Class of 1919
Graduation essay: “The Cotton Mill Industry in North Carolina”

Birth: 6 Sep 1900, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: Jul. 28, 1987, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Parents:
Augustus Newberry James (1874-1951)
Bessie K. Misenheimer (1876-1939)

Siblings:
Helen Blanton James Lail (1899-1982)
Ruth Virginia James (1902-1995)
Crawford Franklin James (1905-1984)
Alice Denning James Crews (1910-1994)
Margaret McCoy James Furr (1913-1961)
Miriam Sherrill James Sims (1913-1999)

Burial: Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 158889608.
College photos: www.digitalnc.org.

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From Ben Callahan, Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society, 4 Jan 2018:
After graduating from Salem she returned to MP [Mount Pleasant] but I don’t know yet where she taught. She was a teacher at the new MPHS [Mount Pleasant High School] in 1927 and remained there for her entire career. She taught me history in 1963 (I was in her classroom when we heard about the Kennedy assassination and she got the school’s only TV and we watched. She was still teaching in 1966 but I don’t know when she retired. She never married.

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Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC), 31 Jul 1987, p. 2.

Rosa James

Miss Rosa Allen James, 86, of 311 South Main Street, Mount Pleasant, retired history and English teacher at Mount Pleasant High School, died Tuesday at 11:40 p.m. in Cabarrus Memorial Hospital after a period of declining health.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church, where she was a life member. Rev. Charles Rinehardt and Rev. Bryce Smith will officiate and interment will be in the church cemetery.

A native of Cabarrus County and a daughter of the late Augustus Newberry and Bessie Misenheimer James, she was born September 6, 1900, and was a graduate of Salem College. She was Young Adult Sunday School Class teacher and a member of the UMW at her church.

She is survived by three sisters, Miss Ruth James of Mount Pleasant, Mrs. Alice Crews of Hickory and Mrs. Mariam Sims of Norwood.

The body will remain at Gordon-Penninger Funeral Home in Mount Pleasant. The family will receive any time at the residence.

Memorials may be made to Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church, Mount Pleasant, N.C. 28124.