{"id":393,"date":"2013-10-18T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/?p=393"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T23:35:46","slug":"sawyer-mary-lou-d-no-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/sawyer-mary-lou-d-no-date\/","title":{"rendered":"SAWYER, MARY LOU (d. – no date)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Mary Lou Sawyer\u00a0<\/b>died Thursday morning.\u00a0\u00a0 —-Miss Mary Lou Sawyer<\/strong>, prominent pioneer business woman of this city , died Thursday at 9;45 o’clock at her home, 500 west main st. , after a lingering illness.\u00a0 Born in South Mills, Miss Sawyer was the daughter of the late Miniard J. Sawyer and Margaret K. Sawyer<\/strong>. She moved here in December, 1890. A former school teacher, Miss Sawyer later worked in several departments stores in the city, first at Mitchell’s dry\u00a0 goods store, Chesson’s and then Rucker and Sheely, where she remained active until retiring about ten years ago.\u00a0 Miss Sawyer<\/strong> was said to have sold the first yard of goods at Rucker and Sheelys.\u00a0\u00a0 She was a member of the First Baptist Church.\u00a0 Four sisters, Miss Effie J. Sawyer<\/strong> of this city, Mrs. James Mercer Davis<\/strong> of Mt. Holly, New Jeresey, Mrs. G. J. Kirchheimer<\/strong> of Norfolk, and Mrs..D. Ray Karmer<\/strong> of this city; one brother , Dr. Blackwell Sawyer<\/strong> of Toms River, New Jersey; Three Nieces and seven Nephews, survive. Funeral services for Miss Sawyer will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2;30 o’clock at the home, 500 west main st.\u00a0 with the Rev. E, H. Potts,<\/strong> pastor of the First Baptist church, Officiating.\u00a0 The Rucker and Sheely co. of which Miss Sawyer<\/strong> was a Member for 26 years, will be closed during the funeral. Interment will follow in Hollywood Cemetery.<\/p>\n

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Contributed by:\u00a0Linda Mansfield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miss Mary Lou Sawyer\u00a0died Thursday morning.\u00a0\u00a0 —-Miss Mary Lou Sawyer, prominent pioneer business woman of this city , died Thursday at 9;45 o’clock at her home, 500 west main st. , after a lingering illness.\u00a0 Born in South Mills, Miss Sawyer was the daughter of the late Miniard J. Sawyer and Margaret K. Sawyer. She … Continue reading “SAWYER, MARY LOU (d. – no date)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5950],"tags":[6152,27016,27015,27017,8394],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-davis","tag-karmer","tag-kircheimer","tag-potts","tag-sawyer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Yemh-6l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}