Robeson-Richmond County NcArchives Obituaries.....Fleming, James McDowell February 8, 1939
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Robesonian: 10 February 1929
Robesonian: Monday February 10, 1939

Fleming Rites Attract Many

Estimated 2, 000 Persons Pay Last Tribute to Baptist Minister

A throng estimated at more than 2000 persons gathered at the East Lumberton
Baptist Church yesterday to witness final rites for Rev. James McDowell Fleming,
68, widely-known and beloved
minister who died in a local hospital Saturday morning of pernicious anemia.

Former pastor of numerous churches in Robeson and neighboring counties, Mr.
Fleming was at the time of his death pastor of the Smyrna Church, Lumberton, R.
3, and Back Swamp Church in Aerial's Crossroads in South Carolina.  The East
Lumberton church , one of his former charges was organized by him.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dr. C. H. Durham, pastor of
Lumberton's First Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. I. P. Hedgepeth of Lumberton,
Rev. E. A. Paul, pastor of East Lumberton Baptist Church, Rev. W. T. Baucom of
St. Pauls Church, Rev. L. P. Leppard or Maxton, Rev. Troy Jones of Red Springs. 
Interment was in the Hollywood Cemetery.

Former School Teacher

Mr. Fleming succumbed to anemia after receiving 8 blood transfusions since
Christmas.  He would have been 69 years of age next March 3.  A native of
Conway, S. C., he attended high school in the Ashpole section of Robeson County
(now Fairmont) and also attended Wake Forest College, but to a large extent he
was "self educated" through extensive study and reading.  He had been a school
teacher for 31 years.

A proponent of the Old Time Religion and literal Scripture interpretation,
passages of which he delighted to quote, and was an advocate of the "blue back"
speller sas a fundament tool of education.

For many years he had conducted a column entitled "News and Comment" in The
Robesonian, and he also reported on numerous deaths among members of his
congregation.

Surviving members of the family are his widow Mrs. Susan Phillips Fleming; one
daughter, Mrs. George Sessoms of Lumberton, R. 5; a brother I. M. Fleming of
Conway, S. C., a sister, Mrs. A. L. Jordan of Winnsboro, S. C.

Among the other churches of which Mr. Fleming had been pastor were: Zion's Hill,
Beulah, Cedar Grove, Singletary's Crossroads, Raft Swamp and West Lumberton
Baptist.



Additional Comments:
Transcribed and Contributed by Robert Terrell "Terry" Johnson: In Graditude for
the many wonderful Obituaries Rev. Fleming wrote of my
Taylor/Pittman/Israel/Phillips/Britt/Wishart and other relatives without which
my family history would be the poorer.

19 May 2007

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