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Rockingham post-dispatch. volume, February 20, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4 About Rockingham post-dispatch. volume (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965 MR. DANIEL CAMPBELL, aged 70 years, died of dropsy at Pee Dee No. 2 Wednesday morning. The interment will be at Pleasant Grove church, in Wolf Pit, today.
FLOYD P. GIBSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gibson, of Rockingham, died at an Asheville Sanatorium Sunday morning, where he had been seeking to recover his health. The remains were brought to Rockingham Tuesday mornig and carried to Mason's Cross, near Gibson, for interment. Mr. Gibson was born Dec. 12, 1880. He was married Dec. 18, 1901, his wife dying Jan. 4, 1918. Four children survive: Willie, Elmo, Nannie C., and E.J. He was a member of the Methodist church and his friends will learn of his demise with sincere regret.
MRS. KATE COLE DEAD. Mrs. Kate Cole died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.C. Rancke, on Thursday afternoon of last week, at five o'clock, of pneumonia, following an attack of pleurisy. The funeral services were held from the residence Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. E.H. Davis and A.L. Ormond. The interment was in the Leak cemetery, on the edge of town, the pall bearers were John Armistead, G.P. Entwistle, Geo. S. Steele, Henry Ledbetter and John Cole. Mrs. Cole was born in Ansonville Oct. 2, 1847, the daughter of Robert L. and Hannah Pickett Steele. Shortly before the War, her parents moved to this place, where she spent the remainder of her life, surrounded by nearly all of her children. Her husband, John W. Cole, lawyer and business man, died in 1895. Mrs. Cole was quiet and unassuming, and yet possessed of those Christian traits of character that made her beloved by those who came in contact with her life. She was an earnest member of the Methodist Church, living in the christianity she professed. Surviving are four sons and one daughter: Dr. R.S. Cole, Dentist of this place: W.B. Cole, president of Steele's Mills; Dr. Watt Cole, physician of Greensboro; Mr. Bledso Cole, of this place; and Mrs. Hannah Rancke, of this place. Three brothers and two sisters survive, Misses Fan and Pinkie Steele, and Dr. Will, Robert L. and Stephen W. Steele.
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