Re: Nathaniel Pruett and Laura??
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Nathaniel Pruett and Laura??
Elizabeth Veserat 1/28/05
Emma Pruett (1866-1899) was the daughter of Nathaniel Pruett (1837-1900) and Laura Lavalette Driskill Pruett (1848-1933). They were married 30 Dec 1864 during the War in Caswell Co., North Carolina. Nathaniel was with Lee at Appomattox when the Confederate army surrendered the year before Emma was born.My grandmother Annie Brooks Pruett (1880-1969) was another daughter of Nathaniel and Laura.I grew up next door to Annie.She told me many times about moving from the Birch Creek district of Halifax County (Sutherlin), Virginia in 1888.She was eight years old and remembered the electric lights of Danville when they came down the old Halifax Road to Danville just after dark that year.She had never seen electric lights and it was a "wonderful sight."Danville had one of the first municipal electric operations in the country which started in 1886.In 1899, the year befoe he died, Nat Pruett was a watchman at the Farmers' Warehouse on Union Street in Danville.He and Laura are buried in Greenhill Cemetery in Danville.