Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Croom Sr., Dr. J. D. 1914
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Robesonian Th 1/8/1914
DR. J. D. CROOM, SR., DEAD.
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Well-Known Citizen of Maxton Passes After Illness of Several Months – Hand 
Practiced Medicine in Maxton 42 Years – Funeral Yesterday.

Maxton Special, 6th, to Wilmington Star.

   Dr. J. D. Croom, Sr., after an illness of several months, died last night 
at 11:30 o'clock at his home on Florence street.  He was about 69 years old, 
having been born in Pender county in 1844, and is survived by his wife, two 
daughters, Mrs. H. S. McCallum and Mss Jimmie Croom; three sons, Dr. A. B. 
Croom, R. D. Croom and Dr. J. D. Croom, Jr., all of Maxton; six sisters, Mrs. 
L. M. LeGwin and Mrs. Oliver Styron, of Wilmington; Mrs. Emma Croom and Miss 
Janie Croom of Currie; Mrs. J. G. Cobb of Atkinson, and Mrs. B. F. McLean of 
Maxton; two brothers, Frank Croom, of Currie, and Will Croom, of Atkinson, all 
of whom were here for the funeral services.

   For 42 years Dr. Croom was actively engaged in the practive of his 
profession here, coming to Maxton, as one of its earliest inhabitants.  He was 
a member of the school board, a director of the Bank of Maxton and was closely 
allied with the social and business interests of the town.  Dr. Croom was a 
Confederate veteran, serving throughout the war, and was a member of the West 
battalion of Company B, 36 North Carolina regiment of heavy artillery.

   Burial takes place at East Side cemetery tomorrow at 11 o'clock, the 
funeral services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. H. G. Hill, from the 
Presbyterian church, of which he was a ruling elder and a consistent member.

   Dr. Croom's success as a physician and business man is well known 
throughout this section of the State.  He was reared within three miles of the 
battle ground of Moore's Creek bridge, in what is now Pender county, then New 
Hanover.  His parents were J. Bunyan Croom and Mary Jane McDuffie.  On his 
maternal side he was Scotch and according to Mr. Hamilton McMillan, of 
Robeson, on his paternal side the name "Croom" is said to be Swiss, the 
ancestor of the family having come over with De Graffenreid's colony.

   Dr. Croom was a graduate of the South Carolina Medical College, of 
Charleston, but had studied at Baltimore previously to going to Charleston.  
He graduated in 1876 and began practice at Maxton, then known as "Shoe Heel."  
He had previously worked there as a druggist, having been directed to that 
point by Dr. Lewis of Lumberton, whose brother-in-law, Major DeVane, was 
opening a drug store at that point.  The young man had been a student under 
Major DeVane, who was gratified to secure the young man's services.

   Dr. Croom married Miss Mortimer Blake, of Fayetteville, and for a number of 
years had practiced and conducted the leading drug store in Maxton with his 
son, Dr. A. Bascom Croom, who had graduated and was liceased to the medical 
profession in 1905.  He had been prominent for a long time in the business 
life of Maxton, was a director in the Bank of Maxton, and with his sons; A. B. 
and J. D. Croom, Jr., had founded the hospital in Maxton.  He was also 
prominently identified with other enterprises of his town.

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