Robeson-Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....Breece, Capt. L. R. 1913
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Robesonian Mon 8/11/1913 
CAPTAIN L. R. BREECE.
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Brave Soldier of Confederacy Answers Last Roll Call – Remains Interred in 
Meadowbrook Cemetery.

   Captain L. R. Breece died at 10 o’clock Saturday night at his home, Walnut 
and Fourth streets, where he had been confined to his bed since about two 
months ago when a stroke of paralysis affected his entire right side.  His 
condition became worse about the middle of last week.  The funeral took place 
from the residence yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, services being 
conducted by Rev. J. F. Gorrell, pastor of the Presbyterian church.  The 
remains were interred in Meadowbrook cemetery.  The pallbearers were Messrs. 
A. E. White, J. D. Norment, Alf. H. McLeod, H. M. McAllister, Frank Gough, W. 
O. Thompson.

   Luther Rice Breece was born March 11, 1841, in Cumberland county.  He was 
educated at Wake Forest College.  At the beginning of the Civil War he 
enlisted as orderly sergeant.  He was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant 
and later for distinguished bravery was commissioned by Governor Vance as 
Captain of Company E, 8th North Carolina Regiment.  Captain Breece was 
captured and confined at Fort Delaware prison for six months and was released 
at the close of the war at the time other officers were liberated.  On October 
22d, 1862, deceased was united in marriage to Miss Annie E. Hargrove of 
Cumberland county, who survives.  Three of the five children born to this 
union also survive – Messrs. A. M. Breece of Pembroke, E. A. Breece, Mrs. W. 
L. Breece, Miss Addie Townsend, adopted daughter of the late Mrs. W. C. Fisher 
(a daughter of Captain Breece) and his niece Miss Josephine Breece.  Mr. D. J. 
Breece of Cumberland county, a nephew of the deceased and a brother of Miss 
Josephine Breece of Lumberton, was among the out-of-town people here to attend 
the funeral.

   Captain Breece was a quiet, unobstrusive, kind-hearted man who was held in 
respect and esteem by all who knew him.  He taught school for many years and 
was a man of culture and learning.


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