Deaths of Rev. J.V. Reece, S.J. Duckworth, June 1921

Death of Rev. J.V. Reece

Rev. J.V. Reece died suddenly on the morning of Wednesday, June 1, 1921, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S.M. Reece of North Brevard.

Although at the advanced age of 79 years, Mr. Reece was an active man and was serving as pastor of East Fork Baptist Church in Haywood county. He had recently returned from a visit in that section to the home of his daughter here, where he had been staying for some time. At the breakfast table on Wednesday morning he was seized by the sudden attack when ended fatally in a few minutes.

The body was taken to Clay County, his old home, and the burial took place on the following Saturday at Pine Log church.

Mr. Reece had been in the ministry for 40 years. The long service of the greater part of his manhood was given to the section of the state in which he was born and reared.

Besides his daughter in North Brevard, Mr. Reece is survived by three daughters in Clay County, Mrs. Julia Rogers, Mrs. Ellen Reece, and Mrs. Lillie Waldrop; three sons, also of Clay, Theodore, Joe, Charley and Cas Reece; and one daughter in Haywood County, Mrs. Annie Sharp.

,B>Former Brevard man Dies at Williamston, S.C., Home

The following was taken from a Williamston, S.C., special to the Greenville News June 13, and will be of interest to many readers of this paper:

S.J. Duckworth, for many years a prominent citizen of the Williamston community, died suddenly last Tuesday while in a neighbor’s field rendering him help in his work.

S.J. Duckworth was born in Brevard, N.C., Jan. 26th, 1851 and was the son of Rev. and Mrs. J.H. Duckworth of that place. About half a century ago he married Miss Margaret McAllister. To this long and happy union seven children were born.

James Duckworth will be missed, not alone in the home, where he had always been a loving, faithful husband, a devoted and indulgent father and thoughtful and kind brother, but among his many friends and neighbors for whom he always had a friendly hand-clasp or a genial smile or a kindly word of greeting. And even the passer by will miss that friendly waive of the hand he was wont to give to those who passed his way.

From the front page of The Brevard News, Friday, June 17, 1921