Winthrop Ward Paid
The Great Price
In the casualty list of December 13th was the
name of Winthrop Ward of Weldon, who was killed in action sometime in October
last. He entered the army from Chicago and was sent overseas early in the
spring and is the second man from Weldon to pay the great price in the last
war.
About the year 1870, Drewry and Ellen Stith, two highly
respected colored people who were the grand parents of this young man, came to
Weldon, became identified with the interests of this town and lived here until
their death. Drewry opened a first-class barber shop in the hotel then owned by
Maj. T.L. Emry and by his polite and efficient attention soon won a large
patronage and his early death was much regretted. After his death, his wife,
who had been reared in the family of a prominent physician, who had given her
many practical lessons in elementary nursing, became a very proficient and
faithful ladies’ nurse, and almost died at her post in caring for a prominent lady
of our town.
His mother, the daughter of these people, still lives in Weldon
and her white friends sympathize with her in the death of her son in far away
France.
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