Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....White, Dr. Thomas N., 1918 

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THOMAS NEWBY WHITE

    Dr. Thomas Newby White died at his home in Franklin April 2, 1918, after 
a lingering illness of many months.  He was the eldest son of the late David 
White of Belvedere, Perquimans County, N.C., and was sixty-two years old.  He 
was educated at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and graduated in medicine at 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, taking a post-graduate 
course at the New York Polyclinic several years ago.

    Few men who have come into this community have made a better impress upon 
it than Doctor White.  Of a retiring disposition and forced by ill-health to 
retire from active work several years ago, he was known and appreciated by 
those who knew him intimately as a man of splendid character, of friendly and 
generous disposition and possessed of unusual ability of intellect.  He was a 
member of the Society of Friends and his life was modeled along the sincere 
and simple lines of that faith as it is practiced by its most loyal exponents.

    In 1909, he was married to Miss Jane Denson Pretlow, daughter of the late 
S.B. Pretlow, who survives him with two children, Mary Winston and Thos. N. 
White, Jr.  He also leaves two brothers, Josiah White of Belvedere, N.C., and 
David White of Greensboro, N.C., and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Symes and Miss 
Sarah White of Greensboro, N.C.

    The funeral services were conducted from his late residence in Clay Street 
Thursday morning at 11 o’clock by Dr. C.H. Rowland of the Christian Church, 
assisted by Rev. A.E. Cloud of the Friends Church, the interment following at 
the burying ground of the Pretlow family at the Denson Pretlow place in the 
county.  The pallbearers were Dr. E.A. de Bordenave, Dr. W.H. Arthur, S.R. 
Nicholson, J.T. Butler, J.T. Bonney and B.L. Holt of Franklin and Dr. Ward and 
Thos. Ward of Belvedere, N.C.


Dr. Thomas Newby WHITE, retired physician, 
NC native, d. 2 Apr 1918, at home, Franklin, age 61, 
interred in the "Jerico" ("Beechwood") Cemetery*, 4 Apr 1918, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 5, 1918, p. 1 

Additional information: 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 15, 1957), with their marriage 
   record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w300j2ob.txt 

*They & an infant son are buried on the Pretlow family's ancestral estate, 
   originally known as "Beechwood," but renamed "Jerico" in the 1990's. 
   Also the family homeplace of Colgate Darden, it lies on Governor Darden Rd. 
   (Rt. 646), between Hunterdale & Sedley. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-47): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w300t2ob.txt