Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pretlow, William M., 1935 

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WILLIAM MASSENBURG PRETLOW 

   William Massenburg Pretlow of New York City died in a New York hospital 
Sunday in his 48th year, following an appendicitis operation.  Mr. Pretlow 
was a native of this county, the son of the late Dr. Thos. J. Pretlow, both* 
of prominent Southampton families.  A number of years ago he left Franklin, 
locating in New York where he was the head of Pretlow and Company, dealing 
in the importation and wholesale handling of peanuts.  He married Miss Evelyn 
May, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. John F. May of Waverly, Va., who 
survives him with two daughters, Evelyn May and Betty Warren Pretlow; by 
three sisters, Mrs. Jas. L. McLemore and Miss Annie M. Pretlow of Suffolk, 
and Mrs. Henderson T. Hedrick of Norfolk, besides a large family connection 
and many friends.

   The body was brought to Suffolk Tuesday morning, funeral services being 
conducted from the residence of Judge McLemore Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock 
by the Rev. Dr. George Wesley Jones of Main Street M.E. Church.  Burial was 
made at "Beechwood" the old Denson Pretlow plantation near Sedley in the 
family cemetery where many generations of his forebears are buried.  The 
pallbearers were: Congressman Colgate W. Darden, Bogart Pretlow of New York, 
Clyde and Eugene Parker and Dr. Robert Matthews of Norfolk, Harvard Birdsong 
and Walter F. Story of Suffolk, Roger I. Beale and J. Edward Moyler of 
Franklin and Thos. H. Birdsong of Courtland.  A large assemblage of friends 
from Suffolk, Franklin and this county was in attendance.


William Massenburg PRETLOW, of New York City, head of Pretlow & Co. peanuts, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 21 Apr 1935, NYC, age 48, 
interred in the DENSON-PRETLOW family cemetery*, "Beechwood" (now "Jericho"), 
   23 Apr 1935, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 26, 1935, p. 1 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-45): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 


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