Robeson County, NC - Obituary of Major Thomas J. Wooten, 1923

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                         MAJOR WOOTEN DEAD
 
     Was Native of North Carolina But Had Made Home in Camden.
 

     Major Thomas Jones Wooten died at the residence of his daughter, 
Mrs. D.O. Houser, on North Fair Street early Monday morning after a 
prolonged illness.
 
    Major Wooten was not a native of Camden, but had resided here since 
1918 where he had made many friends in his adopted home.  He was 83 
years of age, being born October 19, 1840 in Bladen County, N.C., the 
son of Richard LaFayette Wooten and Eliza Williams Wooten.  He married 
March 3, 1870, to Carmie McNair and to this union were born P.M. Wooten, 
E.L. Wooten, W.L. Wooten and Mrs. D.O. Houser, all of Camden: Mrs. O.F. 
Smith, of Scotland Neck, N.C.; and Mrs. S.B. McLean of Charlotte, N.C., 
all of whom survive him.  He moved from Scotland Neck to Maxton in 1896 
and then to Camden in the fall of 1918 where he made his home with his 
children.
 
    In early life young Wooten entered the Confederate army and had quite 
an interesting war record where his ability as a leader of men gained him 
the title of Major.  His band of sharpshooters of Lane's Brigade received 
the compliments of General Lee on their conduct on the field.  He served 
as a member of the general assembly of North Carolina for two terms 
beginning in 1889.
 
    The body was carried by motor hearse to Maxton, his old home, Tuesday 
morning where the funeral was held the same afternoon at four o'clock.  
Members of the family and Messrs. J.S. Lindsay, W.L. DePass, C.P. DuBose 
and H. L. Richey accompanied the body and served as pallbearers from the 
city.  Others serving as pallbearers here but who did not accompany the 
body were Messrs Leroy S. Davidson, R.E. Stevenson, W.E. Johnson, Jr. and 
D.M. Jones.

Obituary ran in the Camden Chronicle November 30, 1923


Comments:
This is my great-grandfather

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