Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pretlow, Sue E. White, 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SUE EATON WHITE PRETLOW MRS. JOHN PRETLOW DIES SUDDENLY HERE Franklin lost one of its finest citizens last Saturday in the sudden death of Mrs. Sue Eaton Pretlow, who passed away at her home in South High Street after an illness of only a few hours. Mrs. Pretlow was born in Warrenton, N.C., September 19, 1858, the daughter of the late John White of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and of Mrs. Priscilla Delha Jones White of Warren County, North Carolina. Mrs. Pretlow’s father was a prominent and useful citizen of his day, being during the War Between the States financial agent for the State of North Carolina, and sent by the State of Liverpool, England, where he supervised the building of a famous blockade runner, the "Advance," named in honor of General Zebulon Baird Vance, later Governor of North Carolina. The "Advance," mastered by Mr. White’s son, Captain John White, Jr. ran between Wilmington, N.C., and England, being a noteworthy craft in the brave and exciting careers of the Southern blockade runners which maintained ocean-going commerce between the Confederacy and England. Upon going to England Mr. White took his family with him, and Mrs. Pretlow was educated in Liverpool and in Warrenton, N.C., and Petersburg, Va. Mrs. Pretlow was definitely of the Old South, and yet was active and alert in current affairs, an unusually interesting, gracious and well-informed woman. One of the most prized possessions of her family was a lock of General Robert E. Lee’s hair, the story back of this being that the General’s daughter, Miss Annie Lee, frequented a famous mineral springs resort of its day near Warrenton to visit his daughter’s grave and was a guest in Mrs. Pretlow’s home, giving the daughters of the house a lock of his hair because of the many courtesies shown his daughter by the White family. She was married in August, 1881, to the late John Pretlow of "Riverview" in the Franklin community, Mr. Pretlow dying in 1899. Mrs. Pretlow is survived by three children, Mrs. A.A. Williams of Warrenton, N.C., Barclay Pretlow and Mrs. G.G. McCann of this town; a stepson, R.A. Pretlow of Franklin; by five grandchildren, Alfred and Katherine Williams of Warrenton; George McCann, Jr., Miss Sue Pretlow McCann and Ellen Frence McCann of Franklin; three step- grandchildren, Mrs. R.E. Rutledge of Coral Gables, Florida, Bogart Pretlow and R.A. Pretlow, Jr., of Franklin; one sister, Mrs. E.R. Beckwith of Petersburg, and by a number of nieces and nephews, besides a host of friends. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from Emmanuel Episcopal Church here by the Rector, Rev. Norman E. Taylor and Bishop William A. Brown of Portsmouth of the Diocese of Southern Virginia. Interment was made in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the active pallbearers being: George G. McCann, Jr., Thomas N. White, Alfred A. Williams and Hugh Holt of Warrenton, John D. Abbitt, Jr., and Pretlow Darden of Norfolk and Bogart Pretlow. There was a large assemblage at the funeral besides many relatives and friends from Warrenton, Petersburg, Norfolk and Suffolk. Sue Eaton (WHITE; Mrs. John) PRETLOW, b. 19 Sep 1858, Warrenton, NC, d. 13 Jan 1940, at home, Franklin, interred in the Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 37*), Franklin, 15 Jan 1940, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 19, 1940, p. 1 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt Her husband's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Nov. 1, 1899, p. 8) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p634j5ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p634s1ob.txt