{"id":3566,"date":"2016-02-09T20:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2016-02-09T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:38:48","slug":"croom-nathan-richard-d-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/croom-nathan-richard-d-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"CROOM, Nathan Richard &#8211; (d. 1920)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nathan R. Croom Dead<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aged Confederate Veteran Died on Memorial at His Home in Currie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Memorial Day, when our southern cities were doing honor to the memory of our Confederate soldiers, <strong>Mr. Nathan Richard CROOM<\/strong>, and old Confederate veteran passed away at his home on Moore&#8217;s Creek. \u00a0He had been in declining health for about ten months, only being\u00a0confined\u00a0to his bed for a period of three weeks. \u00a0He served his county as a soldier in the war of the sixties; he served his country as a magistrate for many years and served his church &#8211; and Sunday school as a modest, faith abiding christian. \u00a0He was a kind husband, an indulgent father and a helpful, thoughtful neighbor. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On March 3, 1920 he passed the 76th milestone of life. \u00a0On April 26th\u00a0fifty\u00a0years ago, he married <strong>Miss Mary HENRY<\/strong>, of Brunswick county, who with eleven children and twenty-five grandchildren survive him. \u00a0In the fifty years of married life this is the first link of the chain of life to be broken. \u00a0<strong>Mr. CROOM<\/strong> was fond of attending the annual reunions of the old soldiers, and always did so when in reach, and today he has entered the everlasting reunion with his old comrades gone before. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We laid him away in his suit of gray, and his badge of honor beside him. May his lesson of life be a blessing and good influence to all who knew him. \u00a0He never wavered in his duty, was jovial and happy at all times; he never complained, always replied to friends inquiring of his health in a most cheerful way, and during these last three of intense suffering he always looked to God for help and comfort. He died as he had lived, trusting his heavenly Father and a brave soldier of the cross. Peace to his ashes.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Pender Chronicle [Burgaw, NC]; 13 May 1920.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan R. 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