LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - Mrs. Cynthia Loftin Rountree, 1892. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Mewborn Marble May 1999 ======================================================================== MRS. CYNTHIA LOFTIN ROUNTREE We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Heritage Place, Lenoir Community College, Kinston, North Carolina; Vertical File # Loftin - 12829-23 No notation of paper but probably Kinston paper - 7 January 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, NY, died at Oxford, NC 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. G. 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, NC; Mrs. Alice T. Rountree of Brooklyn, NY, 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, NC; Mess. G. H. Rountree and R. L. Rountree of the firm of R. H. Rountree & 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; and one brother, Mr. A. J. Loftin attorney-at-law of Kinston; one single sister, Miss Jane E. Loftin of Brooklyn, NY; and a married sister, Mrs. Susannah Rountree, wife of Mr. W. H. Rountree of Lenoir county, and a host of other relatives 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 Sterling Place in Brooklyn, NY 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 still is, in business in New York City, The writer is informed that she has had four attacks of pnenumonia (sic) which elevated into consumption, and but for her great vitality and determination to live if she could, would have long ago passed away. She left Brooklyn in the spring of the year1 1891 and came to Kinston, where she remained about three months and then in company of her husband, sister and daughter, Mrs. Hicks, went to Highland, NC 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.