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1999, and as president from 1994-1996. His grandfather, William Meade Fletcher, helped form the bank.
The bank, located at 257 Gay Street in the town of Washington, is where Dorothy “Dotsie” Davis, 80, former Mayor of the Town of Washington, used to, do her homework as a young schoolgirl in one of the upstairs offices. She was being tutored there because she was too ill from a variety of childhood illnesses to go to school her first year.
It’s where little Frances Miller and her sister, Louise, would walk to get a nickel from their daddy to buy candy at Lea’s Store further down Gay Street, where Peter Kramer’s building is now. Their father was Clarence Jackson “Jack” Miller Jr, who was active in the bank for 60 years, first as a cashier and then president of the bank from 1969-1982.
The bank had a special relationship with its neighbor across the street, the courthouse. Circuit Court Judge Rayner Snead remembers asking the sheriff to go out and get some people from the bank to help fill a jury if needed, and sometimes bank clerks would fill in.
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