SAMANTHA BLEVINS PRUITT

Hampton & Samantha Blevins Pruitt

   Samantha Blevins was born December 2,
1870, in Wilkes County, North Carolina,
the daughter of Calloway Blevins and Lucinda Caudill. She married Hampton Pruitt on December 31, 1885, at the age of fifteen, and they had twelve children, seven boys and five girls.  Hampton died at age 53, in 1916, due to colon cancer.

  

    Taken before 1904, this could be the oldest family photograph of Samantha and Hampton Pruitt.  Back row left to right:  Addie, Callie, Mack, Ida, DeEtte.  Front row left to right:  Charlie, Dora on Hampton's lap, and Fay on Samantha's lap.

   In 1926, Samantha and five children
moved to Winston-Salem, NC, and
dwelt at 221 East 13th Street.      
   Seated left to right is Gar, Samantha, and Fay.  Standing left to right is Vestal, Dennis, and Zona.
   Samantha and Fay returned to live at Walnut Grove and Fay died there, in 1930, due to tuberculosis at age 28.

Samantha married Ambrose Adams

in 1931 and he died in 1941.

The children are Samantha's
grandchildren from her son, Vestal.

Samantha lived with us in our home

on Cool Springs Road near Elkin

in the spring of 1957 and passed away

on April 2 at the age of 86.

CHILDREN OF HAMPTON AND SAMANTHA BLEVINS PRUITT:

Ida Victoria Pruitt (Cleary)……….1887-1957

John Calloway Pruitt...……………1889-1976

Adam Wesley Pruitt...…………….1891-1978

Myrtle DeEtte Pruitt (Felts)………1897-1957

William Mack Pruitt...……………1896-1968

Charlie Pruitt...……………………1897-1980

Mindora Pruitt...…………………..1899-1921

Fay Pruitt...………………………..1902-1930

James Garfield Pruitt...……………1904-1962

Sherman Vestal Pruitt...…………...1907-1989

Zone Pruitt (Wheeling)…………….1909-1991

Leonard Dennis Pruitt...…………...1911-1960

PRUITT PICTURES

Bobby Joe, Franky, and Wade Pruitt with
 nephew Ronnie Mathis.

Jean, Wade, Franky, and Bobby Joe Pruitt

Franky and Linda Pruitt

Franky Pruitt, first grade.

Gar and Lola Pruitt

Grandma Samantha with Gar, daughter Hazel,

and Hazel's son, Ronnie Mathis.

Gar Pruitt, working in barbershop.

Grandparents, Hampton and Samantha Blevins Pruitt

Hampton and Samantha Pruitt Family
Back row left to right: Addie, Callie,
Ida, and DeEtte.
Front row left to right:  Charlie, Dora
on Hampton's lap, and Fay on Samantha's
lap.

Mother Lola with Wade and Franky

Bobby Joe Pruitt, 8th grade class, Pleasant Hill School

Franky and Wade Pruitt

Gar Pruitt with friends.

Wade and Franky Pruitt

Gar and Lola Carter Pruitt

Gar and Lola Pruitt with Betty, Wade, Franky, and Bobby Joe

Gar Pruitt with stringer of squirrels.

Gar Pruitt

Gar Pruitt

Hazel and Jimmie Pruitt, 1936

Jean, Betty, Wade, Franky, and Bobby Joe Pruitt

Our home on Cool Springs Road

from 1949-1967

Mother Lola with Franky

Samantha Pruitt and children.
Front row left to right:  Gar, Samantha, and Fay.
Second row left to right:  Vestal, Dennis, and Zona.

Gar and Lola Carter Pruitt

Jimmie Pruitt with sisters 

Betty, Jean, Hazel

Wade, Franky, and Bobby Joe Pruitt

Bobby Joe, Wade, and Franky Pruitt

Franky with Indian chief,

Cherokee, North Carolina

Franky Pruitt in white shoes.