Extracted from The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)
Tuesday, July 17, 1945

GEORGE P. LEE

DUNN.--George P. Lee, 82, prominent farmer of Dunn, Route 2, died Sunday morning at 2:15 o'clock following an illness of several months. Mr. Lee was a native of Johnston county and had had spent his life in the Lee-Johnson section of Johnson and Sampson counties.

Prominent in church work, Mr. Lee was instrumental in founding and building the Reedy Prong Primitive Baptist church. As a young man, he was a brick-mason, but gave up this trade to go into farming and in the years that followed he became one of this section's best-known men in agriculture.

Funeral services were held on Monday at 5 o'clock, with Elder Luther Allen Johnson of Benson, Route 2, in charge, assisted by Lester Lee of Dunn, Route 2. Burial took place in the Lee-Johnson cemetery.

Surviving Mr. Lee are two sons, Martin L. Lee of Dunn, Route 2, and George N. Lee of Dunn; seven daughters, Mrs. Leon Wilson of Route 5, Dunn, Mrs. Lassiter Morgan of Angier and Mrs. Katie L. Kennedy, Mrs. Malcolm Barefoot, Mrs. Rossie Barefoot, Mrs. W. T. Hudson, and Miss Annie R. Lee, all of Dunn, Route 2; two brothers, Elder Xure Lee of Dunn, Route 2, and State Senator P. A. Lee of Dunn; two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Johnson of Dunn, Route 2, and Miss Azubah Lee of Dunn. Twenty-one grandchildren also survive.