Individual: Joy, James
Birth date: Mar 28, 1879
Death date: Sep 1979
Social Security #: 241-68-4740
Last residence: NC 28052
State of issue: NC
Zip of last payment: 28164
Death notice from "The Charlotte Observer," Tuesday, September 4, 1979:
LOWELL - James Erastus Joy, 100, retired farmer, died Monday. Funeral is
3 P.M. today at Carothers Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Holly.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Julia Davis of Stanley.
Ras first worked as a carpenter with his father and some of his Rankin
relations. In addition to working on some large homes in Dallas, Mount
Holly and Belmont, they helped construct some of the buildings of Belmont
Abbey College in Gaston County. Later, Ras left construction and worked
at the Southern Electric Power Plant on the Catawba River between Lowell
and McAdenville in Gaston County. Ras also helped his father construct
caskets and prepare bodies for burial.
He is listed twice in the 1900 Census of Gaston Co., NC