South Carolina Death Record
Name: Daniel Power DuRant
Birth Date: Oct 23, 1978, Georgetown County
Gender: Male
Race: White
Died: 14 Jul 1949, Johnson Memorial Hospital, Hemingway
Age at Death: 70 yr, 20 mo, 21 da
Marital Status: Married
Wife: Sarah Olivia Poston
Father: Daniel DuRant, b. Georgetown Co.
Mother: Mary Emma Mercer, b. Georgetown Co.
Burial: Power Durant Cemetery, 17 July 1949
Undertaker: Merritt E. Morris, Hemingway, SC
Informant: Mrs. Power DuRant, Johnsonville, SC
County of Death: Williamsburg, South Carolina
Cause of Death: 474
Certificate Number: 010704
Volume Number: 22
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Florence Morning News, Friday, July 15, 1949, p 2

Vox Planter, Dies in Hospital at 70

Hemingway-- Daniel Power Durant, 70, planter and church leader, died yesterday morning in the Johnson Memorial Hospital at Hemingway after a year's illness.

The funeral will be held in the Prospect Southern Methodist Church at 4:30 p.m. Sunday with the Reverend T. V. Huggins officiating. Burial will be in the Power Durant Cemetery near his residence. Land for the cemetery, which bears his name, was donated by Durant years ago as a community burial place.

He was a son of the late Reverend Daniel and Mary Emma Mercer Durant, early settlers of the Sampit section of Georgetown County, where he was born and reared.

After his marriage to Miss Sarah Olivia Poston, he established his home at Vox and had been outstanding in the community's development ever since.

He formerly was a member of the Vox Methodist Church, where he taught the Men's Bible Class six years. Later her joined the Prospect Southeran Methodist Church, where he taught three years.

He is survived by the widow; four sons, Daniel Briley Durant of San La Marque, Texas; David Henry Durant of Florence; Simon Richard Durant of Hopewell, Va., and Edward J. (Pete) Durant of Vox; three daughters, Mrs. Lamar Dennis of Charleston, Mrs. Carrol James of Indiantown, and Mrs. Eugene Newell of Johnsonville; two sisters, Mrs. Tex Eaddy of Johnsonville andMrs. Ralph Mercerof Bolivia, N. C.; nine grandchildren.

The body will remain at the Morris Funeral Home in Hemingway until tomorrow afternoon whenit will be taken to the residence to await the hour of the funeral. Friends wishing to send flowers have been asked to contribute to the Cancer Society instead.
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