TITLE:  Thomas James Sumter

SOURCE: The New and Reporter, June 13, 2001

SUBMITTED: The News and Reporter

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Mr. Thomas James Sumter, 100
CHESTER – The funeral for Mr. Thomas James Sumter, formerly of 105 
Cemetery St., Chester, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at Calvary 
Baptist Church with the Rev. Joseph H. Neal officiating, the Rev. 
Jesse Boulware delivering the eulogy, and the Rev. Ronald McClurkin, 
and the Rev. Jacob German assisting. Burial will follow in Evergreen 
Cemetery. Mr. Sumter, 100, died Saturday June 9, 2001 at the Chester 
County Nursing Center. Born in Manning on Nov. 27, 1900, he was the 
son of the late Turner Sumter and Mary Tindal Sumter. He joined the 
Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark, N.J. and retired from Lock 
Joint pipe company in Waharton, N.J. Survivors are one daughter, Anna 
Sumter (Rev. Jesse) Boulware of Chester; one brother-in-law, Charlie 
Evans of Newark, N.J.; and one sister-in-law, Etheline Edwards of East 
Orange, N.J.; three grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. at Kings Funeral 
Home and other times at the residence. The body may be viewed from 1 
to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Kings Funeral Home. The remains will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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