Our Parish had the misfortune to lose, on September 29th, 1877, one of its best members and ablest workers, Mrs. Laura Ingraham James, mother of our faithful communicant, George James. Mrs. James was a woman of many Christian attributes, also a woman of many sorrows and acquainted with grief, losing three children, who are buried beside her in our cemetery, and afterwards losing her own life from diphtheria, contracted in an effort to care for some motherless children in our community who were desperately ill with this fearful disease, which medical science had not learned to combat in those days.

(Source: Mrs. John D. Leak, “History of the Parish of Calvary Church,” Centennial Service Booklet, 1920, Calvary Church, Wadesboro, 13, Parish Files, Diocesan Archives)