By C.D. Williamson
Parkton, Jan. 13—The writer and Mrs. W. left early Saturday morning for Cerro Gordo to bury one of their most beloved first cousins, Mr. Jas. H. Stewart, who died suddenly Thursday at 11, already mentioned in The Robesonian, having suffered hemorrhage of the brain. Deceased was 61 years of age, and was one of the community’s best and respected citizens, a consistent member of the M.E. church, and is survived by his wife, 6 boys and 3 girls. The funeral was held from the residence at 1 p.m. and he was laid to rest at Pait’s church cemetery, 2 miles west of Cerro Gordo.
The writer will never forget the route traveled on by the above trip. He was advised by a friend to go by way of Elizabethtown-Clarkton to Whiteville and Chadbourn, and the road from Clarkton to Whiteville was somewhat rough and muddy, but for the aid of good friends on the roads we would have been thee yet. However, we found I better on our return, as we were advised to pass Evergreen and Bladenboro to Lumberton, thence to Parkton via St. Pauls, by hard struggle. Nobody need tell this scribe there are any good roads, only real hard surface, these days. They are all bad, and worse, but in the space of two years we hope to see real good roads all over this section.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 18, 1926
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