Extracted from The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)
Friday, September 29, 1944

MRS. MELIA J. McLAMB

DUNN -- Mrs. Melia Jane McLamb, 73, of Dunn, Route 3, died at the Harnett County Hospital in Dunn, Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Bethesda Primitive Baptist church with Elder Xure Lee officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

Surviving are three sons, W. R. McLamb of Benson, Route 2, and Monroe and Mitchell McLamb of Dunn, Route 2; two daughters, Mrs. McKinley Stewart and Mrs. Russell Neighbors of Dunn, Route 3; one brother, James Thomas Holmes of Covington, Ga.; two half-brothers, Talmadge Holmes of Dunn, Route 2, and Budd Holmes of Dunn; one sister, Mrs. Phoebe McLamb of Four Oaks, Route 2; and one half-sister, Mrs. Nathan Blackburn of Benson, Route 2; 26 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.