Solomon Blake died at his home in West Durham Friday evening at the age of 79. The deceased was well known in the western section of the city where he lived for a number of years. Surviving Mr. Blake are his wife, and six children, three boys and three girls: Robert, Needham and Emmett Blake, all of West Durham; Mrs. Pearl Regan, Richmond, Va.; Mrs. Lu Rinda Phew, West Durham; and Mrs. Rambley Vaughan, Raleigh.
Funeral services for the deceased will be held at the Blake home on Eighth street Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. J.W. Bradley, pastor of the West Durham Methodist church officiating. Interment will follow in the Mecedona burial grounds in Wake county, about four miles from Cary.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, July 26, 1924. Solomon Blake’s grave, is in Macedonia Cemetery, not “Mecedona”.
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