Obituary

Frank P. Meadows

Oxford Public Ledger, January 20, 1898

Granville County, North Carolina

(submitted by Sue Gill)

 We are very much pained to chronicle the death of Mr. Frank P. Meadows, at his home in Wilson, N.C., on Friday morning, January 14th, 1898.  His death was a surprise and great shock to his relatives and friends in Oxford.  He had been sick only a week or two, and a few days before the sad end it was thought that he was on the road to recovery.  Mr. Meadows was well known in this county, where he was reared and lived till a few years ago.

In 1895 he made his home in Wilson, engaging in the tobacco business.  He carried with him to his new home the respect and best wishes of our people, and we are gratified to know that he was held in the highest esteem by the good people of Wilson and surrounding country.  Mr. Meadows was in his thirty-second year, just the prime of young and useful manhood, and his early death is a great blow to his most excellent young wife and aged father, who witnessed the passing beneath the shadows of death, his sister, brother and a large circle of loving relatives and friends.

His remains were brought to Oxford for interment in charge of Capt. S. M. Bobbitt, Fred Crews, David Woodard and E. T. Peoples and upon arrival here Friday night were met by his relatives and a large number of friends, and an escort of honor from the Granville Grays, of which he was a useful member for many years.  Funeral services were conducted in the Baptist church on Saturday at 11 o'clock by Dr. R.H. Marsh and Rev. Jno. S. Hardaway, and the burial was in Elmwood cemetery, witnessed by a large concourse of friends who greatly esteemed the pleasant and genial Frank Meadows.

To his grief-stricken wife and father, relatives and friends we tender our most sincere sympathies.

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