Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Proctor, Edward Knox "Squire Proctor"  June 9, 1903
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The Robesonian, June 12, 1903
The Robesonian
Lumberton, N.C.
Friday, June 12, 1903

MR. E.K. PROCTOR DEAD

Squire Proctor is dead. The announcement made Tuesday afternoon about 5 o’clock
came with the force of a shock. For several years Mr. Proctor’s health has been
precarious, which with old age made his death an event to be expected at almost
any time. He had been to his place of business as usual Tuesday and the summons
came while he was in the toilet room of the Columbia Hotel. He was found
prostrate on the floor with life extinct. He came to this place sometime prior
to the outbreak of the civil war and plied his trade as a watchmaker and gun
smith. Since the close of the war and until the time of his death he has been
engaged in the hardware business, in which he has been successful and has
accumulated considerable property. In politics he was a Republican and a member
of the memorial Legislature of 1868 and 1869, and up to the time his health
failed him was one of the acknowledged leaders of that party in the county.
Under several administrations he has served as postmaster and always
efficiently. As mayor of the town, which office he has held for several terms he
discharged his duties fearlessly, and without favor. A face and figure long
familiar in our midst is removed by his health. His career has closed in the
ripeness of age, his record has been wrought during many years, his faults and
virtues weighed in the balance of the inscrutable and the just measure of reward
meted out.
 
The funeral was held at the hour at 3:30 o’clock, Wednesday afternoon and the
boy was interred in East Lumberton Cemetery, with Masonic honors.  




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