Pedigo House

The home on 209 Roanoke St, East is owned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was built at the turn of the last century, about 1900, by Dr. Charles Lewis and Elizabeth Byrd Evans Pedigo.

Charles (1872-1949) was the son of a “wagon maker,” Joseph Pedigo, who was listed in the 1870 Blacksburg census. Charles occupation was listed as “druggist” in the 1910 census. He was the druggist at the Ellett Drug Company at the corner of Main and College Ave, now Sharkey’s.

Charles and Elizabeth (1871-1951) married in 1904 and raised their three daughters in this house. The oldest, Nellie Lee, was born in 1906, Elizabeth Jane arrived two years later, followed by Alice Anna in 1912. The two oldest daughters lived in this house though the 1940’s while they worked as stenographers in the Agronomy Department at VPI. Elizabeth Jane married late in life, 1954, to William Hall Walton, a construction inspector. Alice married a VPI graduate in 1934, Peter Cervarich, Jr. and moved to Richmond. Nellie Lee graduated from State Teacher’s’ College, Radford in 1929. Elizabeth Jane was an accomplished organist and often played in Burrus Hall and at the Baptist Church. Through their mother, they were related to many early families of Blacksburg including: the Evans, Stangers, Argabrite, Byrds and Gardners. According to the 1940 census, the Pedigo house was valued at $2,200.

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