Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Vann, Thaddeus Edward 1931
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 04-17-1931, P. 1
WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN AND CONFEDERATE VETERAN IS DEAD

   Thaddeus Edward Vann died at his county home near Como, N.C., Thursday, April 
9, at midnight, in the 85th year of his life. He was the son of the late Albert 
G. and Mrs. Harriet Boyette Vann of Hertford County. Mr. Vann, who was born 
April 22, 1846, spending his entire life in the county of his nativity. His 
grandfather, John Vann, was one of Hertford’s most distinguished sons, serving 
in the State Senate and House of Representatives, and being chairman of the old 
“Court of Appeals and Quarter Sessions” of Hertford County for many years. Of 
pioneer stock and a member of a family leaders in that part of North Carolina 
for a long period of years he inherited the rugged virtues of his ancestors and 
was a man of pronounced convictions, intense individualism, a keen sense of 
justice, energy and thrift. Although never seeking elective office of any kind, 
he had  served his county acceptably as county, surveyor, justice of the peace 
and county commissioner; was a trustee of North Carolina State College, Raleigh, 
until his health failed and was for a long term of years a trustee of Chowan 
College, Murfreesboro.

   He entered the service of the Southern Confederacy something over a year 
before the close of the war in Company B., 40th North Carolina Regiment, giving 
to that cause the same unflinching tenacity which characterized his life, and 
was with Lee at Appomattox returning to the drained and exhausted South, like 
thousands of others, to rebuild a civilization under the most trying human 
circumstance.

   The 1871 he married Anquilla D. Brett of Hertford County, and their home, the 
old Brett place near Como, surrounded by his extensive farm lands, was a place 
which the finest flavor of true hospitality has enshrined in the hearts of the 
hundreds of people who have been entertained within its walls throughout the 60 
years of his residence there. No home in Eastern North Carolina was such a 
gathering place for young and old, a gracious, abundant and  unaffected 
hospitality being experienced by all who knew and visited the Vanns. Mrs. Vann 
died in 1911, and surviving Mr. Vann are six daughter; Mrs. H.B. Parker of 
Goldsboro, N.C., Mrs. R.A. Majette, Miss Josephine Vann, Mrs. H. McDonald Spiers 
and Miss Eddie Mae Vann of Como and Mrs. T.B. Wynn of Murfreesboro; one son, 
Heber J. Vann of Como; a brother, Dr. R.T. Vann of Raleigh; a sister, Mrs. 
Pleasant Holloman of Ahoskie, and a large and prominent family connection.

   Mr. Vann was a member of Buckhorn Baptist Church, Como, and served on its 
board of deacons for many years. He ever took an active interest in his church 
and the work of the denomination throughout North Carolina. Keen, alert and 
vigorous in his thinking to the last, even through the ten years of his 
invalidism, his through grasp and knowledge of State and National affairs was 
truly remarkable to the writer as he would, on all too infrequent occasions. Sit 
by his bedside and discuss current events with him.

  His funeral was held last Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock from Buckhorn 
Baptist Church in the presence of a great assemblage of friends from North 
Carolina and Virginia. Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, Rev. L.E. Dailey and Rev. J.L. 
Price, three of his former pastors, and Dr. W.R. Burrell participated in the 
services. A touch of the Old South, reminiscent of the relations of master and 
servant in the older days, was the presence of Albert Vann, venerable negro 
coachman of the family for 61 years, born in the Vann plantation and spending 
his life in service to Mr. Vann. Albert rode in one of the cars with the family 
and was given a seat of honor in the church.

   The active pallbearers were: T.B. Wynn, H.B. Parker, R.A. Majette, H. 
McDonald Spiers, Heber J. Vann, Toy D. Savage, J.N. Vann and Peyton Holloman.

   The honorary bearers were: S.P. Winborne, J.C. Taylor, J.L. Howell, J.W. 
Railey, B. Ferguson, Hugh Lee, R.B. Bryant, J.B. Majette, J.B. Worrell, R.O. 
Hill, W.T. Taylor, Jno. M. Camp, L.R. Jones, Harry Steinhardt, W.T. Pace, Dr. 
W.H. Arthur, A.L. Gardner, P.A. Jones, W.A. Jones, Davis Spiers, W.E. Beale, 
J.T. Bryant, J.R. Hart, T.H. Barrett, J.O. Askew, D.C. Barnes, Senator Lloyd J. 
Lawrence, Stanley Winborne, Dr. Jesse Mitchell, Dr. Rea Parker, Congressman Jno. 
H. Kerr, J.M. Coleman, L.L. Manry, W.D. Boone, Walter Parker, L.L. Vaughan and 
Paul Scarborough.


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