Contributed by Herb Williams<\/p>\n
Two of Pender’s Most Prominent Citizens Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Two of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Pender county have recently\u00a0been removed from their field of usefulness and honor by the hand of death.<\/p>\n Mr. W. S. Larkins<\/strong>, aged 93 years, and probably the oldest man in the county,\u00a0died a few days ago, and on Monday last, Mr. Daniel Shaw,<\/strong> another leading citizen, died at his residence near Lillington Hall, in the 72d year of his age.\u00a0 Mr. Shaw was a native of Cumberland county, a graduate of the State University, and represented New Hanover in the Legislature before the county was divided.\u00a0 He was chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Pender county for several terms, and until he declined to serve longer.\u00a0 His funeral will take place at Mount William Church, in Pender county, this afternoon at two o’clock.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0The Weekly Star, Wilmington NC Friday June 22, 1892<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contributed by Herb Williams Two of Pender’s Most Prominent Citizens Dead Two of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Pender county have recently\u00a0been removed from their field of usefulness and honor by the hand of death. Mr. W. S. Larkins, aged 93 years, and probably the oldest man in the county,\u00a0died a few days … Continue reading “LARKINS & SHAW Obituaries (1892)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12207],"tags":[12304,12287],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualobituary","tag-larkins","tag-shaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}