Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Pharr, Martha Means May 12, 1919
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Charlotte Observer, May 13, 1919
MR. M. M. PHARR DIES AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS
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Funeral Services Will be Held Today at Home of Mrs. C. G. McManaway.
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Mrs. Martha Means Pharr died last evening at 6:30 o'clock at Tranquil Park 
sanitarium after a decline of several months.  Her illness became manifest in 
November, and she moved steadily onward toward the inevitable.  Since Easter 
Sunday her condition had been critical, and her death had been almost 
momentarily expected.

Mrs. Pharr was born and reared under the teaching and customs of the old south 
and she lived up to its traditions.  She was a woman of eminent dignity, fine 
mind and strong personality.  She was strong in her convictions, and lived 
close to the faith of her fathers and to all that made them the bulwark of 
strength of the county in the days of the revolution.  she was the daughter of 
the late John L. Pharr and Mary Barringer and was born in Mecklenburg county, 
September 7, 1840.  She lived at her plantation home with her parents until 
1876, when she married Hugh Smithh Pharr, of Pharr's Mills, Cabarrus county.  
To them were born two children, Mrs. C. G. McManaway and Miss Gertrude Pharr, 
both of whom survive.

The family lived in a beautiful home at Rocky river from 1870 to 1875 when they 
moved to Charlotte, residing on East Sixth street.  Mr. Pharr died in 1880.  
Mrs. Pharr moved to Lincolnton and resided there several years, then went to 
Spartanburg, S. C., being absent from Charlotte in all 10 years.  Mrs. Pharr 
came back to Charlotte at the expiration of that time and this city was 
continuously her home for the remainder of her life.

In fatih she was a Presbyterian, being a life long member of that church, 
joining at Sugar Creek, and removing her membership to the First Presbyterian 
church this city, of which she was a devoted and consistent member to the day 
of her death.  She was one of 11 children, all now dead.  Beside her two 
daughters, she is survived by her step-son, Dr. Theodore Pharr, of Concord, and 
two step grandchildren, Zeke Johnson, of Charlotte, and Zeb Johnson, of 
Pineville, also a little grandson, Hugh McManaway.  She also has three nieces, 
Mrs. S. E. McFadden, of Chester, S. C.; Mrs. J. L. Cottrell and Miss Lila 
Creighton, of Florida.

The funeral service will be conducted tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the 
residence of Mrs. McManaway, in Myers park, by Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson, 
pastor of the First Presbyterian church.  The interment will be in Elmwood.

The officers of the First Presbyterian church will act as pallbearers.

Charlotte Observer, 05.13.1919

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