Lenoir County, NC - Obituaries

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January 7, 1892

Death of Mrs. R.H. Rountree and a Brief Account of Her Life

Mrs. Cynthia L. Rountree, wife of Mr. R.H. Rountree, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
died at Oxford, N.C. on December 31st, 1891, of consumption, and her
remains were brought to Kinston and interred in the cemetery on January
1st, 1892.

She was the daughter of Mr. W.C. Loftin and wife, Sally, and was born in
the county of Lenoir on September 13th, 1831.  She was married to Mr. R.H.
Rountree in Kinston on January 23rd, 1851, then being a little over nineteen
years of age.

Of this marriage were born: Mr. Geo. Rountree, who is now a very successful
attorney-at-law of Wilmington, N.C.; Mrs. Alice T. Rountree, of Brooklyn,
wife of Mr. A.L. Rountree, of the firm of W.D. Rountree & Co., of New York;
Mrs. Jennie Hicks, wife of Mr. Thos. E. Hicks, of Oxford, N.C.; Mess G.H.
Rountree and R.L. Rountree, of the firm of R.H. Rountree and Co., of New
York.  Only one child, Lucy, of this marriage preceded the mother in
departing this life.

She leaves a good and dutiful husband; these children, one brother, Mr. A.J.
Loftin, attorney-at-law of Kinston; one single sister, Miss Jane E. Loftin,
of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and a married sister, Mrs. Susanah Rountree, wife of
Mr. W.H. Rountree, of Lenoir county, and a host of other relatives and
many friends to mourn their loss, but HER GAIN.

Early in life she became a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, and has
been a consistent member of the Church of Christ up to the day of her
death.  She was always among the foremost in the work of her Master.  She,
her husband, and sister, Miss Jane E., were among the first, and probably
the first, to inaugurate the Church of Christ on Stering Place in Brooklyn,
N.Y., in which she labored and worshipped for about eighteen years.

She and the family left Kinston about eighteen years ago to make their
homes in Brooklyn, to be with husband and father, who was then, and is
still, in business in New York city.

The writer is informed that she has had four attacks of pneumonia which
eventuated into consumption, and, but for her very great vitality and
determination to live if she could, would have long ago passed away.

She left Brooklyn in the spring of the year 1891 and came to Kinston,
where she remained about three months and then in company with her husband,
sister and daughter, Mrs. Hicks, went to Highlands, N.C., for her and
their health, with the intention of returning to Kinston in the fall or
winter.  On her way back she stopped with her daughter, Mrs. Hicks, at
Oxford, at which place she peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, her Lord,
without a struggle.

She was sixty years, three months and eighteen days of age, having been
married forty years, eleven months and eight days.

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