Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Colgate W. Sr., 1939 

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COLGATE WHITEHEAD DARDEN, SR.

   Colgate W. Darden, Sr., citizen of Franklin for 50 years, Chairman of the 
Board of the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Franklin, and father of Governor 
Colgate W. Darden Jr., of Virginia, died in Raiford Memorial Hospital here 
Monday evening at about 6:45 o’clock after sustaining a heart attack the same 
morning.  Mr. Darden had been in poor health for many months.

   Mr. Darden was born in 1867 at Mapleton, Hertford County, N.C., the son of 
Alfred Moore and Mrs. Betty Holley Darden.  His paternal grandparents, Alfred 
Whitehead and Mrs. Sallie Moore Darden, conducted an academy, Elm Grove, at 
their home prior to and following the Civil War, which young Mr. Darden 
attended, coming to Franklin at an early age where he was employed by the 
Albemarle Steam Navigation Company, first on it streamers and later as its 
General Freight and Passenger Agent a position which he filled with the 
company for many years.

   He married Miss Katherine Pretlow, daughter of Joshua and Mrs. Ann Butler 
Pretlow, of Marl Hill, this county, where they lived until Mrs. Darden’s death 
in 1936.  There are three children of this marriage, the Governor of Virginia, 
Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr., John Pretlow Darden and Mrs. Harvey Lee Lindsay 
of Norfolk; eight grandchildren; two brothers, J.H. Darden of Mapleton, N.C., 
and Alfred C. Darden of Old Point, besides several nieces and nephews.  He is 
also survived by his second wife, who was before her marriage, Mrs. Virginia 
Persons* of Boykins.

   Funeral services for Mr. Darden were conducted from the Emmanuel Episcopal 
Church Wednesday at noon, where he was a former Vestryman, the service being 
read by the Rev. George Gunn, rector of Meadowbrook Episcopal Church, Norfolk. 
Burial was made at Beechwood, the ancestral home of the Pretlow family, the 
pallbearers being: S.W. Rawls, J. Fenton Matthews, G. Carl Steinhardt, George 
Watkins, T.P. Hylton, E.P. Jones, E.L. Beale and J. P. King.  The casket pall 
was a basket of red roses with many beautiful floral designs, and there were a 
number of State officers in attendance, besides a large assemblance of friends.


Colgate W. DARDEN, Sr., businessman, father of VA governor, 
b. 1867, Mapleton, Hertford Co., NC, d. 7 May 1945, Franklin, 
interred in "Jerico" Cemetery**, "Beechwood," 9 May 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 11, 1945, p. 1 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-47): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

His first wife's obit ("Tidewater News," June 19, 1936), with their marriage 
   record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635k1ob.txt 

*His second wife was Virginia Alice (BRYANT; Mrs. John Robert) PERSON. 
   She 3m. Alfred Eugene COHEN (1869-1950).  She is buried with her 1st & 3rd 
   husbands in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins - Annex 2, Plots 192/193. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 
   Her obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 25, 1960, Section 3, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c500v1ob.txt 

This obit is also posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/obits/d/dardensr3315gob.txt 


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