Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Sutton, Jesse Oliver ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jeanette W. Corcoran annejeanette@earthlink.net February 14, 2008, 11:10 pm Cemetery: Colonel John Williams Cemetery Name: Jesse Oliver Sutton Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/sutton104nph.jpg Image file size: 56.8 Kb Jesse Oliver Sutton Son of J. A. and Rosa Sutton, Jesse was born July 18, 1859. He married Julia Ann Taylor and they had eleven children: Claudius Woodey,Alice Eugenia, Oliver Clyde, Darrell Monroe, Willie Green, Minnie G., John T., Roy B., Caroline Branch, Julia Ann, and Jesse Ballard. Jesse contracted cancer of the mouth and throat and died. obit reads: March 13, 1897 DIED. Mr. Jesse O. Sutton, who resided in Neuse Township, about three miles from Kinston, died last Saturday morning, aged 44 years, of cancer in his mouth and throat. His remains were interred next day at the Williams burying ground, in Woodington Township, Rev .C. W. Howard conducting the burials service. He left a wife and several children to mourn their loss. tombstone reads: Jesse Oliver son of J.A. & Rosa Sutton Born July 28, 1852 Died March 13, 1897 Asleep in Jesus, Blessed sleep From which none ever like has been A calm and undisturbed repose Unbroken by the last of foes. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/sutton104nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb