UNION COUNTY, NC - OBITS - John Robert Deese - 1914

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John Robert Deese Obituary

Mr. J. R. Deese of Sandy Ridge township was born in 1852, and married Miss 
Martha C Secrest in 1874.  To this union was born 12 children 3 girls and 9 
sons. Two of his children passed over the river before their father.  He died 
July 16th 1914, in the Christian faith, leaving his beloved wife and his 
affectionate children, 8 sons and 2 daughters to mourn their loss.  But we feel 
sure their loss is his eternal gain. His body was buried at the cemetery at 
Weddington the 17th inst.  The service was conducted by Revs. Taylor and 
Bradley in a large concourse of relatives, friends and neighbors who had met to 
show their high esteem in which they held the deceased.  He and his wife were 
poor when married, but by industry and economy they had accumulated about 
700 acres of land, money and other property.  His will gave each child a tract of 
land and to his bereaved widow he willed his homeplace.  
     May God protect the widow and fatherless children and help them to meet 
the father in heaven, is the prayer of a friend.