Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pretlow, Fannie M., 1940 

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FANNIE MURRAY PRETLOW

   Miss Fannie Murray Pretlow, beloved Franklin woman, died at her home in 
Clay Street Saturday night, July 13, after a brief illness.  Miss Pretlow, who 
was 68 years of age, was the daughter of the late Samuel B. Pretlow and Mrs. 
Mary Winston Ricks Pretlow of this community and was born at the old Pretlow 
homestead near Franklin.  She was educated privately and at Salem College, 
Winston-Salem, N.C.

   Her whole life had been a benediction to this town and county, and the 
words are used advisedly since the writer knows of no citizen who had worked 
more effectively or unselfishly for the good of everyone than she.  A devout 
member of the Society of Friends, first at Old Black Creek Friends Meeting and 
later in 1921, when Bethel Meeting was established, she became one of its most 
active, liberal and outstanding members being a recognized minister of that 
meeting and a former elder of the organization a member of Lower Virginia 
Quarterly Meeting and of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, being for some time in 
charge of the missionary activities of the Baltimore Meeting.

   Besides her splendid work in her religious relationships, it should be 
remembered of Miss Fannie that she was an anti-tuberculosis pioneer in 
Southampton County and the prime mover in launching that worth-while and now 
highly successful campaign in this county.  The activities of the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance Union also made a strong appeal to her and the cause of 
temperance had no finer advocate.  Interested in the importance of public 
health long before that became popular with our people, she was untiring with 
her time and means in securing first a Public Welfare office for the county 
and later in the establishment of a full-time health unit for Southampton, 
now one of the best in the State of Virginia.  She was a former County 
Chairman of the Southampton Red Cross chapter, always maintaining her interest 
in its humanitarian efforts.

   Besides all of this activity for the distressed and under-privileged of the 
county and community as w whole, she was one who constantly "went about doing 
good" and few indeed were the homes where want existed or the pall of sorrow 
hung heavily that Miss Fannie was not found there, unobtrusively but 
efficiently administering to the needs of those in trouble.

   She is survived by two sisters, Miss Mary Terrell Pretlow and Mrs. Thomas 
N. White of Franklin; a niece, Mrs. Alan McCullough of London Bridge; a 
nephew, Thomas N. White of Calabazar, Cuba and a large and prominent family 
connection.

   Funeral services for Miss Fannie were held form the home Monday afternoon 
at 4 o’clock, the simple but impressive rites of the Friends being conducted 
by her Minister, James Rauch Stein assisted by a former Pastor, Jesse 
Stanfield, now Executive Secretary of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.  Burial 
was made in the private burial plot of the Pretlow family at "Beechwood," 
ancestral home of the Pretlows near Sedley.  The pallbearers were: Alan 
McCullough of London Bridge, William Woodley of Raleigh, John Abbitt and 
Pretlow Darden of Norfolk, Bobby Pretlow, George G. McCann, Jr., Alfred Darden 
and Ashby Rawls.

   The services were largely attended quite a number of relatives and friends 
from Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, and Suffolk being 
in attendance besides a throng of friends and neighbors from the town and 
county.


Fannie Murray PRETLOW, civic leader, 
b. 19 Nov 1872, VA, d. 13 Jul 1940, at home, Franklin, 
interred in "Jerico" ("Beechwood") Cemetery*, 15 Jul 1940, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 35, No. 42, Fri., July 19, 1940, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Cemetery located on Governor Darden Rd. (Rt. 646), between Hunterdale & 
  Sedley; Beechwood plantation - the family homeplace of Gov. Colgate DARDEN - 
  was renamed Jerico in 1998. 
  Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
  Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (MV-III-47): 
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

Her parents are also buried there (III-46). 

Photos of her gravestone - added by Linda S. Johnson & Emily - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #11601719; it gives Frances.  Find a Grave calls it 
   Jericho Farm Cemetery. 

D.Cert. 19970 (Franklin #69) 


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