Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Mears, F. J. 1914 ************************************************ 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: Sam West sam.west.1@gmail.com September 7, 2014, 7:31 pm Robesonian – Th 10/8/1914 MR. F. J. MEARES PASSES. End Came This Morning at One O’Clock at Home – Funeral This Afternoon. Mr. F. J. Meares died this morn- ing at 1 o’clock at his home, 912 East Fifth street. Deceased would have been 66 years old had he liv- ed until December next. He had been in poor health for several years and had been seriously ill for three weeks. The funeral was conducted this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home by Rev. W. R. Davis, pastor of East Lum- berton Baptist church, assisted by Revs. C. L. Greaves and I. P. Hedgpeth. Interment will be made at the old home in Wishart’s township, 8 miles from Lumber- ton on the Whiteville road. Deceased is survived by his sec- ond wife, by two sons – Messrs. Jno. B. Meares of Lumberton and LeRoy Meares of Richmond, Va. – and five daughters – Mrs. J. P. McNeill and Mrs. W. L. Thomp- son of Lumberton, Mrs. W. P. Oli- ver of Marietta, Mrs. J. F. Gra- ham of Florence, S. C., and Mrs. W. A. Riddle of St. Pauls. All the children were present when death occurred. Two brothers and two sisters also survive – Messrs. Dwight H. of Brownwood, Tex., and Moses of Oklahoma, Mrs. Wel- lington Wishart of Lumberton, and Miss Mary Meares of Rock- ingham. Deceased was a loyal and faith- ful member of the East Lumber- ton Baptist church, and those who have known him all his life say a cleaner life than his has never been lived. It can be said a good han has gone. Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were, Mrs. L. J. Taylor and Miss Lucy Lee of Hope Mills. Additional comments: Son of Moses Meares and wife Lucy Taylor Meares. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/obits/m/mears2615ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb