Heber Whichard, Arthur Morris, R. E. Adams, Shade Harris, Will R. Tyson, Guy Whitehurst, Ben Tripp and Hubert Savage.
Mr. Little was born in Beaufort county but spent most of his life in Pitt county. He served 13 months in the United States Army in World War I. He married Miss Agnes Fleming of Pitt county June 5, 1919, and for several years he operated a store at Belvoir. He had been living at his present home for only two months.
Surviving are his wife; three sons: Robert Dalton and Thomas Little, both of the home, and Julius Little of the U.S. Navy, now stationed at Great Lakes, Ill.; one daughter, Miss Helen Little of the home; one grandchild; three brothers, Earl Little of Washington, D. C., D. C. Little of Norfolk, and Irving Little of Pactolus; and one sister, Mrs. Roma Pollard of Penny Hill.
Issue:
B324–––i.–––Helen8 Little married Ben Hopkins. Her mother’s obituary calls her Mrs. Ben Hopkins (1981) and her father’s obituary Miss Helen Little (1943).
B325–––ii.–––Robert Dalton Little.
B326–––iii.–––Julius T. Little.
B327–––iv.–––Thomas G. Little.
B160. IRENE BROWN7 FLEMING (William Benjamin6, Osmyn S.5, Luke4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born June 14, 1904 in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina (I think the location of her birth is correct, though her obituary in The Daily Reflector below states she was born in Pitt County, North Carolina –– JTF); died September 10, 1948 in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. “Brownie” married Hubert Elitha Savage. He was born October 9, 1899; died January 19, 1982; and was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Obituaries of Irene Brown Fleming
The Evening Telegram, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Friday, September 10, 1948, p. 12:
MRS. H. E. SAVAGE
DIES HERE TODAY;
RITES ON SATURDAYMrs. Irene Brown Fleming Savage, wife of Hubert E. Savage, manager of the Imperial Life Insurance Company here, died at her home at 1123 Tarboro street this morning after an illness of several months.
Funeral services will be held at the First Universalist Church at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Conducting the service will be the Rev. Stanley Stall, Universalist pastor, the Rev. W. H. Skeels, former pastor, and the Rev. Norman Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will in Pineview cemetery.
Born on June 14, 1904, in Washington, N.C., Mrs. Savage was the daughter of the late Mary L. Brown Fleming and William B. Fleming. She had lived in Rocky Mount for the last 20 years. She was a member of the First Universalist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Hubert Max Savage and Edward Baxter Savage, and a daughter, Norman Frances Savage, all of the home; four sisters, Mrs. Charles E. Fleming of Rocky Mount, Mrs. Lyman Brown of Falkland, Mrs. Agnes Little and Mrs. Henry Brown, both of Greenville; and a brother, Joseph C. Fleming of Chicago.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 10, 1948:
MRS. H. E. SAVAGE OF TARBORO DIED TODAY
Mrs. Irene Brown Savage, 42, wife of H. E. Savage, died at 5:45 o’clock Friday morning at her home on Tarboro Street in Rocky Mount following six months of illness. Funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the First Universalist Church in Rocky Mount and burial will be in Pineview Cemetery in Rocky Mount.
Mrs. Savage, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fleming, was born and reared in Pitt county and had been living in Rocky Mount for the past fifteen years. She had lived in Greenville for several years prior to moving to Rocky Mount. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Falkland.
Surviving are her husband; two sons, Max and Baxter Savage of the home; a daughter, Miss Norman Frances Savage of the home; four sisters: Mrs. H. L. Brown of Falkland, Mrs. H. T. Brown and Mrs. Agnes Little of Greenville, and Mrs. C. E. Fleming of Rocky Mount; and a half-brother, Joseph Carlton Fleming, of the United States Navy.
Issue:
B328–––i.–––Hubert Max8 Savage.
B329–––ii.–––Edward Baxter Savage. Is he the same as Baxter Savage, a 1957 letterman in football (offensive guard) at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina?
B330–––iii.–––Norma Frances Savage.
B162. JESSE MARCELLUS7 FLEMING, JR. (Marcellus6, Osmyn S.5, Luke4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 20, 1902 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 20, 1994 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. He married first Doris Mae Powell on May 31, 1924 in Durham, North Carolina. A daughter of William Daniel Powell, she was born February 15, 1905 in Danville, Virginia; died December 9, 1968 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville; and also was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. After her death, he married second Alice Barrett. She may have been married to a Mr. Fussell prior to her marriage to Mr. Fleming.
Marriage of Jesse Marcellus Fleming, Jr. and Doris Mae Powell
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, June 4, 1924, p. 5:
FLEMING-POWELL
The following announcement will be read with interest:
Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel Powell
announce the marriage of their daughterDoris Mae
to
Mr. J. Marcellus Fleming, Jr.Saturday, May the thirty-first
Nineteen hundred and twenty-four
Durham, North Carolina.At Home
Greenville, N.C.
Obituary of Jesse Marcellus Fleming, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, January 22, 1994, p. B-2:
J. M. FLEMING, 91; FUNERAL ON SUNDAY
Mr. J. Marcellus Fleming, Jr., 91, of 501 Highland Ave., died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services Sunday, 2 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming was a lifelong resident of Greenville and a graduate of Greenville High School. He owned and operated a service station at West End Circle for a number of years. He was employed by Greenville Utilities, where he worked at the electric plant from 1942 until his retirement in 1961. Mr. Fleming was also involved in sales and service for Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner Co. for several years. He attended the Primitive Baptist Church and Memorial Baptist Church.
Surviving, his wife, Alice Barrett; son, Jesse M. Fleming III of the home; daughters, Polly Fleming Stokes of Phenix City, Ala., and Lou Fleming Woodard of Greenville; stepdaughter, Dorothy Kenny of Jacksonville; stepsons, Barron James Fussell of Phoenix, Ariz., and William Z. Fussell of Asheville; sister, Hazel Fleming Jackson of Greenville; two grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; five step-great-grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Obituary of Doris Mae Powell
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 10, 1968, p. 16:
FLEMING
Mrs. Doris Powell Fleming, 63, wife of J. Marcellus Fleming, died at Pitt Memorial Hospital Monday at noon from injuries received when hit by a car Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted at the Wilkerson Chapel Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 by Elder Marvin E. Garner, Primitive Baptist Minister of Greenville, assisted by the Rev. John T. Woodley, pastor of the People’s Bible Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Fleming resided at 501 Highland Drive.
Mrs. Fleming, a native of Danville, Virginia, had lived in Greenville since her marriage to Mr. Fleming May 31, 1924. She was a member of Mt. Vernon Methodist Church in Danville, Virginia.
Surviving are her husband, J. Marcellus Fleming; two sons, William P. Fleming of Greenville and Jesse Marcellus Fleming III of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Elwood E. Stokes of Phenix City, Ala., and Mrs. Woodard of Greenville; her mother, Mrs. W. D. Powell of St. Petersburg, Florida; three brothers, G. V. Powell of Miami, Florida, James E. and Alpha C. Powell, both of Danville, Virginia; two sisters: Mrs. T. H. Terrell of South Hill, Virginia, and Mrs. James H. Purcell of St. Petersburg, Florida; and five grandchildren.
Issue:
Of Jesse Marcellus Fleming, Jr. and Doris Mae Powell
B331–––i.–––William Powell8 Fleming was born on July 12, 1926 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on March 13, 1993; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Peggy Worthington, who was born in 1931.
Obituary of William Powell Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 16, 1993, p. B-2:
FLEMING
GREENVILLE –– William Powell Fleming, 66, died Saturday. His residence was Rt. 13, Greenville. A graveside service will be conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Greenwood Cemetery by the Rev. Joseph Sayblack.
Mr. Fleming, a native and lifelong resident of Greenville, attended the Greenville schools. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. A former employee of the Pitt Theater for 25 years, he was employed by Murphy Wholesale prior to his retirement.
He was a member of Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are: his wife, Peggy W. Fleming; his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. J. Marcellus Fleming, Jr. of Greenville; a brother, Jesse M. Fleming III of Greenville; two sisters, Mattie Lou Woodard of Greenville and Polly F. Stokes of Phenix City, Al.; an aunt, Hazel Jackson of Greenville; two stepbrothers, Barrom James Fussell of Phoenix, Ariz., William Z. Fussell of Asheville, NC; and a stepsister, Dorothy S. Kenny of Jacksonville, NC.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
B332–––ii.–––Doris Elizabeth Fleming, born January 16, 1928; died January 16, 1928; and was laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
B333–––iii.–––Jesse Marcellus Fleming III was born in 1931.
B334–––iv.–––Mattie Lou Fleming. Lou married David Woodard.
B335–––v.–––Polly Fleming, of whom below, was born on November 7, 1933 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on October 11, 2002 in Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama.
B166. CHARLES EDWARD7 FLEMING (Charles Erastus6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 13, 1920; died October 31, 1963 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He married Juanita (Wanetta?) Graves, who was born May 5, 1922; died November 4, 1978; and was also buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Records of Pineview Cemetery in Rocky Mount, North Carolina call her “Juanita Graves Fleming Arrington,” suggesting a second marriage to a Mr. Arrington?
Obituary of Charles Edward Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, October 31, 1963:
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR CHARLES E. FLEMING
Charles Edward Fleming, 43, died early this morning in Rocky Mount following a brief illness.
He was the son of the late Charles Erastus and Besie Fleming of Pitt County.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday. Services will be conducted from Trinity Lutheran Church by his pastor, the Rev. Hoke Ritchie. Burial will be in Pineview Cemetery.
He was a Mason, veteran of World War II and a member of the Rocky Mount Cosmetologist Guild.
Surviving are his wife, the former Wanetta Graves; three daughters, Marguerite Eason, Rhonda Susan and Anita Elizabeth, all of the home; one son, Charles Edward, Jr. of the home; one brother, J. Lewis (sic –– Louis) Fleming of Greenville; four sisters, Mrs. Warren Causey of Grifton, Mrs. Harvey Brinson of Swansboro, Mrs. Guy Whichard, and Mrs. Archie Henry, both of Greenville.
Issue:
B336–––i.–––Marguerite Eason8 Fleming.
B337–––ii.–––Rhonda Susan Fleming.
B338–––iii.–––Anita Elizabeth Fleming.
B339–––iv.–––Charles Edward Fleming, Jr.
Notes
Is Suzanne Elizabeth Fleming a daughter of Charles E. Fleming, Jr.?
Excerpt from The Rocky Mount Telegram, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, April 6, 2003:
FLEMING-FRUITS
Suzanne Elizabeth Fleming and Jefferson Ryan Fruits were married at 5 p.m. at First Baptist Church Chapel in Rocky Mount. The Rev. Dan Davis performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Robin C. Fleming and the late Charles E. Fleming, Jr.
Grandparents of the bride are Mrs. Joseph B. Bass and the late Horace W. Carmichael, Sr. and the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Fleming.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Fruit of Asheville.
Grandparents of the groom are Joyce Fruits of Jefferson City, Mo. and the late Ira Fruits, and Marguerite Thurmond of Macon, Ga. and the late J. C. Thurmond.
The bride was given by her brother, Charles Edward Fleming III.
Heather Wilson of Waxhaw served as maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Lauren Fruits, sister of the groom, and Brooke Kelley, both of Asheville, Emily Hyatt of Waynesville and Alison Justice of Canton.
Junior bridesmaid was Emily Fruits, sister of the groom, of Asheville.
The groom choose his father as best man.
Groomsmen were Nick Garvey and Jeff Boyd, both of Louisville, Ky., and Michael Anderson and Webb Elvington, both of Asheville.
Music was performed by Wimberly Moore of Nashville, flutist; Lauren Fruits, vocalist; Lamar Cumbee, organist.
A reception was held at the church fellowship hall.
Following a wedding trip to Ocracoke Island, the couple will live in Boone, where they both are students at Appalachian State University ...
B167. JAMES LOUIS7 FLEMING (Charles Erastus6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 5, 1922. He is named as a survivor of his sister, Martha Brooks (Fleming) Brinson in the latter’s obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, October 26, 2001. Louis married Julia Elizabeth Sawyer on September 1, 1946, daughter of Julian Mathews Sawyer and Cassie Elizabeth Howell. She was born May 6, 1928 in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia. From The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 6, 1976, p. 6: “25 year membership certificates and pins were awarded (by Masons of Greenville Masonic Lodge No. 284, A.F. and A.M.) to J. Louis Fleming and J. A. Bunting, both of Greenville. Both became Master Masons in 1951. They are also members of the New Bern Scottish Rites and the Shriners.”
Issue:
B340–––i.–––James Louis8 Fleming, Jr., born in 1947, according to Pitt County, North Carolina Families, Adams - Jinkins, Volume I, by Levis Allen Churchill, Greenville, North Carolina, April 1995, p. 85.
Notes
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 22, 1965, p. 10:
YOUTH CHOSEN SERVE LEAGUE
James L. Fleming, Jr. is one of three youths from North Carolina who have been selected to serve the Luther League of the Lutheran Church in America as a caravaner.
Caravaning, described to the youth ministry, begins with a ten-day intensive training period for the 56 young people who were chosen throughout the country at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis. After the session, 14 teams composed of two boys and two girls each will be sent to Lutheran youth groups in the United States and Canada for four-day periods, during which time the caravan team will provide guidance in worship, programs and recreation.
The schedule calls for two caravaners to make two consecutive visits to congregational Luther League after which they will receive a free day. The young people receive no remuneration and are given assistance only in travel allowances.
Fleming is a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fleming, Sr., of 605 S. Elm Street.
B341–––ii.–––Benjamin Wesley Fleming was born February 2, 1949, according to Pitt County, North Carolina Families, Adams - Jinkins, Volume I, p. 85; died April 12, 1949 in Duke Hospital, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Benjamin Wesley Fleming
, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 12, 1949, p. 10:The Daily Reflector
INFANT SON OF LOCAL
FAMILY DIES TODAYBennie Wesley Fleming, two month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fleming of Greenville, died in Duke Hospital early Tuesday morning after one day of illness. Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel of the S. G. Wilkerson and Sons Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at three o’clock by the Rev. R. E. Hardaway, pastor of the Memorial Baptist Church, and burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.
Surviving are his parents; a brother, James Louis Fleming, Jr. of the home; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fleming of Rocky Mount; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Cassie Sawyer of Greenville; his maternal grandfather, Julian Sawyer of Lenoir, N.C.; and his maternal great grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Sawyer, of Hertford, N.C.
B342–––iii.–––Thomas Edward Fleming, of whom below, born in 1951.
B343–––iv.–––Cathy Elizabeth Fleming, of whom below, was born in 1952.
B168. ETHEL LOUISE7 FLEMING (Charles Erastus6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born June 6, 1926 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died December 6, 1997 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and buried in Riverside Christian Church Cemetery, near Grifton, North Carolina. She married first Warren E. Causey in 1946. “Bill” died in 1958. Ethel married second Samuel C. Winchester in 1966. He was born in Summerfield, Guilford County, North Carolina; died in 1988.
Obituaries of Ethel Louise Fleming
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, December 8, 1997, p. B-4:
ETHEL C. WINCHESTER, 71, Dec. 6. Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, December 8, 1997, p. B-2:
WINCHESTER
GREENVILLE, N.C. –– Mrs. Ethel Causey Winchester, 71, died Saturday, December 6, 1997 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
he funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Riverside Christian Church Cemetery near Grifton.
Mrs. Winchester, a native of Pitt County, spent her early life in Ayden. She was married to Warren E. “Bill” Causey in 1946 and made her home in Craven County in the Riverside community near Grifton. She farmed with her husband for 11 years until his death in 1958.
In 1966 she married Samuel C. Winchester and moved to Greenville. She continued to maintain her interest in farm property in the Riverside community. Prior to Mr. Winchester’s death in 1988, she was very active with him in his work with the Pitt County Agricultural Fair. Mrs. Winchester was a member of Red Oak Christian Church in Greenville.
Surviving: daughter, Fleming Causey Wooten of Herndon, Va.; sons, Edwin W. Causey of Rt. 1 Grifton and Wayne Douglas Causey of Greenville; step-son, Samuel C. Winchester, Jr. of Cary; step-daughters Jane Pridgen of Nashville, N.C. and Kathryn Manning of Lynchburg, Va.; brother, Louis Fleming of Greenville; sisters, Evelyn Henry and Martha Brinson, both of Greenville; 8 grandchildren, Warren Wooten, Jae Wooten, Sallie Wooten, Amy Sprenkle, Holly Causey, Heather Causey, Bill Causey and Kati Lynn Causey; 7 step-grandchildren; and 3 step-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends Monday from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Red Oak Christian Church, 1827 Greenville Blvd., S.W., Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Biographical Notes on Samuel C. Winchester
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, December 3, 1965, p. 8:
WINCHESTER WILL BE SPEAKER AT MEETING
Sam C. Winchester, chairman of The Pitt County Extension Service, will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Pitt-Greene Production Credit Association here Saturday.
Saturday’s meeting will mark the 32nd annual stockholders meeting of the farm credit association. In addition to Winchester’s address, the annual business meeting in which J. R. Boswell, general manager, will present the secretary-treasurer’s report and two new directors will be elected.
Winchester is a native of Summerfield in Guilford County and is a graduate of N. C. State University in agriculture.
He first came to Pitt County in 1941 as an assistant agent and following one year as agent in Jones County, Winchester returned to Pitt in 1946 as agent, a position he has held since that time.
Issue:
Of Ethel Louise Fleming and Warren E. Causey
B344–––i.–––Ethel Fleming8 Causey, of whom below.
B345–––ii.–––Edwin W. Causey was born in 1951.
B346–––iii.–––Wayne Douglas Causey. Wayne is the community development manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Department office in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B169. EVELYN NELL7 FLEMING (Charles Erastus6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born September 4, 1927 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died July 8, 1999 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Archibald (Archie) Lindsay/Lindsey Henry.
Obituary of Evelyn Nell Fleming
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Friday, July 9, 1999, p. B-6:
EVELYN F. HENRY, 71, July 8. Funeral 2 p.m., Saturday, Immanuel Baptist Church. Burial, Pinewood Memorial Park. Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, July 9, 1999, p. B-2:
HENRY
Mrs. Evelyn Fleming Henry, 71, died Thursday, July 8, 1999 at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Henry, a native of Pitt County, was a longtime resident of Greenville. She was a graduate of Ayden High School. She had worked for Standard Oil Company and the Registrar’s Office at East Carolina University. She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church and the Mittie Smith Sunday School Class.
She is survived by her husband, Archie Henry; sons, Lindsay Henry and wife Margie Peoples of Wilmington, NC, and Robert Henry of Coppell, Tx; grandchildren, Elizabeth Henry and James Henry, both of Wilmington, NC; sister, Martha Brinson of Greenville, NC; and brother, Louis Fleming of Greenville, NC.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Friday at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church Building Fund, 1101 S. Elm St., Greenville, NC 27858.
Issue:
B347–––i.–––Lindsay8 Henry (Archibald Lindsay Henry, Jr.?), of whom below.
B348–––ii.–––Robert Elliot Henry.
B170. MARTHA BROOKS7 FLEMING (Charles Erastus6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born about 1929 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 25, 2001 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married E. Harvey Brinson.
Obituary of Martha Brooks Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, October 26, 2001, p. B-2:
MARTHA BRINSON
Mrs. Martha Fleming Brinson, 72, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at her home, 2605 Tryon Drive.
Mrs. Brinson, a native of Pitt County, was a longtime resident of Greenville. She was employed with NationsBank for many years, retiring in 1995. A member of the Pitt County Shrinettes, she was named Shrinette of the Year in 2000. She also was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church, where she was active in a number of aspects of the church.
Mrs. Brinson was preceded in death by her sisters, Ethel Causey Winchester and Evelyn Fleming Henry. Surviving are her daughter, Cynthia Ann Brinson of Greenville; son, Harvey Keith Brinson of Wake Forest; and brother, Louis Fleming and his wife, Judy, of Greenville.
The family will receive friends tonight from 7-9 at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 S. Elm St., Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Issue:
B349–––i.–––Cynthia Ann8 Brinson was born in 1960. In 2003, Cynthia adopted a son, Nathan Qwalee Brinson, born in March 2001. They live in Winterville, North Carolina.
B350–––ii.–––Harvey Keith Brinson was born in 1961.
B173. ROBERT NELSON7 FLEMING (Bithel6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 3, 1914; died May 17, 1986 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, according to an e-mail message from his daughter Jane Lois Elizabeth (Fleming) Kachel. He married first Margaret Lucille Cobb on February 17, 1942 in Dillon, Dillon County, South Carolina. She was a daughter of Lawrence Alexander Cobb and Mary Lillian Parkerson. Margaret was born on July 7, 1925 in Greenville, North Carolina; died on May 31, 1996 in Carrollton, Isle Of Wight County, Virginia; and was buried in St. Luke’s Memorial Park, Smithfield, Virginia.
Margaret Lucille Cobb married second Charles Levin Harrell on November 20, 1950 in Greenville, North Carolina. Their children were: (a) Carolyn Lee Harrell who married Stanley Carl Cook; (b) Vicky Lynn Harrell; (c) Kenneth Levin Harrell; and (d) Margaret Louise Harrell.
Robert Nelson Fleming married second Roberta May Holmes in November of 1951 in Massachusetts. She died October 2001.
Obituary of Margaret Lucille Cobb
The Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, Sunday, June 2, 1996:
MARGARET COBB HARRELL
Margaret Cobb Harrell, 70, of 15496 Waterworks Road, died Friday, May 31, 1996. She was a native of Pitt County, N.C., a housewife and Baptist.
Survivors include three daughters, Carolyn H. Cook of Peoria, Ill., Vicky H. Smith of Glenn Burnie, Md., and Margaret H. Hildebrand of Carrollton; two sons, Robert Fleming of Miami, Fla., and Kenneth L. Harrell of Smithfield, Va.; two sisters, Bessie Irene Horz of Pasadena, Md. and Janet C. Wingate of Greenville, N.C.; one brother, Lawrence A. Cobb, Jr., of Greenville, Texas; and 11 grandchildren.
A graveside service will be conducted Monday, June 3, at 1 p.m. in St. Luke’s Memorial Park with the Rev. Fred Breeden officiating. The family will receive friends Sunday, June 2 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Colonial Funeral Home, Smithfield, and suggest memorial contributions be made to the Isle of Wight Volunteer Squad, P.O. Box 97, Smithfield, Va. 23431.
Colonial Funeral Home, Smithfield, Va., is handling arrangements.
Issue:
Of Robert Nelson Fleming and Margaret Lucille Cobb
B000–––i.–––Robert Lawrence8 Fleming was born in 1946 in Norfolk, Virginia. On December 20, 1980 in Hampton, Virginia, Bobby married Grace Ann Van Allen, who was born in 1957 in Frankfurt, Germany, daughter of Robert Eugene Van Allen and Rose Mary Lorraine-Taunario. They have two children: (a) Jennifer Marie Fleming, born in 1981 at Riverside Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia; and (b) David Lawrence Fleming, born in 1983, also at Riverside Hospital in Norfolk.
Issue:
Of Robert Nelson Fleming and Robert May Holmes
B351–––i.–––Jane Lois Elizabeth8 Fleming, of whom below, born in 1952.
B352–––ii.–––Michael Gilbert Fleming was born in 1954.
B353–––iii.–––Rhonda Patricia Fleming was born in 1955.
B354–––iv.–––Linda Jean Fleming, born 1957.
B355–––v.–––William Robert Fleming, born 1958.
B356–––vi.–––Jessie Holmes Fleming, born July 31, 1962.
B357–––vii.–––Jeffrey David Fleming was born on July 31, 1962; died in 1986 in an automobile accident.
B358–––viii.–––Josephine Nelson Fleming, born July 31, 1962.
B359–––ix.–––Theodore Paul Fleming, born 1965.
B360–––x.–––Marion Beatrice Fleming, born May 1, 1966. Peggy was murdered in 1993.
B174. WALTER MACK ERASTUS7 FLEMING (Bithel6, Edward Peter5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 10, 1916 at Fleming and Randolph’s Crossroads, Pitt County, North Carolina. He married Ethel Mae Pollard on January 9, 1938, eloping to Trenton, Jones County, North Carolina, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 305. She was a daughter of Ashley Paton Batson Oliver Pollard and Clyde Mae Heath. Ethel was born May 16, 1920 in Beaver Dam Township, Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 7, 1994 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Notes
Excerpts from The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 307:
On January 10, 1916, in a house at what was then called Fleming and Randolph’s Crossroads in Pitt County, Walter Mack E. Fleming was born of parents Josephine Elizabeth Nelson and Bithel Fleming ...
When he was about three years old, Mack’s family moved to Greenville where his (father) worked at Export Leaf Tobacco Company. At the age of five, they moved to a place in the country where his (father) began farming ...
Mack (worked) at Northside Lumber Company on North Greene Street for ten cents an hour ...
On January 9, 1938, Mack married Ethel Mae Pollard. After their marriage, he worked at J. J. Perkins Lumber Yard. He worked at Edenton, North Carolina, where he supervised labor building a naval base on the Albemarle Sound. Later he went to Manteo on the Outer Banks where he worked with the Civilian Conservation Corp building brush fences for sand dunes.
Mack went to work with the Greenville Utilities in 1950. He retired in 1977 ... spending winters in Florida and summers in the mountains of North Carolina ...
Obituary of Ethel Mae Pollard
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, April 8, 1994, p. B-2:
ETHEL P. FLEMING, 73; FUNERAL ON SATURDAY
STOKES – Mrs. Ethel Pollard Fleming, 73, died Thursday, April 7, 1994.
Funeral services Saturday 2 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Fleming, a native of Pitt County, lived in Greenville for many years prior to moving to the Stokes community in 1970. She was a member of the Sweet Gum Grove Free Will Baptist Church.
Surviving: her husband, Mack E. Fleming; daughter, Yvonne Fleming Brown of Route 1, Stokes; brothers, O. P. Pollard Jr. of Greenville and Jasper R. Pollard of Chattanooga, Tenn.; sisters, Lossie P. Moye of Hialeah, Fla. and Elizabeth P. Galant of West Palm Beach, Fla.; one grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Issue:
B361–––i.–––Irma Yvonne8 Fleming, of whom below, born in 1938 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
B179. LILLIAN7 STOKES (Addie6 Perkins, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 6, 1890; died September 2, 1966 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. She married James Beverly Congleton on June 16, 1916, son of Asa Biggs Congleton and Jennie Whitley. He was born February 2, 1891 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died there on May 30, 1953; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 237: “James Beverly, Sr. was in the first class at East Carolina Teacher’s Training College. He married Lillian Stokes on June 6, 1916, and in the early 1920s, his father-in-law made him a partner and the business became Stokes & Congleton.”
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Obituary of Lillian Stokes
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, September 3, 1966, p. 16:
CONGLETON
Surviving are a son, J. Beverly Congleton of Stokes; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Stokes Romeiser of Brwyn, Pa.; several grandchildren; a brother, William F. Stokes of Stokes; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Stokes Tyson of Stokes.
The family requests that no flowers be sent. Anyone desiring to do so may send a contribution in her memory to the Stokes Christian Church Steeple Fund.
Obituary of James Beverly Congleton
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, June 1, 1953, p. 3:
FUNERAL HELD TODAY FOR J. B. CONGLETON
Mr. James B. Congleton, Sr., 62, prominent farmer and former merchant of Stokes, died suddenly at his home in Stokes at 3:40 o’clock Saturday afternoon following a heart attack.
Funeral services were conducted at his home in Stokes Monday afternoon at four o’clock and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. The Rev. Harold Tyqre (?), Christian minister of Bath, conducted the services.
Mr. Congleton, son of the late Asa Biggs and Jennie Whitley Congleton, spent all his life in the Stokes community. For a number of years he was a partner in a mercantile business in Stokes. He was a member of the Stokes Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lillian Stokes of Stokes, to whom he was married in 1916; a son, James Beverly Congleton, Jr., of Stokes; a daughter, Mrs. W. A. Romeiser, of Toledo, Ohio; three grandchildren; and two sisters, Miss Bessie Congleton of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. A. F. Caldwell of Richmond, Va.
Issue:
B362–––i.–––James Beverly8 Congleton, Jr., of whom below, born January 25, 1918.
B363–––ii.–––Virginia Annette Congleton, of whom below, was born on May 6, 1927.
B181. WILLIAM FLEMING7 STOKES (Addie6 Perkins, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 31, 1898 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died July 1, 1968 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Kathryn P. Tripp on October 25, 1922. She was born May 10, 1903 in Beaufort County, North Carolina; died March 19, 1995 in Stokes, North Carolina; and was also buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Biographical Notes on William Fleming Stokes
From The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 648:
WILLIAM FLEMING STOKES
William Fleming Stokes, retired merchant, farmer, public servant and religious leader, was born Jan. 31, 1898, in Stokes. He was the son of William Green and Addie (Perkins) Stokes.
He received his early education in the local schools, graduated from Warrenton High School under the late John Graham and earned (an) A.B. degree at the University of North Carolina, Class of 1919. Later he was a student at Eastman Gaines Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. At the university during World War I, he was a member of S.A.T.C. and completed his training at Plattsburg, New York.
On Oct. 25, 1922, he married Kathryn Tripp of Stokes, N.C. and they were the parents of three daughters ...
Mr. Stokes was engaged in general merchandise business from 1920 to 1950 and had farming interests. At one time, he was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. After his retirement, he was an avid Camellia and Rose enthusiast. He was a member of several Camellia societies and attended Camellia conventions throughout the South. He was an active member of Stokes Methodist Church, serving his church as steward and as Trustee for many years. He served on the local school board several years and then on the Pitt County Board of Education for 23 years. He did extensive traveling during his retirement until his death on July 1, 1968.
Obituary of William Fleming Stokes
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, July 1, 1968, p. 20:
STOKES
Mr. William F. Stokes, 70, prominent Pitt County farmer and merchant, died at Pitt Memorial Hospital Monday morning at 5:30 after four days of illness. Funeral services will be conducted at the Wilkerson Chapel Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock by his pastor, the Rev. Daniel C. Boone. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Stokes, son of the late William Green and Addie Perkins Stokes, was born and spent all his life in Stokes. He was a graduate of Warrenton High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served in the United States Army during World War I. He was a partner of Stokes & Congleton until his retirement in 1952. A member of the Stokes Methodist Church, he was a trustee and served on the board of stewards. He had been a member of the Pitt County board of education for the past 24 years and was a member of the North Carolina and American Camellia Society.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Kathryn P. Tripp of Stokes, to whom he was married in 1922; three daughters, Mrs. Harold L. Watson of Stokes, Mrs. Howe Q. Wallace of Jacksonville, Florida, and Mrs. James P. Norman, Jr. of Wallace; 7 grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Stokes Tyson of Stokes.
Obituary of Kathryn P. Tripp
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, March 20, 1995, p. B-2:
KATHRYN T. STOKES, 91; SERVICES ON TUESDAY
STOKES – Mrs. Kathryn Tripp Stokes, 91, died Sunday, March 19, 1995, at her home.
Mrs. Stokes, a native of Beaufort County, lived in Robersonville for a number of years prior to moving to Stokes where she lived all of her adult life. A graduate of East Carolina Teachers College, she was a member of Stokes United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women and was a charter member of the Jane Austen Book Club.
Surviving her, daughters, Carolyn S. Watson of Stokes, Marvel S. Wallace of Jacksonville, Fla., Billie Sue S. Norman of Greenville; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions to the Methodist Home for Children, P. O. Box 10917, Raleigh, N.C., 27605 or the Stokes United Methodist Church Memorial Fund, P. O. Box 182, Stokes, N.C. 27884.
Issue:
B364–––i.–––Carolyn8 Stokes married Harold L. Watson. They had two children, including possibly a son, Harold, Jr., who married Gail Page Andrews??? Ref.: The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 575: “They are the parents of two children and grandparents of two.”
B365–––ii.–––Marvel Stokes was born in 1930. She married Howe Q. Wallace, who was born June 15, 1930. They had four children, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, and two grandchildren at its writing in 1982. They were living in Jacksonville, Florida in 2002.
Notes
Howe Wallace is CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of PalletOne, the largest new pallet manufacturer in the United States, headquartered in Bartow, Florida. He became President of PalletOne upon completion of the purchase of its operating facilities in October 2001 from IFCO Systems. Since March 2000, Mr. Wallace had served as Executive Vice President Human Resources of IFCO Systems, N.V. Since 1997, Mr. Wallace served as Chief Human Resources Officer and Director of National Sales for PalEx, Inc. Mr. Wallace has over 17 years of experience in the pallet industry. Mr. Wallace has been associated with Ridge Pallets since 1983 and has served as Director of Human Resources of Ridge since 1984. Mr. Wallace has served on the Board of Directors of the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association and is active in industry education efforts.
B366–––iii.–––Billie Sue Stokes was born in 1935. About 1960, she married James Pierce Norman, Jr., who was born on June 24, 1929 in Yadkin County, North Carolina, and was a son of James Pierce Norman and Ella Mae Zimmerman. He died on February 16, 2003; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. They had two daughters: (a) Suzanne who married Neal Spruill and (b) Kathryn Norman who married a Mr. Taylor.
Obituary of
James Pierce Norman, Jr.The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 18, 2003:
JAMES NORMAN, JR.
Mr. James Pierce “Jim” Norman Jr., 73, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003. A graveside service will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Norman, a native of Yadkin County, was the son of the late James Pierce Norman and Ella Mae Zimmerman. A former resident of Greensboro, he attended the Greensboro City Schools and the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict and received a Purple Heart. A funeral director for 45 years, he operated funeral homes in Wallace, Beulaville, and Greenville.
He was a member of St. James United Methodist Church and the Greenville Golden K, and was a Mason and Shriner for a number of years.
Surviving are his wife of 43 years, Billie Sue Stokes Norman; two daughters, Suzanne N. Spruill and husband, Neal, of Wake Forest and Kathryn N. Taylor of Winterville; five grandchildren, James Stephens and wife, Ginny, Courtney Flowers and husband, Wayne, Derek Spruill, Laurel Taylor and Dillon Taylor; two great-granddaughters, Kaylea Stephens and Taylor Flowers; and two sisters, Ella Mae Livingston of Greensboro and Helen DiCola of Pinehurst.
The family will receive friends tonight from 6-8 at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
B182. CURTIS FLEMING7 PERKINS (James Lawrence6, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born November 1, 1899 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died September 12, 1977 in Wilson County Memorial Hospital, Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, North Carolina. He married Nancy Elizabeth White (#B292 below) on November 20, 1926, daughter of James Benjamin White and Nancy Vesta Fleming. She was born February 9, 1904 in Greenville, North Carolina; died January 27, 2003. Elizabeth married second Thomas McMillan on September 1, 1951 in Manning, South Carolina.
Biographical Notes on
Nancy Elizabeth White
Excerpt from The St. Paul’s Epistle, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina, September 2002, p. 7:
401 East Fourth Street
Greenville, North Carolina 27858OUR OLDEST CHURCH MEMBER
By Bartje Pace
Elizabeth White McMillan, 98 years young, is the oldest member of our church. She was born on Greene Street, across from her double first cousin, Margaret Fleming (who married Dr. John Winstead), whose house is now the Chamber of Commerce.
Elizabeth’s uncle was Mr. Sam White, (Charlie White’s grandfather and Virginia Pou’s great-grandfather) who established White’s Store on Cotanche Street.
Elizabeth is nearly blind and quite deaf and lived independently until her only child, Curtis Perkins, died in January of this year. She has seven wonderful grandchildren who have moved her to Burlington to be near them ...
Marriage of Curtis Fleming Perkins and Nancy Elizabeth White
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, October 11, 1924:
PERKINS-WHITE
The following announcement will be read with interest by friends in this city.
Mrs. Nannye Fleming White announces the engagement of her daughter Nancy Elizabeth to Mr. Curtis Perkins. The wedding will take place the 20 of November.
Obituaries of Curtis Fleming Perkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, September 12, 1977, p. 8:
PERKINS
Mr. Curtis Fleming Perkins, 77, died in Wilson County Memorial Hospital this morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
A Pitt County native, born and reared in Stokes, he lived in Greenville for many years and operated a clothing business here. For the past few years he had lived in Wilson.
Surviving him are a son, C. F. Perkins, Jr. of McLeansville; four brothers, J. Vance and W. Reid Perkins, both of Greenville, and Julian L. and Jerome Perkins, both of Stokes; four sisters, Mrs. Gordon W. Roebuck, Mrs. J. Clinton Roebuck and Miss Jean Perkins, all of Stokes, and Mrs. J. M. Cutchin of Whitakers; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The family will be at the Perkins homeplace in Stokes.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 13, 1977, p. 8:
PERKINS
Funeral services for Mr. Curtis Fleming Perkins will he held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Edward Sharpe. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The family will be at the Perkins homeplace in Stokes and will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o’clock.
Mr. Perkins died Monday.
Obituary of Nancy Elizabeth White
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, February 6, 2003:
ELIZABETH McMILLAN
Elizabeth White McMillan, 98, of 5773 Bethel Church Road, McLeansville, N.C., and Twin Lakes Center, died Jan. 27, 2003.
A celebration of her life will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9, her 99th birthday, at Bethel Presbyterian Church in McLeansville, N.C.
She was a member of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, N.C.
Elizabeth was born on Feb. 9, 1904, in Greenville, the daughter of James B. and Nannie V. Fleming White. She is survived by her grandchildren: Kirk Perkins and wife Nancy, Julian Perkins, Jeff Perkins, Diane Jackson, Kim Teeters and husband Johnny, Nancy Swanson and husband Dan, and Heidi Perkins; four great-grandchildren: Todd Perkins and wife Marsha, Angela Parham and husband Tommy, Nichole Jackson and Jena Perkins; five great-great-grandchildren: Logan Perkins, Carson Perkins, Kaitlyn Parham, Skylar Jackson and Hunter Jackson. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas McMillan and her son Curtis Perkins Jr.
Mrs. McMillan attended Greenville City Schools, Salem College in Winston Salem and was later graduated from East Carolina University. Mrs. McMillan gave the morning news a program called, “Women in the News,” on Greenville’s first radio station. While living in Raleigh, she served as receptionist and secretary at Wachovia Bank and after returning to Greenville, she taught in the Pitt County and Greenville City Schools. She was one of the organizers of the Atheneum Book Club.
Our family has truly been blessed by the gift of this remarkable woman. We especially thank all of her friends and church members that were so important and helpful to her.
Memorials may be made to Bethel Presbyterian Church, 300 Knox Road, McLeansville, N.C. 27301.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is assisting the family.
Issue:
B367–––i.–––Curtis Fleming8 Perkins, Jr., of whom below, born October 12, 1927 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died December 31, 2001 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B183. JAMES VANCE7 PERKINS (James Lawrence6, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born April 29, 1901 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina. Vance married Helen Gray Jones on February 17, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of The Rev. H. Frederick Jones and Florence Winn. She was born January 23, 1905 in Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia; died December 15, 1976 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. Vance served as a member of the Pitt County Commission from 1946 until 1950, and again from 1954 until 1974.
Biographical Notes on James Vance Perkins
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 581:
J. VANCE PERKINS
James Vance Perkins, born in Stokes, N.C. on April 29, 1901, was the son of Della Roberson (formerly of Martin County) and James Lawrence Perkins. One of ten children, he was active in politics and business.
He attended the Stokes Public School for eight years, went to Trinity Park School in Durham, N.C., and graduated from high school there. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he graduated in 1924 with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree.
His early years were spent on the family farm and mercantile business. After schooling was completed he was involved in selling automobiles, appliances, and men’s clothing. In December, 1934, he was appointed treasurer of Pitt County. He was re-elected to this office for the next eight years. In 1942 he resigned that position to become cashier of the Camp Pickett Post Exchange in Blackstone, Virginia. After World War II, he left the Post Exchange cashier’s position and returned to Greenville where he worked in men’s clothing business with his brother. In 1950 he formed a partnership and entered the men’s clothing business, using the name “Perkins-Proctor.” He was active in this business until 1968 when he retired.
Vance Perkins first took his seat on the Pitt County Board of Commissioner in 1946, and was re-elected for five terms thereafter.
Mr. Perkins was elected county commissioner of Pitt County in 1946, serving one four-year term. He was not re-elected in 1950, but ran again in 1954, and was elected and served 20 more years, being re-elected for the next four terms. During this period he served five terms as chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, three terms as vice chairman of the Board of Commissioners, was chairman of Pitt County Health Department, chairman of Pitt Airport Commission, and also serving when Pitt County Memorial Hospital was built in 1948. In 1958 he served as president and director of North Carolina County Commissioners Association, then represented this Association at the convention of the National Association of County Officials, in Portland, Oregon, being elected there to the National Health Committee.
He is a member of Memorial Baptist Church, a charter member of Greenville Lions Club, was a member of the Executive Club, a past Mason and Shriner, member of Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of North Carolina, and is president and director of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Rocky Mount, N.C.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 15, 1942, p. 1:
RESIGNS POST AS TREASURER
J. Vance Perkins To
Leave For Virginia
Next WeekBy Chester Walsh
J. Vance Perkins, Pitt county treasurer since 1934 has tendered his resignation to become effective September 20. He has accepted a position as chief accountant and bookkeeper at Blackstone, Va., a United States Army camp. He expects to leave here the first of next week if his accounts are checked up by D. R. Hollowell and Co., certified public accountants, who audit the county books.
Perkins was appointed county treasurer December 28, 1934, to succeed A. T. Moore, who resigned. At the end of the two year term, Perkins defeated Charles Laughinghouse for the office in 1936. Perkins then defeated Amos Clark for treasurer in 1938, when he was elected for a four-year term expiring in December 1942. He had no opposition at the recent spring Democratic primary. He has been in office about eight years.
n the 1934 campaign when Moore was elected treasurer, Perkins ran second. The county Commissioners appointed him treasurer when Moore resigned in December of that year.
Perkins is a member of a well known Pitt county family. He has taken an active part in religious, educational and other community activities.
Several names were mentioned today as eligible successors to the treasurer’s job, including Amos O. Clark, a former candidate for treasurer and register of deeds, and H. L. Andrews, county tax collector, and several others “in the background.”
The “man on the street” has had something to say in recent months about abolishing the treasurer’s office to put Pitt in line with Wilson, Lenoir and other counties, which do not have a county treasurer.
It is up to the County Commissioners to appoint a successor to serve Perkins’ unexpired term, which ends on December 1. It is the duty of the Pitt County Democratic Executive Committee to name a candidate for the office to run for treasurer at the regular election on December 2. The term is for four years.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 18, 1942, p. 2:
MRS. VANCE PERKINS GOING TO VIRGINIA
Mrs. J. Vance Perkins has resigned as executive secretary of the Woman’s Club, co-chairman of shipping for the Pitt County Chapter of the American Red Cross and as chairman of a circle at Memorial Baptist Church.
Mrs. Perkins will leave Greenville on September 30 to join Mr. Perkins, who recently resigned as treasurer of Pitt County to accept a position as chief accountant and bookkeeper of the Post Exchange at Camp Pickett, a United States Army Base at Blackstone, Va. She will live at Farmville, Va., about 30 miles from the camp.
Mrs. Perkins has been a resident of Greenville for 17 years. She was a member of the faculty of the Pitt County and Greenville schools for nine years and was vice-chairman of the Pitt County Democratic Committee for several years. She was an active member of the Woman’s Club and for five years was a sponsor of the Junior Woman’s Club. Mrs. Perkins served as vice-president of the Woman’s Missionary Society of Memorial Baptist Church and as chairman of a circle for some years. She is a charter member of the Service League and was a member of the Inter Se Book Club.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, September 19, 1942, p. 1:
VANCE PERKINS TO NEW JOB (IN) VIRGINIA
. Vance Perkins, who recently resigned as Pitt county treasurer to accept a position as chief accountant and bookkeeper at Camp Pickett Post Exchange, a United States Army camp at Blackstone, Va., will leave at the weekend to assume his new duties. Mrs. Perkins, who recently resigned as executive secretary of the Woman’s Club and other positions she held, with the children, will go to Farmville, Va., about Sept. 30 to live. They were unable to secure a house nearer the camp.
J. R. Hollowell and Co., certified public accountants, checked over Perkins’ accounts at the treasurer’s office and founded them correct and in order.
A number of candidates are after the treasurer’s job. They are Amos O. Clark, Charles Laughinghouse, Henry L. Andrews, present tax collector J. Nat Harrison and others.
Biographical Notes on Helen Gray Jones
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 582:
MRS. JAMES VANCE PERKINS
Mrs. Perkins was born on Jan. 23, 1905 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was the daughter of a Baptist minister, H. Frederick and Florence Winn Jones.
She was very active in civic organizations, education, her church, politics, charitable organizations and various other programs. She was educated at the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, and East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C., where she graduated.
She was an active member of Greenville Woman’s Club for over 40 years, serving as president of the Junior Club, two terms as president of the Senior Club, sponsor of the Junior Club for a number of years (assisted in organizing two Junior Clubs), chairman of every department of the Senior Club and served on many committees. While chairman of the House Committee she had the responsibility of selling the old Woman’s Club Building and helping with the plans for the current building. She volunteered her services as hostess, and with help from other club members, she raised funds for the club.
In addition, time was spent serving as chairman of the Cancer Drive for Pitt County and the City of Greenville, helping many times in the Red Cross drive, serving as shipping chairman for the Red Cross drive, helping with T. B. seals sales, serving as chairman of Recreation for the City of Greenville, directing the Recreation Program for two and a half years (including a teenage program). She also served as vice chairman of the Pitt County Democratic Party.
As a member of the Memorial Baptist Church of Greenville, she served as superintendent of the Junior Department, as a teacher, and as Circle Chairman.
She initiated a Christmas Party for those in the County Home; this became an annual event for many years until the Home closed. She later helped with programs at the Greenville Nursing Home.
As a teacher of primary grades for 27 years she taught in both Pitt County and City of Greenville schools, retiring in June 1966. She was active in the National Education Association, the North Carolina Education Association, the Classroom Teacher Association, and the Association of Childhood Education (serving as president).
She was a charter member of the Inter Se Book Club, the Service League, D.A.R., East Carolina Art Society (serving on the Board of Directors), and served many times on the steering committee of the Annual Community Arts Festival. She was nominated for the Juanita Bryant Citizenship Award for North Carolina Federation of Woman’s Clubs.
She and her husband, James Vance Perkins, were married on February 17, 1934, at her home in Baltimore, Maryland. To this union two children were born: James Vance Perkins, Jr. (born June 13, 1937) and Jane Marshal Perkins (born July 13, 1940).
Mrs. Perkins died December 15, 1976.
Obituary of Helen Gray Jones
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 15, 1976, p. 12:
PERKINS
Mrs. Helen Gray Perkins, 71, wife of J. Vance Perkins, died in Pitt Memorial Hospital Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Gordon Conklin, pastor of Oakmont Baptist Church.
Mrs. Perkins resided at 2413 E. Fifth St. She was a native of Clarksville, Va., and has been a resident of Greenville since 1925. She was a graduate of East Carolina University and was a teacher in the Greenville City School System for 25 years from which she retired in 1966. She was a member of the Memorial Baptist Church and the DAR of Farmville. She was also active in the work of the Greenville Women’s Club and was the sponsor of the Junior Woman’s Club for many years. The auditorium in the Woman’s Club Building was dedicated in her honor December 3.
Surviving are her husband, J. Vance Perkins; a son, James Vance Perkins, Jr. of Greenville; one daughter, Mrs. Carlos Burt of Enfield; two sisters, Mrs. Burwell Temple of Kinston and Mrs. Morgan T. Gibson of Virginia Beach, Va.; one brother, J. Frasia Jones of Back Bay, Va.; and six grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Issue:
B368–––i.–––James Vance8 Perkins, Jr., of whom below, born in 1937.
B369–––ii.–––Jane Marshall Perkins, of whom below, born in 1940.
B185. WALTER REID7 PERKINS (James Lawrence6, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born December 19, 1904 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died September 14, 1993 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. Reid married Virginia Dare King on June 30, 1931 in Eighth Street Christian Church, Greenville, North Carolina, daughter of Richard Warren King and Mattie Elizabeth Moye. She was born July 1, 1905 in Greenville, North Carolina; died there on April 11, 2000; and was buried in Greenville’s Greenwood Cemetery.
Marriage of Walter Reid Perkins and Virginia Dare King
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, July 1, 1931, p. 3:
PERKINS-KING
Beautiful Wedding Solemnized in Christian Church
The Eighth Street Christian Church was the scene of a beautiful wedding last evening at 8:30 o’clock when Miss Virginia King became the bride of Mr. Walter Reid Perkins. The church was appropriately decorated for the occasion to carry out the green and white color note of the wedding ...
Immediately preceding the ceremony, the guests of honor, ten intimate friends of the bride, entered and were seated together in the front pews. They were Miss Louise Holliday of Gallivant’s Ferry, S.C., Miss Elizabeth McIntyre of Marion, S.C., Misses Sara Gulley, Frances Moseley, Mary Cousins and Mary Forbes of this city, Miss Elizabeth Transou of Greensboro, Mrs. David Gaston of Chester, S.C., and Mrs. George F. Hadley of this city ...
The bridal party entered in the following order: The four ushers, Howard M. King, brother of the bride, Howard Moye, Frank Patrick and George Hadley, were first to enter. They were followed by the bridesmaids and groomsmen, who entered alternatively two at the time. The groomsmen were Richard W. King, brother of the bride, Vance and Julian Perkins, brothers of the groom, Gordon D. Walker of Lynchburg, Va., J. M. McCall of Richmond and Foster Young ... The bridesmaids were Mrs. T. A. Galbreath of Kinston and Mrs. L. H. Hannah, sisters of the bride, Miss Christine Perkins, sister of the groom, and Miss Clara Louise Moye. The dame of honor, Mrs. L. W. Gaylord, sister of the bride, entered alone ...
The flower girls, petite Misses Virginia Gaylord and Nancy Hannah, nieces of the bride, entered next ...
Master Curtis Perkins, Jr., small nephew of the groom, was ring bearer ...
The bride entered with her brother, Charles King ...
Mrs. Perkins is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Richard Warren King and the late Sheriff Richard Warren King. She is a graduate of the city high school and received further education at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro and the East Carolina Teachers College in this city. Her genial disposition and vivacious manner have won her a host of friends both in her native home and other parts of the state.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Perkins of Stokes. He is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, class ’26, and attended Duke University. For the past few years he has conducted the Perkins Company, a popular mercantile business here, and has won scores of friends.
The popularity of the young couple was attested by the large number of wedding gifts they received. The bride was much feted and entertained during the weeks preceding her wedding ...
Biographical Notes on Walter Reid Perkins
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 582:
Walter Reid Perkins is one of Pitt County’s native sons. He was born in Stokes, N.C., Dec. 19, 1904. His parents were James Lawrence and Della Cordelia Roberson Perkins ...
Living in a small town, Reid left home when he was 13 years old to go to Durham where he enrolled as a student in Trinity Park School. To reach Durham he had to change trains twice. There he made friends and enjoyed the social life in the city. After graduating he entered Trinity College (now Duke University), where he was pledged to Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. From there he entered Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1926 with one of the highest honors bestowed on a cadet, First Lieutenant and Adjutant. At age 77 he still has that same V.M.I. snap in his walk. After graduation Reid and one of his V.M.I. friends worked their way to Europe on a steam ship for the summer to see the world.
When he returned home, he established the Perkins Company, a department store. After several years he started Perkins Oil Company, which he owned and operated until he retired.
On June 30, 1931, Reid married Virginia Dare King ... from this marriage were three children, all born in Greenville
Obituary of Walter Reid Perkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, September 16, 1993, p. B-2:
WALTER PERKINS, OIL FIRM FOUNDER, DIES TUESDAY
Mr. Walter Reid Perkins, 88, of 400 N. Summit St., died Tuesday at his home.
uneral services Friday 2 p.m., First Christian Church. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Perkins, a native of Stokes, was a graduate of Trinity Park School in Durham and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He was the founder of Perkins Oil Co., serving as president of the company until his retirement.
Mr. Perkins was a member of First Christian Church where he served as an elder and trustee. He had served in a number of other leadership roles and was elected an Honorary Life Member of the First Christian Church Official Board in 1988. He was a past member of the Greenville Rotary Club.
Surviving: his wife, Virginia King Perkins; sons, Walter Reid Perkins, Jr. and Richard Lawrence Perkins, both of Greenville; daughter, Virginia King Perkins Sharp of New Bern; sisters, Mary Annie P. Roebuck Buck of Stokes, Christine P. Cutchin of Whitakers, Cordelia P. Roebuck of Greenville and Jean B. Perkins of Tarboro.
Visitation today from 7-9 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to First Christian Church, 520 Greenville Blvd., S.E., Greenville, N.C. 27858 or Hospice of Tar Heel, P. O. Box 1645, Greenville, N.C. 27835.
Obituary of Virginia Dare King
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday, April 13, 2000, p. B-4:
VIRGINIA DARE KING PERKINS
GREENVILLE –– Mrs. Virginia Dare King Perkins, 94, died Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Mattie Moye King
Wife of Richard Warren King, and mother of Virginia Dare (King) Perkins. Contributed to the Ross-Kammerer Online Photo Archive (#328) by Nancy Elizabeth King Perkins, and used courtesy of the Ross-Kammerer Photo Archive, Greenville, North Carolina.
The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, April 14, 2000 at First Christian Church, with the Rev. Thomas Banks officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Perkins was born July 1, 1905 in Greenville, daughter of the late Richard Warren and Mattie Elizabeth Moye King. Her husband, Walter Reid Perkins, also preceded her in death.
A resident of Greenville for most of her life, she attended Greenville schools and North Carolina Woman’s College (UNC-G). She taught school and directed plays for several years.
Mrs. Perkins, known as “Ma” to most of her family, was a lifelong member of First Christian Church where she was the oldest member at the time of her death. Always involved in the life of her church, she led and participated in many of its activities through all of her years. Among her church activities were Sunday School teacher, founder of the kindergarten, and Church Board member. She was honored by the Board as a “Life Member.” Her other activities included the Greenville Service League, the Greenville Museum of Art, the Athenaeum Book Club and several bridge clubs.
Mrs. Perkins was known for her bubbling, happy spirit and love of people.
Richard Warren King
Father of Virginia Dare (King) Perkins. Contributed to the Ross-Kammerer Online Photo Archive (#330) by Nancy Elizabeth King Perkins, and use courtesy of the Ross-Kammerer Photo Archive, Greenville, North Carolina.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Richard King and Howard King and three sisters, Mattie Moye Gaylord, Amen Gailbreth, and Nancy Hannah.
Surviving are her children, Virginia Perkins Sharp and her husband Ed of New Bern, Walter R. Perkins Jr. and his wife Patsy of Greenville, R. Lawrence Perkins and his wife Bonnie of Greenville; brother, Charles M. King of Greenville; grandchildren, C. Edward Sharp III and his wife Jan of Cary, Reid Perkins Sharp of New Bern, Virginia King Sharp of Raleigh, Walter Reid Perkins III and his wife Kelly of Greenville, Julian Bradshaw Perkins and his wife Michelle of Greenville, Richard Lawrence Perkins Jr. of Greenville and William Rippard Perkins of Greenville, and five great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 6-8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Christian Church, 520 Greenville Blvd., S.E., Greenville, NC 27858 or to the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center, ECU School of Medicine, 525 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858.
Issue:
B370–––i.–––Virginia King8 Perkins, of whom below, born in 1933.
B371–––ii.–––Walter Reid Perkins, Jr., of whom below, born in 1936.
B372–––iii.–––Richard Lawrence Perkins, of whom below, was born in 1940.
B188. HELEN CHRISTINE7 PERKINS (James Lawrence6, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 30, 1911. Christine married James McKenney Cutchin III on September 10, 1932. He was born September 26, 1912; died February 1984.
Issue:
B373–––i.–––James McKenney8 Cutchin IV, of whom below, born in 1933.
B374–––ii.–––Barbara Perkins Cutchin, of whom below, born in 1934.
B375–––iii.–––Lawrence McGilbra Cutchin, of whom below, born in 1937.
B189. MARSHALL JEROME7 PERKINS (James Lawrence6, Annis S.5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born July 15, 1913 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died December 17, 1985 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. Jerome married Virginia Ruth Roebuck on October 10, 1935, daughter of George Benjamin Roebuck and Myrtle Gurganus. She was born April 30, 1917; died June 30, 2000; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Marshall Jerome Perkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 17, 1985, p. 10:
PERKINS
Mr. Marshall Jerome Perkins, 72, died today at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro. He was a resident of Stokes.
His funeral will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Revs. Willis Wilson and K.C. Lennon. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mr. Perkins, a native of Pitt County, spent all his life in Stokes and was a retired general merchant. He was a member of the Stokes Missionary Baptist Church and Stonewell Masonic Lodge AF&AM. He was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Sudan Temple, New Bern.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Virginia Roebuck Perkins; three daughters, Mrs. Thomas Murdough of Hudson, Ohio, Mrs. William Harvey Whitehurst of Bethel and Mrs. Gene Hamby of Greenville; three brothers, J. Vance Perkins and W. Reid Perkins, both of Greenville, and Julian L. Perkins of Atlantic Beach; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Annis Roebuck of Stokes, Mrs. Christine Cutchin of Whitakers, Mrs. J. Clinton Roebuck of Greenville and Miss Jean Perkins of Morehead City; and nine grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday.
Obituaries of Virginia Ruth Roebuck
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday, July 1, 2000, p. B-6:
STOKES
VIRGINIA R. PERKINS, 83, June 30. Funeral 2 p.m., Monday, funeral home chapel. Burial, Pinewood Memorial Park. Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home, Greenville.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, July 1, 2000, p. B-2:
VIRGINIA R. PERKINS
STOKES –– Mrs. Virginia Roebuck Perkins, 83, died Friday, June 30, 2000.
Funeral services Monday 2 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Perkins, a lifelong resident of Stokes, was a member of Stokes Baptist Church.
Surviving: her daughters, Joy Perkins Murdough of Hudson, Ohio, Jewell Perkins Whitehurst of Bethel and Marsha Perkins Hemby of Greenville; nine grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation Sunday 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, July 2, 2000, p. B-2:
PERKINS
STOKES, NC –– Mrs. Virginia Roebuck Perkins, 83, beloved mother and grandmother, died Friday, June 30, 2000.
he funeral service will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Perkins, daughter of the late George Benjamin and Myrtle Gurganus Roebuck, grew up near Stokes. She was married to Jerome Perkins of Stokes for 50 years. He died in 1985. During their marriage, she was active in the management of the family store, Jerome Perkins General Merchandise until it was destroyed in a fire in 1971.
Mrs. Perkins had been an active member of Stokes Baptist Church since 1941, serving as secretary-treasurer of WMU beginning in 1973. Her lifelong love of flowers was exhibited weekly in creative and beautiful arrangement for Stokes Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Louis Roebuck and George Roebuck, Jr.
Surviving are her daughters, Joy Perkins Murdough and her husband Tom of Hudson, Ohio, Jewell Perkins Whitehurst and William Harvey Whitehurst of Bethel, and Marsha Perkins Hemby and her husband Gene of Greenville; grandchildren, Tom Murdough III of Cambridge, Mass., Marshall Murdough of Hudson, Ohio, Jody Murdough of Cleveland, Ohio, Peter Murdough of Hudson, Ohio, Juliana Whitehurst of Stokes, Gil Whitehurst of Stokes, Ryan Whitehurst of Bethel, Jenny Hemby Morgan and her husband J. P. of Greenville, and Gene Hemby, Jr. of Greenville; great-grandchild, Jamie Morgan of Greenville; sister-in-law Iris Roebuck of Farmville; and nephew Kent Roebuck of Tarboro.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 7-9 p.m. Sunday.
Issue:
B376–––i.–––Virginia Joy8 Perkins, of whom below, was born in 1937.
B377–––ii.–––Jewell DeLana Perkins, of whom below, was born in 1948.
B378–––iii.–––Marsha Joan Perkins, of whom below, born in 1950.
B192. BLANCHE FLANAGAN7 DAVENPORT (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 28, 1904. She died between January 29, 1984 and July 11, 1994. She is named as a survivor in the obituary of her sister Mary Wise (Davenport) Sutton in 1984 but not in the obituary of another sister, Patsy (Davenport) Haley, in 1994. Blanche married Robert Hogan Gaskins on December 22, 1923; the wedding was a double ceremony with her cousin Mary Gaskill Flanagan, who married Walter L. Harrington. Gaskins was born 1901 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
Notes
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, November 2, 1965, p. 5:
GASKINS RETIRES AFTER 46 YEARS
Robert Hogan Gaskins retired yesterday as a buying agent for Imperial Tobacco Company after 46 years.
J. R. Moye, Jr., Buying Supervisor, told Gaskins in a ceremony at the company’s local office that “I can’t ever recall that you didn’t look as though you were enjoying your work.”
Gaskins was given some savings bond “as a token of the company’s esteem for his years of service.”
Gaskins worked in various positions in the plant from 1918 to 1937, Moye said. He became a buying agent that year.
He is a native of Greenville and is married to the former Blanche Davenport, also of Greenville. They live at 309 Library Street.
Issue:
B379–––i.–––Robert Hogan8 Gaskins, Jr., of whom below, was born on April 9, 1929.
B194. LELA7 DAVENPORT (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 5, 1908 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 8, 1997 in Nash Grove Manor, Spring Hope, Nash County, North Carolina; and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Spring Hope, North Carolina. She married Augustus Neville, Jr. Gus was born on February 7, 1903; died on March 7, 1987 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Spring Hope, North Carolina. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 264: “She taught school in Spring Hope. In 1933 at Memorial Baptist Church, she married August Neville, Jr. of Enfield.”
Obituary of Lela Davenport
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, April 9, 1997, B-6:
LELA D. NEVILLE
SPRING HOPE –– Mrs. Lela Davenport Neville, 88, died Monday (April 8th was a Tuesday?), April 8, 1997 at Nash Grove Manor.
Graveside service will be conducted 11 a.m. Friday from Oakdale Cemetery by Rev. Jody Griffin. Mrs. Neville was born in Greenville, NC on August 5, 1908. She was the daughter of the late James Fleming Davenport and Blanche Flanagan Davenport.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Augustus Neville, her son, John Davenport Neville and her grandson, Dr. Kenneth Brantley.
Mrs. Neville is survived by one daughter, Katherine Neville Brantley of Wilson; one son, Augustus Neville III of Chapel Hill; sister, Katherine Davenport Roberson of Robersonville; brother, James F. Davenport of Greenville; four grandchildren; two great-grandsons.
The family will receive friends at the Spring Hope Funeral Home Thursday night from 7-9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Spring Hope or to the charity of one’s choice.
Obituary of Augustus Neville, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, March 9, 1987, p. A-10:
NEVILLE
SPRING HOPE –– Mr. Augustus (Gus) Neville, Jr., 84, died Saturday in the Community Hospital in Rocky Mount.
His graveside funeral was conducted at 11 a.m. today in the Oakdale Cemetery in Spring Hope by ther Rev. Jimmy Creech.
A resident of Spring Hope and a retired pharmacist, he was a Mason and a member of the First Baptist Church of Spring Hope.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lela Davenport Neville of the home; two sons, Gus Neville III of Chapel Hill and Dr. John D. Neville of Raleigh; a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Brantley of Wilson; and two brothers, Robert Neville of Enfield and Murray Neville of Lewes, Del.; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Willey of Enfield and Mrs. Claire Adams of Tarboro; and five grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Momeyer Rescue Squad or the Spring Hope Fire Department.
Arrangements are by Hunt-Murray Funeral Home in Spring Hope.
Issue:
B380–––i.–––Lela Katherine8 Neville was born in 1935. Katherine married a Mr. Brantley. She is a member of Mensa of Eastern North Carolina. They had a son, Kenneth Brantley, who died before April 8, 1997, according to The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, April 9, 1997, B-6.
B381–––ii.–––Augustus Neville III was born in 1939, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 264.
B382–––iii.–––John Davenport Neville was born on August 15, 1942, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 264; died before April 8, 1997. He was a professor of history at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina and author of Bacon’s Rebellion, Abstracts of Materials in the Colonial Records Project, Jamestown, Va., Jamestown Foundation, 1976 and The Davenports and Flanagans: A Social History of Greenville and Pitt County, published in 1992. He was also chairman of the North Carolina 400th Anniversary Committee.
B195. PATSY ELIZABETH7 DAVENPORT (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 24, 1910 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died July 11, 1994 in Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. Patsy married Curtis Brabson Haley, Jr. Brabson was born on December 10, 1911; died in 1973 possibly in Brentwood, Tennessee. His father was book editor for the Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tennessee and treasurer of the Methodist Benevolent Association.
Notes
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 22, 1942, p. 1:
YDC HONORS MISS PATSY DAVENPORT
Miss Patsy Davenport of Greenville, committeewoman for the North Carolina Young Democrats, has been appointed co-director of Region X by Joe C. Carr, national YDC president. Carr, who is secretary of state in Tennessee, notified Miss Davenport that she will serve as liaison officer between the regional and national offices.
The National Young Democratic Club divides the nation into 12 regions. Region X is composed of North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Miss Davenport will have a hard time coordinating work in Region X since opportunities to hold conventions and meetings are handicapped because of the rubber and gasoline shortage.
Obituary of Patsy Elizabeth Davenport
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 12, 1994, p. B-2:
PATSY D. HALEY, 84; FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Patsy Davenport Haley, 84, died Monday, July 11, 1994.
Funeral services Wednesday 2 p.m., Chapel of Cypress Glen. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Haley was a native of Greenville. She attended East Carolina Teacher’s College and was appointed information officer at the state capitol in Raleigh in 1941. That same year, she was elected national committeewoman of the state Young Democrats Club.
She resided in Brentwood, Tenn., for 38 years and was active in the Brentwood Methodist Church and the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, where she was a member of the state board and was state conservation chairwoman. She wrote a number of playlets on conservation which were presented at the Tennessee Conservation Camps.
In 1981 she returned to Greenville and lived at Cypress Glen. She was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church.
Surviving: her daughter, Patsy Haley Stann of Chevy Chase, Md.; sisters, Edna Davenport Pearce of Franklinton, Lela Davenport Neville of Spring Hope, Sidney Davenport Hundley of Wilmington and Katherine Davenport Roberson of Robersonville; brother, James F. Davenport, Jr. of Greenville; one granddaughter.
Visitation Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Cypress Glen.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to Cypress Glen for the Health Care Unit Fund, 100 Hickory St., Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Issue:
B383–––i.–––Patsy Flanagan8 Haley, born in 1944 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. She married a Mr. Stann. They had at least one child, a daughter.
B197. SIDNEY7 DAVENPORT (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 26, 1913. She died between July 11, 1994 amd June 23, 2003 (Named as a survivor of her sister Patsy Davenport Haley in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 12, 1994, p. B-2 amd the obituary of her brother James Fleming Davenport, Jr. states that he was predeceased by six sisters and then lists his sister Katherine Davenport Roberson as his only surviving sibling.) She married Deane Hundley, Jr., who was born March 5, 1909.
Notes
Note reference to Dr. Dean Hundley in the third paragraph of the story below excerpted from The Morning Star, Wilmington, North Carolina, Wednesday, June 6, 2001, p. B-4:
MRS. MARY POWELL BONEY
WALLACE –– Mary Powell Boney, age 85, died Monday, June 4, 2001 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
She was born April 20, 1916 in Green Sea, SC and was the daughter of the late Henry and Laura Shelley Powell. She was predeceased by her husband, David R. Boney Jr., two brothers and three sisters.
Mrs. Boney graduated in 1937 as a registered nurse from James Walker School of Nursing in Wilmington. In 1939, she married David R. Boney Jr. and moved to Wallace where she began her nursing career. She worked twenty-five years with Dr. Deane Hundley and twelve years for Duplin County Health Department. Mrs. Boney was called by God to be a nurse because her love for others extended to everyone she met. She truly lived for others and her greatest joy was to meet the needs of others. Her home going leaves a void in hearts of all who knew her ...
Issue:
B384–––i.–––Deane8 Hundley III was born in 1938. I assume he is the same as named in the stories below:
The News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina, Saturday, July 15, 1995, p. C-6:
HODGES HOLDS
ONE-STROKE
ADVANTAGEBobby Hodges turned in the day’s lone sub-par score of 71 Friday –– and in the process, took the lead in the inaugural J.M. Bryan Senior Amateur. Hodges is one shot ahead of Jim Wiles and David Stanton, who each shot even par on the Players Course at Bryan Park Golf Club. Deane Hundley and Bill Stanfield are tied at 73 while Tom McBroom and Don Hutchinson each shot 74s.
The tournament concludes today.
Excerpt from The Associated Press, Wednesday, September 27, 2000:
SENIOR AMATEUR SCORES
CHARLOTTE, N.C. –– Scores Wednesday after the second and third rounds of match-play for the U.S. Men’s Senior Amateur on the 6,622-yard, par-61 Charlotte Country Club course.
Second Round
Upper Half
... Vinny Giles, Richmond, Va. (144) def. Deane Hundley III, Carthage, N.C. (154) ...
B385–––ii.–––James Davenport Hundley was born in 1941.
386–––iii.–––Ann Gaskill Hundley, born 1944, married a Mr. Hoover.
B198. JAMES FLEMING7 DAVENPORT, JR. (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 5, 1916 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on June 23, 2003 at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville. He married Edith Moore on May 22, 1949 in Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 264. She was born 1925.
Obituary of James Fleming Davenport, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 24, 2003:
JAMES DAVENPORT, JR.
Mr. James Fleming Davenport Jr., 87, died Sunday, June 22, 2003, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital after a yearlong illness. The funeral service will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Memorial Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Davenport, a lifelong resident of Greenville, was the son of the late James Fleming and Blanche Flanagan Davenport. He was a graduate of Greenville High School and East Carolina Teachers College. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with Battery C of the 688th Field Artillery Battalion as battery commander, and later retired at the rank of major from the U.S. Army Reserve after 30 years of duty. He worked with Imperial Tobacco Co. as a tobacco buyer and as the Greenville plant manager, retiring in 1976 after 40 years of service.
Mr. Davenport was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Kiwanis Pitt Golden K, was a past exalted ruler of the Greenville Elks Lodge, and had volunteered with Meals on Wheels for 10 years. He was a member of the Memorial Baptist Church, where he served as a trustee, deacon and Sunday school class president.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Davenport was preceded in death by six sisters.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Edith Moore Davenport; son, James F. Davenport III and his wife, Becky, of Bath; daughter, Martha Davenport Huggins and her husband, Douglas, of Conyers, Ga.; three grandchildren, James F. Davenport IV, Joel R. Davenport and Molly V. Huggins; and sister, Katherine Davenport Roberson of Robersonville.
The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 8 at Wilkerson Funeral Home, and other times will be at the home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Memorial Baptist Church, 1510 Greenville Blvd. SE, Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Issue:
B387–––i.–––James Fleming8 Davenport III, of whom below, born in 1952.
B388–––ii.–––Martha Ann Davenport, born in 1954, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 264. She married a Mr. Huggins. Have a daughter Molly V. Huggins.
B199. KATHERINE7 DAVENPORT (James Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 19, 1920. She married Oscar Everett Roberson in 1947 in Memorial Baptist Church, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. He was born 1913.
Issue:
B389–––i.–––Gregory Lee8 Roberson, born 1953, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 264.
B390–––ii.–––Nancy Lee Roberson was born in 1960, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 264.
B201. MARY TUCKER7 DAVENPORT (Peter Ernest6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born March 10, 1909 in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina; died September 6, 1999 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and was buried in Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, North Carolina. She married Russell Carver Parrish. He was born July 10, 1910; died August 28, 1987; and also was buried in Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Obituary of Mary Tucker Davenport
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, September 8, 1999, p. B-6:
MARY TUCKER PARRISH
CHARLOTTE –– Mrs. Mary Tucker Parrish, 90, of The Carriage Club, died September 6, 1999.
Mrs. Parrish was born March 10, 1909 in Plymouth, North Carolina, a daughter of the late Peter Ernest Davenport and Mary Tucker Davenport.
She was a teacher in the Shelby school district and later became a speech therapist. She was a very active member of the Women’s Democratic Party and was a honorary life member of the Young Democratic Club. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Charlotte.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Russell Carver Parrish of Smithfield, NC, in August of 1987.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Mrs. Parrish will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 8, 1999 at The Carriage Club with The Reverend Roger Lakatos, chaplain of the Carriage Club, officiating. The burial will be held 4 p.m., Thursday, September 9, 1999 from the graveside of Montlawn Cemetery in Raleigh, NC with the Reverend Dr. Harold Bales officiating.
Mrs. Parrish is survived by her daughter Mary Martha Parrish of Charlotte and a number of nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in remembrance of Mrs. Mary Tucker Parrish to UNICEF or Sisters of Mercy, 2115 Rexford Road, Charlotte, NC 28211 or Habitat for Humanity, 1320 North Caldwell Street, Charlotte, NC 28206.
Harry and Bryant Co. is serving the family of Mrs. Parrish.
Issue:
B391–––i.–––Mary Martha8 Parrish.
B203. JESSE PAUL7 DAVENPORT, JR. (Jesse Paul6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born December 4, 1911; died before December 27, 2001 as he is named as predeceasing his niece, Margaret Dail Davenport in her obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, December 27, 2001. Paul married Catherine Byrd Stewart in 1935. She was born December 3, 1913.
Issue:
B392–––i.–––Jesse Paul8 Davenport III, of whom below, born in 1936.
B393–––ii.–––Sidney Lawrence Davenport, of whom below, born in 1942.
B394–––iii.–––Charles Stewart Davenport, of whom below, born in 1946.
B204. JAMES ROBERT7 DAVENPORT (Jesse Paul6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 29, 1914 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died May 21, 1952 in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. James married Mary Dupree Jenkins on September 14, 1942, daughter of J. Franklin Jenkins. She was born circa 1915 in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina; died September 5, 1960 in Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Obituary of James Robert Davenport
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, May 22, 1952:
JAMES R. DAVENPORT FUNERAL HELD TODAY
Mr. James Robert Davenport, 37, died in Tayloe Hospital in Washington at 11:55 o’clock Wednesday morning following several months of illness. Funeral services were conducted at the Chapel of the S. G. Wilkerson & Sons Funeral Home Thursday afternoon at five o’clock. The Rev. J. E. Hoyle, Baptist Minister of Winterville, assisted by the Rev. Leonard Topping, Presbyterian minister of Greenville, officiated. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery.
Mr. Davenport, son of J. Paul Davenport of Pactolus, and the late Lily Savage Davenport, spent all his life in Pactolus. He was graduated from Greenville High School in 1931. He was a farmer and member of the Greenville Elks Lodge. He was married to Mary Jenkins of Greenville and Shelby in 1941.
Surviving are his wife; two sons: James R. Davenport, Jr. and Edward J. Davenport; and two daughters: Margaret Dail Davenport and Lily Davenport, all of the home; his father and stepmother, Mrs. J. Paul Davenport of Pactolus, a brother, J. Paul Davenport, Jr. of Pactolus; and a sister, Mrs. Don Steed of Candor, N.C.
Obituaries of Mary Dupree Jenkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, September 5, 1960, p. 10:
MRS. J. R. DAVENPORT DIES THIS MORNING
Mrs. Mary Jenkins Davenport, widow of James R. Davenport, died in the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem Monday morning following seventeen months of illness. She was 45 years of age. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mrs. Davenport, daughter of Mrs. J. Frank Jenkins of Athens, Georgia, and the late Mr. Jenkins, was born and reared in Shelby and was graduated from the Shelby High School. She attended Mitchell College in Statesville and East Carolina College and taught school in Pactolus prior to her marriage in 1941. After her husband’s death in 1952 she taught school in Pantego, Hamlet, and Havelock until her recent illness caused her retirement. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville.
Surviving are two sons: James R. Davenport, Jr. and Edward J. Davenport, and two daughters: Margaret Dail Davenport and Lily Linwood Davenport, all of the home; her mother; and three sisters: Mrs. H. Dail Laughinghouse of Greenville, Mrs. Jack L. Raymer of Shelby, and Miss Sarah Burton Jenkins of Athens, Georgia.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 6, 1960, p. 3:
RITES SET FOR MRS. JAMES R. DAVENPORT
Surviving are two sons: James R. Davenport, Jr. and Edward J. Davenport, and two daughters: Margaret Dail and Lily Linwood Davenport, all of the home; her mother, Mrs. J. Frank Jenkins of Athens, Ga.; and three sisters, Mrs. H. Dail Laughinghouse of Greenville, Mrs. Jack L. Raymer of Shelby, and Miss Sarah Burton Jenkins of Athens, Ga.
Issue:
B395–––i.–––James Robert8 Davenport, Jr., of whom below, born in 1943.
B396–––ii.–––Margaret Dail Davenport was born on August 4, 1944 in Beaufort County, North Carolina; died on December 20, 2001 in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina; and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina.
Obituary of Margaret Dail Davenport
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, December 27, 2001:
MARGARET DAVENPORT
Miss Margaret Dail Davenport, 57, died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001, in Shelby. She was a resident of White Oak Manor in Charlotte. She was born in Beaufort County.
Preceded in death by grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Paul Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. J. Franklin Jenkins and parents, James Robert and Mary Jenkins Davenport; aunt, Margaret Jenkins Laughinghouse of Greenville; and uncle, J. Paul Davenport Jr. of Greenville.
Survivors include sister, Lily Linwood Davenport of Alexis; brothers, James Robert Davenport Jr. of Louisburg and Edward Jenkins Davenport of Midlothian, Va.; aunts, Mary L. Davenport Steed of Candor and Virginia Jenkins Raymer of Shelby; cousins, J. Paul Davenport III of Pactolus, Lawrence S. Davenport of Pactolus, Charles S. Davenport of Pactolus, H. Dail Laughinghouse Jr. of Greenville, William Laughinghouse of Greenville, Margaret Laughinghouse Evans of Greenville, Susan Laughinghouse of Greenville, H. Dail Laughinghouse IV of Brazil, Helen Laughinghouse of Gainesville, Ga., Mary Burton Stamey of Gastonia and Donald Steed of Raeford.
A graveside service will be held at Sunset Cemetery, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001, at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Cindy Coleman officiating.
Family will receive friends at Sunset Cemetery following the graveside services.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cleveland County, 952 Wendover Heights Drive, Shelby, N.C. 28150 or to the charity of the donor’s choice.
Arrangements made by Palmer Mortuary.
B397–––iii.–––Edward Jenkins Davenport, of whom below, born in 1947.
B398–––iv.–––Lily Linwood Davenport, born in 1950, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 266.
B205. MARY LAWRENCE7 DAVENPORT (Jesse Paul6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born June 1, 1917, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 266. She died on September 25, 2002 in Raeford, Hoke County, North Carolina; and was buried in the Candor Cemetery, Candor, Montgomery County, North Carolina. She married Donald Page Steed on March 27, 1943.
Obituary of Mary Lawrence Davenport
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 27, 2002
MARY D. STEED
RAEFORD –– Mrs. Mary Davenport Steed, 85, formerly of Candor, died Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002, at Open Arms Retirement Center.
Graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Candor City Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Charles Midkiff officiating.
Mrs. Steed was an elementary school teacher and taught in Moore and Montgomery Counties. She retired in 1976.
She is survived by her son, Don D. Steed and wife Linda of Raeford; sister, Mrs. Lelia Midkiff of Lexington, Ky.; and one granddaughter, Ashley Steed of St. Louis.
Visitation will be held at the home, 523 S. Main St., Candor.
Memorials may be made to Candor UMC, P.O. Box 456, Candor, N.C. 27229.
Arrangements by Crumpler Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Raeford.
Issue:
B399–––i.–––Donald Davenport8 Steed, of whom below, born in 1947.
B206. LELIA ANN7 DAVENPORT (Jesse Paul6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born May 2, 1938, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 265. Lelia married Charles Wells Midkiff, who was born December 14, 1937. The Rev. Midkiff is the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Greenville, Kentucky and currently is a trustee of the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, which began classes in the fall of 2002. He was ordained in 1962. B.D., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Master of Divinity, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; D.Min., Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va.; B.A., Georgetown College. Since 1977 has served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenville, Kentucky. He has previously served as pastor of First Baptist Church, in Valdese, North Carolina., associate pastor of University Baptist, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and as first vice president of Kentucky Baptist Association in 1997-1998
Issue:
B400–––i.–––Thomas (Tom) Wilkinson8 Midkiff was born in 1967. He and his wife Jill have two children, Seth and Sam.
B401–––ii.–––Jonathan Kent Midkiff was born in 1969.
B209. JULIAN MAYO7 DAVENPORT (Lee Fleming6, Martha Ann5 Fleming, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born February 27, 1917; died September 10, 1980; and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, North Carolina. He married Rena Harding, daughter of Edmund H. and Katherine B. Harding. She was born July 12, 1916 in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina; died there on January 10, 1999; and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, North Carolina.
Obituary of Rena Harding
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, January 11, 1999, p. B-4 (The following text also appeared as a paid advertisement in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, January 11, 1999):
RENA H. DAVENPORT
WASHINGTON –– Mrs. Rena Harding Davenport, age 82, died Sunday, January 10, 1999 at the Beaufort County Home after being in failing health for several years.
Mrs. Davenport, daughter of the late Edmund H. Harding and Katherine B. Harding, was born July 12, 1916 in Washington, NC. She graduated from Washington public schools and Saint Mary’s College in Raleigh, NC. She was a life-long member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Davenport was married to Julian M. Davenport, Sr. who preceded her in death in 1980. She resided in Washington most of her life. Prior to World War II, she lived and worked in Washington, D.C. She was employed at the BHM Regional Library at the time of her retirement in 1981.
She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Edmund H. and Glenda C. Davenport of Raleigh, NC and Julian M. and Sue F. Davenport of Greenville, NC; grandchildren, Sarah E. and Rebecca L. Davenport of Greenville, NC; a sister, Katherine H. Hodges; and Carolyn W. Harding of Washington.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Davenport’s sister, Mrs. Katherine H. (Kack) Hodges, 320 Sunnyside Drive, Washington.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Irwin Hulbert Fund at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 101 N. Bonner St., Washington, NC 27889.
Arrangements by Paul Funeral Home, Washington.
Issue:
B402–––i.–––Edmund H.8 Davenport married Glenda C.
B403–––ii.–––Julian Mayo Davenport, Jr., of whom below.
B212. MAE ESTELLE7 LITTLE (Rena M.6 Fleming, Rufus5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born March 6, 1898 in Pactolus, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 26, 1980 in Durham County General Hospital, Durham, North Carolina; and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Durham, North Carolina. She married Wiley Scott Dickinson in 1922, son of Walter Scott Dickinson and Julia Wright. He was born July 24, 1893 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 4, 1953 in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina; and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Durham, North Carolina.
Obituary of Mae Estelle Little
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, October 27, 1980, p. 8:
DICKINSON
DURHAM –– Mrs. Mae Little Dickinson, 82, died Sunday in Durham County General Hospital. The funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Howerton-Bryan Funeral Home by the Rev. Clay Warf. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park.
She was a native of Pactolus and moved to Durham in 1946.
She is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Julia Morella, Mrs. Frances Warren, both of Durham; one son, Wiley Dickinson of Durham; and two grandchildren.
Obituary of Wiley Scott Dickinson
, Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, January 5, 1953, p. 20:The News & Observer
WILEY S. DICKINSON
DURHAM – Wiley Scott Dickinson, 58, died Sunday at 6:30 a.m. at his home after being in declining health for five months. He was born and reared in Pitt County near Winterville, son of Walter Scott and Julia Wright Dickinson. He was educated in the Pitt County schools and later attended a business college in Raleigh. He was married to Miss Mae Little in 1922 in Pactolus. She survives with two daughters, Miss Frances and Miss Julia Dickinson, of the home; two sons, George H. of the home and Wiley S. Dickinson, Jr. of Durham County; a sister, Mrs. C. A. Cutler of Washington, D.C.; three brothers, W. P. of Washington, N.C., Caspar B. of Holly Hill, Fla., and Don D. Dickinson of Swarthmore, Pa. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Howerton Bryan Memorial Chapel, conducted by Dr. Trola D. Collins, and burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Dickinson moved here from Oxford in 1948.
Issue:
B404–––i.–––Frances Scott8 Dickinson, born March 24, 1923, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 472. She married Eugene Warren.
B405–––ii.–––Julia Little Dickinson, of whom below, born August 9, 1925.
B406–––iii.–––Wiley Scott Dickinson, Jr., of whom below, born October 27, 1927; died in 1984.
B407–––iv.–––George Hurlbert Dickinson, born March 6, 1929; died December 17, 1977.
B215. MAMIE RUTH7 FLEMING (Van Calvin6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 12, 1909 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died there on June 9, 2000; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. She married William Holston Taft on June 8, 1933 in Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church, Greenville, North Carolina, son of Edmund Hoover Taft and Irene Gertrude Chesson. He was born May 25, 1908 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 28, 1984 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, North Carolina; and also was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Marriage of Mamie Ruth Fleming and William Holston Taft
Excerpts from a lengthy account in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, June 9, 1933:
TAFT-FLEMING
Brilliant Wedding in Methodist Church
On Thursday evening at eight o’clock, Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church was the scene of a brilliant wedding when Miss Mamie Ruth Fleming was married to William Holston Taft ...
Miss Frances Fleming, sister of the bride, as maid of honor ... Next to enter opposite aisles were the dainty flower girl, little Miss Jane Tolar Massey, niece of the groom and Master Leon Fleming, Jr., cousin of the bride, ringer bearer ...
The wedding joins two of the city’s oldest and most prominent families and is the culmination of a number of social events the past few weeks. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Calvin Fleming. She is a graduate of the city schools and the East Carolina Teachers College. For the past four years, she has been a member of the high school faculty in Rocky Mount.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hoover Taft. He is also a graduate of the city schools and the North Carolina State College in Raleigh. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He takes an active part in the civic life of the city and is a leader of the Boy Scouts. He is a member of the firm Taft Furniture Co.
Immediately following the Taft-Fleming wedding last evening, Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Fleming, parents of the bride, tendered an elaborate reception in honor of the bridal party. The Fleming home on Second street was lovely with decorations of shasta, daisies, gladioli, and delphinium ...
Biographical Notes on
William Holston Taft
and Mamie Ruth Fleming
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 656:
WILLIAM HOLSTON TAFT
AND MAMIE RUTH FLEMINGWilliam Holston Taft, retail furniture merchant, was born May 25, 1908, son of Gertrude Chesson Taft and Edmund Hoover Taft. He attended Greenville city schools and North Carolina State University, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity. He entered the furniture business with his father in 1927. He was married to Mamie Ruth Fleming, b. Aug. 12, 1909, daughter of Emmye Susan Smith Fleming and Van Calvin Fleming, on June 8, 1933. Prior to their marriage, Mamie Ruth Fleming attended Greenville city schools and graduated from East Carolina University. She taught school for four years in the city schools of Rocky Mount, N.C.
Mr. Taft is a member of the administrative board and served as a member and a chairman of the Pastor-Parish Relations Committee and on many other committees through the years. He is a member of the Carson Sunday School Class. He was a scoutmaster for four years and president of the Greenville Merchants Association. He was on the board of Home Federal Savings and Loan for 23 years and part of that time was chairman of the board and president of the Association. He was on the Pitt County Rationing Board during World War II and a member of the Greenville Kiwanis Club.
Mrs. Taft is a member of the Ada Cherry Sunday School Class, United Methodist Women, The Altar Guild, and the Board of Trustees of Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church. She was chairman of building committee of The Methodist Student Center when the building was built in 1958 and served as chairman of that Board of Directors twice and as treasurer for 19 years. She is a former member of The King’s Daughters of Greenville and the Junior Woman’s Club. Charter member of the Greenville Service League, on the board of Church Women United, a member of the Greenville Art Society and the Inter Se Book Club.
They have three fine sons ...
Obituaries of Mamie Ruth Fleming
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday, June 10, 2000, p. B-8:
MAMIE RUTH FLEMING TAFT
GREENVILLE – Mrs. Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft, 90, died Friday, June 9, 2000. The funeral service will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. at Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Taft was a lifelong resident of Greenville. She was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church and had served as president of the United Methodist Women.
Surviving are her sons, William H. Taft Jr. of Greenville, Dr. Charles V. Taft of Winston-Salem, and Dr. Richard C. Taft of Greenville; sisters, Helen Fleming Taft of Greenville and Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home, Saturday from 7-9 p.m.
The family has suggested that anyone desiring to make a memorial contribution consider the Taft Scholarship Fund, Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church, 510 S. Washington Street, Greenville, NC 27834.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, June 10, 2000, p. B-2:
MAMIE R. TAFT
Mrs. Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft, 90, died Friday, June 9, 2000.
Funeral services Sunday 3 p.m., Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Taft was a life-long resident of Greenville. She was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church, where she had served as president of the United Methodist Women.
Surviving: her sons, William H. Taft, Jr. and Richard C. Taft, both of Greenville, and Charles V. Taft of Winston-Salem; sisters, Helen Fleming Taft of Greenville and Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorials to the Taft Scholarship Fund, Jarvis Memorial UM Church, 510 S. Washington St., Greenville, N.C. 27834.
Obituary of William Holston Taft
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, January 29, 1984, p. A-2:
WILLIAM H. TAFT DIES AT AGE 75
William Holston Taft, 75, of 1701 E. Fifth St., a partner in Taft Furniture Co. for 56 years, died Saturday at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
The funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church by the Rev. James H. Bailey. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Taft, a lifelong resident of Greenville, graduated from Greenville High School and attended N.C. State University. In addition to the partnership in the furniture store, he had served as director of Home Federal Savings and Loan and was director emeritus at the agency when he died.
He was a former member of the Greenville Kiwanis Club and life-long member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church where he served as chairman of the administrative board. He was recently named an honorary member of the administrative board.
He is survived by his wife, Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft; three sons, William H. Taft, Jr. of Greenville, Dr. Charles V. Taft of Winston-Salem, and Dr. Richard Chesson Taft of Greenville; two brothers, Joseph Marvin Taft and E. Hoover Taft, Jr., both of Greenville; two sisters, N. B. Massey and Mrs. Marvin K. Blount, both of Greenville; and nine grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the William H. Taft Scholarship fund at Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church, 510 S. Washington St., Greenville, N.C. 27834.
Issue:
B408–––i.–––William Holston8 Taft, Jr., of whom below, born in 1936.
B409–––ii.–––Charles Van Taft, of whom below, born in 1942.
B410–––iii.–––Richard Chesson Taft, of whom below, born in 1944.
B217. FRANCES McILWAIN7 FLEMING (Van Calvin6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born about 1911 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 31, 1983 in Sacred Heart Hospital, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; and was buried in Valley Forge Gardens, Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Frances married Frank Williams Kohler.
Obituary of Frances McIlwain Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, November 2, 1983, p. 16:
KOHLER
Mrs. Frances Fleming Kohler, 72, died Monday in Sacred Heart Hospital in Norristown, Pa. Her residence was 12 Taylor Road, Conshohocken, Pa. The funeral service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Conshohocken United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Valley Forge Gardens, Conshohocken.
Mrs. Kohler was born and reared in Greenville and attended the Greenville city schools and Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va. For the past 30 years she had been a resident of Conshohocken. She was a former member of Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church and the Inter Se Book Club.
Surviving are her husband, Frank W. Kohler of Conshohocken, Pa.; two sons, James S. Kohler, Florence, S.C., and Frank W. Kohler of Conshohocken, Pa.; a daughter, Miss Susan Kohler of the home; a brother, Van C. Fleming of Greenville; three sisters, Mrs. William H. Taft and Mrs. E. Hoover Taft Jr., both of Greenville, and Mrs. H. W. Wells of Wilmington; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Cancer Society, 21 South 12th St., Philadelphia. Arrangements by Kirk and Nice Suburban Chapel, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
Issue:
B411–––i.–––Susan Frances8 Kohler, lives in Lansdowne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
B412–––ii.–––James Staunton Kohler, of whom below.
B413–––iii.–––Frank Williams Kohler, Jr., of whom below.
B218. HELEN IRENE7 FLEMING (Van Calvin6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 25, 1913 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 15, 2001 in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried there in Greenwood Cemetery. She married Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr. on November 6, 1941 in Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church, Greenville, North Carolina. Hoover was born September 5, 1912 in Greenville, North Carolina; died there on November 13, 1992; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Marriage of Helen Irene Fleming and Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr.
Excerpts from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, November 7, 1941, p. 2:
TAFT-FLEMING
First of the bridal party to enter were Mrs. W. H. Taft and Mrs. Staunton Harvey, sisters of the bride, Mrs. Ed Vann of Rocky Mount and Mrs. Reynolds May ...
Then came the ushers, V. C. Fleming, Jr., brother of the bride; W. H. Taft, Joe Taft, brothers of the grooms; Dr. M. B. Massey, D. T. Perry of Fayetteville and W. A. Leland McKeithan of Pinehurst.
Miss Fleming chose for her Dame of Honor her youngest sister, Mrs. William Wells of Wilmington ...
Mr. Taft is the son of E. H. Taft, Sr., and the late Mrs. Gertrude Chesson Taft of Greenville. He was educated in the city schools and Duke University, where he received his A.B. and L.L.D. degrees. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Mr. Taft was admitted to the bar in 1936 and is now a member of the firm of Blount and Taft of this city. Since leaving college he has been active in the State in Y.D.C. circles.
Mrs. Taft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Calvin Fleming, has always made her home in Greenville, having received her education in the city schools and East Carolina Teachers College.
The absolute sincerity of the bride has won for her a host of friends wherever she is known and a test of her popularity was shown by the many courtesies extended her since the announcement of her engagement ...
Biographical Notes on Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr.
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 653:
EDMUND HOOVER TAFT, JR.
Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr., born Sept. 5, 1912, in Greenville, N.C., son of Edmund Hoover Taft, born Sept. 8, 1867, died April 9, 1952, and Irene Gertrude Chesson Taft, born Mar. 25, 1872, died May 15, 1940; married to Helen Irene Fleming, born August 25, 1913, m. on November 8, 1941. Helen was the daughter of Van C. Fleming and Emmie Smith Fleming. Helen graduated from Greenville city schools and graduated from Greenville High School and attended East Carolina University.
From The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 7, 1942:
Bar Association
To Entertain
TonightThe Pitt County Bar Association will give a farewell supper at 7 o’clock tonight for Hoover Taft, well known Greenville attorney, who will leave shortly for Fort Bragg for induction into the armed forces. Vice President Jack Edwards will preside for President Fordyce Harding.
Taft served a year in the armed forces shortly after the first draft.
Two children: Edmund Hoover Taft III, born August 29, 1942, and Thomas Fleming Taft, born December 29, 1945 ...
Hoover has two sisters, Mrs. Moulton Braxton (Gertrude) Massey and Mrs. Marvin Key (Florence) Blount, and two brothers, Joseph M(arvin) Taft married Louise Winslow and William H(olston) Taft married Mamie Ruth Fleming (sister of Helen Fleming Taft).
Hoover attended Greenville city schools and graduated from Greenville High School and Duke University with A.B. Degree in 1934 and J.D. Degree in 1936. He was a schoolmate of former President Richard M. Nixon for two years and they have been friends over the years. Hoover was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Hoover was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1936 and practiced law in Greenville since that date. His son, Thomas Fleming Taft, is associated with him in the firm of Taft & Taft, Attorneys.
Hoover has been active in real estate development, building supply operations, construction and other types of business during the years.
He was president of the Young Democrats of North Carolina in 1947 and treasurer of the Young Democrats of America, 1947 through 1948 and was active in the Truman election campaign.
He was chapter chairman of the American Red Cross and chairman of Southeastern U.S.A. Advisory Committee for Red Cross ... Hoover was a member of the Greenville Utilities Commission for 10 years retiring as chairman. He was president of the Pitt County United (Way?) Fund in 1963.
He has actively participated in the affairs of the Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church having served as chairman of the Finance Committee for 10 years, chairman of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Administrative Board. He was one of the principal participants in the renovation and restoration of the church building program and taught men’s bible class for 25 years.
Hoover has served on the Board of Trustees for Louisburg College for more than 20 years and acted as chairman of the board for 14 years during which time the College expanded its land and building facilities considerably. A new and large classroom building has been named for him.
Hoover was chairman of the Pitt County March of Dimes campaign in 1937 and a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1948 in Philadelphia ...
Obituary of Helen Irene Fleming
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, p. B-6 and The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, p. B-2:
HELEN F. TAFT
GREENVILLE –– Mrs. Helen F. Taft, 88, died Monday, October 15, 2001.
Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Taft was a lifelong resident of Greenville, and currently resided at Cypress Glen Retirement Community. She was married to Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr. for 51 years at the time of his death in 1992. In addition to her husband, she was also preceded in death by her parents, Van C. and Emmie Smith Fleming; sisters, Frances Fleming Kohler and Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft; brother, Van Calvin Fleming Jr.; and daughter-in-law, Ruth Jefferson Taft.
Mrs. Taft was a lifelong active member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church and had served the church in many capacities. The recent church addition, the Taft Christian Life Center, acknowledges her and other family members’ long standing contributions to the life of the church.
Surviving are: sons, E. Hoover Taft III and his wife Donna and Senator Thomas F. Taft, Sr. and his wife Liz, all of Greenville; grandchildren, Edmund Hoover Taft, IV of Farmville, Melanie Taft Harris of Morehead City, Jonathan Gudmund Taft, Thomas Fleming Taft, Jr., and Paige Pressley Fuqua, all of Greenville, and Jessica Arnold Gorall of Boca Raton, FL; great-grandchildren, Joseph Fisher Harris, Benjamin Warren Gorall, Ryan Taylor Gorall and Christopher Gaines Fuqua, Jr.; sister, Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington; and 19 treasured nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hoover Taft, III, 108 Williamsburg Drive, Greenville.
Obituary of Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr.
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday, November 14, 1992, p. B-6:
E. HOOVER TAFT,
BOARD CHAIRMAN
AT JUNIOR COLLEGEBy Steve Swindell
Staff writerGREENVILLE — E. Hoover Taft Jr., a lawyer and entrepreneur who was chairman of Louisburg College’s board of trustees during the 1960s, died at his home Friday. He was 80.
“He was proudest to have led the desegregation of Louisburg College during the civil rights movement,” said Mr. Taft’s son, Thomas F. Taft, a former state senator.
The E. Hoover Taft, Jr.
Classroom Building
at Louisburg College
The Taft Building contains 25 classrooms, two seminar rooms, a microcomputer laboratory, two conference rooms, and 32 faculty offices. It opened in 1983 and is named for the longtime chairman of the Board of Trustees, Edmund Hoover Taft, Jr., of Greenville, North Carolina.
Louisburg College, in Louisburg, North Carolina, is the oldest two-year, church-related coeducational college in the nation. The institution evolved from three earlier institutions: Franklin Male Academy, Louisburg Female Academy, and Louisburg Female College. The roots of Louisburg College trace back to the early years of the town of Louisburg, which was founded in 1779 as the county seat of Franklin County, North Carolina.
Mr. Taft was elected to the college’s board in 1961 and served as chairman for 14 years, helping to improve the school’s facilities and steer it to financial stability. The school’s largest and newest classroom building was named for Mr. Taft in 1984. “He loved that school with a genuine passion,” Thomas Taft said.
Jim L. Lanier, vice chancellor for institutional advancement at East Carolina University, met Mr. Taft when Mr. Lanier was working as chief fund-raiser for the college, the oldest church-supported junior college in the United States. Mr. Taft helped raise $4.2 million in a five-year fund-raising campaign that ended in 1982.
“He was one of the chief volunteers to help raise that money,” Mr. Lanier said. “He felt that the mission of Louisburg College and its connection to the Methodist Church were most important.”
He was involved in other projects. He was a leader in locating and building Cypress Glen Methodist Retirement Community, which was completed in 1987, and was a member of the board of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church for more than 40 years.
A Greenville native, Mr. Taft attended Greenville city schools, received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University in 1934 and his law degree from Duke in 1936. One of his law school classmates was former president Richard Nixon.
Mr. Taft was a partner in the Taft, Taft & Haigler law firm and the founder of a development company and national hardware supply operation.
“There were not many things in this part of the state that he wasn’t involved in,” Mr. Lanier said. “We have lost a man whose friendship was dearly valued. Hoover was a very special gentleman.”
Mr. Taft is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Fleming Taft; sons, E. Hoover Taft III and Thomas F. Taft; sisters, Mrs. Florence Taft Blount and Mrs. Gertrude Taft Massey; brother, Joseph Marvin Taft; and six grandchildren.
The family will receive friends today at the home at 426 Longmeadow Road from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church, 510 S. Washington St., Greenville 27834, or Louisburg College Development Office, 501 N. Main St., Louisburg 27549.
Issue:
B414–––i.–––Edmund Hoover8 Taft III, of whom below, was born in 1942.
B415–––ii.–––Thomas Fleming Taft, of whom below, born in 1945.
B219. LAURA7 FLEMING (Van Calvin6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born September 30, 1915 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 17, 2002 in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina; and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina. She married Harold William Wells, Jr.
Notes
Rough Notes magazine, The Rough Notes Company, Carmel, Indiana, Insurance Publishing-Plus Corporation, http://www.roughnotes.com/rnmag/sept01/09p18.htm, America’s Oldest National Insurance Journal, published since 1878, September 2001:
MARKETING AGENCY OF THE MONTH
STEADY AS YOU GO
North Carolina agency has weathered storms and a
changing marketplace to produce outstanding growth
Harold W. Wells & Son executives (left to right):
James L. Roberts, Jr., Harold W. Wells III (president),
Calvin F. Wells, and Harold “Hal” W. Wells IV“We were always looking for ways to work smarter. We wanted to make certain that agency remained independent and continued to grow and prosper into the future.” ––– Harold Wells III
Harold W. Wells & Son, Inc., Wilmington, North Carolina, was founded in 1920 by Harold W. Wells, Sr., who was a bank officer at the time. His responsibilities included running an insurance program the bank offered its customers. He recognized the opportunity that insurance presented and started his own company. After Harold, Jr., joined the agency in the 1930s, the name was changed from Harold W. Wells Insurance to Harold W. Wells & Son. Then in 1966, Harold III joined the agency and his brother Calvin came on board in 1968. Today, the two brothers manage the company as equal partners and have a fourth generation on board. Harold IV (Hal) joined the agency about two and a half years ago as a producer in the employee benefits department after working in the Atlanta office of Travelers.
Wilmington is located on the coast and, prior to the agency’s move into niche marketing, most of its business was in coastal counties. In just four years, Wilmington sustained five direct hits from hurricanes. Bertha and Fran hit in 1996, Bonnie in 1997, and Dennis and Floyd in 1999. What had been a competitive market suddenly became problematic. And the people at Harold W. Wells & Son found themselves nearly overwhelmed with work. “Our people were worked to death,” Harold says. “It was a tough time from a workload standpoint but financially, we continued to do well and grow. And we’re proud of the way our people were able to help our clients in these difficult times.”
Thinking outside the box
The surge of storms was unusual, but it served as another impetus to examine the agency and its future. “We were always looking for ways to work smarter,” Harold says. “We wanted to make certain that our agency remained independent and continued to grow and prosper into the future. In order to accomplish that goal, we needed to constantly stay ahead of the curve. In October of 1999, we sent our sales manager, Jim Roberts, to a Dare To Soar seminar, a two-day event presented by Roger Sitkins and several of his private clients, to see if that might offer us an effective way to improve our operation.”
Jim came back from the meeting enthusiastic and convinced that he had been shown a better way to manage an agency. But it meant retraining the agency’s producers to operate in a different way –– producers who had nearly 200 years of combined experience and 200 years of operating in a certain way. “Roger made us stand outside the box and look at ourselves,” Jim says. “He showed us that we were making our job harder than it needed to be. When I explained the concept to our people, they agreed that it sounded good but were still a little uncomfortable implementing the changes, but Harold and Calvin were fully committed to making the change and let me run with the ball.”
Continues Jim: “Another individual who was instrumental in our change was one of Roger Sitkins’ private clients. His presentation was centered around the culture of an agency and how you could achieve unlimited results if you could identify and implement some basic changes. We are diligently trying to place our staff in positions that allow them to use their unique abilities. This promotes outstanding customer service, better efficiency and great morale.”
“Calvin and I are both very conservative,” Harold says. “That’s probably part of the reason for our consistent, steady growth. We’re also very hands-on and production-minded. But conservative doesn’t mean we resist change when that change means we can improve the way we do business and protect the integrity of the agency into the future.”
Harold points to a number of major changes that the agency has made:
Referrals only. “We worked to convert the agency to getting commercial clients through referral only,” Jim notes. “But our account executives found it very difficult asking clients for referrals. It made sense because it produced prospects who were already predisposed toward us. But it just didn’t sit well. We always felt that it was our job to serve our clients, not to ask them to serve us.”
He continues that “once our account executives started asking, they found that our clients were happy to provide referrals and they invariably provided a number of referrals, not just one. It was a real eye opener. Our clients liked the way that we did business and felt that they were doing their colleagues a favor.” The agency still does some cold calling in niche areas that it specializes in and particularly in new niche areas where it has not yet developed a client base.
“We took the same concept into the group area as well,” Hal adds. “We ran a listing by account executive and had each one of them go over the accounts to target ones for our referral process.”
Trading down. “Another major change involved getting all of our account executives to give up some of their business. At least that’s the way they saw it. We asked them to go through their commercial accounts and prioritize them according to size and, in some cases, important leverage (e.g., small accounts that are tied to larger accounts),” Jim notes. “We explained that this would alleviate the high amount of service they were providing to small accounts and give them more time to sell. They said they understood, but still didn’t like the idea of giving up commission income.” In the end, more than 1,000 smaller accounts were moved into the Business Account Center in Leland.
Jim remembers that “about three years ago, we all looked at Harold like he was crazy for asking us to give up business. Then Roger [Sitkins] showed us what it was costing the account executives to service those smaller accounts and a light bulb went off. I gave up about 40 accounts representing about $7,000 in income. I quickly saw how much time I had been spending in taking care of those accounts. I had a lot more time to spend on building my relationships.”
Pod people. No, this is not a reference to the sci-fi class (well, actually it is but really has nothing to do with this story). The agency set up four “pods” in the large commercial lines area. Each pod included one or more account executives, account managers and assistants. Accounts were assigned to each pod. “Before we did this, our accounts were all over the place. An account manager might be servicing accounts from a number of account executives,” Harold says. “Under the pod system, account managers handle only those accounts produced by the account executive or account executives in the pod. They know the accounts, as well as the account executive’s style. They all get to know the accounts better and can provide true value-added service.” Each pod operates in its own separate area of the building. There is a backup procedure in the event that people in a particular pod are out of the office or busy.
Utilizing techniques he learned at a Sitkins seminar, Jim Roberts introduced management practices that have helped the Wells Agency to continue to grow and prosper.
As part of this system, the agency made it clear that there was a distinct line in the sand between sales and service. Account executives did what they were best at –– selling, and account managers did what they were best at –– servicing. “We realized that in order to make an immediate impact, we had to split sales and service,” Jim notes. “We have an outstanding service team that is absolutely critical to the future of our agency. Without these talented individuals, we would be no different from any other agency. It is their level of commitment that gives us credibility with our clients.”
Harold set up the pods according to the abilities and personalities of the individuals involved. “I actually ran production reports and knew what each account manager could handle. It really fell into place,” he remembers. “It turned out to be a pretty easy process. I knew who liked to work with whom. There’s been very little change in the makeup of the pods once we set them up by the numbers.”
On the personal lines side, the agency has two in-house producers. It is a separate department and profit center. Accounts are sorted alphabetically and can be accessed by anyone in the division through the automation system.
Over the past 10 years the Benefits Department has seen tremendous growth through selling group life, health and related products. During the softening phase of the property/casualty market, the Benefits Department did a great job rounding out the agency’s commercial client needs, according to Harold. “We have a professional staff who gets the job done.” Harold also notes, “Paul Goodwin, our benefits manager, has brought a high level of expertise to our larger group clients including self-funded cases. Paul’s many years with Travelers, plus the other two account executives’ experience is hard to match. We expect this department to continue steady growth.”
Harold adds that “the fourth generation is here and is learning quickly.” Hal joined the agency in 1998. He currently serves as an account executive in the Benefits Department.
“We are making changes that ensure our success into the future.” Harold continues, “And we’ll continually look at ourselves to make certain that we are operating in the most effective manner for the agency and our clients. We all understand that our culture is vital to our efficiency and our growth. Our people are eager to make the right changes. The future of our agency is unlimited.”
Obituaries of Laura Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, January 19, 2002:
LAURA WELLS
WILMINGTON –– Laura Fleming Wells died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2002, at Liberty Commons Assisted Living.
Graveside services will be held at noon today in Oakdale Cemetery by the Rev. Ernie Thompson.
She was born Sept. 30, 1915, in Greenville, daughter of the late Van Calvin and Emmie Smith Fleming, and was preceded in death by her husband, Harold W. Wells Jr.
Mrs. Wells was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are two sons, Harold W. Wells III and wife Ellen, and Calvin F. Wells and wife Shannon; and five grandchildren, Harold W. Wells IV, Joseph S. Wells, Fleming Wells Edwards, Calvin F. Wells Jr. and Shannon Courtney Wells.
Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, Foundation for the Future, 125 S. Third St., Wilmington, N.C. 28401 or to one’s favorite charity.
Arrangements by Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel.
The Wilmington Star, Wilmington, North Carolina, Saturday, January 19, 2002:
LAURA FLEMING WELLS
Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington, NC, died Thursday, January 17, 2002 at Liberty Commons Assisted Living.
She was born September 30, 1915 in Greenville, NC, daughter of the late Van Calvin and Emmie Smith Fleming, and was preceded in death by her husband, Harold W. Wells Jr.
Mrs. Wells was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are her two sons, Harold W. Wells III and wife Ellen and Calvin F. Wells and wife Shannon; and five grandchildren, Harold W. Wells IV, Joseph S. Wells, Fleming Wells Edwards; Calvin F. Wells Jr., and Shannon Courtney Wells.
Graveside services will be held at 12:00 noon Saturday, January 19, 2002 in Oakdale Cemetery by Rev. Ernie Thompson.
Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, Foundation for the Future, 125 S. 3rd St., Wilmington, NC 28401, or to one’s favorite charity.
Andrews Mortuary, Market Street Chapel.
Issue:
B416–––i.–––Harold Williams8 Wells III, of whom below.
B417–––ii.–––Calvin Fleming Wells, of whom below, was born in 1946.
B220. VAN CALVIN7 FLEMING, JR. (Van Calvin6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born November 8, 1917 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died December 28, 1999 in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Marguerite Russell Koonce on August 13, 1942 in Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, daughter of R. S. Koonce. She was born January 11, 1920 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; died November 23, 1994 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Marriage of Van Calvin Fleming, Jr. and Marguerite Russell Koonce
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, August 17, 1942:
FLEMING-KOONCE
Miss Marguerite Russell Koonce of Raleigh and Sergeant Van Calvin Fleming, Jr. of Greenville and New Orleans were united in marriage on Thursday afternoon, August 13 in the Methodist Church in Clarksville, Va.
The Rev. Mr. Meade, pastor of the church, officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father, R. S. Koonce of Raleigh. Mr. V. C. Fleming of Greenville attended his son as best man.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Koonce of Raleigh. She is a graduate of Peace Junior College in Raleigh and the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and made her debut at the Debutante Ball held in Raleigh in 1936.
Sergeant Fleming, the son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Fleming of Greenville, attended the Darlington Preparatory School and Baltimore School of Accounting. He is now stationed at the Army Air Base in New Orleans, where the couple will make their home.
Advertisement, The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 16, 1965, p. 7:
Van C.
Fleming, Jr.Life Insurance
Accident and Sickness InsuranceOccidental
Life Insurance Company
of North CarolinaHome Office · Raleigh
105 E. Second Street
Phone: PL 8-3911
Obituaries of Van Calvin Fleming, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, December 30, 1999, p. B-2:
FLEMING
GREENVILLE, N. C. –– Mr. Van Calvin Fleming, Jr., 83, died December 29, 1999.
The funeral service will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at St. James United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, December 12, 1942, p. 2:
Promoted.
News Orleans, Dec. 12 –– Van Calvin Fleming, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Van C. Fleming, Sr., of Greenville, has been promoted from staff sergeant to the rank of first sergeant at the Air Depot Training Station at New Orleans Army Air Base.
Sgt. Fleming is a graduate of Greenville High School; received his B. S. degree from the Darlington Prep College at Rome, Ga., and later attended the Maryland School of Accounting at Baltimore.
Mr. Fleming, son of the late Van Calvin Fleming and Emmie Sheppard Smith Fleming, was a native and lifelong resident of Greenville. He was a graduate of Greenville High School and attended Darlington Preparatory School. During World War II, he served as an officer in the U. S. Army Air Corps in the European Theatre, attaining the rank of Captain.
Prior to his retirement, Mr. Fleming’s business interests included insurance and real estate in Greenville. For many years, he was the local affiliate of Occidental Life Insurance Company. A community and civic leader, he was a past president of the Greenville Jaycees and was honored as Man of the Year. He served as the first chairman of the Pitt-Greenville Airport Authority and had served multiple terms on the boards of both the Pitt County Mental Health Association and the Pitt County Alcoholic Beverage Control. For many years he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Greenville Fireman’s Relief Fund. He was a charter member of St. James United Methodist Church and was an active participant in the affairs of the church.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Marguerite Koonce Fleming in 1994.
Surviving sons, Van C. Fleming, III of Bath, and J. Russell Fleming and his wife Linda Peer Fleming of Greenville; daughters, Elaine Fleming Bridges of Raleigh and Helen Ruth Fleming Almond and her husband Michael Almond of Charlotte; five grandchildren, Jennifer Fleming of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Maggie Fleming of Whitefish, Montana, Lauren Fleming of Greenville, Sydney Fleming of Rocky Mount, and John Russell Fleming, II, of Reston, Virginia; sisters, Helen Fleming Taft and Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft, both of Greenville, and Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 7-9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Fleming, 3403 Tucker Drive.
Memorial contributions may be made to the St. James United Methodist Church, Building Fund, 2000 E. 6th St., Greenville, N. C. 27858.
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday, December 30, 1999, p. B-6:
VAN CALVIN FLEMING JR.
GREENVILLE –– Mr. Van Calvin Fleming, Jr., 82, died December 28, 1999. The funeral service will be conducted 11 a.m. Friday at St. James United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming, son of the late Van Calvin Fleming and Emmie Sheppard Smith Fleming, was a lifelong resident of Greenville. He was a graduate of Greenville High School and attended Darlington Preparatory School.
During World War II he served as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the European Theatre, attaining the rank of Captain.
Prior to his retirement, Mr. Fleming’s business activities included insurance and real estate in Greenville. For many years he was the local affiliate of Occidental Life Insurance Company.
A community and civic leader, he was a past president of the Greenville Jaycees and was honored as Man of the Year. He served as the first chairman of the Pitt-Greenville Airport Authority and had served multiple terms on the boards of both the Pitt County Mental Health Association and the Pitt County Alcoholic Beverage Control. For many years he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Greenville Fireman’s Relief Fund. He was a charter member of St. James United Methodist Church and was an an active participant in the affairs of the church.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Marguerite Koonce Fleming in 1994.
Surviving: sons, Van C. Fleming, III of Bath and J. Russell Fleming and his wife Linda Peer Fleming of Greenville; daughters, Elaine Fleming Bridges of Raleigh and Helen Ruth Fleming Almond and her husband Michael Almond of Charlotte; five grandchildren, Jennifer Fleming of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Maggie Fleming of Whitefish, Montana, Lauren Fleming of Greenville, Sydney Fleming of Rocky Mount, John Russell Fleming, II of Reston, Virginia; sisters, Helen Fleming Taft and Mamie Ruth Fleming Taft, both of Greenville, Laura Fleming Wells of Wilmington.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Fleming, 3403 Tucker Drive.
Memorial contributions may be made to the St. James United Methodist Church Building Fund, 2000 E. 6th St., Greenville, NC 27858 or to the Ronald McDonald House, 549 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27834.
Obituary of Marguerite Russell Koonce
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, November 25, 1994, p. B-2:
MARGUERITE FLEMING, 74;
FUNERAL ON SATURDAYMrs. Marguerite Koonce Fleming, 74, of 301 Orton Drive, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1994, at her home.
Mrs. Fleming, a native of Raleigh, attended Peace Junior College and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has made her home in Greenville since 1945.
An organizer and charter member of St. James Methodist Church, she served as president of the Methodist Women. She was a former member of the board of trustees of Sheppard Memorial Library, past president of the Pitt County Chapter of the American Cancer Society and a charter member of the Thalian Book Club.
Surviving, her husband, Van Calvin Fleming Jr.; two sons, Van Calvin Fleming III of Raleigh and John Russell Fleming of Greenville; daughters, Elaine Fleming Bridges of Raleigh and Helen Ruth Fleming of Charlotte; sister, Nell Koonce Skonberg of Bath; brother, Sidney “Bo” Koonce of Greenville; five grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m. at the home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to Hospice of Tar Heel, 1003 South Clark St., Greenville, N.C. 27835 or the Friends of the Library, Sheppard Memorial Library, 530 Evans St., Greenville, N.C. 27834.
Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Issue:
B418–––i.–––Van Calvin8 Fleming III, of whom below.
B419–––ii.–––John Russell Fleming, of whom below.
B420–––iii.–––Marguerite Elaine Fleming of Raleigh, North Carolina. Elaine married a Mr. Bridges. A story in the Triangle Business Journal, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 28, 1995, p. 1, “N. Raleigh acreage sold; 320 new homes going in,” quotes her as marketing director for Bill Clark Homes.
Notes
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, July 19, 1970, p. 8:
AREA DEBUTANTES
FOR 1970 ANNOUNCEDYoung ladies from Bethel, Farmville and Greenville, who will be presented to society at the 1970 Terpsichorean Ball, were interviewed about their expectations for their debut summer ...
Elaine Fleming
Greenville debutante Marguerite Elaine Fleming wanted to spend a constructive summer and is doing just that by attending both summer sessions at East Carolina University.
She is completing required courses in English, health and German.
During the regular school year, Miss Fleming is a student at St. Mary’s Junior College, Raleigh. She picked St. Mary’s “because it’s a real nice school, and I wanted two years at a girls school and two years at a coeducation school.”
“You make closer friends at a small school faster than at a university, and you become more involved in school functions where they include everyone,” she said.
In describing the experience of attending ECU as compared to St. Mary’s, Miss Fleming remarked, “You can receive a good education at both and each one is enjoyable.”
“I would like to major in math and receive a teaching certificate in that subject. After college graduation, I would then like to teach and also attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” she continued.
During her busy summer, Miss Fleming plans to visit school friends on weekends, and is looking forward to debutante activities. In addition, she plays golf, enjoys swimming, water skiing and cooking.
Miss Fleming is following in her mother’s footsteps in making her debut. Her mother is the former Marguerite Russell Koonce of Raleigh.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van C. Fleming, Jr., of 301 Orton Dr., her father will be chief marshal. Clifton Edwards of Greenville will be Miss Fleming’s assistant marshal.
In conclusion, Miss Fleming said, “After studying this summer, I would like to travel next summer or work in another state.”
B421–––iv.–––Helen Ruth Fleming married Michael Allen Almond.
Notes
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, July 19, 1976, p. 3:
AREA DEBUTANTES
ENTERTAINED
SATURDAY EVENINGAn old-fashioned block party highlighted by street dancing and a pig pickin’ attracted 450-500 debutantes, their escorts and guests from across the state to Greenville Saturday night.
Area debutantes honored were Helen Ruth Fleming, Catherine Garrett, Sally Sugg and Peggy Watson, Greenville, Sarah Graves, Washington, Beth Green and Kathy Wilson, Robersonville, Mary Peele and Helen Rogers, Williamston, and Mary Winslow of Hamilton.
The evening’s activities were hosted by parents of the debutantes: Mr. and Mrs. Van C. Fleming, Jr. ...
The street dance was held on the corner of Rutledge and Orton Drives. The bandstand and food tables were placed on the lawn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming. The bandstand was set up in a grouping of pine trees while the Fleming rose garden provided the setting for the party tables ...
Music for the hustle, bump and bomp was provided by Gene Barber and the Cavaliers.
The Business Journal, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 8, 2002, p. 3:
AN INTERNATIONAL FLAIR
While other boys were playing soldiers or hide-and-seek, Michael Almond must have been learning the German language.
MICHAEL ALMOND IN PROFILE
Organization: Charlotte Regional Partnership
Title: President and chief executiveAge: 53
Place of Birth: Pilot Mountain
Residence: Fourth Ward
Family: Wife, Helen Ruth Almond; daughter, Sarah, 23; son, Aubrey 17Education: Law degree, UNC School of Law, 1975; independent study at Goethe Institute in Germany, 1972-73; bachelor’s degree in political science, UNC Chapel Hill, 1971
Career: Law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge J. Braxton Craven Jr., 1975-76; associate, Fleming, Robinson & Bradshaw, Charlotte, 1976-80; visiting lecturer in international business law, UNC School of Law, 1980; founding partner at the boutique international business law firm, Michael A. Almond, 1980-84; partner, Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, 1984-2001; president and chief executive of Charlotte Regional Partnership, 1999 to present
Civic: A member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Charlotte Branch board, board member at American Truetzchler Inc., Otto Industries Inc, and The Virkler Co., Charlotte; charter board member of the Golden Leaf Foundation Inc.; former chairman and current member of the Charlotte World Affairs Council board; co-founder and member of be European American Business Forum
Hobbies: Reading, hiking, World War II history, golf and travel
Car: 2000 Saab
Favorite book: Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Favorite movie: Saving Private Ryan
Favorite city: Rome
Favorite restaurant: Sonoma
Favorite sports team: University of North Carolina Tar Heels
Favorite musician: Elvis Pressley
Favorite TV show: The West Wing
Since an early age, Almond, president and chief executive of Charlotte Regional Partnership, has been intrigued with things international. In 1972, he took a break from law school to spend a year in Germany on a Fulbright fellowship.
His independent law practice, which he operated from 1980 to 1984, was devoted to international business law. At the Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein law firm, Almond concentrated on the same area. At age 50, with 25 years devoted to a career in law, Almond decided he needed a change. He left Parker Poe in 1999 and accepted a job with the Charlotte Regional Partnership, bringing a decidedly international flair to the organization.
Almond has established an office in Frankfurt and is directing the industry-seeking agency to regions of Germany and Japan.
“I enjoyed practicing law,” he says. “I was good at it, and I was ready for a change. I decided it was OK to have more than one good idea in a lifetime.”
Those who know Almond say that’s about the best explanation for his decision to switch careers. “You have to understand that along with Michael’s high energy comes a lot of passion,” says Carlos Evans, who was a member of the partnership’s search committee that picked Almond.
“He really has a passion for this job,” says Evans, Wachovia Corp.’s commercial segment executive director. “He’s a believer in regionalism.”
Or maybe it was that Almond needed a change, says Hank Hankins, Parker Poe managing partner. “Mike likes new challenges,” he says. “He wanted to see how it would go.”
Almond had the opportunity to return to Parker Poe if the experiment with the partnership didn’t work out, says Hankins. But Almond never asked for his old job back.
The Charlotte Regional Partnership is an economic development collaboration among local governments that Works to attract jobs and investment to the 16-county Charlotte area. Political bodies in the region pay a membership fee based on population and major corporations contribute cash annually for the chance to watch the process.
Since the partnership was established in 1991, the agency has helped attract an estimated $18 billion in investment and 17,000 jobs.
Today, Almond believes he and his predecessors have been able to convince economic developers, county governments and even proponents of one state over another in the Carolinas that regional cooperation is the answer to attracting business and industry.
It wasn’t that way in the past. “If a project was looking at one county in the region and for some reason that county fell off the list, the people in that county would much rather have that project go to Pennsylvania than to go anywhere else in the region,” Almond says. “Because it looked like a big loss.”
But thanks to the partnership’s region building, that provincialism is dead, he contends. “Slowly but surely, people understood that the product that needed to be presented to the outside world was not Lincolnton, Rock Hill or even Hickory. It was the Charlotte region.”
The breakthrough for the connection between Charlotte and the world of international business came in 1998, when the city decided to host the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue. Chairman and chief executive-level business people met at the session to discussion trade and tariff issues.
Suddenly, Charlotte was hosting an event that before had been held in world-class cities such as Chicago, Rome and Berlin. “We found out in 1998 that we could be a serious player in the global economy,” Almond says.
Now, the Charlotte region has another chance at tapping international markets - this time in a digital way. Almond believes the Internet will be the primary method that companies and corporations do their searches for building sites, at least during the initial screening.
Gone are the days when a relocating company tours the area, conducting a wide search for sites by visiting each location. “It used to be that if there’s an economic development prospect and you made the top 10 or top 20 sites, you knew about that,” he says. “It’s not that way anymore.
“The economic development process on the large projects is a self-selecting process,” he says. “It begins and it ends on the World Wide Web. We are now being notified we are on the short list of three.”
Just look at the number of visits that Charlotte Regional Partnership’s Web site registered over the years.
It started in 1995 with an average of 20,000 hits a month. Two years later, that number had climbed to 70,000 visits a month. Now, the Web pages log 130,000 visits each month.
The average length of each visit has also grown to about 30 minutes from as short as 4 minutes in 1996, he says. “And there are no video games on the site,” he says.
“It used to be that site selection people were doing their work to include sites in their search,” he says. “Today, those same people are overwhelmed with information and sites. So they are looking for a reasons to exclude.”
In answer to that change in process, the partnership has beefed up its Internet presence, adding complete information about existing buildings, greenfield sites and other locations available in the 16-county region.
“Our goal is we must not give any business or site selection person a reason to exclude the Charlotte region because of the inability to obtain accurate, current, comprehensive and complete information about our region online,” he says.
Launched in September, the new site has also become a demographer’s paradise for information on a number of different subjects including the number of ex-military personnel living in the area, the educational attainments of residents, the number of community colleges in the area and the cost of electric power.
“We want to make sure that when anybody logs onto our Web site that they can find out everything exhaustively that they want to know about the Charlotte region by staying on that Web site,” he says. “We don’t ever want to lose them.”
B221. MARY ERNEST7 WASHINGTON (Annie Bertha6 Fleming, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born on August 17, 1910 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on July 11, 1999 in Bethesda, Maryland; and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville, North Carolina. Mae married William Sherrod Tyson on February 8, 1933 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. He was born February 10, 1903 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 23, 1978 in Washington, D.C.; and was also buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville.
Obituary of Mary Ernest Washington
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 13, 1999, p. B-6:
TYSON, MARY W.
On Sunday, July 11, 1999, of Rockville, Md. Beloved wife of the late William S. Tyson, loving mother of Preston A. Tyson, Ann Tyson Storey and William S. Tyson, Jr. A memorial service will be held at the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, 7611 Clarendon Rd., Bethesda, Md. 29814, Wednesday, July 14 at 11 a.m. Arrangments by Pumphrey’s Colonial Funeral Home, Rockville, Md.
Obituary of William Sherrod Tyson
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, October 27, 1978, p. 10:
TYSON
Mr. William Sherrod Tyson, 75, died Monday in Washington, D.C. He resided at 11008 Lux Manor Road, Rockville, Md.
A memorial service will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Md.
A private graveside service will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in Cherry Hill Cemetery here by Dr. Will Wallace.
Mr. Tyson was born in Greenville and received his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lived in Charlotte from 1939 to 1942, when he moved to Washington, D.C. and served as general counsel for the Labor Department until 1953. He practiced law privately from 1953 until he retired in 1974.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mary Washington Tyson; two sons, Preston A. Tyson of Tantallon, Md. and William S. Tyson, Jr. of Marlboro, Md.; a daughters, Mrs. James Storey of Winter Park, Fla.; and six grandchildren.
Issue:
B422–––i.–––Preston Arthur8 Tyson was born on April 27, 1924. She married first Mildred Grier and second Myret McGregor, according to Alice Chandler (Washington) Cobb Griffin, GenieAlice@aol.com, in an email dated November 24, 2002.
B423–––ii.–––William Sherrod Tyson, Jr., born in 1938, twin of Ann Washington Tyson, #B425 below, married Irene Bollo, according to Alice Chandler (Washington) Cobb Griffin, GenieAlice@aol.com, in an email dated November 24, 2002.
B424–––iii.–––Ann Washington Tyson who married James A. Storey. She is the twin sister of William Sherrod Tyson, Jr., #B424 above.
B222. CLEMENT McKAY7 WASHINGTON (Annie Bertha6 Fleming, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born November 22, 1912 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died January 20, 1991 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana; and was buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, North Carolina. He married Agnes Wainwright on September 10, 1939 in Emporia, Greensville County, Virginia, according to his daughter Alice of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Agnes was born November 6, 1918 in Farmville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died June 4, 1982 in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina; and was also buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, North Carolina.
Obituary of Clement McKay Washington
The Chowan Herald, Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, January 24, 1991, p. A-7:
C. McKAY WASHINGTON
A native of Pitt County, he was the son of the late Clement and Annie Fleming Washington, and the widower of Agnes Wainwright Washington. He was the retired owner-operator of Thrif-T Gas Company in Edenton. Washington was a member of Edenton Baptist Church, Unanimity Masonic Lodge #7, New Bern Scottish Rite Bodies, and New Bern Sudan Shrine Temple.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bill (Alice) Griffin of Fort Wayne, Ind.; one sister, Mrs. Mary Tyson of Rockville, Md.; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was conducted Wednesday, January 23, in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, with Dr. Kenneth Word officiating.
Swindell Funeral Home of Hertford was in charge of arrangements.
Obituary of Agnes Wainwright
The Chowan Herald, Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, June 10, 1982, p. A-2:
AGNES W. WASHINGTON
Mrs. Agnes Wainwright Washington, 63, of 138 Morris Circle, died June 4 after a lengthy illness.
A native of Pitt County she was the wife of C. McKay Washington. She was a former bookkeeper for J. H. Conger Oil Company and was a member of Edenton Baptist Church.
Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bill (Alice W.) Griffin of Buxton; four sisters, Mrs. Alice Johnson and Mrs. Myrtle W. Wainwright, both of Farmville, Mrs. Theresa Aswell of Stantonburg and Mrs. Madeline Dail of New Bern; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Graveside services were held Saturday, June 5 at 4 p.m. in Beaver Hill Cemetery with Dr. John Allen and Rev. Marvin Baccus officiating.
Swindell-Bass Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Issue:
B425–––i.–––Alice Chandler8 Washington, of whom below, born in 1941 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B426–––ii.–––Nancy Kay Washington was born on January 22, 1945 in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina; died on February 1, 1945 in Edenton, North Carolina; and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B427–––iii.–––Clement McKay Washington, Jr. was born on May 5, 1951 in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina; died on February 3, 1982 in Edenton, North Carolina; and was buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, North Carolina. He married first Beverly Binder on December 6, 1975 in Roper, North Carolina and second Barbara Walker on August 1, 1977 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Obituary of
Clement McKay Washington, Jr.The Chowan Herald, Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, February 11, 1982, p. A-2:
CLEMENT McKAY
WASHINGTON, JR.Clement McKay Washington, Jr., 30, of Edenton, died suddenly Feb. 3 at 106 E. Carteret St. The son of Mr. Clement McKay Washington, Sr. and Mrs. Agnes Wainwright Washington of Edenton, he was employed as a lineman with Compass Corporation of Edenton.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his sister, Mrs. Alice Griffin of Buxton, N.C.
Funeral services were held graveside beginning at 4 p.m. at Beaver Hill Cemetery on Feb. 4 by Rev. Marvin Baccus and Dr. John Allen.
Williford-Barham Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
B223. ERNEST IREDELL7 FLEMING, JR. (Ernest Iredell6, Sidney Iredell5, Peter4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born February 19, 1916; died February 25, 2002. He married Louise Christian ?, who was born December 4, 1921; died April 21, 1999.
Obituary of Ernest Iredell Fleming, Jr.
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 26, 2002, p. B-6:
ERNEST IREDELL FLEMING, JR.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Ernest Iredell Fleming, Jr., of 208 Dover Road, Rocky Mount died peacefully on February 25, 2002 after a brief illness. Mr. Fleming was born February 19, 1916. He was preceded in death by wife, Louise Christian Fleming and son, Ernest “Ernie” L. Fleming, III.
Mr. Fleming’s father started the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in 1912. He joined his father in the business after graduating from college. In 1955, Mr. Fleming became part owner and manager. He remained in this capacity until his retirement in 1973.
Survivors are daughter, Nell F. Armstrong and husband, Donald S.; grandchildren, Louise A. Nobles and husband, Roy L. of Vanceboro, Constance L. Fleming of Pinehurst; great-grandchildren, Joseph H. Sawyer and Hunter L. Nobles.
Graveside service 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Pineview Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to The Church of the Good Shepherd, 231 N. Church Street, Rocky Mount, NC.
Arrangements by Johnson Funeral Home, Sunset Avenue, Rocky Mount, NC.
Obituary of Louise Christian ?
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday, April 22, 1999, p. B-6:
... Rocky Mount
LOUISE C. FLEMING, 77, April 21. Graveside 11 a.m., Friday, Pineview Cemetery, Section 30. Arrangements by Johnson Funeral Home.
Issue:
B428(A)–––i.–––Ernest Iredell8 Fleming III, of whom below, was born on June 19, 1952; died on February 5, 1994.
B428(B)–––ii.–––Nell Fleming married Donald S. Armstrong. They had a daughter Louise who married Roy L. Nobles.
B224. MARY BELL7 FLEMING (Leon Brown6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born December 6, 1918 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died June 10, 2000 in Lower Cape Fear Hospice Care Center, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina; and was buried in Oleander Memorial Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina. She married Ernest Lee Clark, Jr.
Obituaries of Mary Fleming
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, June 12, 2000, p. B-4:
MARY FLEMING CLARK
WILMINGTON –– Mary Fleming Clark of Wilmington, NC died Saturday, June 10, 2000 at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Care Center.
She was born December 6, 1918 in Greenville, NC, daughter of the late Leon Brown and Mary Louise Fleming and was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Lee Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Clark retired in 1982 after teaching for 23 years in the New Hanover County Schools and was a member of the ADK Teachers Sorority. She was a member of First Baptist Church for more than 53 years where she was a member of the Dobson Sunday School Class #3.
Surviving are her children, Ann Brigman of Wilmington, NC and Lee Clark and wife Adrienne of Raleigh, NC; four grandchildren, Brian Brigman of Chicago, IL, Allison Sheehan of Indianapolis, IN, Laura Clark of Arlington, VA, and Ashley Clark of Chapel Hill, NC; and two great-granddaughters, Abby Brigman and Patterson Sheehan.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, 2000 at Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel by Dr. Michael G. Queen. Interment will follow in Oleander Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 7-8 p.m. Monday at Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Oberlin Rd., Suite 208, Raleigh, NC 27605.
The Morning Star, Wilmington, North Carolina, Monday, June 12, 2000, p. B-4:
MARY FLEMING CLARK
Mary Fleming Clark of Wilmington, N.C., died Saturday, June 10, 2000, at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Care Center.
She was born December 6, 1918, in Greenville, N.C., daughter of the late Leon Brown and Mary Louise Fleming, and was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Lee Clark Jr.
Mrs. Clark retired in 1982 after teaching for twenty-three years in the New Hanover County Schools and was a member of the ADK teachers sorority. She was a member of First Baptist Church since 1953 and was a member of the Dobson Sunday School Class and Circle #3.
Surviving are her children, Ann Brigman of Wilmington, N.C., and Lee Clark and wife Adrienne of Raleigh, N.C.; four grandchildren, Brian Brigman of Chicago, IL, Allison Sheehan of Indianapolis, IN, Laura Clark of Arlington, VA, and Ashley Clark of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and two great-granddaughters, Abby Brigman and Patterson Sheehan.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, 2000, at Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel by Dr. Michael G. Queen. Interment will follow in Oleander Memorial Gardens (1311 Shipyard Boulevard, Wilmington, North Carolina 28412).
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Oberlin Rd., Suite 208, Raleigh, N.C. 27605.
Andrews Mortuary Market Street Chapel.
Issue:
B429–––i.–––Ann8 Clark, of whom below.
B430–––ii.–––Ernest Lee Clark, Jr. of whom below, born in September of 1948 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B227. LEON BROWN7 FLEMING, JR. (Leon Brown6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 5, 1927 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died July 10, 1999 in Holy Cross Rehabilitation Center, Burtonsville, Maryland; and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Henderson, North Carolina. He married Sallie Kerner in 1954. She was born October 21, 1930.
Notes
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, August 3, 1950:
L. B. FLEMING, JR. TO TEACH IN RALEIGH
Leon B. Fleming, Jr. will leave Friday for Raleigh where he will be teacher of vocal music at Needham Broughton High School. He received the B.S. degree in music education from East Carolina Teachers College in 1948. For the past two years he has done graduate study at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N. J. He earned the Master of Music degree with a major in choral conducting from Westminster in May, 1950.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 10, 1948, p. 2:
Leon B. Fleming, Jr. left today for Princeton, N.J. to enter the graduate department of the Westminster Choir College. He will major in choral conducting.
While at Westminster, as a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Fleming sang six performances in Carnegie Hall, New York City, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Bruno Walter conducting. The works presented were the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Gustav Mahler Second Symphony, and Brahms Song of Destiny. He was also a member of the Westminster Graduate Choir which appeared in forty concerts in Princeton and other New Jersey cities.
He studied conducting and vocal methods under the supervision of Dr. John Finley Williamson and with George Lynn. He studied theory under the supervision of Normand Lockwood and with Georges Couvreur, David S. York and Robert Stevenson.
Besides serving as a graduate class officers, Fleming’s extra activities at Westminster included being conductor of the University League Chorus of Princeton during 1949-50.
During the summer of 1949, he attended the Christiansen Choral School at Chambersburg, Pa., under the direction of Olaf Christensen, Peter Tkach, and Morten J. Luvaas.
As an added interest, Fleming has been organist and assistant organist for the past five years at Memorial Baptist church, Greenville.
Obituaries of Leon Brown Fleming, Jr.
The Capital, Annapolis, Maryland, Sunday, July 11, 1999, p. D-2:
LEON FLEMING
Leon Brown Fleming, a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, and part-time director of music and choir conductor at Calvary United Methodist Church for 12 years, died July 10 at Holy Cross Rehabilitation Center in Burtonsville after a long illness.
Born in Greenville, S.C. (sic), Mr. Fleming was a 30-year resident of Hyattsville and served in the Army during World War II.
He specialized in conducting and vocal instruction in teaching methods, and for 21 years conducted the University of Maryland Chorale and taught vocal pedagogy and voice at the college. Many of his students went on to careers with various opera companies and symphonies here and abroad. He did extensive choral and vocal judgings and consultations as well as guest conducting throughout Maryland and New England.
Educated at East Carolina University, Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and Indiana University, he was an adjunct faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music and at Catholic University.
Before coming to Maryland in 1970, he served as chairman of the music department and director of choral music and voice at Sullins College in Bristol, Va. From 1985 to 1997 he served as part-time director of music and conductor of the Calvary Choir at Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis. With donations and gifts, he spearheaded the renovations of the church’s pipe organ and the addition of a third division of the organ, as well as the purchase of a concert grand piano and studio Steinway piano for the church sanctuary.
Survivors include his wife, Sallie Kerner Fleming, whom he married in 1954; two children, Susan Fleming-Tran of Germantown and Mary Fleming Dudley of Montgomery, Ala.; a sister, Mary Clark of Wilmington, N.C.; and three grandchildren.
Visitation will be held tomorrow from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at John M. Taylor Funeral Home, 147 Duke of Gloucester St.
Services will be held at noon Tuesday at Calvary United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery in Henderson, N.C.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Leon B. Fleming Memorial Conducting Fund, c/o Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Monday, July 12, 1999, p. B-5:
MUSIC PROFESSOR
LEON FLEMING DIES;
VOICE TEACHER AT U-MD.Leon Brown Fleming, 72, professor emeritus of music who conducted the University of Maryland Chorale at the Kennedy Center, at Constitution Hall and on recordings, died of pneumonia July 10 at Holy Cross Rehabilitation Center in Burtonsville.
He had Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Fleming, whose home was in Hyattsville, taught conducting and voice education at the university for 21 years.
He was also a consultant and guest conductor elsewhere on the East Coast.
Mr. Fleming was born in Greenville, N.C. He was a graduate of East Carolina University and received a master’s degree at Westminster Choir College in New Jersey.
He did work toward a doctorate at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and at Indiana University.
He served in the Army in Germany during World War II.
Before joining the Maryland faculty in 1970, he was music chairman at Sullins College in Bristol, Va.
Mr. Fleming also taught at the Curtis Institute of Music and Catholic University.
Mr. Fleming was a music director and choir conductor at Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis. He was vice president of the local chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and treasurer of the organization’s Mid-Atlantic region. He was a member of the American Choral Directors Association and Pi Kappa Lambda honorary society.
Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Sallie K. Fleming of Hyattsville; two daughters, Susan Fleming-Tran of Germantown and Mary Fleming Dudley of Montgomery, Ala.; a sister; and three grandchildren.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, July 14, 1999, p. B-2:
LEON FLEMING, JR.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. –– Mr. Leon B. Fleming, Jr., 72, died Saturday, July 10, 1999.
Graveside services today, 2 p.m., Elmhurst Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming, a native of Greenville, N. C., was a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland where he specialized in conducting and vocal pedagogy. Mr. Fleming was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
Surviving, his wife, Sallie Kerner Fleming; daughters, Susan Fleming-Tran of Germantown and Mary Fleming Dudley of Montgomery, Ala.; sister, Mary F. Clark of Wilmington; three grandchildren.
Memorials to Leon B. Fleming Memorial Conducting Scholarship, c/o Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Arrangements by J. M. White Funeral Home, Henderson, N.C.
Issue:
B431–––i.–––Susan8 Fleming married a Mr. Tran.
B432–––ii.–––Mary Fleming married a Mr. Dudley.
B234. HENRY PRIDGEN7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 4, 1903 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 27, 1934 in Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. I do not know the name of his wife. He was buried in “Mrs. Lottie Lamb family burying ground in Lucama,” so perhaps his wife was a Miss Lamb???
Obituary of Henry Pridgen Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, April 28, 1934, p. 1:
H. P. FLEMING RITES SUNDAY
Former Lumberton Minister To Be Laid
To Rest At Lucama Sunday AfternoonFuneral services for Rev. H. P. Fleming, 30, pastor of the Lumberton Christian Church, a native of Greenville, who committed suicide at his rooming house in Lumberton yesterday, will be conducted in the Christian church in Wilson Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Burial will follow in the Mrs. Lottie Lamb family burying ground in Lucama.
Surviving are his wife and one son, Henry P. Jr.; his stepmother Mrs. J. D. Fleming; three sisters, Miss Daisy (sic, Davey - JTF) Fleming and Miss Agnes Fleming of Greenville, and Mrs. James Cobb, Farmville; a brother, J. D. Fleming, Jr.; four half-sisters, Misses Eva Moye, Blanch, Doris, and Edith, all of this county.
The suicide is said to have been the result of mental depression caused by a nervous breakdown which he suffered last summer. He was a native of this county and the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fleming.
Issue:
B433–––i.–––Henry Pridgen8 Fleming, Jr. was born in 1932. The obituary of his aunt, Agnes Amelia Fleming, calls him her foster son. According to cousin Joyce Dell (Cobb) Hamm of Greenville, North Carolina, in an e-mail dated May 2, 2002: “Henry Pridgen Fleming, Jr. lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and teaches at North Carolina State. He is the only one of the children left carrying the Fleming family name now, and he has two sons and a daughter living, but had twin daughters who died at birth.”
Dr. Fleming is professor of food science at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his undergraduate (1954) and master’s degrees (1958) there and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1963. In December 1999, Dr. Fleming won the Food Safety Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From his web page: “My research goals are to develop basic and applied knowledge that will provide improved methods for the preservation of cucumbers, cabbage, and other vegetables by fermentation or direct acidification. In addition, I supervise research on nutritional, biochemical, and physical properties of sweet potatoes as related to storage, processing, and food for human consumption.
My personal research interests include: (1) development of controlled fermentation methods for vegetables; (2) selection and genetic modification of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts for improved fermentations; (3) design of prototype fermentors for laboratory and pilot-scale vegetable fermentations; (4) principles of food preservation involving acids, salts, chemical preservatives, and heat; (5) methods for reducing salt, organic wastes, and energy requirements for vegetable preservation.”
B235. MARTHA DELL7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born July 17, 1906 in Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 11, 1991 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Tye James Cobb on December 7, 1924 in Greenville, son of James (Waller or Walter) Cobb and Martha Jones. His was born “James Isaic Cobb” but later changed his name. He was born December 5, 1897 in Greene County, North Carolina; died January 29, 1966 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
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Obituary of Martha Dell Cobb
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, April 12, 1999, p. A-11:
COBB
Mrs. Martha Fleming Cobb, 84, died Thursday in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
A funeral will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Revs. Ed Walker and James Gregory Dickens. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Cobb was a native of Pitt County and lived here most of her life. She was a member of Grace Church.
Surviving are two sons, Charles D. Cobb of Kinston, William S. Cobb of Phoenix, Ariz.; three daughters, Mary Louise Dickens of Charlotte, Rebecca Langley of Jacksonville and Joyce C. Hamm of Greenville; two brothers, J. D. Fleming of Greenville, Norman Fleming of Salisbury; six sisters, Davey Fleming Harper, Agnes Fleming, Eva M. Jackson, Blanche Tripp, Doris Leggett, and Edith Williams; 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Eastern Pines Rescue Squad, 101 Bryant Circle, Greenville, N.C. 27858 or Grace Church, Route 13, Box 60, Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Obituaries of Tye James Cobb
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, January 31, 1966, p. 12:
COBB
Mr. Tye James Cobb, 69, died Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at his home at 900 Ward Street in Greenville following a heart attack.
The funeral arrangements are not yet made.
Mr. Cobb had lived in Greenville for the past three years and had lived most of his life in Pitt and Jones counties.
He was a farmer until his retirement in 1956.
He was a veteran of World War I, having served in France, and was a member of the American Legion. He was a member of the Littlefield Free Will Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Martha Fleming Cobb; two sons, Charles D. Cobb of Kinston and A 1/c William S. Cobb of Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma; three daughters, Mrs. Grady Dickens of Charlotte, Mrs. Arthur W. Langley, Jr. of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Thomas Hamm of Greenville; eight grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Addie Suggs of New Bern, Mrs. Nina Perry of Vanceboro, and Mrs. Mattie L. Jones of New Bern.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, February 1, 1966:
COBB
Funeral services for Tye James Cobb, 69, will be held at the Wilkerson Chapel Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock by the Rev. Chester Phillips, pastor of Grace Free Will Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Full military honors will be accorded at the grave.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Martha Fleming Cobb; two sons, Charles D. Cobb of Kinston and Airman 1-C William S. Cobb of Altus Air Force Base, Okla.; three daughters, Mrs. Grady Dickens of Charlotte, Mrs. Arthur W. Langley, Jr. of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Thomas Hamm of Greenville; eight grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. Addie Suggs and Mrs. Mattie L. Jones of New Bern, and Mrs. Nina Perry of Vanceboro.
Mr. Cobb spent most of his life in Pitt and Jones Counties and had lived in Greenville for the past three years.
A farmer until his retirement in 1956, he was a member Littlefield Free Will Baptist Church.
A veteran of World War I, he was also a member of the Pitt County Post 39 of the American Legion.
Issue:
B434–––i.–––Mary Louise8 Cobb, of whom below, born October 11, 1925 in Craven County, North Carolina.
B435–––ii.–––Charles David Cobb, of whom below, born October 1, 1927 in Craven County, North Carolina.
B436–––iii.–––Fannie Rebecca Cobb, of whom below, born December 15, 1929 in Craven County, North Carolina.
B437–––iv.–––James Leon Cobb was born and died on January 26, 1933; and was buried in Spring Garden Cemetery, Craven County, North Carolina.
B438–––v.–––Joyce Dell Cobb, of whom below, born in 1934 in Pitt County, North Carolina. Joyce is one of the very generous contributors to this genealogy, especially concerning the descendants of Joseph David Fleming.
B439–––vi.–––William Stewart Cobb, of whom below, was born in 1941 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
B238. EVA MOYE7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born April 27, 1914 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 15, 2001 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Hunter Frank Jackson on February 25, 1937 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. He was born August 1, 1904 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina; died December 10, 1971 in Beaufort County Memorial Hospital, Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina; and was buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina.
Obituaries on Eva Moye Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, p. B-2:
EVA JACKSON
Mrs. Eva Moye Fleming Jackson, 87, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2001.
The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Jackson, a native of Greenville, graduated from Greenville High School in 1934. She attended Thorson’s Beauty School and worked as a beautician for 32 years, having worked in Greenville, Edenton and Jackson. In 1966, she returned to Greenville, where she worked as a home nurse until retirement. She was a member of Unity Free Will Baptist Church.
Surviving are her daughter, Ann J. Van Wagenen of Greenville; son, M. Douglas Jackson of Greensboro; brother, J.D. Fleming Jr. of Greenville; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times, will be at the home of Ann and John Van Wagenen, 2606 Jackson Drive, Greenville.
The News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, p. B-6:
EVA MOYE FLEMING JACKSON
GREENVILLE –– Mrs. Eva Moye Fleming Jackson, 87, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2001.
The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001, at Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Surviving are her daughter, Ann J. Van Wagenen of Greenville; son, M. Douglas Jackson of Greensboro; brother, J.D. Fleming Jr. of Greenville; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times, will be at the home of Ann and John Van Wagenen, 2606 Jackson Drive, Greenville.
Obituaries of Hunter Frank Jackson
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, December 10, 1971, p. 5:
JACKSON
Mr. Hunter Frank Jackson, 67, formerly of Edenton, died in Beaufort County Memorial Hospital this morning. Funeral services will be held Sunday in Edenton.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ann J. Van Wagenen of Greenville; one son, M. Douglas Jackson of Cameron; three grandchildren; three brothers, Hallet and Harry, both of Elizabeth City, and Howard Jackson of Edenton; one sister, Mrs. Hazel J. Carter of Edenton.
The family will be at the home of Howard Jackson in Edenton.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, December 12, 1971, p. A-2:
JACKSON
EDENTON – Hunter Frank Jackson, 64, died Friday in Beaufort County Hospital. He was a native of Pasquotank County and was the son of the late J. M. and Mrs. Lena Sawyer Jackson.
He was a retired projectionist for the Taylor Theater and a member of the Edenton Baptist Church.
He is survived by one son, Douglas Jackson of Cameron; one daughter, Mrs. Ann Van Wagenen of Greenville; three brothers, Howard of Edenton, Harry and Halett, both of Elizabeth City; and one sister, Mrs. Hazel Carter of Edenton. He is also survived by three grandchildren.
Graveside service will be held today at 3:00 p.m., Beaver Hill Cemetery, by the Reverend Bob Gray.
Issue:
B440–––i.–––Eva Ann8 Jackson, of whom below, was born in 1938 in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina.
B441–––ii.–––Mack Douglas Jackson, of whom below, was born in 1944 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B239. JOSEPH DAVID7 FLEMING, JR. (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 27, 1915 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, according to Elizabeth D. (Beth) Benton and Joyce Dell (Cobb) Hamm; died on October 24, 2003; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Alice Rowe on September 10, 1937, daughter of Winfield Rowe and Vennie Tripp. She was born April 26, 1918.
Obituary of Joseph David Fleming, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, October 25, 2003:
J. D. FLEMING
Mr. J.D. Fleming, 87, died Friday, Oct. 24, 2003. The funeral service will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Doctor K. David Hines and Dr. William L. Hufham. Entombment will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park.
JOSEPH DAVID FLEMING, JR.
AND HIS WIFE, ALICE ROWEPhotograph courtesy of
Joyce Dell (Cobb) Hamm
and Anne Jackson Van Wagenen
Mr. Fleming, son of the late Joseph David and Eva Moye Fleming, was a native and lifelong resident of Greenville. He worked with Smittie’s Drive Inn, Nehi Bottling Co. and Hollowell’s Drug Store prior to his operating Fleming’s Grocery Store on West Fifth Street for a number of years. He later retired in June 1972 from the U.S. Postal Service after 15 years of service. He was a member of the Winterville Free Will Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Fleming was preceded in death by 12 brothers and sisters, Henry Fleming, Martha Cobb, Davey Harper, Agnes Fleming, Eva Jackson, William Fleming, Norman Fleming, Blanch Tripp, Verna Fleming, Doris Leggett, Edith Williams and Ben Fleming.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Alice Rowe Fleming; daughter, Barbara Hines and husband, Melvin, of Winterville; grandson, the Rev. Doctor K. David Hines and wife, Teresa, of Mount Olive; granddaughter, Alice Carson and husband, Shawn, of Knoxville, Tenn.; great-grandchildren, Ashley Hines, Tyler Carson and Lindsay Carson; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Winterville Free Will Baptist Church Building Fund, 489 Cooper St., Winterville, NC 28590; or Cragmont Free Will Baptist Assembly, c/o Winterville Free Will Baptist Church.
Issue:
B442–––i.–––Barbara Rowe8 Fleming, of whom below, was born in 1939 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
B242. BLANCHE ELIZABETH7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born June 11, 1919 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 9, 2001 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Willie Hubert Tripp on September 17, 1936, son of Alonza Tripp and Cynthia Ann Harris. He was born November 27, 1916; died December 31, 1983 at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Blanche Elizabeth Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 10, 2001, p. B-2:
BLANCHE TRIPP
Mrs. Blanche Fleming Tripp, 82, died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2001.
The graveside service will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Tripp lived her entire life in the Greenville area. She was married to Willie H. Tripp for nearly 50 years prior to his death in 1983. She was a member of Memorial Baptist Church and formerly lived on Dellwood Drive for many years prior to 2000.
Surviving are her daughter, Carolyn Tripp Benton and her husband, Bob, of Cape Carteret; sons, W.H. “Billy” Tripp of Greenville, and Dennis Lee Tripp and his wife, Olivia, of Wilmington; sister, Mrs. Eva Moye Jackson of Greenville; brother, J.D. Fleming Jr. of Greenville; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home Thursday from 10 a.m. until the funeral hour.
Obituaries of Willie Hubert Tripp
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, January 1, 1984, p. 1:
SERVICE STATION OWNER IS KILLED
William H. Tripp, owner of Tripp’s Bypass Service Center on Memorial Drive, died Saturday at Pitt County Memorial Hospital shortly after he was shot at his service station.
According to PCMH Nursing Supervisor Mattie Bryan, Tripp died at approximately 7:15 after being brought to the emergency room by members of Greenville Fire and Rescue.
Police Detective Sgt. George Albertine said it appeared Tripp was shot just outside the station near the gas pumps when he and a black male struggled. “Then he must have staggered back into the building,” he said.
While police initially thought the station was robbed, Albertine said there didn’t seem to be any money missing.
Albertine said witnesses last saw Tripp’s assailant just after the shooting when the gunman headed toward a field adjacent to the station and Village Drive. According to Albertine, the assailant was wearing all black or dark clothing, stood approximately 6 feet tall and weighed about 160 pounds.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, January 2, 1984, p. 10:
TRIPP
Mr. Willie H. Tripp, Sr., 67, owner-operator of Tripp’s Bypass Service Center, died Saturday night. He was a resident of 302 Dellwood Drive. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. E. T. Vinson. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Tripp, a native and life-long resident of Greenville, had been in the automobile sales and service station business for nearly 40 years here.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Blanche Tripp; a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Tripp Benton of Swansboro; two sons, Willie H. “Billy” Tripp of Greenville and Dennis Lee Tripp of Raleigh; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Davis of Chesapeake, Va., Mrs. Mavis Hill of Greenville, and Mrs. Louise Lang of Milwaukee, Wis.; a brother, Burney R. Tripp of Greenville; and six grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Monday from 7-9 p.m.
Issue:
B443–––i.–––(Unnamed)8 Tripp, born and died September 22, 1948; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
B444–––ii.–––Carolyn Elizabeth Tripp, of whom below, born in Pitt County, North Carolina.
445–––iii.–––Willie Hubert (Billy) Tripp, Jr. was born in Pitt County, North Carolina. Possibly the son mentioned in the story below from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, June 2, 1941, p. 2:
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tripp announce the birth of a son at their home, 1106 Evans street, on Sunday, June 1, 1941.
446–––iv.–––Dennis Lee Tripp, born in Pitt County, North Carolina. He married Olivia ?.
B244. DORIS MAE7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born July 27, 1923 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died June 6, 1998 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married William Marvin Leggett, son of William Murphy Leggett and Roxann (Roxie) Hoell.
Obituary of Doris Mae Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, June 7, 1998, p. B-2:
DORIS F. LEGGETT
Mrs. Doris Mae Fleming Leggett, 74, of 208 Patrick St., died Saturday, June 6, 1998, in Goldsboro.
Mrs. Leggett was a Pitt County native who lived most of her life in Greenville. She was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church.
Surviving: husband, William Marvin Leggett; sons, William Kent Leggett of Winston-Salem, Robbie Gene Leggett of Madison, Howard Marvin Leggett of San Diego, David Roy Leggett of Phoenix; brother, J. D. Fleming, Jr. of Greenville; sisters, Davey F. Harper, Ena M. Jackson, Blanche F. Tripp and Edith P. Williams, all of Greenville; and two grandchildren.
Visitation 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times at the home, Greenville.
Memorials to Kitty Askins Hospice Center, 107 Handley Hart Court, Goldsboro, N.C. , 27533.
Issue:
B447–––i.–––William Kent8 Leggett.
B448–––ii.–––Robbie Gene Leggett, reportedly has two children.
B449–––iii.–––Howard Marvin Leggett.
B450–––iv.–––David Roy Leggett.
B245. EDITH RAE7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born June 22, 1924 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died August 29, 2001 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. She married Herbert Carlton Williams on December 16, 1942, son of Clinton A. Williams and Emma E. Gladson. He was born March 29, 1921 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 19, 2001; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
Marriage of Edith Rae Fleming and Herbert Carlton Williams
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 22, 1942, p. 2:
WILLIAMS-FLEMING
Mrs. Eva Fleming announces the marriage of her daughter, Edith Rae, to Pfc. Herbert Williams, on December 16, 1942, in Greenville.
Mrs. Williams is the daughter of Mrs. Eva Fleming and the late J. D. Fleming. Pfc. Williams, who is stationed at Camp Boise, Texas (?), is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clint Williams.
At the present, Mrs. Williams is residing with her mother at 1020 West Fourth street, Greenville.
Obituaries of Edith Rae Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, August 30, 2001:
EDITH WILLIAMS
Mrs. Edith Fleming Williams, 77, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2001. She was a longtime resident of Pitt County. Funeral services Saturday 11 a.m., Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial in Pinewood Memorial Park. Visitation Friday 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Other times at 3396 Brick Kiln Road.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, August 31, 2001:
EDITH WILLIAMS
Mrs. Edith Williams, 77, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2001.
Mrs. Williams was born June 22, 1924, the 12th of 13 children of the late Joseph David and Willie Eva Moye Fleming. She was a lifelong resident of Pitt County.
On Dec. 16, 1942, she married Herbert C. Williams while he was home from his military basic training and before he was shipped overseas during World War II. In December 1944, he was captured and was classified as “M.I.A. - missing-in-action” and later was reported as a “P.O.W. - prisoner-of-war.”
During this time, she worked as a clerk at Roses’s 5 & 10. Upon his recovery as a P.O.W. and discharge, he returned to Pitt County, where he and Mrs. Williams lived the rest of their lives.
Mrs. Williams was employed as a sales clerk and gift wrapper for many years at Belk Tylers, and later as a sales clerk at Brody’s Department Store. Many people now reflect back on her many years of service to them in these positions.
Originally a member of First Free Will Baptist Church of Greenville, she later attended the Evangelistic Tabernacle and finally Black Jack Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church. She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary and enjoyed singing in the choir for many years. She was known as “Mrs. Edith” by her church family and close friends.
When she was in better health, she enjoyed sewing, cooking, gardening and baby-sitting her grandchildren and neighbors’ kids. She was well known for her letter writing and calls to friends, church members and acquaintances over her life. She was a quiet lady who always had something nice to say.
Her life’s trials included losing her father at age two, experiencing the anguish of many months of uncertainty for her P.O.W. husband in the war and having developed diabetes at age 27 and dealing with the disease for more than 50 years. Her family recalls her devotion to her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and God with such a strong, never-ceasing commitment. She will be truly missed.
Her loving and devoted husband of 58 years, Herbert C. Williams, preceded her in death on April 19, 2001. Surviving are her daughters, Phyllis W. Riggs and her husband, Gerald, and Dorothy W. Duncan, all of Greenville; grandchildren, Allan Batchelor of Ohio, Julie Duncan, and Jonathan Duncan and his wife, Teresa, of Va., and Valerie R. Opphile and her husband, David, of Greenville; great-grandchildren, Amber Batchelor of Ohio, and Brittany Duncan and Tyler Duncan, both of Virginia; sisters, Eva Moye F. Jackson and Blanche F. Tripp, both of Greenville; brother, Joseph David Fleming of Greenville; and numerous nieces, nephews and loving family members.
The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times will be at the home of Phyllis & Gerald Riggs, 3396 Brick Kiln Road.
The family would like to send a special thanks to her caregivers for the past year, Mary Best, Jean Morris and others.
Obituaries of Herbert Carlton Williams
The News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday, April 21, 2001, p. B-8:
HERBERT C. WILLIAMS, 80, April 19. Funeral 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial, Pinewood Memorial Park with military honors. Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, April 21, 2001, p. B-2:
HERBERT C. WILLIAMS
Mr. Herbert C. Williams, 80, lifelong resident of Pitt County, died Thursday, April 19, 2001.
The funeral service will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park with military honors.
Mr. Williams was born March 29, 1921, the second of five children of Clinton A. and Emma E. Gladson Williams. His parents died when he was just a young boy. He was then raised by his maternal grandparents on the Gladson farm outside of Simpson, N.C., where he farmed until the start of his military.
After honorable discharge from the Army, he returned home and resumed farming. Later he worked in engineering and maintenance at a local mill, and finally in carpentry and key works at East Carolina University, until retiring due to declining health.
His life trials included the loss of both parents at an early age and being raised by grandparents; the anguish, fear and despair of being a POW in World War II, and his last years of bad health. His family recalls his devotion to his wife, children and grandchildren as well as his ability to work with his hands, his hard work and his willingness to lend a helping hand. He will be truly missed by his family, friends, and country. He loved the United States of America and believed the freedom it stood for was worth fighting for.
Mr. Williams leaves behind his devoted and loving wife of 58 years, Edith F. Williams; daughter, Dorothy W. Duncan and her two children, Julie Duncan and Jonathan Duncan; daughter and son, Phyllis W. and Gerald Riggs and their two children, Allan Batchelor and Valerie Riggs; along with three great-grandchildren, Amber Batchelor of Ohio and Brittany Duncan and Tyler Duncan of Virginia. He was the last survivor of his Williams family.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. tonight at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times will be at the home of Phyllis and Gerald Riggs, 3396 Brick Kiln Road, Greenville.
The family would like to extend special thanks to all of Mr. Williams’ caregivers over the past several years: Mary Best, Joyce Hamm, Nancy Thigpen, Jean Morris, and Mary Summerlin.
Memorial contributions may be made to University Health Systems Hospice Care, 504-B Dexter St., Greenville, N.C. 27834.
Issue:
B451–––i.–––Phyllis8 Williams, of whom below.
B452–––ii.–––Dorothy Williams, of whom below.
B246. BEN EDWARD7 FLEMING (Joseph David6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 26, 1926 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died August 13, 1977 in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina. He married Joyce Everette.
Obituary of Ben Edward Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, August 14, 1977, p. A-2:
FLEMING
Mr. Ben E. Fleming, 50, died Saturday morning in Oak Manor Nursing Home in Kinston.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by Revs. G. A. Casper and T. R. Bradshaw. Burial will follow in Winterville Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming, a native of Pitt County, spent all of his life in Greenville and was a member of Meadowbrook Pentecostal Holiness Church. He was employed at Fieldcrest Mills until he retired.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Donna F. Warren of Chesapeake, Va.; two brothers, J. D. Fleming, Jr. of Greenville and Norman C. Fleming of Salisbury; seven sisters, Mrs. Eva F. Jackson, Mrs. W. H. Tripp, Mrs. Herbert C. Williams, Mrs. W. Marvin Leggett, Mrs. Martha F. Cobb, Mrs. Davey F. Harper and Miss Agnes H. Fleming, all of Greenville; and two grandsons.
The family will be at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Tripp, at 302 Dallwood Drive.
Issue:
B453–––i.–––Donna Kay8 Fleming married a Mr. Warren. She was living in Chesapeake, Virginia, at the time of her father’s death. She may have later married a Mr. Rhodes.
B248. ALLIE LEE7 FLEMING (Rudolph Vance6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) married first H. B. Williams in 1934. A native of Durham, North Carolina, he died on December 16, 1969 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville. Allie married second James Alvin Bunting on November 5, 1972. This was his second marriage; his first wife, Estelle Harris, died on December 20, 1967 and is buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of H. B. Williams
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 17, 1969, p. 11:
WILLIAMS
Mr. H. B. Williams, 62, died Tuesday night at 11:40 in Pitt Memorial Hospital following a week of illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Thursday afternoon at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by his pastor, the Rev. Dana Hunt. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. He resided at 1909 E. 4th Street.
Mr. Williams, son of the late Hosea B. and Hattie Lewis Williams, was born in Durham and reared in Farmville, where he attended the Farmville High School. He served in the United States Marine Corps for six years prior to coming to Greenville to live in 1934. An active member of the First Christian Church, he had served as a deacon in the church and was a past president of the Men’s Sunday School Class. A member of the Greenville Lions Club, he had received a 25-year perfect attendance pin. He was a supervisor of roofing sales for the Goodson Roofing Service, a division of Tar Heel Home Supply Inc., Pactolus Hwy.
Surviving are his wife, the former Allie Lee Fleming of Greenville, to whom he was married in 1934; a son, Harry Vance Williams of Charlotte; and three sisters, Mrs. Mamie W. Harris and Mrs. Dal Cox, both of Greenville, and Mrs. H. G. Davis of Rocky Mount.
Members of the Greenville Lions Club will be honorary pall bearers.
Marriage of Allie Fleming and James Alvin Bunting
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 7, 1972, p. 3:
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED.
Mr. Rudolph Vance Fleming of Greenville announces the marriage of his daughter, Allie Fleming Williams, to James Alvin Bunting, on Nov. 5.
Notes
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 6, 1976, p. 6:
SIXTY YEARS OF SERVICE HONORED
Last night, David Julian Whichard, Jr., Chairman of the Board of The Daily Reflector, was honored by the Masons of Greenville Masonic Lodge No. 284, A.F. and A.M.
... Also, 25 year membership certificates and pins were awarded to J. Louis Fleming and J. A. Bunting, both of Greenville. Both became Master Masons in 1951. They are also members of the New Bern Scottish Rites and the Shriners.
Issue:
Of Allie Lee Fleming and H. B. Williams
B454–––i.–––Harry Vance8 Williams.
B250. RALPH LANG7 FLEMING, JR. (Ralph Lang6, Lunsford5, Benjamin4, Benjamin3, David2, John1). Past minister at Daniels Memorial United Methodist Church of Goldsboro, North Carolina. May now live in Bluffton, South Carolina?
Issue:
B455–––i.–––John Benjamin8 Fleming.
B253. ALFRED DOREMUS7 McLAWHORN (Sophia6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 21, 1888 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 19, 1952 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina. He married Cora B. Walston on November 10, 1914, according to Trisha Worthington Cobb. Cora was born January 13, 1897 in Walstonburg, Greene County, North Carolina; died October 29, 1979 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was also buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Alfred Doremus McLawhorn
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, April 21, 1952:
LAST RITES HELD FOR MR. A. D. McLAWHORN
Mr. A. D. McLawhorn, 63, died in Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville at 4:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He had been in failing health for two years and critically ill for the past four days. Funeral services were conducted at the Winterville Baptist Church at three o’clock Monday afternoon by the pastor, the Rev. E. G. Cole, and burial was in the Winterville Cemetery.
lfred Doremus McLawhorn was the son of the late Alfred and Sophia Brown McLawhorn. He was born and spent all his life in the Winterville community and was a farmer. He was a member of the Winterville Baptist Church. He was married to Cora Walston of Walstonburg in 1914.
Surviving are his wife; a son, A. D. McLawhorn, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Julian J. Worthington, both of Winterville; 5(?) grandchildren; four sisters: Mrs. Corinne Williams of Winterville, Mrs. Manly Jackson of Greensboro, Mrs. B. H. Dixon of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Rufus Tripp of Whaleyville, Va.; and two brothers: Alfred and Haywood McLawhorn of Winterville.
Obituary of Cora B. Walston
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 31, 1979, p. 16:
McLAWHORN
Mrs. Cora Walston McLawhorn, 82, widow of A. D. McLawhorn, died Monday night in Greenville Villa.
A native of Walstonburg, Mrs. McLawhorn spent all of her adult life in Winterville and was a member of Winterville Missionary Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Brown McLawhorn Worthington of Winterville; a son, A. D. McLawhorn, Jr. of Winterville; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The family will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Worthington in Winterville. The family suggested that anyone desiring to make a memorial contribution consider the Winterville Missionary Baptist Church.
Issue:
B456–––i.–––Yvonne Brown8 McLawhorn, of whom below, was born on September 10, 1915 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died there on January 17, 1995.
B457–––ii.–––Alfred Doremus McLawhorn, Jr., of whom below, born March 11, 1920; died January 10, 1997 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B254. CORINNE BROWN7 McLAWHORN (Sophia6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born November 12, 1890 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died September 17, 1985 in Guardian Care Nursing Home, Farmville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 489: “(She) was educated at East Carolina Teacher’s Training School (and) taught in Greene and Nash counties.” She married David Loftin Williams on June 3, 1913, son of Andrew Williams and Alice Sexton. He was born in 1884; died in 1918.
Obituary of Corinne Brown McLawhorn
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, September 18, 1985, p. 14:
WILLIAMS
Mrs. Corinne McLawhorn Williams, 94, died Tuesday night in the Guardian Care Nursing Home, Farmville. The funeral service will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by her pastor, Rev. Bill Leary. Burial will be in Winterville Cemetery.
Mrs. Williams, a native of Pitt County, lived most of her life in Winterville. She attended East Carolina Teachers College and had taught school in Greene and Nash counties. She was a member of the Winterville Baptist Church.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lillian W. Graddis and Mrs. Christine W. Tripp, both of Greenville; two daughter-in-laws, Mrs. Doris T. Williams of Greenville and Mrs. Lucille N. Williams of Henderson; one sister, Mrs. E. Manly Jackson of Greensboro; one granddaughter, Mrs. Judy W. Kuykendall of Greenville; four grandsons, David L. Graddis, Asheville, William H. Graddis, Goldsboro, Barden E. Graddis, Winterville, and Greg B. Williams, Havelock; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday and others times at the home of Mrs. Christine W. Tripp, 2706 Tryon Dr., Greenville.
The family suggests that anyone desiring to make a memorial contribution consider the Winterville Baptist Church.
Issue:
B458–––i.–––Chalmon Albert8 Williams was born on May 30, 1914 in Nash County, North Carolina; died on June 21, 1972 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina. He married Lucille Newton in 1942. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 489: “(He) attended North Carolina State College and served in the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a skilled cabinetmaker.”
From http://www.careybaptist.com/history.htm, the web site of the Carey Baptist Church, near Adocock Crossroads, North Carolina:
“1982 –– Church sanctuary was refurbished and a new organ was given as a memorial gift by Mrs. Lucille Newton Williams in memory of Chalmon Williams and by Mrs. Alyce Hoyle Edwards in memory of Horace Edwards.”
Obituary of
Chalmon Albert WilliamsThe Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, June 26, 1972, p. 8:
WILLIAMS
HENDERSON –– Mr. Chalmon Albert Williams, 58, owner and operator of Williams Mill Work and Cabinet Shop in Henderson, died Wednesday night in a Henderson hospital.
He was a native of Nash County and was a member of the Henderson Lodge, No. 229 AF and AM.
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. today from the Carey’s Baptist Church with the Rev. James H. Burch officiating, assisted by the Rev. Ed Loffman. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucille Newton Williams of the home; his mother, Mrs. Corinne Williams of Greenville; one brother, D. L. Williams of Greenville; two sisters, Mrs. Christine Tripp and Mrs. Lillian Gradis, both of Greenville.
B459–––ii.–––Lillian Lynn Williams, of whom below, born August 1, 1915 in Nash County, North Carolina; died February 9, 1999 in Pitt County, North Carolina.
B460–––iii.–––Mamie Christine Williams, of whom below, born 1916.
B461–––iv.–––David Loftin Williams, Jr., of whom below, born on August 5, 1918 in Nash County, North Carolina; died on October 10, 1981 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B259. HAYWOOD AMMORIA7 McLAWHORN (Sophia6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born March 15, 1907 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died November 30, 1955 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina. He married Mildred Easter Stroud on September 14, 1937, daughter of Thomas Walter Stroud and Penelope Williams. She was born April 17, 1911 in Lenoir County, North Carolina; died March 1, 1997 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
Obituary of Haywood Ammoria McLawhorn
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, November 30, 1955:
H. A. McLAWHORN FUNERAL ON THURSDAY
Haywood A. McLawhorn, 48, died in Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday morning, following several years of illness.
The farm of Haywood McLawhorn is among just 1,300 of the 58,000 farms in North Carolina that are part of the North Carolina Century Farm program. Administered by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Century Farm program recognizes those farms that have been in continuous ownership by a family for 100 years or more.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Winterville Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at three o’clock by the pastor, the Rev. E. G. Cole. Burial will be in the Winterville Cemetery. The body will remain at the Wilkerson Funeral Home and will be carried to the church one hour prior to the time of the service.
Mr. McLawhorn, son of the late Alfred and Sophia Brown McLawhorn, spent all his life in the Winterville community. He attended the Winterville Schools and was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1931. He was a member of the Winterville Baptist Church and had served on the Board of Deacons. He was a farmer.
Surviving are his wife, the former Mildred Stroud of Kinston, to whom he was married in 1937; a son, Thomas Haywood McLawhorn and a daughter, Sophia Stroud McLawhorn; a brother, Alfred McLawhorn of Winterville; and three sisters, Mrs. Corrine B. Williams of Winterville, Mrs. Ben H. Dixon of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. E. Manly Jackson of Greensboro.
Obituary of Mildred Easter Stroud
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, March 3, 1997, p. B-2:
McLAWHORN
WINTERVILLE ––– Mrs. Mildred Stroud McLawhorn, 85, widow of Haywood A. McLawhorn, died Saturday, March 1, 1997, in Raleigh.
Mrs. McLawhorn, the daughter of the late Thomas Walter and Penelope Williams Stroud, was born April 17, 1911, in Lenoir County. She graduated from East Carolina Teacher’s College and taught 22 years in the Winterville School. She was a member of the Winterville Baptist Church.
Surviving: son and daughter-in-law, Thomas H. and Cheryl McLawhorn of Charlotte; daughter and son-in-law, Sophia M. and Michael Yarborough of Raleigh; grandsons, Alex McLawhorn of Charlotte and Ben Yarborough of Raleigh; brothers, Clarence L. Stroud and Hugh M. Stroud, both of Kinston.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 7-9 p.m. Monday.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Winterville Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1669, Winterville, N. C. 28590.
Issue:
B462–––i.–––Thomas Haywood8 McLawhorn, of whom below, born in 1942.
B463–––ii.–––Sophia Stroud McLawhorn, of whom below, was born in 1948.
B260. ALFRED7 McLAWHORN, JR. (Sophia6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born May 28, 1909; died February 6, 1983 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina. He married Ada Gould Manning on December 11, 1934, daughter of Frank Brown Manning and Lydia Tollenah Tugwell, and granddaughter of Thomas Bragg Manning and Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Stocks. She was born August 28, 1915; died January 15, 2002 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville, North Carolina.
Obituary of Alfred McLawhorn, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, February 7, 1983, p. 8:
McLAWHORN
WINTERVILLE –– Mr. Alfred McLawhorn, 73, died Sunday evening at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Farmer Funeral Chapel in Ayden with Rev. Richard Davis officiating. Burial will follow in Winterville Cemetery.
Mr. McLawhorn was a member of the Winterville Baptist Church and served on the ASCS Farm Committee, the Winterville School Board and the Winterville Planning and Zoning Committee.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ada Gould Manning McLawhorn of the home; three sons, Dan McLawhorn of Chesapeake, Va., Michael McLawhorn of Hamlet and Ryan McLawhorn of Winterville; two sisters, Mrs. Corinne Williams of Winterville and Mrs. Dora Jackson of Greensboro; and three grandsons.
The family will be at Farmer Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Winterville Baptist Church.
Obituaries of Ada Gould Manning
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, January 16, 2002:
ADA McLAWHORN
WINTERVILLE –– Mrs. Ada Gould Manning McLawhorn, 86, of 5117 Reedy Branch Road died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002, at her home in Winterville. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Winterville Baptist Church with Dr. David Kolb and the Rev. Grover Everett officiating. Burial will be at the Winterville Cemetery.
Mrs. McLawhorn was for more than 50 years a member of the Winterville Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Philathea Class. She was active in the Women’s Missionary Union and taught the children’s Sunday school class. She was also active in the Home Economics Club of Pitt County for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Alfred McLawhorn.
She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manning of Greenville.
She is survived by three sons, Dan S. McLawhorn and wife, Janet of Chesapeake, Va., Michael A. McLawhorn and wife, Mary Beth of Elm City, and Ryan K. McLawhorn and wife, Sandy of Winterville; six grandchildren, Danny McLawhorn, Patrick McLawhorn, Todd McLawhorn, Christopher McLawhorn, Benjamin McLawhorn, Christina McLawhorn; three great-grandchildren Will McLawhorn, Pierce McLawhorn, and Harry McLawhorn.
Visitation will be held at Farmer Funeral Home in Greenville tonight from 7-9.
Memorials may be made in her honor to the Winterville Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1669, Winterville, N.C. 28590.
Arrangements by Farmer Funeral Service, Greenville.
The Wilson Daily Times, Wilson, North Carolina, Wednesday, January 16, 2002:
ADA M. McLAWHORN
WINTERVILLE –– Ada Gould Manning McLawhorn, 86, died Tuesday at her home. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. David Kolb and the Rev. Grover Everett at 11 a.m. Thursday at Winterville Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Winterville Cemetery.
Surviving are three sons, including Michael A. McLawhorn of Elm City; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at Farmers Funeral Home, Greenville, from 7-9 tonight.
Issue:
B464–––i.–––Dan Scott8 McLawhorn, of whom below, born 1937.
B465–––ii.–––Michael Alfred McLawhorn, of whom below, born 1943.
B466–––iii.–––Ryan Kent McLawhorn was born in 1954, married Sandra Elaine Maready in 1980, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 490. Sandy was born in 1955.
B264. WILLIAM FRANKLIN7 WORTHINGTON (Lucy6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born March 27, 1892 in Pitt County, North Carolina, according to Trisha Worthington Cobb; died December 3, 1985 near Ayden, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. Frank married Minnie Briley on December 20, 1911, daughter of Joseph L. Briley and Amanda Strickland. She was born January 10, 1894 in the Bell Arthur community of Pitt County; died April 14, 1980 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of William Franklin Worthington
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18:
WORTHINGTON
Mr. William Franklin Worthington, 93, died at his home near Ayden.
His funeral will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by Dr. Harold Deitch. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
A Pitt County native and a farmer, he lived in Greenville for many years and had made his home in the Winterville-Ayden community for the past three years. He was a member of the Red Oak Christian Church.
Surviving are four sons, Frederick Worthington and William Worthington, both of Ayden, Johnny I. Worthington of Fort Worth, Texas, and Ralph B. Worthington of Houston; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Allen and Mrs. Giner Hackett, both of Greenville; 28 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.
Obituary of Minnie Briley
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 15, 1980, p. 6:
WORTHINGTON.
Mrs. Worthington, 86, a resident of 202 N. Harding Street, died Monday. Born and reared in the Bell Arthur community, she had lived in Greenville since 1945. She was a member of Red Oak Christian Church.
Surviving her are her husband, W. F. Worthington; five sons, Frederick W. Worthington of Ayden, William F. Worthington, Jr. of near Ayden, Henry E. Worthington of Rountree, John I. Worthington of Fort Worth, Tex., and Ralph B. Worthington of La Porte, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Wesley R. Allen of near Greenville and Mrs. Edward L. Hackett of Greenville; a sister, Mrs. Lena Allen of Greenville; 26 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o’clock.
Issue:
Dates below provided by
Trisha Worthington Cobb
B467–––i.–––Frederick Wilton8 Worthington was born on November 29, 1913; survived his father William Frederick Worthington, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. He married Elizabeth Loftin on January 24, 1933.
B468–––ii.–––Edward Stuart Worthington, born March 21, 1916; died June 20, 1916.
B469–––iii.–––William Frank Worthington, born March 24, 1917; survived his father William Frederick Worthington, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18.
B470–––iv.–––Henry Esmond Worthington, born August 30, 1919; apparently predeceased his father William Frederick Worthington as he is not named as a survivor in the latter’s obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. Henry married Annie Ruth May on November 2, 1940. She was born on April 11, 1915. She is named as a survivor of her brother, Marion Lawrence (Bud) May in his obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, June 22, 1963, p. 6. She was living in Winterville at the time of her brother’s death.
B471–––v.–––Ertia Nell Worthington, born December 17, 1921; died January 10, 1931.
B472–––vi.–––Minnie Amanda Worthington was born on June 10, 1923; died on October 8, 1924.
473–––vii.–––John Ivy Worthington was born on October 3, 1924; survived his father William Frederick Worthington, and was living in Fort Worth, Texas at the time, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. Johnny married Frances Payne.
B474–––viii.–––Dorothy Nell Worthington, born November 22, 1927; survived her father William Frederick Worthington, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. Dorothy married Wesley Ray Allen on December 20, 1952. He was born on January 29, 1927.
B475–––ix.–––Troy Lynn Worthington, born October 2, 1929; died January 23, 1931.
B476–––x.–––Ralph Briley Worthington was born in 1933; survived his father William Frederick Worthington, and was living in La Porte, Texas at the time, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. On the faculty of East Carolina Medical School in Greenville, North Carolina, is a Ralph Worthington, Jr., Ph.D., who received his undergraduate (1973) and masters degrees (1976) from East Carolina University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1979. His relation, if any, to Ralph Briley Worthington, is not known.
B477–––xi.–––Ginger Worthington was born in 1936; survived her father William Frederick Worthington, according to The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1985, p. A-18. She married Edward L. Hackett.
B265. LELAND THEOPHILUS7 STANCILL (Mattie A.6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born January 30, 1895 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died June 24, 1926 near Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina. He married Luella Lancaster in October of 1919. She was born July 31, 1894 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died June 1, 1971 in a car accident in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina.
Notes
From The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 639:
Leland Theophilus was born Jan. 30, 1895 and died June 24, 1926. He attended a boys school in Asheville, N.C. around 1913 and attended Winterville Boarding School where he played football. He served his country as a solider in 1917-18 during World War I. In 1919, he married Luella Lancaster from near Rocky Mount. She was one of the earliest graduates from East Carolina Teachers Training School. Later she received (her) M.A. degree from George Peabody College and had a long teaching career. Her death occurred June 1, 1971. They had one son.
Obituaries of Leland Theophilus Stancill
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, June 25, 1926, p. 1:
TWO GREENVILLE MEN SLAIN LAST NIGHT
Stancill Brothers
Are Shot In Dispute
At Home Near HereEdward Evans and Francis Johnson,
Half Brothers, Held in County Jail Today
Pending Investigation of Coroner’s Jury
Tomorrow Morning at Nine O’Clock;Many Conflicting Reports As to Cause of Tragedy,
But Nothing Definite At Noon Hour TodayLeland and Wilfred Stancill, 31 and 25, respectively, sons of T. J. Stancill, prominent farmer of this county, are dead as a result of a shooting affray, which occurred on the farm where Leland Stancill resided, about 8:30 last night. Edward Evans, 23, and Francis Johnson, 12, half brothers, are being held in the county jail today pending investigation by the county coroner.
According to call information available this afternoon, the tragedy was the result of a controversy occurring between the parties involved. Many rumors were in circulation last night and this morning. But nothing definite had been determined late this afternoon.
An investigation will be conducted by Coroner S. J. Wilkerson tomorrow morning at nine o’clock. Solicitor Jesse Davis, who was in the city last night, conducted a private investigation but declined to give out the result of his inquiry.
Leland Stancill was born and raised in Pitt County. He was married to Miss Luella Lancaster of Rocky Mount, October 1919. Besides Leland’s wife and one child, the two men are survived by their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stancill; four brothers, J. Russell and Claxton, of Los Angeles, California; Robert and Offie J. Stancill, of Greenville; two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Arthur, of St. Augustine, Fla., and Miss Lela Brown Stancill, of Greenville.
Both were members of Mount Pleasant Christian church, where the funeral will take place, an announcement of which will be made at a later date.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, June 26, 1926, p. 1:
CORONER’S JURY ENDS
INQUIRY INTO DEATH
STANCILL BROTHERSRecommends Holding of Edward Evans Under
$5,000 Bond, Francis Johnson Under $1,500 Bond;Also Recommends Holding of Don Evans
as Material Witness Under $1,000 Bond
Investigation started this morning at nine o’clock. The hearing of testimony was completed at the noon hour, at which time the jury, with two of the eye witnesses, went out to the scene of the tragedy to continue their investigation.
The report of the jury as presented by Coroner Wilkerson this afternoon follows:
“We, the coroner’s jury, summoned to investigate the killing of Wilfred Stancill, find the following facts:
That the said Wilfred Stancill came to his death by a rifle shot while in the hands of Francis Johnson, while his brother, Edward Evans, and Leland Stancill were engaged in a fight, and we recommend that he be held under $1,500 bond until the next term of criminal court.”
The following verdict was returned in the case of Edward Evans:
“We, the coroner’s jury, find that Leland Stancill came to his death by a shotgun in the hands of himself and Edward Evans in a general row. We recommend that Edward Evans be held under $5,000 bond until the next term of criminal court.”
The following report was returned in the case of Don Evans:
“We, the coroner’s jury, recommend that Don Evans be held under $1,000 bond as a material witness and the investigation of the grand jury of the next term of criminal court of Pitt County, in the case of the killing of Leland and Wilfred Stancill.”
Robert Stancill, brother of the two slain men, was the first witness. He testified that Leland Stancill came up home for him and his brother and wanted them to go down to the house with them and help move Edward Evans’ car out of the garage so he might put his car in. He and his brother, Wilfred, and Otis Briley, accompanied Leland Stancill back to his home. Leland had a shot gun in the car. They got out of the car, and Leland walked over to the garage ahead of them, with shotgun in his hand. Edward Evans was standing at the garage by his automobile. Leland and Edward had some words. Edward struck Leland, and Leland grabbed the shotgun by the barrel, hit at Edward. Edward grabbed the gun. A tussle ensued. He said Leland’s back was to him when the gun went off. When the gun was discharged, he said Leland stepped back and released the barrel of the gun. Evans’ hand was about the breach of the gun. He apparently pulled the trigger. He immediately hit Leland with his fist and jumped on him and began choking him. He said that when Edward went down on top of Leland, that Wilfred joined in the fight, grabbed Edward and tried to pull him off Leland. He said that Don Evans had come up at this time, and taken hold of Wilfred Stancill. The witness said that he took hold of Don and tried to get him off.
About that time, he said a rifle fired and he turned around in time to see Francis Johnson with a rifle in his hand, and with the muzzle of it in Wilfred’s back. He said he released his hold and grabbed the rifle from Francis Johnson’s hand. About that time he said Edward Evans said: “Francis, you damn fool, what are you doing?”
He said the crowd was separated and that the two boys who had been shot were placed in an automobile with the help of others who had appeared upon the scene.
They were brought to the hospital, the car being driven by Joe Briley.
JOSEPH BRILEY TESTIFIES
The second witness of the morning was Joseph Briley, who lives a short distance from the scene of the tragedy.
He testified that he saw the car come up and go into the yard. That Mrs. Evans, mother of Evans and Johnson, was at his house at the time, seated on the porch with them. He said that when they heard the shots fired, she asked him to go see what was the matter. He ran over there.
He said when he arrived at the Evans home that Wilfred Stancill was lying on the ground, and that Don Evans, who was standing nearby, said to him two or three times that the boys had shot themselves. He said he helped to get the boys in the car, and carry them to the hospital. At the time he appeared upon the scene he did not see Edward Evans or Francis Johnson.
SELLARS GIVES TESTIMONY
Deputy Sheriff, Manly Sellars, testified that on the morning following the shooting, at the request of Joseph Briley and others who came to the sheriff’s office for him, he visited the scene of the tragedy and that on a ditch about 90 yards away, he found a broken shotgun. He stated that there were tracks leading from the scene of the shooting to where the gun was found.
A. A. FORBES TESTIFIES
A. A. Forbes testified that, in company with his son, he visited the scene of the shooting shortly afterwards. As he started to return home, he stopped his car and his son picked up a rifle out of a nearby ditch, placed it in the car and they carried it home with them.
Upon being questioned, the witness stated that the rifle was his property and had been loaned to L. H. Johnson, father of Francis Johnson, about Christmas of last year. The witness stated that later in the evening he was at the home of Mr. T. J. Stancill, father of the slain boys, and heard Robert Stancill tell of how the shooting had occurred. He said that Robert Stancill at that time stated that Francis Johnson had pointed the rifle at Wilfred Stancill’s forehead and shot him in the head.
GUS FORBES ON STAND
Gus Forbes testified that he knew the defendant. He said about a year and a half ago, at the request of Leland Stancill’s father, that he went to the house in which Leland Stancill, the two defendants and their mother lived to help them reach an agreement to a controversy arising out of the rental of land from Mrs. Johnson by Leland Stancill. He said that on this occasion the boys entered into a heated argument but that he prevented them from coming to blows; that an agreement was reached in regards to the division of moneys from the crops; that Leland Stancill apologized for insults which Evans declared he had offered to himself and his mother. That Evans in turn apologized to Stancill for any unkind words or insults to him; that they both smiled and shook hands; that Evans departed, went upstairs to his own rooms. The witness said at that time he left and went home.
SMITH TESTIFIES
Arthur Smith declared that on the night of the shooting he was at the home of Don Evans. He said that Edward Evans drove up into the yard hurriedly, called Don Evans from the front porch. Don got in Edward’s car and departed with him. A few minutes later, he started to town in his own car and had already passed the scene of the tragedy when he heard the shots fired. Upon turning back he stopped just a short distance from the scene of the tragedy. And that when the automobile bearing the wounded boys passed, he turned his car around again and followed them to the hospital. He stated that in conversation with him in front of the hospital, Robert Stancill had told him that Francis Johnson had pointed the rifle at Wilfred Stancill’s forehead and fired.
EYE WITNESS GIVES TESTIMONY
Don Evans, eye witness to the tragedy, declared that Edward Evans drove into the front yard of his home and called for his brother. That his brother was not there and he called to him. He said he went out and got into the car with him, and that Evans drove back toward his own home. He said that Evans drove the car into the garage and that he and Evans went to the front porch and sat down. A few minutes later, he said, Stancill’s car drove into the yard and Evans got up and went to the garage. The four boys got out of the car and Leland, Wilfred and Robert Stancill approached Evans and completely surrounded him. Otis Briley, the other occupant of the car, got out of the car but did not go with the Stancills toward the garage, and (?) when the firing began.
The witness, who had left the porch at this time and gone closer to where the shooting occurred, declared that Leland Stancill was standing with his gun in his hand. That Wilfred Stancill was on Evans’ left and that Robert Stancill was in front of him.
Words passed between Leland Stancill and Evans, and Evans said, “You will have to move me first.” At this stage the fight ensured. Wilfred Stancill attacking Evans from the rear, and Leland grasping his gun by the barrel, swung it at Evans’ head. The butt of the gun struck the side of the garage, glancing to Evans’ shoulder and fired, the witness said.
At this instant Evans struck Leland Stancill and knocked him down, jumped on him and seized him by the throat. Wilfred Stancill went upon Evans and seized him by the throat, and Robert Stancill mixed in. At this time the witness declared, the was in the midst of the scramble ... (The remainder of my photocopy of this article is missing.)
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, June 28, 1926:
BODIES OF STANCILL BOYS STILL AT FUNERAL PARLOR
The bodies of Leland and Wilfred Stancill, who were killed in a controversy near Greenville last Thursday night, are being held at Wilkerson’s funeral parlor, awaiting arrival of relatives from Los Angeles, Cal.
Complete announcement of funeral services will be carried in the volumes of this paper as soon as they are completed.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 29, 1926, p. 1:
STANCILL BOYS WILL BE BURIED NEXT THURSDAY
Services Will Be Held
At Home On Falkland
Road at Three-Thirty O’Clock
he funeral services for
Leland and Wilfred Stancill, brothers who were killed last Thursday evening, will be
conducted at Mt. Pleasant church, Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock by Rev. Warren
Davis, pastor of the deceased, assisted by the local pastors, L. B. Jones, W. S. Harden,
R. F. Jones, and L. R. O’Brian.
The procession will leave the home of their parents, on the Falkland road, at 3:30 o’clock and proceed to the church, four miles north of Greenville, where the services will be conducted, after which interment will take place in the church cemetery.
The following will act as pallbearers:
Active, for Leland: Spruill Spain, J. L. Evans, Gus Forbes, Olthus Joyner, Jr., B. S. Warren, and J. Harvey Briley.
Active, for Wilfred: Louis W. Gaylord, J. H. Rose, Sidney Fleming, Curtis Perkins, Tucker Allen and J. H. Randolph.
Honorary: D. S. Spain, Dr. J. E. Nobles, Dr. C. O’H. Laughinghouse, Dr. E. T. Dickinson, S. E. Gates, J. N. Hart, Dr. A. M. Schultz, W. H. Randolph, W. H. Ricks, Frank Wilson, J. J. Perkins, B. B. Sugg, Bruce Holiday, J. A. Teel, Edward Purvis, of Tarboro, F. E. Randolph, David Turnage, Jack Smith of Farmville, Carl Langley, S. A. Spain, Jesse Brown, Garland Hudson, W. E. Hooker, Leon Fleming, W. H. Woolard, J. R. Moye, W. G. Craft, C. H. Edwards, W. I. Skinner, O. W. Eakes, Joe Pollard, J. L. Little, and O. L. Joyner.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, July 2, 1926, p. 1:
FUNERAL SERVICES (FOR)
STANCILL BROTHERS
HELD YESTERDAY
Two Victims of
Shooting Affray
Laid to Rest At
Mount Pleasant Church
uneral services for
Leland and Wilfred Stancill, ages 31 and 23 respectively, who were shot to death last
Thursday night in an affray with Edward Evans and Francis Johnson, were conducted at four
o’clock yesterday afternoon at Mount Pleasant Church amid a tremendous crowd of
sorrowing friends who gathered to pay their last respects. Interment followed in the
Mount Pleasant burying ground.
The services were conducted by Rev. Warren Davis, of Washington, pastor for Mount Pleasant Church, of which the two young men were members, assisted by Rev. H. Frederick Jones, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, and Rev. W. S. Harden, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city.
The pallbearers were:
Active, for Leland: Spruill Spain, J. L. Evans, Gus Forbes, Olthus Joyner, Jr., B. S. Warren, and J. Harvey Briley.
Active, for Wilfred: Louis W. Gaylord, J. H. Rose, Sidney Fleming, Curtis Perkins, Tucker Allen and J. H. Randolph.
Honorary: D. S. Spain, Dr. J. E. Nobles, Dr. C. O’H. Laughinghouse, Dr. E. T. Dickinson, S. E. Gates, J. N. Hart, Dr. A. M. Schultz, W. H. Randolph, W. H. Ricks, Frank Wilson, J. J. Perkins, B. B. Sugg, Bruce Holiday, J. A. Teel, Edward Purvis, of Tarboro, F. E. Randolph, David Turnage, Jack Smith of Farmville, Carl Langley, S. A. Spain, Jesse Brown, Garland Hudson, W. E. Hooker, Leon Fleming, W. H. Woolard, J. R. Moye, W. G. Craft, C. H. Edwards, W. I. Skinner, O. W. Eakes, Joe Pollard, J. L. Little, and O. L. Joyner.
Obituary of Luella Lancaster
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, June 2, 1972, p. 14:
STANCILL
Mrs. Louella Lancaster Stancill, 76, died Tuesday night.
Luella Lancaster
Class of 1914
East Carolina
Teachers’ Training School, Greenville, North Carolina
From the
East Carolina University’s
Joyner Library
Archives web site
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by Miss Elizabeth Human, a reader for the Christian Science Church of Greenville. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery.
A native of Edgecombe County, Mrs. Stancill spent most of her life in Pitt County and Greenville. A graduate of East Carolina University, she was a retired teacher, having taught in the Pitt, Edgecombe and Greenville School Systems. She was a member of the Christian Science Church, Delta Kappa Gamma Honorary Teachers’ Sorority, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Mary L. Collins of Greenville, Mrs. Maude Stallings of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. C. H. Andrews of Raleigh; and two brothers, Luther L. Lancaster of Wilmington, Calif. and W. B. Lancaster of West Mifflin, Pa.
The family will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Stancill, 103 North Meade Street.
NOTE ––– A photograph accompanies the article and includes the caption: “Car Recovered: Members of the Greenville Rescue Squad recover the car in which Mrs. Luella Stancill died last night.”
Issue:
B478–––i.–––(Infant daughter)8 Stancill, born and died in 1922; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina
B479–––ii.–––Leland Theophilus Stancill, Jr. was born on February 25, 1923. The Stancill Family History, by Charles Hodges Manning and Hugh W. Stancill, Jr., 1981, p. 57 gives the date of his death as April 9, 1953. The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 639 gives the date of his death as December 4, 1953. He married Dorothy Edwards.
Notes
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 639:
There were thirteen grandchildren of (Theophilus Johnston Stancill and Mattie A. Brown) ... the oldest, L. T., Jr., was born Feb. 25, 1923 and died Dec. 4, 1953. He graduated from Winterville High School and during World War II was a soldier stationed in Europe. He was a member of the Army band, playing trombone. After the war, he married Dorothy Edwards. They did not have any children ...
B266. JOHN RUSSELL7 STANCILL (Mattie A.6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born May 1, 1897 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died February 23, 1989 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery, near Greenville, North Carolina. Russell married Mary Augusta Tucker on March 12, 1929. She was born October 4, 1900 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died April 5, 1981 in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery.
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 639:
Obituary of John Russell Stancill
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, February 26, 1989, p. A-2:
STANCILL
Mr. J. Russell Stancill, 91, died Thursday at his home.
Excerpt from e-mail message from Stephen Stancill Mims, May 5, 1998:
I must relate to you that as a child I farmed during the summers with my grandfather John Russell Stancill on his farm on Hwy 43 west of Greenville ...
I spent quite a bit of time there and was lucky to experience my grandfather’s rather anachronistic existence. I did not realize at the time that he did most things in the “old way.”
He had actually retired at about 70 but went back to farming later (into his 80s), and didn’t want to spend the money to “retool” the farm. Therefore we used mules, log tobacco barns, etc. The farm is now being converted to a subdivision, and I am disgusted – but I have my memories and some photographs.
The funeral service will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Monday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by Donald W. McKinney and Ronald R. Roach. Burial will be in the Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery.
Mr. Stancill was born on May 1, 1897, the son of Theophilus J. and Mattie Brown Stancill. He was born and lived most of his life on the family farm on the Falkland Highway. He attended Trinity Park School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Stancill served in the United States Navy during World War I and was a lifetime member of the American Legion. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of Mount Pleasant Christian Church, which is situated on land given by his mother’s family.
Surviving are four daughters: Sarah S. Glasgow of Wilson, Mattie S. Mims of Charlotte, Ann S. Foell of Greenville and Mae T. Stancill of Greenville; two sons: John Russell Stancill, Jr. and Ruel S. Stancill, both of Greenville; a foster daughter, Martha Paramore of Greenville; a brother, Robert D. Stancill of Greenville; a sister, Lela B. Stancill of Greenville; seven grandchildren: Deborah Poetzsch of Raleigh, Spencer R. Mims III and Mary Helen Glasgow, both of Graham, Stephen Mims of Moscow, Idaho, William A. Glasgow III of Wilson, and Jimmy Foell and Russell Foell both of Greenville; and two great grandchildren: Scott Foell and David Poetzsch.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 - 9 p.m. Sunday.
Memorials may be made to the Building Fund, Mount Pleasant Christian Church, Rt. 6, Box 344, Greenville, N. C. 27834.
Obituary of Mary Augusta Tucker
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, April 6, 1981, p. 8:
STANCILL
Mrs. Mary Tucker Stancill, 80, wife of J. Russell Stancill, died at her home here Sunday.
Her funeral service will be held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. John Simpson and the Rev. John Brick. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Stancill, a Pitt County native, spent her early life in the Simpson community. After her marriage to Mr. Stancill in 1929, she lived on Rt. 1, Greenville and attended Mount Pleasant Church.
Surviving her are her husband, J. Russell Stancill; two sons, John R. Stancill, Jr. of the home and Ruel S. Stancill of Greenville; four daughters, Mrs. W. A. “Bill” Glasgow, Jr. of Wilson, Mrs. Spencer R. Mims, Jr. of Charlotte, Mrs. John J. Foell and Miss Mae T. Stancill, both of Greenville; a foster daughter, Miss Martha Paramore of the home; two brothers, Lyman Tucker of Greenville and Marvin Tucker of Laurinburg; a sister, Mrs. W. W. Graham of Hamlet; seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Monday from 7 to 9 p.m.
Issue:
B480–––i.–––Sarah Frances8 Stancill, of whom below, was in 1930.
B481–––ii.–––Mattie Brown Stancill, of whom below, was born in 1932 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 23, 1996 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
B482–––iii.–––Dorothy Ann Stancill, of whom below, born in 1934.
B483–––iv.–––John Russell Stancill, Jr., born May 7, 1936; died on August 25, 2002; and was buried in Mt. Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. From The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 640: “John Russell, Jr. was born May 7, 1936. He served his country in the Korean War. For many years he was employed by Imperial Tobacco Company in Greenville, N.C. He is unmarried.”
Obituaries of John Russell Stancill, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, August 26, 2002:
JOHN RUSSELL STANCILL JR., 66, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002. Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 27, 2002:
JOHN R. STANCILL, JR.
Mr. John Russell Stancill Jr., 66, died unexpectedly Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002. The funeral service will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Mount Pleasant Christian Church, 1726 Staton House Road (off of N.C. Highway 33 West) by his minister, Gary Wackler. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Mr. Stancill, son of the late John Russell and Mary Augusta Tucker Stancill, was a lifelong resident of Greenville. A graduate of Greenville High School, Class of 1955, he served in the United States Army and was stationed in Korea. After his service in the Army, he worked at Imperial Tobacco Company prior to his retirement. He was a member of Mount Pleasant Christian Church. For the past 10 years, he had attended The Challenge House, the psychosocial rehabilitation program of the Pitt County Mental Health Center, where he received the Best Sense of Humor award.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Stancill was preceded in death by a sister, Mattie Stancill Mims; and a foster sister, Martha Paramore.
Surviving are three sisters, Sarah Stancill Glasgow and husband, Bill, of Wilson, Ann Stancill Foell and husband, Johnny, of Greenville, and Mae Tucker Stancill of Greenville; one brother, Ruel S. Stancill and wife, Judy, of Greenville; nieces and nephews, Deborah Poetzsch, Spencer Mims, Mary Helen Glasgow, Stephen Mims, Andy Glasgow, Jimmy Foell and Rusty Foell.
The family will receive friends tonight from 6-8 at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times at the home of Ruel and Judy Stancill, 2509 S. Memorial Drive, Greenville.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Challenge House, 2407 S. Memorial Drive, Greenville, N.C. 27834.
B484–––v.–––Mae Tucker Stancill was born in 1940. She married Thomas H. Mims, who was born in 1938. The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 640: “Mae Tucker was born Mar. 5, 1940. After graduation from high school, she became a certified ophthalmic assistant, working in a local ophthalmology office, and as a surgical scrub nurse. She like cooking, nature study, and like her grandfather Theophilus (Offie), she loves her vegetable garden.”
B485–––vi.–––Ruel Seth Stancill was born in 1942. He married Judith Ann Meeks on May 29, 1966 in Meadowbrook Presbyterian Church, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. She was born in 1947.
Notes
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 640: “ ... Ruel Seth was born July 20, 1942. After graduating from high school, he began working at the U.S. Post Office in Greenville where he is currently employed. On May 29, 1966, he and Judith A. Meeks were married. She is employed at Burroughs Wellcome in Greenville, N.C. They do not have any children.”
Marriage of
Ruel Seth Stancill
and Judith Ann MeeksExcerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, May 30, 1966, p. 2:
COUPLE EXCHANGES VOWS
IN CANDLELIGHT CEREMONYMiss Judith Ann Meeks and Ruel Seth Stancill were united in marriage in a candlelight ceremony on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Meadowbrook Presbyterian Church ...
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Elmer Meeks. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Stancill.
Prior to the ceremony, a program of nuptial music was presented by Mrs. Glen Scott, organist. Burney Baker, baritone soloist, sang “God Gave Me You,” “Wither Thou Goest” and “The Lord’s Prayer” as the couple knelt on a white wrought from prie dieu.
The bride (was) given in marriage by her father ...
Mrs. Robert G. Kadow of Charleston, S.C., cousin of the bride, was matron of honor ...
Bridesmaid were Mrs. Carl Wester of Raleigh, cousin of the bride, Miss Mae Tucker Stancill, sister of the bridegroom, Miss Valinda Whichard, Miss Joyce Hardee and Mrs. Tommy Joyner of Charlottesville, Va. ...
Honorary bridesmaids were Miss Kathy Boyd, Miss Frances Baker and Mrs. Clyn Barber Jr. ...
Joe Wingate attended the bridegroom as best man. Ushers were W. A. Glasgow Jr. of Farmville, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, Gordon T. Lee of Farmville, cousin of the bride, Arthur Gwaltney Jr. of Tarboro, John M. Dew of Tarboro, cousin of the bride, and Jack Taylor.
The bride is a graduate of Junius H. Rose High School and is a sophomore at East Carolina College.
The bridegroom was graduated from Junius H. Rose High School and attended East Carolina College. He is presently employed by the United States Post Office, Greenville.
After a wedding trip to the mountains of Virginia, the couple will reside at 112½ E. Eighth St. ...
B267. VERNA LEE7 STANCILL (Mattie A.6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born on December 23, 1898 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died on November 16, 1953 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina. She married Seth S. Arthur on May 17, 1923. He was born November 1, 1890; died October 27, 1952 in a boating accident near Atlantic Beach, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina. From The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 639: “Verna Lee born Dec. 23, 1898 and died Nov. 16, 1953. She attended Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, N.C. and East Carolina Teachers Training School ... They did not have any children.”
Obituary of Verna Lee Stancill
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 17, 1953, p. 3:
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR MRS. S. S. ARTHUR
Mrs. Verna Lee Arthur, 55, died suddenly at her home on Paris Avenue at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Chapel of the Wilkerson Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery. Her pastor, the Rev. William Clifton, assisted by Dr. H. G. Haney, Christian minister of Greenville, will conduct the services.
Mrs. Arthur was born and reared in Pitt County near Greenville, and was the daughter of the late T. J. and Mattie Brown Stancill. In 1923 she was married to Seth S. Arthur. She had lived in Greenville and Morehead City since 1930, and prior to that time in St. Augustine, Fla. Mr. Arthur died in 1952. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant Christian Church.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Lela Brown Stancill; four brothers, Russell, Claxton, Robert and Offie Stancill, all of Greenville; 12 nieces and nephews, and one great niece.
Obituaries of Seth S. Arthur
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 28, 1952, p. 1:
ELECTROCUTED IN FISHING ACCIDENT
Coast Guard Hunts
Body of Local Man,
Knocked Into SoundS. S. Arthur of Greenville was electrocuted yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock while on a fishing trip aboard his 22-foot sailboat.
The Coast Guard reported this morning that the accident occurred in the vicinity of the Atlantic Beach bridge. Arthur was reported to have been pulling up the anchor when he brushed against steel mast riggings.
The mast, which was 31 feet above water, had just hit a power line carrying 15,000 volts of electricity. Arthur was knocked from the boat by the impact and disappeared into the water.
Coast Guardsmen from the lifeboat station at Fort Macon began searching for the body after the accident but the body has not been recovered by noon today. His wife was with him on the fishing trip. She was uninjured.
Arthur, a pipe-organ expert and salesman, married to the former Verna Stancill, came to Greenville a number of years ago from Kinston. They made their residence in Greenville at 213 Paris Avenue.
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, October 31, 1952, p. 1:
ABANDON SEARCH FOR MAN’S BODY
The search for the body of Seth Arthur, Greenville man who was electrocuted on board his boat and knocked overboard in Bogue Sound, has been called off by the Coast Guard …
Coast Guard boats from the station at Fort Macon have been used in the search since Monday but the body has not been found. The search was abandoned yesterday until further notice.
The accident occurred late Monday afternoon in the vicinity of Atlantic Beach bridge.
Issue:
B486–––i.–––(Infant son)8 Arthur, born 1924; died 1924; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B269. CLAXTON GODFREY7 STANCILL (Mattie A.6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born on June 7, 1902 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on June 26, 1982 in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Minnie J. Jenkins on December 21, 1934. She was born about 1914 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died March 10, 1998; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 639: “Claxton Godfrey was born June 7, 1902. At present he lives at 613 Oak Street in Greenville. On Dec. 21, 1934, he was married to Minnie J. Jenkins, who was graduated from East Carolina University and has had a long teaching career. For many years Claxton was a farmer. They have three children.”
Obituary of Claxton Godfrey Stancill
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, June 27, 1982, p. A-2:
STANCILL
Mr. Claxton G. Stancill, Sr., 80, of 613 Oak St. died Saturday. A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. John Simpson and the Rev. Joanne VerBurg. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mr. Stancill, a retired farmer, was a lifetime resident of Greenville. He was a member of Mount Pleasant Christian Church and Greenville Moose Lodge 885 and was former partner of Arthur’s Organ Service. He attended Trinity College and later served as a merchant seaman.
Surviving are his wife, Minnie Jackson Stancill; two sons, Claxton G. Stancill, Jr. and Willis J. Stancill, both of Greenville; one daughter, Mrs. Emily S. Pascasio of Greenville; two brothers, John Russell and Robert D. Stancill, both of Greenville; one sister, Lela Brown Stancill of Greenville; six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. Sunday.
Obituary of Minnie J. Jenkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, March 11, 1998, p. B-2:
STANCILL
GREENVILLE –– Mrs. Minnie Jenkins Stancill, 84, died Tuesday, March 10, 1998.
The funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church by Tim Turner and Tom Banks. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Stancill, a native of Pitt County, graduated from Greenville High School and received a Bachelors of Arts degree and a Masters in Education from East Carolina University. She taught for 31 years in Pitt County at the Grimesland School, Pactolus School and at Wahl-Coates Elementary School in Greenville. She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church for over 68 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Claxton G. Stancill, Sr., who died in 1982.
She is survived by two sons, Claxton G. Stancill, Jr. and Willis J. Stancill, both of Greenville; daughter, Emily S. Pascasio of Greenville; brother, Bernice S. Jenkins of Lake Worth, Florida; sisters, Madeline J. Nutter of New York; six grandchildren, Wanda S. Dail, Michael W. Stancill, Robert J. Stancill, Willa S. Paton-Smith, Harrell C. “Skip” Pascasio, Alicia G. Pascasio; six great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Issue:
B487–––i.–––Claxton Godfrey8 Stancill, Jr., of whom below, born in 1936.
B488–––ii.–––Willis Johnston Stancill, of whom below, born in 1939.
B489–––iii.–––Emily Muriel Stancill, of whom below, born in 1943.
B271. OFFIE JOHNSTON7 STANCILL (Mattie A.6 Brown, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born December 5, 1905 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died August 20, 1973 in Pitt Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery near Greenville, North Carolina. Offie married Gwendolyn Beulah Forrest on June 17, 1933 in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina, daughter of Benjamin Dixon Forrest and Bertha Lois Kittrell. She was born February 4, 1911 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 5, 1993; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Marriage Notes for Offie Johnston Stancill and Gwendolyn Beulah Forrest:
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, June 23, 1933, p. 3:
STANCILL-FORREST
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Forrest of Winterville announce the marriage of the daughter, Gwendolyn, to Offie J. Stancill of Greenville on Saturday afternoon, June 17, at the home of Rev. W. A. Davis, Washington, North Carolina.
Biographical Notes on Offie Johnston Stancill
Excerpt from The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 638:
OFFIE AND GWEN STANCILL
Offie Johnston Stancill was born on Dec. 5, 1905, at the old T. J. Stancill home place. He was the son of Theophilus J. Stancill and Mattie Brown Stancill.
Offie first attended school at Joyners school house, formerly the Forbes school house. The old school building still stands, and recently it was sold to some doctors. He attended high school in Greenville. Because of a severe illness, he stopped school one year before he graduated from high school.
He worked on the farm for his father until his late teens. Times were hard then, so he went to Greenville and operated a grocery store for a number of years. This was not a success. Next he worked for J. C. Ruffin Tire Store. He worked with the Ruffins until Mr. Heber Mumford, the postmaster, encouraged him to work as a substitute letter carrier for the Postal Service. Some year later, during the second World War, he started working regularly and worked in civil service for forty-two years.
He was very active in the Rural Letter Carriers Association, and he traveled over much of the United States attending their conventions. He was an active and devout member of Mount Pleasant Church of Christ. He served as treasurer, Sunday School superintendent, deacon and elder. As long as his job and health permitted, he was active in the Roanoke District Conventions.
He was married June 17, 1933 to Gwendolyn (Gwen) Forrest, daughter of Benjamin D. Forrest and Bertha Lois Kittrell Forrest.
Gwen was born Feb. 4, 1911, in Winterville. She graduated from Winterville High School in 1928 and from East Carolina Teachers Training College (now East Carolina University) in 1931. She taught at Joyners School House in Pitt County until the schools were consolidated in 1932. After their marriage, she worked at Brown’s Furniture Store in Greenville for many years.
Offie and Gwen had three children ...
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, August 3, 1970, p. 12:
FORTY-YEAR CAREER ENDS
Offie J. Stancill of 103 N. Meade St., retired after 40 years service with the Greenville Post Office.
Stancill, who began working with the local postal facility in January 1931, worked as a substitute rural carrier for 13 1/2 years and was a city carrier for approximately seven years. He has been a fulltime rural carrier since October 1952.
A member of the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church, Stancill is chairman of the Board of Elders and served as Sunday School superintendent for 25 years.
He is married to the former Gwendolyn Forrest of Winterville and they have three children: O. J. Stancill, Jr. of Virginia Beach, Mrs. Bertha McNair of Raleigh, and Mrs. Thomas Schumack, a captain in the USAF now stationed in Thailand.
After a 10-day vacation in Florida, Stancill plans to relax, do some fishing and working around the house.
Obituary of Offie Johnston Stancill
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 21, 1973, p. 6:
STANCILL
Mr. Offie J. Stancill, 67, died in Pitt Memorial Hospital Monday night after several weeks of illness. He resided at 103 N. Meade Street.
Funeral services will be conducted at four o’clock Wednesday afternoon at Mt. Pleasant Christian Church by his pastor, Mr. Hugh Jarrett, and the Rev. Bill Clifton, pastor of the Broad Creek Christian Church. Burial will be in the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery. The body will be taken from the Wilkerson Funeral Home to the church one hour prior to the time of service. Members of the Board of Deacons of the church will be active pall bearers. Elders of the church will be honorary pall bearers.
Mr. Stancill was born and reared in Pitt County and attended the Pitt County Schools and Rose High School. He was a member of Mt. Pleasant Christian Church, had served as an Elder for 35 years and had been the Sunday School Superintendent for 25 years. He had been retired from the Greenville Post Office for several years after 40 years of service as a rural and city carrier.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Gwendolyn Forrest Stancill; a son, O. J. Stancill, Jr. of Kinston; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas A. Schumack of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. and Mrs. Larry B. McNair of Raleigh; three brothers: J. Russell, Claxton G. and Robert D. Stancill, all of Greenville; a sister, Miss Lela Brown Stancill of Greenville; and three granddaughters.
Obituary of Gwendolyn Beulah Forrest
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, October 7, 1993, p. B-2:
STANCILL
Mrs. Gwendolyn Forrest Stancill, 82, widow of the late Offie J. Stancill, died Tuesday.
Mrs. Stancill, a native of Pitt County, spent her youth in Winterville. She was a graduate of Winterville High School and East Carolina Teachers College. She lived most of her adult life in Greenville and was employed at Brown’s Furniture Store. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant Christian Church and the Red Oak Home Demonstration Club.
Surviving: a son, O. J Stancill, Jr. of Greenville, formerly of Fayetteville; two daughters, Gale S. Schumack of Navarre Beach, Florida, and Bertha Lois McNair of Raleigh; a brother, Elvy K. Forrest of Greenville; two sisters, Hazel F. Bowling of Titusville, Florida, and Bernice F. Skinner of Watha, North Carolina; two grandsons, Stan and Stephen McNair of Raleigh; four granddaughters, Rose Stancill of Morehead City, Angela Riggs of Greenville, and Lynda and Katie Gwen Schumack of Gainesville, Florida; two great-grandchildren, Jamie and Andy Riggs of Greenville.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorials made be made to the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church Music Fund, Route 6, Box 344, Greenville, NC 27834.
Issue:
B490–––i.–––Offie Johnston8 Stancill, Jr., of whom below, was born in 1934.
B491–––ii.–––Luel F. Stancill was born on January 14, 1941, according to Pitt County Gravestone Records, North Carolina, v. 2, 1962, compiled by Jeanette Cox St. Amand; died on January 16, 1941; and was buried in Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B492–––iii.–––Gwendolyn Gail Stancill, of whom below, born in 1942.
B493–––iv.–––Bertha Lois Stancill, of whom below, born in 1945.
B275. JOHNNY ELIZABETH7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born November 17, 1924, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202. Elizabeth married Earl Carlton Huband, Jr. on July 7, 1946 (Ibid.), son of Earl Carlton Huband and Hazel Howie. He was born on June 21, 1919 in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina; died on May 30, 1962 in a plane crash in South Carolina. The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202: “She graduated from E(ast) C(arolina) C(ollege) with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. Her husband got a degree from (North Carolina) State College in Architecture. She met her future husband when she went to Wilmington to teach. He was home from the army during World War II.”
Obituary of Earl Carlton Huband, Jr.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, June 1, 1962, p. 3:
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR E. C. HUBAND, JR.
WILMINGTON –– Funeral services for Earl Carl Huband, Jr., who died in a plane crash Wednesday night, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday from the First Christian Church by the Rev. David L. Alexander.
Mr. Huband died in a South Carolina plane crash Wednesday. Four other persons died in the crash. He was enroute to Wilmington and was to take his family from there to Texas where he had been employed by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) in Houston.
Mr. Huband was married to Elizabeth Brown Huband, formerly of Greenville. She attended Belvoir Schools and graduated from East Carolina College. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Brown, lives in Greenville.
Mr. Huband was born in Wilmington June 21, 1919. During World War II he was with the Army Corps of Engineers in Australia. He worked with the Engineers District office in Wilmington until he was recently employed by NASA in Houston. He was an elder in the First Christian Church and a member of the Gideon Society.
Surviving in addition to his wife are: three daughters, Susan, Barbara and Mary; three sons, Kim, George and Earl III, all of Wilmington; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Huband of Wilmington; one sister, Miss Elsie Huband and one brother, Allen Huband, both of Wilmington.
Issue:
B494–––i.–––Earl Carlton8 Huband III was born in 1947.
B495–––ii.–––Suzanne Elizabeth Huband, of whom below, born in 1948.
B496–––iii.–––Robert Kimley Huband, of whom below, born in 1950.
B497–––iv.–––Barbara Brown Huband was born in 1951.
B498–––v.–––Mary Rose Huband was born in 1952. Mary married Patrick Dubby.
B499–––vi.–––George Joseph Huband, born in 1957.
B276. JOHN STANCILL WILLIAM7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 13, 1927, according to Pamticoe Cousins of Beaufort County, North Carolina, compiled by Joliene Byrd Clark, Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, Maryland, 1988, p. 328 and The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202. He married Dorothy Jean Edwards on September 4, 1948, daughter of Henry Edwards and Mary Alice Allen. She was born May 29, 1929 in Pitt County, North Carolina, according The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202. Pamticoe Cousins of Beaufort County, North Carolina, compiled by Joliene Byrd Clark, Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, Maryland, 1988, p. 328 gives the date of birth as May 9, 1929. She died February 21, 1994 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park in Greenville.
Notes
The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202:
“John Stancill William Brown married Dorothy Jean Edwards (b. May 29, 1929) on Sept. 4, 1948. After a honeymoon to Miami and the Florida Keys, they returned to Route 3, Greenville, N.C., the Edwards home place, where they still reside. He joined his wife’s father, Henry Edwards, in the farming operation. They bought their first farm located on Highway 33, in 1957. Since then they have expanded and now own around 300 acres of land. They operate 400 more rented acres with the help of their three sons.”
The farm of John Stancill William Brown is among just 1,300 of the 58,000 farms in North Carolina that are part of the North Carolina Century Farm program. Administered by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Century Farm program recognizes those farms that have been in continuous ownership by a family for 100 years or more.
Obituary of Dorothy Jean Edwards
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 22, 1994, p. B-2:
BROWN
GREENVILLE –– Mrs. Dorothy Edwards Brown, 64, died Monday, February 21, 1994, at her home.
The funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Hooker Memorial Christian Church by the Reverend Joe Wingfield. Burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Brown, a native of Pitt County, lived all of her life near Greenville and was active in farming with her husband for many years. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant Christian Church and Hooker Memorial Christian Church and had taught Sunday school for a number of years. For the past several years she had been active in the Positive Image Support Group for individuals/families dealing with cancer. She was the daughter of the late Henry and Mary Alice Edwards.
Surviving are: her husband, J.S.W. Brown; three sons and daughters-in-law, William H. “Bill” and Brenda “Bret” Brown of Greenville, John I. and Edna Brown of Grimesland, Greg and Victoria Brown of Grimesland; two daughters and sons-in-law, Lois Brown and Jim Barrett of Greenville, Nancy Brown and Johnnie Lee Harris of Greenville; nine grandchildren, Henry Brown, Angie Brown, Brad Barrett, Michael Barrett, Charles Barrett, Dorothy Kathryn “Dottie” Harris, Nicholas Brown, Amber Brown, Mary Brown; and two sisters, Carrie Dail Paramore of Winterville, Luna Mae Braxton of Greenville.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times the family will be at the home.
Issue:
B500–––i.–––William Henry8 Brown, of whom below, born in 1949.
B501–––ii.–––John Ivy Brown was born in 1953, according to Pamticoe Cousins of Beaufort County, North Carolina, p. 328 and The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202. He married Edna Elaine Keel. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202: “(He) received a B.S. degree in business from ECU. He is engaged in farming with his father and brothers and lives at Route 1, Grimesland, N.C.” He was a 1977 graduate of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. In the fall of 1995 or 1996, a daughter Katelyn Ivy Brown was born. Another daughter, Christina Paige Brown, was born about 1994.
B502–––iii.–––Lois Jean Brown, of whom below, was born in 1954.
B503–––iv.–––Nancy Kathryn Brown, of whom below, was born in 1955.
B504–––v.–––David Gregory Brown was born in 1961 and married Victoria ?.
B278. ROSE HELEN7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born in 1930, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202. She married Leo Ramon Saurenman on August 4, 1950. He was born January 27, 1928. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202: “Rose, Leo and Edward all enjoy flying and all have their pilot licenses. Edward does stunt flying for air shows.” She received her pilot’s license in March of 1957, making a score of 100 on the written flight test!
Biographical Notes on Leo Ramon Saurenman
The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, April 30, 1995:
A KIT TO FLIP OVER;
PLANE IS BUILT FOR ACROBATSBy Dave Higdon
Knight-Ridder/TribuneOnce in a while something comes along in aviation that turns flying upside down.
That’s one way to view the Super Stinker, an acrobatic kit plane being developed for the homebuilt-airplane market by the three partners in Wichita-based Super Stinker Inc.
And that includes the Super Stinker, which partners Ed Saurenman, Mark Knoll and Randy Enloe bought in August from designer Curtis Pitts. Pitts is known worldwide for his Pitts Special biplanes, which dominated competitive and recreational acrobatic flying for decades.
In the last decade, a new generation of monoplanes (single-wing aircraft) has wrested acrobatic dominance from biplanes. Pitts designed the Super Stinker to close the performance gap.
Through the plans and kits offered by Super Stinker Inc., pilots with an urge to fly upside down will have a biwinged alternative to the monoplanes and their $200,000-plus price tags.
The partners plan to finish the prototype Super Stinker and prepare the first of the kits the company will sell for $44,700 each.
“We plan to have the Super Stinker at Oshkosh – on its own power,” said Saurenman, referring to the annual Experimental Aircraft Association convention and air show in Wisconsin, which is July 27 through Aug. 2 this year.
For decades, homebuilt planes usually were the product of hobbyists as interested in building as flying. Kits, such as they were, consisted of all the raw materials needed to craft the parts. Those parts were then assembled into a finished airplane. Maybe 100 a year made it into the sky.
But in the last 10 years, the homebuilt market has been revolutionized by airplane kits, with prefabricated parts ready to be fitted and assembled into a plane.
“Scratch-building” – building the parts and the plane from plans and raw materials – usually takes years longer than building an airplane from a kit, which is loaded with pre-made parts.
The rising popularity of kit planes and the recent shift toward special-purpose acrobatic kit planes are but two of the points favoring the Super Stinker. In the last year, no fewer than five new acrobatic aircraft designs, including the Super Stinker, have hit the market.
Another advantage for the partners is their backgrounds.
All three are seasoned aircraft engineers who came together about a year ago to form Aircraft Certification Specialists, an engineering consulting firm that works with manufacturers.
The company worked on an attempt to revive the 1940s Meyers sport-plane design. The consultants also have worked with some mainstream planemakers. Their resumes list the top names in aerospace: Beech, Cessna, Learjet, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, even General Dynamics.
The partners are well-versed in the latest tools of the trade: computers and three-dimensional computer design.
They turned their attention to Pitts’ biplane design when it was put up for sale in August. “We had a hard time convincing Curtis to sell it to us, but he came around, slowly,” Saurenman said.
Just as the engineers do at Boeing, Cessna, Learjet and Raytheon, the Super Stinker engineers are trial-fitting parts on their computer screens so they know whether the parts will fit together for the kit builder.
The acid test for the partners will be using those same drawings to finish construction of the prototype Super Stinker.
Today, the prototype is nothing more than a fuselage skeleton sitting in the company’s hangar at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
For example, the fuselage frame is steel tubing welded into a rigid latticelike structure that gives the frame its skeletal appearance. The wooden wings have aluminum leading edges, steel fittings and steel bracing wires.
But the internal structures of the wings and fuselage have benefited from computer analysis. And the synthetic fabric that covers the frame and wings is as modern as the space program.
The partners expect some Super Stinker pilots to buy the blueprints and make their own parts.
“A guy who built a Pitts before – if he’s a pretty good scrounger – could finish a Super Stinker for about $27,000,” Saurenman said.
But many pilots will opt for the kits. So, setting up kit production is next on the company’s agenda.
For $44,700, the builder gets the fuselage cage welded, landing gear and engine mounts ready to bolt into place, and all the wing materials, canopy and control linkages.
The kit and a new engine, propeller and instruments, which are not included, will wind up costing about $125,000. That is tens of thousands less than the factory airplanes the Super Stinker is competing against.
Photo: Designer Mark Knoll inspects the frame of the Super Stinker, an acrobatic kit plane being developed for the homebuilt airplane market. Knight-Ridder/Tribune photo by Laura Rauch of The Wichita Eagle.
Issue:
505–––i.–––Edward Earl8 Saurenman, of whom below, was born in 1957.
B279. JAMES IVY7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born February 22, 1933; died on September 18, 2002 in Belvoir, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in the Brown Family Cemetery near there. He married Effie Elizabeth Brewer on February 26, 1953 in Dillon, South Carolina, daughter of J. P. Brewer. She was born in 1935, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202: “Upon returning home, he joined his father and brother in the farming operation. He expanded by purchasing two farms.”
Marriage of James Ivy Brown and Effie Elizabeth Brewer
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 3, 1953, p. 3:
FEBRUARY BRIDE
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brewer of Belvoir announce the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to James Ivy Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown of Greenville on Thursday, February 26, in Dillon, S.C.
Obituary of James Ivy Brown
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 20, 2002:
JAMES I. BROWN
BELVOIR –– Mr. James Ivy Brown, 69, died at his home at 2389 N.C. 33 West, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002. The funeral service will be conducted Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Belvoir Free Will Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Brown Family Cemetery.
Mr. Brown, son of the late Peter and Viola Harris Brown, grew up in the Belvoir community and graduated from Belvoir-Falkland High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict and was a lifelong farmer.
He was a faithful member of Belvoir Free Will Baptist Church and a devoted Christian. He showed his love for God and his church in his willingness to serve.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Lynn Ivy Brown; and a brother, J.S.W. Brown.
Surviving are his wife of 49 years, Elizabeth Brewer Brown; four sons, Ronnie Brown and wife, Glenda, of Greenville, Gary Brown and wife, Cathy, of New Bern, Kent Brown and wife, Paula, of Greenville and Ricky Brown of the home; two daughters, Lori Brown Harris and husband, Jeff, and Gina Brown Harris and husband, Darrell, all of Greenville; a brother, Albion Brown of Tarboro; four sisters, Elizabeth Huband and Rose Saurenman, both of Wilmington, Viola McMillan of Greenville and Dora Ann Nixon of Maitland, Fla.; and 13 grandchildren.
The family will receive friends tonight from 7-9 at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Issue:
B506–––i.–––James Ronnie8 Brown, of whom below, was born in 1954.
B507–––ii.–––Lynn Ivy Brown was born on May 31, 1956; died on June 1, 1956; and was buried in the Brown Cemetery, on NC 33 (Belvoir Highway), west of US 264 Overpass and on the south side.
B508–––iii.–––Gary Wynne Brown was born in 1957. He married Cathy Ann Harris on June 26, 1977 in the Gum Swamp Free Will Baptist Church, Pitt County, North Carolina. Cathy was born in 1957.
Marriage of
Gary Wynne Brown
and Cathy Ann HarrisExcerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 28, 1977, p. 2:
MISS HARRIS, MR. BROWN
MARRIED AT GUM SWAMP CHURCHMiss Cathy Ann Harris became the bride of Gary Wynne Brown, Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The Rev. J. Stewart Humphrey officiated at the double ring ceremony held in the Gum Swamp Free Will Baptist Church.
Mrs. Bobby Ray Harris directed the wedding. A program of wedding music was presented by soloist Bobby Teel Harris who sang “The Wedding Song,” “The Twelfth of Never,” and “The Wedding Prayer.” He was accompanied by Randy Buck, organist …
The matron of honor was Mrs. Jean Stepps of Greenville. The sister of the bridegroom, Miss Lori Ann Brown, also of Greenville, was maid of honor …
Bridesmaids were Miss Angela Buck, cousin of the bride, Miss Debra Everett and Mrs. Jane Fox, all of Greenville … Miss Gina Gwen Brown, sister of the bridegroom, was junior bridesmaid … Miss Tammy Harris of Greenville, cousin of the bridegroom, was flower girl … The ring bearer was Todd Humphrey of Greenville …
The father of the bridegroom was best man. Ushers were Ronnie, Kent and Ricky Brown, brothers of the bridegroom, and Cliff Harris, brother of the bride. All are from Greenville. The junior usher was Brice McMillan, cousin of the bridegroom, of Warsaw, Ohio.
The bride’s stepmother wore a formal length gown of nectarine knit. The bridegroom’s mother chose a formal length nile green gown.
Grandmothers of the bride, Mrs. J. S. Harris and Mrs. Roy White, and Mrs. Viola Brown and Mrs. Glendora Brewer, grandmother and step-grandmother of the bridegroom, were honored with white carnation corsages.
The reception, immediately following the ceremony, was held in the church fellowship building …
After a wedding trip to unannounced points, the couple will live in Greenville.
B509–––iv.–––Darryl Kent Brown was born in 1959. Kent married Paula ?.
B510–––v.–––Ricky Dale Brown was born in 1962.
B511–––vi.–––Lori Ann Brown, born in 1963, married Jeff Harris.
B512–––vii.–––Gina Gwen Brown was born in 1967, married Darrell Harris.
B280. ALBION RAY7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivy (or Ivey)4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born in 1935, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202. He married Nancy Louise Braxton.
Notes
According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202, Item 390: “After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict, he returned to Pitt County and started farming with his father, Peter Brown, and his brother, James. He later expanded farming by purchasing two farms. He works for J. P. Taylor Tobacco Co.”
Issue:
B513–––i.–––Teresa Lynn8 Brown, born in 1958.
B281. VIOLA MAE7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born in 1936 and married Arthur Samuel McMillan on May 29, 1960 in Greenville Free Will Baptist Church, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, son of Arthur H. McMillan. Sam was born January 19, 1930. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 202: “She received her Masters Degree from E.C.U. in math. She went to Danville, Ohio to accept a teaching position in mathematics. There she met her future husband who was also teaching in the same high school.”
Marriage of Viola Mae Brown
and Arthur Samuel McMillan
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, May 31, 1960, p. 2:
DOUBLE-RING CEREMONY UNITED McMILLAN-BROWN
As guests assembled, Mrs. Ruth Taylor rendered a program of nuptial music consisting of “Traumerui,” “Evening Star,” and “O Perfect Love.” To the music of the organ, Mrs. Lou Nelson sang “The Sweetest Story Ever Told,” “O Promise Me,” and as the benediction, “Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us.”
Usher for the ceremony were Delmar D. Breneman, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Lowell C. Foote, Ashland, Ohio; Albion Ray Brown, Dan Wooten, Jesse Jackson Harris, and Earl Lewis, of Greenville, N.C.
The groom had as his best man his brother, Warren McMillan of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, James Ivy Brown …
The ring bearer was Master James Ronnie Brown, nephew of the bride …
The bride’s honor attendants were Miss Dora Ann Brown, maid of honor, and sister of the bride. Matron of honor was Mrs. Phyllis Foote, sister of the groom, of Ashland, Ohio …
Bridesmaids were Mrs. James Ivy Brown, sister-in-law of the bride; Mrs. Jesse Jackson Harris, cousin of the bride; Mrs. Charles Hagan, Jr., all of Greenville; Mrs. Leo R. Saurenman, sister of the bride, from Memphis, Tenn.; Miss Edith Anne Harris, cousin of the bride from Richmond, Va.; and Miss Shelby Waters of Norfolk, Va. …
Mrs. McMillian is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown of Route 4, Greenville, N.C. She received her education at Belvoir High School and received her B.S. Degree at East Carolina College.
Mr. McMillan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. McMillan of Danville, Ohio. He is a graduate of Howard High School and received his A.B. Degree at Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio.
After a wedding trip to Coven Haven, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, Mr. and Mrs. McMillan will reside in Greenville where they both will enter East Carolina College for the summer. This fall they will return to Howard, Ohio, where they will teach at Howard High School …
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown entertained the bridal party, out-of-town guests and close friends informally at a rehearsal party in the Fellowship Hall of the church …
Issue:
B514–––i.–––Samuel Arthur8 McMillan, born in 1962, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202.
B515–––ii.–––Linda Kay McMillan was born in 1965.
B516–––iii.–––Brice Brian McMillan, born in 1967.
B517–––iv.–––Eva Jane McMillan, born in 1969.
B282. DORA ANN7 BROWN (Peter6, Elizabeth Rebecca5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born in 1941 and married Roger Martin Nixon on March 20, 1966 in Greenville Free Will Baptist Church, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. He was born in 1939. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 202: “They met at E.C.C. where both were students. He got a B.S. degree in business and she got a B.S. degree in nursing. They moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., where Roger worked for Peoples Bank and she worked as a Public Health Nurse in Edgecombe County. They have two children ...”
Marriage of Dora Ann Brown and Roger Martin Nixon
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, March 21, 1966, p. 6:
NIXON-BROWN VOWS SAID SUNDAY
Mrs. Ruth Taylor rendered a program of nuptial music …Tom Mercer sang …
Ushers for the candlelight ceremony were Albion R. Brown, brother of the bride, Alfred Winslow of Norfolk, Va., Phil Helms and Baxter Powell, both of Greenville.
The bridegroom had as his best man his father, Malcolm Nixon, of Winfall.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, James Ivy Brown …
Miss Teri Windham, cousin of the bride, was flower girl … The ring bearer, dressed in all white, was Daryl Kent Brown, nephew of the bride …
Mrs. Samuel McMillan, sister of the bride, of Danville, Ohio, was matron of honor … Bridesmaids were Mrs. Leo R. Saurenman of Memphis, Tenn., sister of the bride, Mrs. James Ivy Brown, sister-in-law of the bride, Mrs. Jack Taylor and Mrs. John Tripp, all of Greenville … Junior bridesmaids were Misses Barbara Brown Huband and Mary Rose Huband of Wilmington, both nieces of the bride, and Misses Lois Jean Brown and Nancy Kathryn Brown, of Greenville, nieces of the bride …
Issue:
B518–––i.–––Karen Denise8 Nixon, born in 1968, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 203.
B519–––ii.–––Eric Christopher Nixon was born in 1970.
B287. MARGARET7 FLEMING (James Lawson6, Leonidas5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born September 2, 1902 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died June 28, 1980 in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville. Her father, the late Sen. James L. Fleming, died in an automobile accident when she was just seven years old. She married John Lindsay Winstead on September 16, 1933 in Greenville, North Carolina, son of Joseph Winstead. He was born October 17, 1895 in Elm City, Wilson County, North Carolina; died May 17, 1985 at the home of his son Dr. John L. Winstead, Jr. in Greenville, North Carolina; and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
Marriage of Margaret Fleming and John Lindsay Winstead
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, September 16, 1933:
WINSTEAD-FLEMING
Mrs. James Lawson Fleming
announces the marriage of
her daughter, Margaret,
to Dr. John Lindsay Winstead
on Saturday, the sixteenth of September
nineteen hundred and thirty-three
Greenville, North Carolina
Arriving at the Fleming home, the guests were received in the living room. Shortly after their arrival the parlor doors were opened revealing an embankment of palms, ferns, and Easter lilies in the midst of which glowed cathedral candles. Before this most beautiful setting, the bridal couple stood with the officiating ministers, Rev. George M. Matthis, relative of the bride, and Rev. A. W. Fleischmann, her pastor. The single ring ceremony was used as the vows were spoken by the contracting parties.
Here for the
Winstead-Fleming
WeddingMiss Elsie Winstead, of Elm City; J. L. Fleming, Jr., of Guilford College; Rev. and Mrs. George Matthis, George Matthis, Jr. and Hugh White, of Durham; Dr. and Mrs. M. I. Fleming, of Rocky Mount; Mrs. Nana Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dillon, Jack Dillon, Jr., of Statesville; and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brown, of Whitakers, were here today to attend the Winstead- Fleming wedding.
The Daily Reflector, Saturday, September 16, 1933
The bride was attired in a suit of eel gray rabbit’s hair wool, and satin, with brown accessories, and wore a shoulderette of gardenias.
Immediately after the ceremony the guests and bridal party were invited into the dining room, where the wedding breakfast was served. The simple color scheme of green and white was carried out in this room in splendid harmony with the attractive decorations of the parlor.
The bride is the gracious and attractive daughter of the late Senator James L. Fleming and Mrs. Lula White Fleming of this city. She graduated from Meredith College, Raleigh, and took additional studies at Columbia University, New York City. Mrs. Winstead is one of the most popular young women of the city. Her family is one of the oldest and most well known in this part of the state, having contributed much to the life of Greenville and eastern North Carolina.
Dr. Winstead, the bridegroom, is the son of the late Joseph Winstead and Mrs. Ann Williams Winstead of Wilson county. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of Maryland Medical School, and is a member of the American College of Surgeons. At present, Dr. Winstead is associated with the Pitt Community Hospital of this city, as surgeon.
Immediately after the breakfast, the bride and groom left for an extended trip to points north.
Upon the return of Dr. and Mrs. Winstead to Greenville, they will be at home with Mrs. J. L. Fleming, 302 Greene street, when Mrs. Fleming will present the couple to their many Greenville friends at a reception.
Biographical Notes on John Lindsay Winstead
Excerpts from The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, published by the Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 741:
JOHN LINDSAY WINSTEAD
John Lindsay Winstead ... attended Oak Grove School in Elm City, NC, Elm City High School and Trinity Park School, Durham, NC, where he ... graduated May 3, 1918 ...
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, September 15, 1933, p. 1:
PITT MEDICOS
HOLD MEETINGReading of Paper and
Case Report Mark
Monthly Gathering
Of DoctorsThe monthly meeting of the Pitt County Medical Society was held at the Women’s club last night, and in addition to satisfying a certain gastronomic vacuity, the doctors from all sections of the county heard Dr. Watson, baby specialist, read an interesting paper and Dr. J. L. Winstead, member of the staff of Pitt Community Hospital, present a case report.
Drs. Paul Fitzgerald and J. L. Winstead were hosts to the society and a delightful meal, which caused the medicos to smack their lips with joy, was served by ladies of the club.
The program was one of the shortest in months but it did the doctors good to rub elbows with one another and to exchange facts regarding the idiosyncrasies of humanity, especially some of the recalcitrant patients which they come in contact with from time to time ...
He then enlisted in the Navy and was sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where he served active duty from June 7, 1918 to Dec. 17, 1918 ... (Went to) UNC, Chapel Hill, where he completed his college education and two years of medical school. At that time, UNC only had a 2-year medical school.
At the time, he visited several towns trying to decide where to begin his practice. Drs. Skinner and Pace visited him in Maryland and persuaded him to come to Greenville as Chief Surgeon.
John met Margaret Fleming in 1929 in his office when she accompanied her sister, Louise Fleming, who had been injured in an auto accident ...
On Saturday, Sept. 16, 1933, a going-away party was given at 302 Greene Street, Greenville, for Louise, who was returning to her work in Seattle, Washington, when in fact, ministers were in another room waiting to perform the unannounced wedding of John and Margaret. The following Monday, John’s oldest brother, Clayton (1885-1933), died of subarrachnoid hemorrhage, so Margaret and John interrupted their honeymoon and returned to Rocky Mount for the funeral.
John and Margaret had 4 children ...
John continued to practice surgery until 1969, when he had to retire because of arthritis. During his active years, he was an avid golfer and hunter and was a member of many organizations, including the Wildlife Club, the Greenville Rotary Club, Greenville Golf and Country Club, the American College of Surgeons, and Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church. He was a Diplomat of the American Board of Abdominal Surgery, a Fellow of International College of Surgeons. He is a life member of Pitt County American Legion Agricultural Fair Board, American Medical Association, and the North Carolina Medical Society. He received a Certificate of Appreciation for 20-years service from President Truman for his work with the draft board. He was past president of the Rotary Club.
His wife, Margaret, died on June 28, 1980, and since that time, John has been living with his eldest son, John, Jr., at 1308 Evergreen Drive, Greenville.
Obituary of Margaret Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, June 30, 1980, p. 8:
WINSTEAD
Mrs. Winstead was a lifelong resident of Greenville and a graduate of Meredith College. She was a member of Memorial Baptist Church, the Athenaeum Book Club, the National Society of Colonial Dames, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She had been a member of the Greenville Woman’s Club and the North Carolina Art Society.
Surviving her are her husband, Dr. John L. Winstead of the home; three sons, Dr. John L. Winstead, Jr. of Greenville, Joseph T. Winstead of Atlanta, James F. Winstead of Minnetonka, Minn.; one daughter, Loula Lindanger of Shreveport, La.; a brother, James L. Fleming of Greenville; a sister, Louise Fleming of Raleigh; and 10 grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o’clock.
Obituary of John Lindsay Winstead
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, May 19, 1985, p. A-2:
WINSTEAD
Dr. John Lindsay Winstead, 89, died Friday, at the home of his son, Dr. John Lindsay Winstead, Jr., of 1308 Evergreen Drive.
Dr. John L. Winstead
(on right)
From the East Carolina University’s
Joyner Library Archives web site
Greenville, North Carolina
His funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. J. Malloy Owen. Burial will be in Cherry Hill Cemetery.
A native of Elm City, Dr. Winstead attended school in Elm City and Trinity Park School in Durham. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U. S. Navy. In 1918, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed undergraduate studies and the two-year medical school program. He entered the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore in 1922 and received his medical degree in 1925. He completed his surgical internship and residency at University and Mercy hospitals of Baltimore in 1929.
In 1929, he came to Greenville as chief surgeon and practiced surgery until his retirement in 1969.
He was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, North Carolina Medical Society and was a life member of the Pitt County American Legion Agricultural Fair Board. He was also a member of the Diplomate of the American Board of Abdominal Surgery and a fellow of International College of Surgeons. He was a former member and past president of the Greenville Rotary Club and a former member of the Pitt County Wildlife Club. He received a certificate of appreciation from President Harry S. Truman for 20 years of service with the draft board.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lou White Lindanger of Shreveport, La.; three sons, Dr. John Lindsay Winstead, Jr. and Joseph Thomas Winstead, both of Greenville, and James Fleming Winstead of Minneapolis, Minn; a sister, Mrs. Fred Davis of Route 2, Elm City, and 11 grandchildren.
Issue:
B520–––i.–––John Lindsay8 Winstead, Jr., of whom below, born in 1934 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.
B521–––ii.–––Loula White Winstead was born in 1936. She married Earl Lester Lindanger on February 6, 1960 in the home of her parents in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. He was born in 1934. On his web site, Winstead Family Genealogy, Gary Kemper provides the names of their children: (a) Earl Lester Lindanger, Jr., (b) Lou Ellen Lindanger, (c) Margaret Lindanger and (d) Elizabeth Lindanger.
Marriage of
Loula White Winstead
and Earl Lester LindangerExcerpts from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, February 8, 1960, p. 2:
MISS LOU WINSTEAD
HAS HOME WEDDINGMiss Lou White Winstead and Earl Lester Lindanger were married at noon on Saturday in the home of the bride’s parents, who also were married in the same setting.
The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Lindsay Winstead of Greenville and the granddaughter of Mrs. James Lawson Fleming and the late Senator Fleming.
The bridegroom is the son of Eric Lindanger of Cresco, Iowa, and the late Mrs. Lindanger ...
A double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Percy Upchurch, pastor of the bride.
Mrs. Claude S. Kidd, pianist, and Miss Mary Louise Toler, soloist of High Point, presented a program of nuptial music. Miss Toler sang “I Love Thee” by Greig and “The Wedding Benediction” by Lovelace.
The bride descended the stairs, which were festooned with southern smilax, and was met by her father who gave her in marriage. Her gown of hand-cut lace over bridal taffeta was fashioned with a scalloped portrait neckline and a full skirt extending into a chapel train.
The fingertip veil of illusion was attached to a crown of hand-cut lace embroidered with pearls and sequins. She carried a prayer book showered with Phalaenopsis orchids and lilies-of-the-valley.
The bride had as her only attendant her cousin, Mrs. William S. Michael of Ann Arbor, Mich. She wore a rose peau de soir, lace trimmed dress with matching accessories. She carried a cascade bouquet of spring flowers.
Robert Grout of Winston-Salem was the bridegroom’s best man. Joseph Thomas and James Fleming Winstead, brothers of the bride, served as ushers.
The mother of the bride wore a blue lace sheath dress with matching accessories and white orchid.
For traveling the bride chose a bridal blue facade wool suit with a cerulean mink collar.
The bride was presented to North Carolina society at the 1955 Terpsichorean Debutante Ball in Raleigh. She is a graduate of Meredith College and is now teaching in High Point.
The bridegroom is a graduate of the State University of Iowa. He served as First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is with Western Electric in Winston-Salem.
The couple will make their home in Winston-Salem ...
B522–––iii.–––Joseph Thomas Winstead was born in 1940. He married Constance Louise Davis on July 18, 1970 in Grace United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. On his web site, Winstead Family Genealogy, Gary Kemper indicates he had a daughter Ann Elizabeth Winstead, born in 1973.
Marriage of
Joseph Thomas Winstead
and Constance Louise DavisExcerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, July 31, 1970, p. 2:
COUPLE SPEAKS VOWS
IN RECENT CEREMONYATLANTA, Ga. –– The wedding of Constance Louise Davis and Joseph Thomas Winstead took place Saturday, July 18, at 4 p.m. in Grace United Methodist Church here.
The Rev. J. E. Colley officiated at the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Cecil Carlton Van Camp of Decatur, Ga. and the bridegroom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John Lindsey Winstead of Greenville, N.C.
The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Robert Stanley Davis of Columbus, Ohio. She was attended by Mrs. Robert Stanley Davis as matron of honor.
A reception followed in the social hall of the church ...
The couple are residing in Atlanta, Ga., where the bridgroom is associate with IBM.
B523–––iv.–––James Fleming Winstead was born in 1941. On his web site, Winstead Family Genealogy, Gary Kemper indicates that he married Janice Porter and had children: (a) James Winstead, born in 1972, and (b) Jeffrey Dale Winstead, born in 1981.
B292. NANCY ELIZABETH7 WHITE (Nancy Vesta6 Fleming, Leonidas5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born February 9, 1904 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on January 27, 2003. She married first Curtis Fleming Perkins (#B182 above) on November 20, 1926, son of James Lawrence Perkins and Della Cordelia Roberson. He was born November 1, 1899 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died September 12, 1977 in Wilson County Memorial Hospital, Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina; with burial in the Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, North Carolina. Elizabeth married second Thomas McMillan on September 1, 1951 in Manning, South Carolina. He was born on March 30, 1900; died in December 1983 or 1984?; and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Notes
Excerpt from The St. Paul’s Epistle, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina, September 2002, p. 7:
401 East Fourth Street
Greenville, North Carolina 27858OUR OLDEST CHURCH MEMBER
By Bartje Pace
Elizabeth White McMillan, 98 years young, is the oldest member of our church. She was born on Greene Street, across from her double first cousin, Margaret Fleming (who married Dr. John Winstead), whose house is now the Chamber of Commerce.
Elizabeth’s uncle was Mr. Sam White, (Charlie White’s grandfather and Virginia Pou’s great-grandfather) who established White’s Store on Cotanche Street.
Elizabeth is nearly blind and quite deaf and lived independently until her only child, Curtis Perkins, died in January of this year. She has seven wonderful grandchildren who have moved her to Burlington to be near them.
She lives in a beautiful retirement community where she has a lovely room, delicious food, and kind people who take care of her. However, she is very homesick for Greenville, especially her friends from St. Paul’s ...
Marriage of Nancy Elizabeth White and Curtis Fleming Perkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, October 11, 1924:
PERKINS-WHITE
The following announcement will be read with interest by friends in this city.
Mrs. Nannye Fleming White announces the engagement of her daughter, Nancy Elizabeth to Mr. Curtis Perkins. The wedding will take place the 20 of November.
Marriage of Nancy Elizabeth White and Thomas McMillan
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 4, 1951, p. 2:
McMILLAN-PERKINS
Mrs. Nannie Fleming White
announces the marriage of
her daughterMrs. Elizabeth White Perkins
to
Mr. Thomas McMillan
on Saturday, September first
Nineteen hundred and fifty-one
Manning, South CarolinaObituary of Nancy Elizabeth White
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, February 6, 2003:
ELIZABETH McMILLAN
Elizabeth White McMillan, 98, of 5773 Bethel Church Road, McLeansville, N.C., and Twin Lakes Center, died Jan. 27, 2003.
A celebration of her life will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9, her 99th birthday, at Bethel Presbyterian Church in McLeansville, N.C.
She was a member of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, N.C.
Elizabeth was born on Feb. 9, 1904, in Greenville, the daughter of James B. and Nannie V. Fleming White. She is survived by her grandchildren: Kirk Perkins and wife Nancy, Julian Perkins, Jeff Perkins, Diane Jackson, Kim Teeters and husband Johnny, Nancy Swanson and husband Dan, and Heidi Perkins; four great-grandchildren: Todd Perkins and wife Marsha, Angela Parham and husband Tommy, Nichole Jackson and Jena Perkins; five great-great-grandchildren: Logan Perkins, Carson Perkins, Kaitlyn Parham, Skylar Jackson and Hunter Jackson. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas McMillan and her son Curtis Perkins Jr.
Mrs. McMillan attended Greenville City Schools, Salem College in Winston Salem and was later graduated from East Carolina University. Mrs. McMillan gave the morning news a program called, “Women in the News,” on Greenville’s first radio station. While living in Raleigh, she served as receptionist and secretary at Wachovia Bank and after returning to Greenville, she taught in the Pitt County and Greenville City Schools. She was one of the organizers of the Atheneum Book Club.
Our family has truly been blessed by the gift of this remarkable woman. We especially thank all of her friends and church members that were so important and helpful to her.
Memorials may be made to Bethel Presbyterian Church, 300 Knox Road, McLeansville, N.C. 27301.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is assisting the family.
Obituaries of Curtis Fleming Perkins
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, September 12, 1977, p. 8:
PERKINS
Mr. Curtis Fleming Perkins, 77, died in Wilson County Memorial Hospital this morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
A Pitt County native, born and reared in Stokes, he lived in Greenville for many years and operated a clothing business here. For the past few years he had lived in Wilson.
Surviving him are a son, C. F. Perkins, Jr. of McLeansville; four brothers, J. Vance and W. Reid Perkins, both of Greenville, and Julian L. and Jerome Perkins, both of Stokes; four sisters, Mrs. Gordon W. Roebuck, Mrs. J. Clinton Roebuck and Miss Jean Perkins, all of Stokes, and Mrs. J. M. Cutchin of Whitakers; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The family will be at the Perkins homeplace in Stokes.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 13, 1977, p. 8:
PERKINS
Funeral services for Mr. Curtis Fleming Perkins will he held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Edward Sharpe. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The family will be at the Perkins homeplace in Stokes and will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o’clock.
Mr. Perkins died Monday.
Issue listed under #B182, Curtis Fleming Perkins, above.
B294. CURTIS EDWARD7 FLEMING (William Jesse6, William Jesse5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born about 1916 in Falkland, Pitt County, North Carolina –– his obituary in The Daily Reflector states that he was 48 years old when he died on February 2, 1964 in Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. Curtis married Annie Little. She was born August 25, 1918 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died March 13, 2002; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville.
Obituary of Curtis Edward Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, February 3, 1964, p. 10:
FUNERAL HELD FOR CURTIS E. FLEMING
Mr. Curtis E. Fleming, 48, died Sunday at 2 a.m. at his home near Winterville following a heart attack.
Funeral services were conducted Monday at 3:30 p.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Adam Scott, pastor of the Immanuel Free Will Baptist Church of Winterville. Burial was in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mr. Fleming, a native of the Falkland community, had been a resident of the Winterville community for 14 years. The son of Mrs. W. J. Fleming and the late Mr. Fleming, he had been employed for 17 years with the Pitt County School maintenance department.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Little; three sons, C. Ed Fleming Jr., James M. and Joseph W. Fleming, all of the home; five daughters, Mrs. James E. Doan of Cleveland, Ohio, Linda M. Fleming of Raleigh, and Julia L., Janet L. and Betsy R. Fleming, all of the home; four grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. W. J. Fleming of Falkland; two brothers, W. Julius Fleming of Falkland and D. Murry Fleming of Crisp.
Obituary of Annie Little
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, March 15, 2002:
ANNIE L. FLEMING
Mrs. Annie Little Fleming, 83, died Wednesday, March 13, 2002.
The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Fleming, a native and lifelong resident of Pitt County, grew up in the Falkland community. She made her home in the Winterville area for many years, prior to living with her son for ten years in Greenville. For the past five years, she had been a resident of Greenfield Place. She was a member of Falkland Presbyterian Church and was a lifetime member of the Silver Stream Council No. 48 Degree of Pocahontas.
Her husband of more than 30 years, Curtis Edward Fleming Sr., died in 1964. She also was preceded in death by a son, Curtis Edward Fleming Jr., in 1986.
Surviving her are two sons, Jimmy Fleming and his wife, Martha, of Washington, and Joe Fleming of Greenville; five daughters, Bertha Viccaro of Washington, Linda Steed of Wake Forest, Janet Morton and her husband, Jason, of Raleigh, Julia Seymour and Betsy Fleming of Greenville; one brother, Forrest Little of Falkland; two sisters, Doris Harris and Frances Cobb of Falkland; 20 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 tonight at Wilkerson Funeral Home and at other times will be at the home of her daughter, Julia Seymour, 1129 Lillian Lane, Greenville.
Issue:
B524–––i.–––Curtis Edward8 Fleming, Jr. was born about 1936 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died August 2, 1986 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Linda Heath.
Obituary of
Curtis Edward Fleming, Jr.The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, August 4, 1986, p. 10:
FLEMING
Mr. Curtis Edward Fleming, Jr., 50, died Saturday at his home in Greenville.
A graveside service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Pinewood Memorial Park by the Rev. Maxie Gavin.
Mr. Fleming was a native and lifelong resident of Pitt County. He was employed as a heating and air conditioning mechanic at Riddle Brothers in Greenville.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Linda Heath Fleming; his mother, Mrs. Annie Little Fleming of Greenville; two brothers, Jimmy Fleming of Washington and Joe Fleming of Greenville; five sisters, Mrs. Linda Steed and Ms. Janet Fleming, both of Raleigh; and Mrs. Bertha Vicarro, Mrs. Julia Bland and Ms. Betsy Fleming, all of Greenville; two stepsons, Paul Glisson, Jr. of Greenville and William Harold Glisson of Washington; and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Linda Faye King of Greenville.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 tonight at the Wilkerson Funeral Home.
B525–––ii.–––James M. (Jimmy) Fleming married Martha ?.
B526–––iii.–––Joseph W. (Joe) Fleming.
B527–––iv.–––Bertha Fleming married James E. Doan and a Mr. Vicarro.
B528–––v.–––Linda M. Fleming married a Mr. Steed.
B529–––vi.–––Julia L. Fleming married a Mr. Bland and then a Mr. Seymour.
B530–––vii.–––Janet L. Fleming married Jason Morton.
B531–––viii.–––Betsy R. Fleming.
B295. DAVID MURRY7 FLEMING (William Jesse6, William Jesse5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born October 19, 1919 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died October 24, 1995 in Macclesfield, North Carolina; and was buried in the Hearne Family Cemetery, near Crisp, North Carolina. Murry married Helen Abrams.
Obituary of David Murry Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 25, 1995, p. B-2:
DAVID M. FLEMING, SR., 76; FUNERAL ON THURSDAY
MACCLESFIELD –– Mr. David Murry Fleming Sr., 76, of Route 1, Box 338, Macclesfield, died Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995, at his home.
Funeral services Thursday, 2 p.m., Eagles Baptist Church, Crisp. Burial in the Hearne Family Cemetery.
Mr. Fleming, a native of Pitt County, resided in the Crisp community most of his life. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Mr. Fleming retired from farming in 1984. He was a member of the Red Men and the Ruritan Club of Crisp and Falkland Presbyterian Church.
Surviving: his wife, Helen Abrams Fleming; sons, David M. Fleming, Jr. and Jessie Fleming, both of Crisp; daughters, Merle Fleming Overton of Macclesfield, Lois Fleming Skinner of Pinetops and Denise Fleming Tompkins of Crisp; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m., Wilkerson Funeral Home, Greenville. Other times at the residence.
Issue:
B532–––i.–––David Murry8 Fleming, Jr. was born in 1953 in North Carolina. He married Melissa Mae Woolard on July 2, 1999 in Pitt County, North Carolina. This was his fifth marriage and her second, his last marriage ending in June 1992 and her last marriage ending in May 1996. She was born in March of 1974 in Florida.
B533–––ii.–––Jessie Roy Fleming married Jane ?.
B534–––iii.–––Helen Merle Fleming married a Mr. Overton.
B535–––iv.–––Lois Fleming married a Mr. Skinner.
B536–––v.–––Denise Fleming married a Mr. Tompkins.
B297. WILLIAM JULIUS7 FLEMING (William Jesse6, William Jesse5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born about 1912 in Pitt County, North Carolina; he was 69 years old when he died on August 7, 1981 in Falkland, Pitt County, North Carolina. He was laid to rest in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. Julius married Edith Little. She was born about 1917 in Pitt County, North Carolina; she was 80 years old when she died on July 7, 1997 in Falkland, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituary of William Julius Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, August 9, 1981, p. A-2:
FLEMING
Mr. Julius Fleming, 69, a retired farmer, died Friday afternoon at his home in the Falkland community. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel, and burial will be in Pinewood Memorial Park. The Rev. Bobby Futrell and the Rev. Jesse McCrosky will conduct the service.
Mr. Fleming was a native of Pitt County and had been a resident of the Falkland community for the past 50 years. He was a member of the King’s Crossroads Free Will Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edith Little Fleming; a daughter, Mrs. Lou Fleming Clark of Kinston; three sons, William Glenn Fleming of LaGrange and Ronald and Donald Fleming of Falkland; a brother, David Murry Fleming of Macclesfield; and seven grandchildren.
Obituary of Edith Little
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, July 9, 1997, p. B-2:
FLEMING
FALKLAND, N.C. –– Mrs. Edith Little Fleming, 80, died Monday, July 7, 1997.
Mrs. Fleming, a native of Pitt County, lived most of her life in the Falkland community and had lived in Farmville for a number of years. She was a member of the Falkland Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by: a daughter and son-in-law, Lou Fleming and Sam Jones of Kinston; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Ronald Fleming of Falkland, Donald and Erline Fleming of Farmville; a daughter-in-law, Ruth Fleming of LaGrange; brother, Forrest Little of Falkland; three sisters, Doris L. Harris and Frances L. Cobb, both of Falkand, Annie L. Fleming of Greenville; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Julius Fleming, and a son, Glenn Fleming.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home and at other times at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fleming, 104 Hillcrest Drive, Farmville.
Issue:
B537–––i.–––Lou8 Fleming married a Mr. Clark and Sam Jones.
B538–––ii.–––William Glenn Fleming. Glenn married Ruth Gauldin on January 13, 1973 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. She was previously married to Lester Ray Grady.
Marriage of
William Glenn Fleming
and Ruth GauldinExcerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, January 14, 1973, p. 10:
COUPLE WEDS SATURDAY AFTERNOON
KINSTON – The Trinity United Methodist Church, Falling Creek, here was the scene of the wedding of Mrs. Ruth G. Grady and William Glenn Fleming Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Gauldin of Buies Creek, and Mr. and Mrs. William Julius Fleming of Rt. 4, Greenville.
The Rev. Everett Bryan performed the double ring ceremony.
The bride, given in marriage by her father ...
Miss Dawn Yevette Grady, daughter of the bride, was flower girl ...
Donald Fleming of Greenville served his brother as best man. Ushers were Ronald Fleming of Greenville, brother of the bridegroom, and Thomas Grady of Kinston, brother-in-law of the bride.
Ring bearer was Lester Ray Grady, Jr., son of the bride.
The bride was formerly employed at the Beauty Nook, LaGrange. The bridegroom was formerly employed with Monk’s Tobacco Factory, Farmville, and is engaged in farming.
The couple plan a wedding trip to unannounced points ...
B539–––iii.–––Ronald Fleming. I understand Ronald and Donald are twins.
B540–––iv.–––Donald Fleming married Erline ?. They had daughters Brittany N. Fleming and Destiny Rae Fleming, the latter who married David Nelson Phillips, son of Nelson and Sue Phillips. The story of the marriage of Destiny and David is below:
Notes:
Marriage of
Destiny Rae Fleming
and David Nelson PhillipsThe Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, October 11, 1998, p. E-4:
DAVID NELSON PHILLIPS
DESTINY RAE FLEMINGFARMVILLE – Destiny Rae Fleming and David Nelson Phillips were married at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, 1998, in the Farmville United Methodist Church. The Rev. Randy Maynard conducted the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fleming of Farmville. She was escorted by her father. Her grandmother is Mae Corbitt of Fountain. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson E. Phillips of Farmville. His grandmother is Pauline Franklin of Rocky Mount.
Amy L. Bryan of Farmville was honor attendant, and Maralla L. Phillips of Farmville, niece of the bridegroom, was flower girl. Bridesmaids were Brittany N. Fleming, sister of the bride, Mary Leslie Herring, Laura A. May and Garrett Lewis, all of Farmville.
The father of the bridegroom was best man. Groomsmen were Jamie E. Phillips, brother of the bridegroom, Keith Everett and Landon Matthews, all of Farmville, and Blake Fleming, cousin of the bride.
A reception was held at the DAR Chapter House.
The couple will (live) in Farmville. They plan a cruise to the Caribbean islands.
The bride is a student at East Carolina University. She is employed at A Place For Me Day Care in Winterville. The bridegroom attended Pitt Community College and operates Phillips Acres Farm.
B298. ROY CARL7 ABEE, JR. (Effie6 Fleming, William Jesse5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born April 20, 1918; died on August 14, 1997; and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina. He married Bratha Reagan, who was born September 7, 1925; died April 4, 2003; and also was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.
Obituaries of Roy Carl Abee, Jr.
The Herald-Sun, Durham, North Carolina, Friday, August 15, 1997, p. C-2:
ABEE
GREENVILLE –– Mr. R. Carl Abee, Jr., 79, died Thursday, August 14, 1997.
The funeral service will be conducted Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel, Greenville. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Bratha Reagan Abee; a son, R. Carl Abee, III, of New Bern; three grandchildren; one sister, Mary Lea Russ of Durham.
Visitation will be Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 S. Elm Street, Greenville, NC 27858.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, August 15, 1997, p. B-2:
ABEE
Mr. R. Carl Abee, Jr., 79, died Thursday, August 14, 1997.
The funeral service will be conducted Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Abee, a native and lifelong resident of Greenville, was a graduate of Greenville High School and had attended East Carolina University. He was employed by Greenville Utilities for forty-five years, retiring in 1981 as a supervisor of the billing department. He was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Bratha Reagan Abee; a son, R. Carl Abee III, of New Bern; three grandchildren, Carla Blythe Abee, Tracie Ann Abee, and Christopher Carl Abee, all of New Bern; one sister, Mary Lea Russ of Durham.
Visitation will be Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 S. Elm Street, Greenville, NC 27858.
Obituary of Bratha Reagan
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, April 6, 2003:
BRATHA ABEE
Mrs. Bratha Reagan Abee, 77, died Friday, April 4, 2003.
The funeral service will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Abee, daughter of the late Bratha M. and Sallie Reagan, moved to Greenville with her family as a child and attended the Greenville schools and ECU. She was employed with the N.C. Department of Transportation until her retirement.
Mrs. Abee was an active, longtime member of Immanuel Baptist Church, where she was in the Mittie Smith Sunday School Class and the Jean Joyner Circle. She was also a member of the Salvation Army Auxiliary, the Inter Cum Libra Book Club and the Tuesday Birthday Club. She was an avid bridge player and enjoyed traveling.
Her husband of more than 50 years, Carl Abee, Jr., preceded her in death in 1977 (sic – 1997).
Surviving: a son, Carl Abee III of Emerald Isle; three grandchildren, Carla, Tracie and Christopher Abee, all of Emerald Isle; and a sister, Gladys Corey of Sanford.
The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home today from 4 to 6 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 S. Elm St., Greenville, N.C. 27858.
Issue:
B541–––i.–––Roy Carl8 Abee III, of whom below.
B301. JOHN EVERETT7 NOBLES (Joseph Everett6, Lucinda5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) died before October 19, 2001, on which date the obituary of his wife, Rena Pearl Hamilton, in The News & Observer states that he predeceased her. Rena Pearl Hamilton was a daughter of Alvah Lawrence Hamilton and Eliza Farrow McWilliams. She was born July 11, 1915; died October 19, 2001 in Morehead City, North Carolina; and was buried in Bayview Cemetery in Morehead City.
Obituary of Rena Pearl Hamilton
The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday, October 20, 2001, p. B-8 and The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, October 20, 2001, p. B-2:
RENA PEARL NOBLES
MOREHEAD CITY –– Rena Pearl Hamilton Nobles, 86, of Morehead City, died Friday, October 19, 2001 at her residence. A graveside service will be held 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 21, 2001 at Bayview Cemetery with Rev. Marc Werner officiating.
She is survived by a daughter, Margaret Nobles Scibeck and husband, Richard, of Huntsville, AL, a son, John Everett Nobles, Jr., and wife Emily of Morehead City, a daughter, Eliza Nobles Worthington and husband, Bob, of Kinston, and seven grandchildren Charles Cansler, Richard Scibeck, Jr., A.L. Hamilton Nobles, Emily “Emmy” Nobles, John Everett Nobles, III, Rena Worthington Davis, and Joshua Robert Worthington. Also surviving are three great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Everett Nobles, Sr., her parents, Eliza Farrow McWilliams Hamilton, and Alvah Lawrence Hamilton, and a brother, Dr. Alvah L. Hamilton, Jr.
Memorials may be made to Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina, P.O. Box 127, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450.
Arrangements by Munden Funeral Home & Crematory.
Issue:
B542–––i.–––John Everett8 Nobles, Jr., of whom below, born in 1948.
B543–––ii.–––Eliza Jane Nobles, of whom below, was born in 1948.
B544–––iii.–––Margaret Nobles, of whom below.
B310. WILLIAM LEONIDAS7 STATON (Ernest6, Huldah5 Fleming, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born September 3, 1911 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died before December 14, 2001 when he is not named among the survivors of his son Charles Albert Staton, in the latter’s obituary in The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 19, 2001. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 641: “Lonnie is a retired poultryman and farmer. He was a graduate of Stokes High School.” Lonnie married Bettie Ruth James on December 24, 1936, daughter of Charlie James and Alice Grimmer. She was born December 12, 1917, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, p. 641.
Issue:
B545–––i.–––Bettie Sue8 Staton, of whom below, was born in 1937.
B546–––ii.–––William Ernest Staton, of whom below, was born in 1938.
B547–––iii.–––Charles Albert Staton, of whom below, born November 21, 1940 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; died December 14, 2001 in Hallandale, Broward County, Florida.
B548–––iv.–––William Leonidas Staton, Jr., of whom below, born in 1942.
B311. TIMOTHY HEBER7 FLEMING (Edgar Wilbur6, Timothy Heber5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born on December 28, 1910 in Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on May 19, 1995 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. Heber married Mary Louise Woolard on August 9, 1935 in Ayden, Pitt County, North Carolina, daughter of Arthur Leon Woolard and Ara Minta Chauncey. She was born December 23, 1913 in Stokes, Pitt County, North Carolina; died May 17, 1990 in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 304: “ ... a retired farmer and dairyman resides in Stokes ...”
Marriage of Timothy Heber Fleming and Mary Louise Woolard
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Wednesday, August 14, 1935, p. 3:
FLEMING-WOOLARD.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Woolard
announce the marriage of
their daughter
Mary Louise
to
Mr. Heber Fleming
on Friday, August the ninth
Nineteen hundred thirty-five
Ayden, North Carolina
At Home
Grifton, North Carolina
Obituary of Timothy Heber Fleming
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Saturday, May 20, 1995, p. B-2:
TIMOTHY FLEMING, 84; FUNERAL SUNDAY
STOKES –– Mr. Timothy Heber Fleming, 84, died Friday, May 19, 1995, at his home.
Mr. Fleming, a native of the Grifton community of Pitt County, made his home in Stokes all of his adult life. He was a row crop and dairy farmer until his retirement. He was a member of Stokes Christian Church.
Surviving: his son, Walter Leon Fleming of Tarboro; daughters, Carol F. Eastwood of Stokes and Jean F. Whitehurst of Tarboro; brothers, Edward Fleming, Wallace Fleming and Eugene Fleming, all of Grifton; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation today 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Other times at the residence.
Memorial to Pactolus EMS, Route 5, Box 290, Greenville, N.C. 27834.
Obituary of Mary Louise Woolard
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, May 17, 1990, p. A-13:
FLEMING
STOKES –– Mrs. Mary Woolard Fleming, 77, died today at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Her funeral will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Don Sharp. Entombment will be in Pinewood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Fleming was a native and lifelong resident of Stokes. She was employed by Blount-Harvey Co. for 15 years and was a member of First Christian Church in Stokes.
Surviving are her husband, Heber Fleming; two daughters, Carol Fleming Eastwood of Stokes and Jean Fleming Whitehurst of Tarboro; one son, Walter Leon Fleming of Tarboro; one sister, Virginia Woolard Roebuck of Swansboro; six grandchildren; one great-grandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. At other times the family will receive friends at the home of Carol and David Eastwood in Stokes.
Memorials may be made to the Pactolus Rescue Squad, Route 3, Box 655, Washington, N.C. 27889.
Issue:
B549–––i.–––Carol Louise8 Fleming, of whom below, born in 1941.
B550–––ii.–––Walter Leon Fleming, of whom below, born September 15, 1942 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died on March 14, 2004 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
B551–––iii.–––Mary Jean Fleming, of whom below, born in 1945.
B312. EDWARD WILBUR7 FLEMING (Edgar Wilbur6, Timothy Heber5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born August 22, 1920; died July 15, 2003; and was buried in St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, St. John’s, North Carolina. Edward married first Elizabeth Edwards, who was born on July 5, 1918 in New Hanover County, North Carolina; died July 9, 1990 in Lenoir Memorial Hospital, Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina; and was buried in St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, St. John’s, North Carolina. He married second Virginia ?. According to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 304, he was “employed by Citgo Oil Co. and farms inherited land.”
Obituaries of Edward Wilbur Fleming
The Free-Press, Kinston, North Carolina, Thursday, July 17, 2003:
EDWARD W. FLEMING
Edward W. Fleming, 82, died Tuesday, July 15, 2003. Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, July 18, 2003, at the chapel of Farmer Funeral Home in Ayden. Burial will be held at St. John’s Church Cemetery.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar Wilbur and Huldah Stokes Fleming; and brother, Heber Fleming. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Grifton.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Fleming; son, Ben Fleming; two brothers, Wallace and Eugene Fleming; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Farmer Funeral Home.
Arrangements by Farmer Funeral Home, Ayden.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, July 18, 2003:
EDWARD W. FLEMING
GRIFTON –– Mr. Edward W. “Doc” Fleming, 82, died Tuesday, July 15, 2003. Funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m. at Farmer Funeral Service Chapel in Ayden. Burial will be in St. Johns Church Cemetery in Grifton.
He was a member of Grifton First Christian Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar Wilbur and Huldah Stokes Fleming; and a brother, Herber Fleming.
Survivors include wife, Virginia Fleming of the home; son, Ben Fleming of Thomasville; two brothers, Wallace Fleming and Eugene Fleming of Grifton; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation was held Thursday at Farmer Funeral Service in Ayden.
You may e-mail condolences to Farmercondolence@aol.com.
Arrangements by Farmer Funeral Service in Ayden.
Obituary of Elizabeth Edwards
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Monday, July 9, 1990, p. A-8:
FLEMING
GRIFTON –– Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards Fleming, 72, died today at Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston.
Her funeral will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Chapel at Farmer Funeral Home in Ayden by the Rev. David Cox. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Estates in Grifton.
Mrs. Fleming was a member of the Grifton First Baptist Church and was retired from the Smith-Borden Chemical Co. in Grifton. She also worked with Sears in Kinston. She was an auxiliary pink lady at Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston.
Survivors include her husband, Edward “Doc” Fleming of the home; one son, Edward Ben Fleming of Raleigh; three brothers, Arthur Edwards of Havelock, David Edwards of Winston-Salem and Bobby Edwards of Roanoke Rapids; two sisters, Helen Bradley of Grifton and Margie Daniels of Seaboard; and two grandchildren.
The family will be at Farmer Funeral Home from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Issue:
B552–––i.–––Edward Benn8 Fleming, of whom below, born in 1946.
B314. EUGENE POWELL7 FLEMING (Edgar Wilbur6, Timothy Heber5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born April 19, 1927, according to The Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County Historical Society, Greenville, North Carolina, 1982, p. 304. He married Geraldine Gay.
Issue:
B553–––i.–––Jessica Gay8 Fleming was born in 1955. On December 23, 1978, she married Vernon Gilbert Snyder III, son of Vernon Gilbert Snyder, Jr. and Evelyn Rose Fields. He was born in 1952 in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. They have two children: (a) Vernon Gilbert Snyder IV and (b) Allison Fleming Snyder.
Marriage of
Jessica Gay Fleming
and Vernon Gilbert Snyder IIIExcerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Sunday, December 24, 1978, p. C-3:
COUPLE MARRIES SATURDAY IN AFTERNOON CEREMONY
KINSTON –– Jessica Gay Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Powell Fleming of Grifton, became the bride of Vernon Gilbert Snyder III Saturday in a 5 p.m. ceremony at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church here. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Gilbert Snyder, Jr., of Thomasville.
The Rev. Carl Jones, church pastor, and the Rev. Kenneth Townsend, the bride’s pastor of Saint John’s-Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Grifton, officiated at the ceremony.
Given in her marriage by her parents ... She also wore a ruby pin and cameo earrings, a present from her father to her mother on their wedding day.
Matron of honor was Mrs. Richard Worf of Winston-Salem, sister of the bridegroom. Maids of honor were Gina and Pam Fleming of Grifton, sisters of the bride. Bridesmaids were Cindy Carson and Anne Troutman of Raleigh, Kaye Pass of Winston-Salem, Mrs. Robert Sudduth of Hamden-Sydney, Va. and Mrs. Charles Lamm of Buies Creek. Tiffany Gay of Doraville, Ga., cousin of the bride, served as junior bridesmaid, and Monty Gay of Rolesville, cousin of the bride, was ring bearer ...
The father of the bridegroom served as best man. Ushers included John Snyder of Thomasville, brother of the bride, Dr. Richard Worf, brother-in-law of the bridegroom of Winston-Salem, Fred Jones of Chicago, Steve Widdous and Brent Litwin of Thomasville, Robert Sudduth of Hampden-Sydney, Va., Leon Lucas and Joe Lamari of Buies Creek, and Peter Marx of League City, Texas ...
The bride received her associate arts degree from Saint Mary’s Junior College, Raleigh, where she was elected to the Chi Beta Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Fraternity of American Junior Colleges. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is now employed with the Hartnett County Department of Social Services.
The bridegroom received his bachelor degrees in psychology and anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is presently a second year honor student at the Campbell College School of Law.
Following a cruise to Nassau, the couple will reside in Buies Creek ...
Special guests for the wedding were the grandmother of the bride, Mrs. Nellie Bunn Gay, and grandmothers of the bridegroom, Mrs. Vernon Gilbert Snyder, Jr. and Mrs. Hal Clifton Fields of Greensboro.
Notes
Excerpt from The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, April 5, 1973, p. 17:
TWENTY ENTRIES FOR SHAD QUEEN
GRIFTON –– Twenty Grifton girls will compete for the title of “Shad Queen” at the third annual Shad Queen Pageant Friday, April 13 ...
Candidates and their sponsors ... Jessica Fleming, Lorraine’s Hairstyling ...
The candidates, between the ages of 16 and 21, will appear in casual attire and in formal wear for the pageant. The queen will officially open all other festival events and will be awarded a crown, cash prize and a trophy ...
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, August 29, 1980, p. 5:
JOINS LOCAL LAW FIRM
Vernon Gilbert Snyder III is joining the law firm of Gaylord, Singleton and McNally, P.A. here.
Snyder received the Juris Doctor degree with honors from the School of Law of Campbell University during Campbell’s 94th spring commencement in May.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Thomasville city schools, Snyder was the recipient of a Campbell Law Scholarship and Research Scholarship while at Campbell. He was a charter member and served as an editor on the Campbell Law Review and was the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Awards given by the Bancroft-Whitney Company and Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company in criminal law and agency and partnership. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Society and the Phi Delta Law Fraternity.
Last summer he was selected for a North Carolina Internship in State Government and worked as a legal research intern in the N.C. Department of Insurance. Previously he had served as a teaching assistant at the School of Law and as the law clerk for the N.C. Occupational Safety and Health Review Board in Raleigh.
He and his wife, the former Jessica Gay Fleming of Grifton, will live in Greenville.
The Complete Marquis Who’s Who®, Biographies, September 25, 2002:
SNYDER, VERNON GILBERT III
SOURCE: Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, 2nd Edition; Who’s Who in American Law, 10th Edition, 5th Edition.
PERSONAL INFORMATION: Son of Vernon Gilbert Jr. and Evelyn Rose (Fields) S.; Married to Jessica Gay Fleming, Dec. 23, 1978; children: Vernon Gilbert IV, Allison Fleming ...
ADDRESS: Office, Gaylord McNally Strickland & Snyder LLP, 498 Red Banks Rd, Greenville, NC, 27858-5704.
CAREER INFORMATION: Lawyer.
POSITIONS HELD: ptnr., Gaylord, Singleton, McNally, Strickland & Snyder, Greenville, 1984-; assoc., Gaylord, Singleton & McNally, P.A., Greenville, N.C., 1980-83.
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION: AB, UNC, 1977; JD, Campbell U., Buies Creek, N.C., 1980.
CERTIFICATES: Bar: N.C. 1980, U.S. Dist. Ct. (ea. dist.) N.C. 1981, U.S. Supreme Ct. 1984.
CREATIVE WORKS: Bd. editors Campbell U. Law Rev., 1979-80.
CIVIC/MILITARY: Bd. dirs. Pitt County Mental Health Assn., Greenville, 1985-; pres. South Hall Neighborhood Assn., 1996-, Greenville Morning Rotary, 1997-; trustee chair Jarvis Meml. United Meth. Ch., 1997-.
AWARDS: Recipient Am. Jurisprudence awards Lawyers Cooop. Pub. Co., 1979, 80; Campbell U. Law scholar, 1978-80; research scholar Campbell U. Sch.Law, 1979.
MEMBERSHIPS: Mem. ABA, N.C. Bar Assn., Pitt County Bar Assn. Lodges: Rotary (Greenville).
AFFILIATIONS: Republican.
B554–––ii.–––Eugenia Caroline Fleming, born in 1959.
B555–––iii.–––Pamela Dean Fleming was born in 1960.
B321. KATHRYN7 PRICE (Mary Helena6 Fleming, Timothy Heber5, Ivey4, Benjamin3, David2, John1) was born March 7, 1915; died March 31, 1988 in Lenoir County Memorial Hospital, Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina; and was buried in St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, near Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina. She married Luke Bernard McLawhorn. He was born September 20, 1913; died June 1, 1988 in Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina; and was buried in St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, near Grifton, North Carolina.
Obituaries of Kathryn Price
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, March 31, 1988, p. A-16:
McLAWHORN
Mrs. Kathryn McLawhorn, 72, died today in Lenoir County Memorial Hospital. Arrangements will be announced by Farmer Funeral Home in Ayden.
The Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina, Friday, April 1, 1988, p. A-18:
McLAWHORN
GRIFTON – A funeral for Mrs. Kathryn Price McLawhorn, 73, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in St. John’s Episcopal Church near Grifton by the Rev. Kenneth Tousand. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mrs. McLawhorn was a member of St. John’s Church.
Surviving are her husband, Luke McLawhorn of the home; two sons, Luke V. (sic) McLawhorn Jr. of Morehead City and Johnathan K. McLawhorn of Laurinburg; a daughter, Marion Morris of Morehead City; three brothers, Kenneth Eugene Price of Enid, Okla., Joseph F. Price of Grifton and Glenn Price of Farmville; her mother, Mary Fleming Price of Grifton; and one grandchild.
The family will receive friends at Farmer Funeral Home from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Memorials may be made to St. John’s Episcopal Church or the Grifton Rescue Squad.
Obituary of Luke Bernard McLawhorn
, Greenville, North Carolina, Thursday, June 2, 1988, p. A-14:The Daily Reflector
McLAWHORN
GRIFTON – Mr. Luke Bernard McLawhorn Sr., 74, died Wednesday at his home on Route 1, Grifton.
His funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in St. John’s Episcopal Church near Grifton. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. McLawhorn was a retired farmer and member of St. John’s Church.
Surviving are two sons, Luke B. McLawhorn Jr. of Morehead City and Johnathon McLawhorn of Laurinburg; a daughter, Marion Morris of Morehead City; and one grandchild.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at the Farmer Funeral Home in Ayden.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Grifton Rescue Squad or St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Issue:
B556–––i.–––Luke Bernard8 McLawhorn, Jr.
B557–––ii.–––Johnathan K. McLawhorn. His name is spelled “Johnathan” (with an ‘a’ at the end) in the obituary of his mother and “Johnathon” (with an ‘o’ at the end) in the obituary of his father.
B558–––iii.–––Marion McLawhorn married Mr. Morris.
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