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Williamson County Historical Society

Officers President Andrew B. Miller Vice President Bob Canaday Secretary Marjorie Hales Treasurer Herman Major County Historian Virginia McDaniel Bowman

The Williamson County Historical Society Journal is published annually by the Williamson County Historical Society, P.O. Box 71, Franklin, TN 37065. Copyright ©1997 by Williamson Coimty Historical Society. Permission to reproduce portions of this publication is granted provided attribution is given. Annual membership in the Williamson County Historical Society is $12.00 for indi\iduals; $15.00 for families.

Illustration on front cover is a photograph of the Tennessee Female College which was built in 1857 and burned in 1886. , CONTENTS

Female Education in Antebellum Williamson County: 1822-1861 by Jeri Hasselbring \ Annoimcement of Tennessee Female College: 1869-18'^0 25 Armouncement of Tennessee Female College: 1885-1886 30

Alice Charlton's Diary 35 Murfreesboro Female Institute for HEARTHSTONES 57 by Mary B. Hughes

A Wonderful Visit 60 by Ruth Pearre

The Diary of Miss Kate BCirkpatrick 62

A Bookish Story: The.Yoimg Man from Williamson Coxmty 70 by Hugh 'Walker Record Book of Thomas F. Perkins Sr. 73

Civil War Letters of Capt. Thomas F. Perkins Jr. 86

Church of Christ, Boston, Termessee 92

Bridges of Franklin 107 by Park Marshall

Professor James Edward Scobey (Reprint) 111 compiled by John E. Scobey

Index 129 DEDICATION

ihose of us who have researched, read and enjoyed Williamson Cormty history are aware Tof the years of dedication Louise Gillespie Lynch has given to her life's work of collecting, writing and [organizing historical data. As County m Archivist, sh^e has overseen the transformation of our county records from storage in the basement of the courth|ouse and cells in the old jail into orga nized, accessible files in the County Archives at Five Points. Her, published voliunes of miscellaneous records and numerous genealogical articles have proven invaluable to those seeking information on Williamson County. The Society wishes to take this opportunity |to publicly thank Louise for her great work and public service. EDITOR'S NOTE

'ith Tennessee's bicentennial behind us, of Leiper's Fork for permitting the printing of the Williamson Coimty and Franklin pre diaries of her ^andmother, Kate Khrkpatrick of Wipares'now for their two himdredth the Southall community, and her great aunt, birthday in 1999. Many fellow historical society Alice Charlton, who attended Murfreesboro members are taking an active role in preparing for Female Institute under Professor James E. Scobey this celebration. James Cmtchfield has accepted in the mid-187p's. Also related to education is the the Franklin aldermen's charge to write a history late Hugh Walker's article on a rare book he of the city. County Historian Virginia McDaniel foimd belonging to Samuel P. Allison of Allisona. Bowman is in the final chapter of her long await And thanks to Thomas F. Henderson, Jr., the ed second volume of the history of the coimty. record book ^f his great, great grandfather, Jackie and Bob Canaday have published Thomas F. Perkins, Sr., reveals the financial Franklin: A Photographic Recollection, Volume resources of Samuel P. Allison while at Yale and, II, a companion to their successful 1989 edition. also, the educational finances of his brother, Sadye Wilson and Nancy Fitzgerald have given Thomas FeamjPerkins Allison. us Letters to Laura, the Civil War correspondence Related to the Allisons were the wealthy and of Dr. U.G. Owen of College Grove and a geneal numerous Perkins and Cannon families. To help ogy of the Owen,Dobson and Rives families. And clarify the tarigle of Perkins and Cannon inter our most prolific historian, Ridley Wills, II has marriage, we have Theresa Ewin Perkins's 1907 recently published Touring Tennessee, a delight explanation written for her grandson and our ful sampling of his extensive post card collection. World War I local hero. Captain Tom Henderson. An all-out effort has recently been undertak For Civil War[enthusiasts, we offer an article on en by the Society for the placement of historical Captain Thomas F. Perkins, Jr., with his letters markers in as many as forty communities, home written iwhile in Federal prison. churches, cemeteries, and historical sites. A To round put this year's journal, we have the forthcoming handbook, with texts of: all the 1855-86 records of Boston Church of Christ and markers m the county and period photographs, Park Marshall's report on Franklin's bridges. As is in progress. Your support is paramoimt to the always, an open invitation is extended to our project's success. Please make memorial and in readers to submit articles, diaries, photographs, honor donations to the W.C.H.S. marker fund. and letters related to Williamson Coimty. A look at 19th century education seems to be Special thanks is due Andy Miller and his the common theme of this year's journal. Volume stable of professional booksmiths at Providence 28. Jeri Hasselbring offers a taste of her graduate House Publishers for their help in the layout and thesis on female education in antebellum design of the journal. Williamson County and many will be surprised as to the number of academies which flourished Good Reading here. We are indebted to Sarah Davis Cummings Rick Warwick, editor : 18224.

The Head to think, the Heart to feel and the Body to act.

Dr, Barbee, 1844

etween 1822 and the start of the Civil War, When female academies made their initial ■ approximately twenty-two female acade- appearance in the 1820s in Williamson Coimty, 'mies and one female college at one time there was no decision to be made on the part of or another dotted the social, as well as the phys parents as to j whether one's daughter would ical, landscape of Williamson County. Some attend a "public" school or a "private" academy. were simply called schools. Others were more The female academies of the early antebellum impressively labeled institute, academy, semi years did not develop, as they presently do, nary or college. Regardless of the title, each did alongside a state-funded, public system of educa its part in educating the daughters of the area's tion. While it is true that most southern states professional, merchant, middling and planter during the early1 nineteenth century intermittent families and supplemented the traditional ly made available limited state monies for a rudi training received from mothers at home. mentary elementary education for poor whites— According to Stephen Ash,"in perhaps no other hence the terrn "pauper schools"—for the vast aspect of life in antebellum Middle Termessee majority education was attainable solely on a fee save courtship, marriage and slavery were class basis. Academies came about as the only alterna distinctions so glaring, and so telling, as in edu- tive to no formal education at all. cation."! Within her academies and college, a The story of female education in Williamson distinctly southern belief system transformed County beginsj in 1822 with the opening of the Williamson County's young "belles" into exalt "Female Academy" under the direction of ed southern women. Reverend Jorjathan Blackburn and "Lady" As Dr. Barbee hoped, the girls' heads were Blackburn. The school operated out of their indeed made to think as they chose from a variety Franklin home with Mrs. Blackburn teaching of rigorous course offerings. Under the watchful English grammar, logic, rhetoric, moral philoso eyes of the church, their principal, devoted teach phy and Latia under her husband's supervision. ers, and circle of intimate friends, their hearts The inclusion of Latin in the curriculum attests to could do nothing other than feel the specialness of this school's refinement and appeal to the upper their academy years and the importance of their echelon of Franklin society and to the emerging education to the years ahead. Dr. Barbee's plea for belief that male and female brains were created the "Body to act" extends beyond the daily walk equally. and other calisthenic activities of the school day. In defense of teaching rhetoric to girls who, While in the academy, the young belle trans according to accepted gender limitations of the formed into a yoimg lady who was "mistress of time, were to speak publicly only on topics con herself and her actions."^ sidered appropriate. Reverend Blackburn opined 10 Williamson County Historical Society Journal that rhetoric "gives a more pleasing embellish be found in Williamson County, and all were ment to the female character/' confirming the very dependent on tuition. Typically, yoimg min female education as a refining process was the isters served as principals.^ goal of "useful" schooling for elite yoimg ladies Regardless of type, changes m the economy in Franklin.3 Similar to the Blackburn's school affected all female academies. Most were con were the Female Academy (Seminary) of stantly in need of money,and pleas in local news Franklin Grove (ca. 1829) rmder the direction of papers repeatedly reminded subscribers that Reverend and Mrs. C. H. Hines and the Harpeth payments were due. Often creative in obtaining (Union) Female Academy (ca. 1828) near the fimds, boards, trustees and parents held lotteries Triune/College Grove area.^ to benefit the academy. Such was the case at the While the state government struggled in the well-established Harpeth (Union) Male and 1830s to create a viable educational plan, an Female Academies in 1832. Although in opera "academy movement" took wing in Williamson tion for over four years, the academies foimd it County as community and religious leaders necessary to sell five dollar lottery tickets at a endorsed and established female institutes. Franklin bookstore as a means of raising operat Sentiments that home schooling was too haphaz ing funds.io ard, and that mothers were ill-equipped for Nine additional proprietor/principal female teaching advanced subjects, combined with a academies that can be documented via their parental desire for formal, visible institutions to advertisements in local newspapers date to the persuade more and more families to support 1830s: Pleasant Grove Academy (ca. 1832); Mrs. female academies.5 Another influence were Long's School (ca. 1832); Miss Ripley's parental fears that abolitionist and reformist Pestalozzian School (ca. 1834); Porter Academy, rhetoric would be damaging to yoimg minds. also called Triune Female Academy (ca. 1834); "Southern education for southrons" was touted Elm Wood Female Academy (ca. 1836); the as better able to protect youth and maintain a Fanning Girls' School, also called the Franklin "cherished way of life" while simultaneously Female Institute (ca. 1836); Miss Bell's School (ca. interpreting the spread of female education as 1838); Cedar Grove Academy (ca. 1838); and Miss progressive and forward looking.^ Huggin's Female Seminary (ca. 1839). Of these. Typically academy education for young Pleasant Grove Academy was typical of many women lasted two to four years during the female academies of the time. A family operation. teenage period. In the antebellum years, time Miss Taliaferro, serving as teacher, conducted spent away from home in an academy could school in her father's home while her sister, Mrs. aptly be described as a rite of passage, a stage H. Walker, assisted and boarded students at her through which one traveled on the way to wom residence if necessary. anhood. Steven Stowe concludes that it was "one According to an article in the Western Weekly of several related experiences that shaped her Review, teacher Judith Long, who was possibly a childhood to the role that was both proper and widow, conducted what might be compared to a possible for a mature woman."^ The common "Dame School" of colonial New England. After place twentieth-century ideal of self-fulfillment an illness in which she was forced to close her and the pursuit of personal goals through educa school temporarily, an advertisement reported tion was literally unheard of in the antebellum that it would soon reopen and reading, writing, South while the "cultivation of the intellectual, arithmetic, grammar and ornamental needle moral and physical powers ... all in reference to work would be offered for a maximum cost of a high station in social development and in view ten dollars per session depending upon a stu of an exalted destiny in the world to come" was dent's entry level. Part of the tuition would be widespread.® paid in firewood necessary for keeping the The female academies founded in the 1830s schoolhouse warm. At one point Mrs. Long fell into three basic organizational types: propri taught with a Mrs. Cash but no further informa etor/principal operated; board of trustees man tion exists on their partnership. The low cost of aged; and church affiliated. All three types could this school combined with its apparent lack of a Williamson County Historical Society Journal 11 male sponsor are indicators of Mrs. Long's finan appeal in the United States in the first decades of cial straits. Small schools with a female head the 1800s. Pestalozzi's romantic vision of the often quickly succumbed to economic turn- child as innocent and naturally good fit nicely downs. No mention of Mrs. Long's school is into popular child-rearing dictates of the period. foimd after the depression in the latter part of Teachers such as Miss Ripley endeavored to the decade. design experiences in which children could Another academy with a family flavor was develop to their fullest potential based on natur Porter Female Academy, situated in the eastern al curiosity. Discipline was to be internalized part of Williamson County. Although little is when studentsj were properly motivated to leam known about this academy other than the fact rather than imposed from the outside. Especially that the teachers were Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and adaptable to science, teachers trained children to their daughter, an 1834 article announcing the use their irmate mental powers to move from the public examination of the students boasts that known to the unknown. Rather than relying on the school site and its teachers "bid fair to be one traditional rote memory, advocates of the of the first seminaries of the kind in the State.''^^ Pestalozzian method considered oral language Exactly what "kind" remains a mystery. central to learning and adapted lessons to meet Although boarding was available in case a stu individual dif erences.i^ Although there is no dent's home was too far for a daily commute,it is definitive doer[mentation accormtmg for the ages more than likely that most students were local or sex of Miss Ripley's pupils, whether a "true" girls. female academy or not, the presence of this The advertisements for virtually all of these school brings Ap interesting insights iato the ide academies abormded with superlatives in ology of local education. describing the school, its teachers and courses. Why worlld the reformist Pestalozzian However, academies came and went, teachers method of edilcation resonate with the people in ended sessions early for personal reasons, girls Williamson Cqrmty, Tennessee? There are three stayed for one session or many, classes were tem possible explanations. The most obvious is the porarily suspended due to maintenance of the method's conlpatibility with changes in child- building and closing exercises were suspended rearing practices. for various reasons. Realistically, proprietors, Secondly, the Pestalozzi model, formded on whether a husband and wife team or a school the principle ot self-guided learning,fit well with mistress, had to both please parents and secure contemporary I Protestant ideology of self-knowl patrons. The concept of "finishing" or "cultivat edge as a path to rmderstanding and the pur ing a girl with a smattering of this and that was poseful use of one's God-given talents toward not unheard of nor considered inappropriate. growth and pjerfection. Believers in a Christian Indeed the 1836 commencement address at Republic, in which proper and useful education Pulaski Female Academy,in nearby Giles Cormty, would prepare the next generation for moral centered on preserving and cultivating the orna leadership an(k purposeful work for the good of mental character of the female sex. In his speech, all, held that Education and progress were inti principal Reverend Thomason alluded to the mately intertwined. These potent cultural beliefs angelic and riiinisterial qualities of women and struck a chord with Miss Ripley's innovative the importance of education that cultivated the pedagogy.i^ "ornamental culture, manners and religion, Lastly, the Victorian faith in the power of the In a unique departure from the norrn of edu environment contributes another possible ratio cation for Williamson Coimty, the Pestalozzian nale for a Pestalozzian-style school in Franklin. If School, also referred to as the Infant School, this school was not a female academy, if its stu opened near Franklin in 1834. Taught by Miss dents were the young sons and daughters (hence Eliza Ripley, the school's advertisement struck in "Infant School") of local mechanics and laborers, bold letters,"LEARNING ADVANCED."i4 After or impropertied families, might not Miss Ripley being translated into English ca. 1827, the have seen herself as battling what she perceived Pestalozzian method of instruction, gained to be a harmful environment? Or perhaps she 12 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

and her backers believed themselves to be pro education, which included strict discipline, lady viding selfless service to the unfortunate and sav like behavior at all times and "developing of all ing not only children's souls but their own the faculties of mind, heart, and soul. . . . The through good works. Was the Franklin version of physical, as well as the intellectual and moral, Pestalozzian pedagogy truly reformist in nature powers were to be called forth and trained for and aimed to further the causes of democracy usefulness."19 As ardent evangelists of the through proper education?i7 Scant information Church of Christ, the Farmings were bent on the remains of Miss Ripley and her experimental conversion of their adolescent students and "use school; however, its existence attests to the will fulness" focused on the impact proper female ingness of the community to try new techniques, influence could have on others. To a class of girls and of the teacher's currency with educational about to graduate Charlotte Farming wrote:"Will methodology. you not walk thoughtfully, remembering that Miss Ripley's Pestalozzian School was found your influence may lead others to the Savior ed on the eve of a financial panic that would whom you have elected to follow. moderately restrict the growth of the academy While no information survives regarding the movement in Williamson County. Miss Bell's curriculum of the Fanning Girls' School in School commenced operation near Liberty Franklin, which continued in operation imder Meeting House in the northeast portion of the new names and principalships after the depar coimty. An 1838 article depicted a valiant young ture of its founders, it is known that their lady facing her examiners: "Her task was ardu Nashville school offered rhetoric, composition, ous, she stood alone and answered gracefully music and calisthenics mixed with a strong questions on history, chemistry, etc." A Miss emphasis on the minutiae of manners and behav Huggins conducted classes in her Female ior. It can be assumed that this regimen was Mrs. Seminary on Murfreesboro Pike offering a "use Farming's practice in Franklin as well. Eleanor ful liberal education in English, Botany, painting Hill remembered that after a rote spelling lesson and music." What became of these two female done in unison the girls were required to practice schools is not known, but it is not presumptuous "curt'sies' [which] was a terrible ordeal . . . but to assume students were lost due to the financial being a part of Mrs. Farming's curriculum, had to crunch caused by the fall of cotton and tobacco be gone through with."2i Standards of decorum prices.18 and personal appearance, such as one's gait and A longer-lasting female academy opened its posture, stressed displaying oneself with the doors to students in 1838. Its principal and pro right emphasis. According to Steven Stowe, that prietor was Tolbert Fanning, an evangelical female academies taught such subjects demon preacher and national spokesman of the strates that a female academy was a separate Disciples of Christ, author, farmer and advocate world consciously shaping a common identity of educational reform. His wife of one month, for its students.22 Charlotte, taught alongside her husband.. The Panic of 1837, which lasted well into the Although little information remains about their 1840s, surely affected the "luxury" of female edu short-lived sojourn in this Franklin school, often cation throughout the coimty, but it did not halt referred to as the Franklin Female Institute in it entirely. Mrs. Hodgson's School, also known local newspapers, much is known regarding the generically as the Franklin Female Academy, Farmings' work in the Nashville vicinity begin opened in 1841. Mrs. Hodgson offered "a liberal ning in the early 1840s with Elm Crag School. female education" with "French taught with a Within five years the couple built the very suc Parisian accent" among other courses. When con cessful Franklin College for men (ca. 1845) and a sidering the upcoming end-of-year rituals, Mrs. companion school for girls imder the direction of Hodgson wrote that a public examination Mrs. Fanning, both of which lasted until the Civil "destroys modesty" and often "gives a superfi War. cially bold girl a public advantage over a timid Reminiscences of former student Eleanor Hill one however much she may be the better schol shed light on the Farmings' philosophy of female ar." Mrs. Hodgson's School continued in Williamson County Historical Society Journal 13

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Frariklin until 1844, the last time it gains mention Stmday Schools with "the welfare of society at in the news.23 hearf'and temperance societies advertised their Mrs. Hodgson's School was an exception; a mission and local meetings.25 The Franklin hiatus in academy building in Williamson Female Institute, affihated with the Franklin Coimty did not end until the chartering of the Presbyterian C!hurch, reflected the responsibility Franklin Female Institute in 1847. Former imdertaken by the church for the behavior and Institute graduate Adelicia McEwen German education of youth as well as the denomination's remembered that "the leading citizens of influence in community matters. Franklin ... keenly [felt] the necessity,[and] con The Franklin Female Institute represents a ceived the idea of building an Institute;for the departure from traditional female academy edu education of their daughters."24 in part, this cation in Williamson Coimty, providing perhaps "keenly felt necessity" can be attributed to the the first truly sjecondary level education for ado area's Whig commitment to reform and irhprove- lescent femaleq. Gaining a reputation as an insti ment, but also persuasive was the conflation of tute for the education of elite young ladies, it female education and evangelicalism. Franklin provided all the educational and social accou and Williamson Cormty Methodists organized trements of southern female schooling and 14 Williamson County Historical Society Journal acquired a reputation that transformed the town, usually the parents of day students. When school from a local institution to one reaching Mrs. O'Bryan left to teach in the Nashville out to all parts of the South.26 The Institute con Female Academy, "as Northern teachers were sisted of a large and impressive building dedi 'the thing' in those days, Mr. Cunningham cated solely to refined education, a staff of employed . . . two from New York and one from trained professionals, the use of standard, Boston." Soon the Institute boasted a literary nationally renowned textbooks such as department and offered a diverse curriculum Beecher's Domestic Economy, Franklin's Botany which included Latin, French, German, Italian, and McGuffey's Eclectic Readers and a curricu moral philosophy, rhetoric, composition, chem lum that reportedly stressed the primacy of aca istry, astronomy, music, painting, piano and cal demics over the merely ornamental subjects.27 isthenics, the latter heralded as "quite an irmova- The Twenty-Seventh General Assembly tion!"80 Antebellum calisthenics included such incorporated the Institute and selected its man activities as walks around the campus, riding, agers late in 1847. They in turn selected gardening and dance. Compared to the courses Reverend A. N. Cunningham of East Tennessee offered by Mrs. Long's School fifteen years earli as principal, assisted at first by teachers Mrs. er, the curriculum had broadened considerably. Lawrence O'Bryan and her daughters Fannie When researching the higher education of and Martha. Initially school met in a small brick southern women, Christie Anne Farnham foimd house near the church. A nearby log building that secondary schools often provided a primary was used for a music room in the morning and department, as the Institute did,in order to bring math room in the afternoon. As enrollment girls up to a secondary educational level. Within increased, a former tavern next door became a few years, the Franklin Female Institute, as its classroom space, as well as the Presbyterian curriculum suggests, served as a college prepara Church gallery. During this period, school sup tory institution. The inclusion of Latin and the porters imdertook plans to erect a brick, three sciences indicated that the young ladies needed story edifice surrounded by an expanse of lawn to be taught what their male counterparts had at the convergence of Columbia and Carter's expected and accomplished at a younger age. Creek Pikes. Citizen "commissioners" received Not all female students, of course, pursued such subscriptions of twenty-five dollars for the pro rigorous courses and the ornamental arts were ject. Tradition holds that a number of local mer always available and popular. By the late 1840s, chants, including Robert and Leland Bradley, the improved curricula in "upper schools" signi "exerted pressure on northern wholesale con fied what would today be referred to as "jimior cerns where they purchased merchandise for colleges."81 contributions for the school."28 Consequently, As was common, the academic year at the Yankee money, invested in hopes of the insti Female Institute consisted of two five-month tute's economic potential and return, helped terms. While it is hard to estimate the cost for a build a southern female academy which, in the year's schooling prior to the Civil War due to lack words of former student Louisa Walker Parkes, of primary sources, a surviving catalog from 1867 "went up as if by magic . . .[amid] great rejoic hints at the school's expense. A five month ses ing."29 sion for the upper level student who also Initially the Institute had a primary depart enrolled in ornamental arts and French would ment supervised by the O'Bryans and an upper cost approximately $100. If music is added the school under the direction of Reverend cost of tuition rises to over $150. Even allowing Cunningham. As its reputation spread, the for increases in cost over the period, this infor Institute drew as many as two to three hundred mation adds weight to the Institute's reputation students during a single year. They came not as an elitist school.32 only from Williamson County and Middle The typical school day was rigidly structured, Tennessee, but as far away as Texas, Missouri, and teachers kept a tight reia on pupils. Since the Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. Those need Institute did not board scholars, one can envision ing housing boarded with refined families of the the ringiag of a bell calling the opening exercises Williamson County Historical Society Journal 15 of the young girls. The day was full, allowing lit obtain food when naughty girls had been denied tle free time, thus encouraging closeness|among noon recess and were prmished by being locked members of this female community. Academics in. The ingenious young ladies simply tied their took up the morning from eight o'clock xmtil a apron strings together and, with the help of an noon recess which lasted until two o'clock in the outside accomplice, used this "rope" to raise a afternoon. In her reminiscences Louisa Walker dinner bucket dnd water up through a window.35 Parkes does not relate if all the girls went to near Southern girls, many from isolated farms and far by homes for the noon meal but recalls the daily away from home, must have found great joy in supervised walk as occurring during this time the sisterhood j and intimacy of academy life. period. Sometimes these walks turned into rather Cultivated behind academy walls was the collec lively promenades, when "merry, happy girls ... tive spirit of group cohesiveness—elite young often forgot to be quiet and yelled 'like Indians.'" women may have become more a part of their Studies continued in the afternoon imtil dis class after proper education than when they missal at four o'clock. Friday afternoons were entered.36 shortened, and on this day a competitive "spell Of great importance to the young students down" took place complete with team captains.33 were the female teachers, who served not only as The students developed close and lifelong authority figures but role models, and often friendships at the Institute and time spent there friends. Teachers involved themselves with all served as a coming of age for the girls. While the aspects of their students' lives. From dress to cost of education was high, its value meant dif manners in ways of speaking and walking, they ferent things to different people. "Some [were] modeled true womarihood. The lessons learned anxious for education, others for the social fea were invaluable: a young lady was not to be sick ture . . . others, fim-lovers, who only cared for ly looking, but vibrant and rosy cheeked, yet she amusement and pride[d] themselves on their was not to perspire or engage in unladylike ingenuity in escaping punishment."3^ Louisa behavior. She \yas to rein in her emotions and be recalled the conspiratorial nature of scheming to a calming influence on those arormd her. No

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goals outside the sphere of wife and mother. Margaret Ripley Wolfe writes that although ante bellum education for both men and women -Si# stressed indoctrination over independent think ing, "exposure to ideas, strong role models to be ■ ia|;rBEa)s;«»SK.K^ found in some female educators, and pride that educated women occasionally took in their learn P ing sometimes coalesced to produce unexpected results."39 Schoolgirl Mary Fearre longingly S^vnpfec. JSl. Xt^O. -j- yearned for something besides reading and o sewing to fiU her day and complained in her ■Q,<^;oo:o'Q_ diary of endless ennui. She grew "weary of the insipid chat of the most of our visitors . . . [who] . - ^"Wtro^fJeCeiiiimi^un SHI h are [more] interested about their two babes and domestic affairs than I can be . . . [I] carmot be contented to card and spin as many Southern girls do. "40 Most would, however, return to their parental homes, thoroughly "educated." Some Sample II—Mary E. Halfacre, 1850 would find the transition from school to home a lonely experience, but most southern girls never seriously considered their future life to be differ doubt many girls who boarded experienced ent than that of their mothers. Expectations of homesickness and turned for comfort, not only to family duty and devotion for many constituted other students, but to teachers who were often "a quiet scaling down of hopes."4i A tension close in age to their students. Mary Halfacre, a therefore existed in the academy: personal student at Union Academy in Williamson achievement and the "rigors of academics might County in the 1850s, worked a sampler for her have undermined the stated ideal by opening teacher. Miss Isabella Wallis. The sentiment, women's eyes . . . [to] see beyond the limits of "Coimt that day lost whose descending sim their circumscribed world."42 views from thy hands no worthy action done," Rituals based on a prescribed and accepted illustrates the work ethic that her teacher no vision of the ideal woman imbued female acade doubt tried to instill into her pupil. Miss Wallis in my education. From the initial anticipation and turn stitched a friendship sampler for Mary with excitement of school selection, acceptance and a poetic guideline for her future life worked into packing, to daily routine and confidences, acade the design.37 The school day was not without its my education was a world unto itself. The goal of lighter moments. Miss Weatherton, who taught southern female education was not to produce music, was considered "society" by her pupils autonomous, independent women, but to incul and according to reminiscences "entertained the cate a sense of shared values and to foster the girls by telling her love episodes."38 acquisition of a fund of knowledge. Academy Female academies such as the Institute education was simply a part of growing up elite. walked a fine line when employing educated, Girls were closely guarded, often behind walls unmarried yoimg women as teachers. No matter and fences. Attention to details of manners, eti how refined and pious, these young educators, quette, proper discourse and other minutiae fre many hrmdreds of miles from their homes, may quently took up more hours of the day than have been construed not only as role models for attention to academics. Strict attention on dis traditional feminine values, but as models for the playing oneself with the right emphasis pervad wholly new possibility of a femininity that ed the school day. included independent life outside of marriage The Franklin Female Institute partook pf ritu and family. Some pupils most surely did aspire to al celebrations with regularity. Graduation Williamson (Lounty Historical Society Jo urnal 17 exercises took place annually and involveid three days of festivities. First a public exam was held, at wWch time the graduates, dressed in their finery, faced the audience and read their essays. Graduates received ribbons for academic achieve ments in various subjects and then were awarded their diplomas. Other girls leaving the Institute at the close of the term received like awards and cer tificates. A second evening of celebration consist ed of an "Exhibition Soiree," featuring all the young ladies of the Institute in vocal and instru mental musical presentations, a "grand gallop" and a tableau.^^ The culminating event, the "Coronation of the Rose," took place on the third day of festivities. Closing, or graduation exercis Dr. /. S. Park, Fannie Park, Margaret Maney, and es, were showcases in which young ladies could Alice McEwen of Franklin at Niagara Falls on their display themselves and their accomplishments. Grand Tour in 1859 In addition, families often had their own graduation rituals. One common practice was reach into all parts of thqSoutheast, the Institute heating graduates to an extended period of trav upheld the values of the families who entrusted el—a chaperoned "grand tour" of the United their daughters to it. VVnting in her diary during States, Canada or Europe—^intended to round the Civil War, Mary Pearre reflects on her child out the finishing of young ladies. The time spent hood, recalling herself as a carefree little girl traveling served as a pre-marriage ritual for climbing into bushes to see birds' nests, hunting, many elite families and allowed young women fishing and riding bareback. After her acadeihy the chance to further their education. For many education and [cultivation as a southern woman daughters, marriage would soon follow gradua she cherishes "refinement in marmers and con tion, making this tour a treat meant to last a life versation."^5 time. One of Franklin's leading citizens. Dr. John By the late antebelliim period in Tennessee, S. Park, escorted three graduates of the Franklin female education took on a more symbolic role Female Institute, his daughter Fanny, Maggie than in previous decades. Amid the national Maney and Alice McEwen on such a tour. backdrop of intense sectionalism, congressional Leaving Tennessee in September and returning in tirades over the admittance of new states and ter November of 1859, the group missed few of the ritories, and the zealous crusades of Horace largest cities in the United States and Canada. Mann and his associates for universal public edu Dr. Park's letters home to his wife, Mary Ann cation, the privately operated, locally controlled Carden Park, provide vivid accounts and cri and mamtame'd female academy expanded its tiques of sites visited. The itinerary of the group influence in Tennessee. Throughout the South, included the Louisville Zoo, Niagara Falls, the the matter qf "cultivating the intellectual universities of Montreal, the statehouse in improvement"I of citizens remained solidly under Boston, shopping in New York City and a recep the domain o'f influential community leaders tion in the nation's capital. Finishing with a who were financially able to support local male swing through Dixie, the girls returned home on and female academies. In addition to the well- the "Lizzie Simmons," a steamboat plying the established Franklin Female Institute and Hines Mississippi River.44 Academy, those added to the roster included The Franklin Female Institute can be viewed Owen Hill Female (ca. 1850), Union Academy as a quintessential southern female academy of (ca. 1850), Forest Hill Female (ca. 1853), Mrs. the 1840s. Drawing students from the, nearby Karr's School (ca. 1854), Henderson Masonic gentry and professional classes and extending its Female (ca. 1854), Nolensville Female Academy 18 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

(ca. 1857) and College Grove Female Academy rural population of southern Williamson County (ca. 1858). Owen Hill Female,located in the coun at a relatively low cost. Lucy Henderson never tryside between the crossroads communities of attended the school named in honor of her father, Bethesda and College Grove, was associated with but was sent instead to the more prestigious the Methodist Church. Miss Juliet Sherman, Franklin Female Institute from which she was assisted by Troy Seminary graduate Miss A. V. graduated.49 Maydole and Mrs. M. Cordes of New York, oper Not all yoimg girls in Williamson County, ated Forest Hill Female six miles west of however,received an academy education no mat Franklin, while Miss Karr's school met in the ter the cost.50 A portion of southern society reject "blue house" next to the Baptist Church in ed the ideal of the genteelly educated southern Franklin.46 lady altogether, preferring to replace her with the So important was education in Williamson image of the ideal farmwife. While still a lady, County that an entire town was renamed in its "uniformly kind, courteous and polite," the honor. Until the mid-1800s. College Grove, locat farmwife's schooling was to be practical rather ed near the Rutherford County line, was known than ornamental or classical. Southern agricul as Poplar Grove. However, the creation of a post tural society journals of the 1850s, such as office for the community brought to light the Termessee's The Agriculturist, abounded with edi existence of another Poplar Grove in Tennessee torials and articles which criticized a "fashion which made a new name necessary. In 1860, Dr. able" academy education. Novel reading, the Sam Webb presented land for a Methodist studying of languages and dallying with art and Church and a female school on land adjacent to piano playing were "wastes," while education in the turnpike and across from the church. A near a field school or at home were preferable. by male academy had been previously estab Exhibits at county fairs, where jams,jellies, quilts lished by the Cumberland Presbyterians in 1859, and other domestic endeavors were displayed, and the combined attendance of the two schools such as those in Williamson County between reportedly reached as high as three hundred stu 1857 and 1859, celebrated and lauded the efforts dents. Surviving records indicate that the female of the ideal farmwife.si In the opinion of The academy "... imported [teachers] from the north; Agriculturist, the lady farmwife became the music teachers, a German . . . French, and Art female to emulate rather than the more indepen teacher." The small community of Poplar Grove dent,female school teachers or the "belle."52 thus transformed itself into College Grove, Despite this argument for the practical educa Tennessee.47 tion of women, genteel academy education con Henderson Masonic Female Academy, a sub tinued as the mainstay of proper education. But stantial brick edifice built and named in the the curriculum and the arguments for female honor of Dr. Sam Henderson, a "public spirited education as a whole evolved over the decades man," faced the turnpike just opposite his home. until a wholly new concept emerged—young Rural Plains. Trustees hired Reverend and Mrs. southern women deserved a college education. Sterling Brewer as teachers, with Miss Laura Indeed, the South took on a leadership position Hardeman serving as teacher of music. The two- in the United States in establishing female col story brick schoolhouse consisted of "two large leges. This "leap" to women's colleges was not, recitation rooms downstairs, an entrance hall therefore, a startling departure for citizens. way with two cloak closets and a stairway to The curriculum in southern female academies right and a stairway to left." The second floor had undergone gradual changes over the contained a large "auditorium" and smaller decades from a strong emphasis on "adorning" music rooms. According to newspaper accounts, or "finishing" to a solid, thorough, liberal arts tuition ranged from eight to twelve dollars per education. By the 1850s, more and more elite session depending on an individual's entrance female academies, institutes and seminaries level. Music instruction elevated the cost, and the required that students study the classics: refinement, to twenty dollars per session.48 The Latin, mathematics and the sciences. They Henderson Masonic Female Academy served the intended giving young ladies the best possible Williamson County Historical Society Journal 19 education—and equal intellectual opportunity— in order to create the best possible southern lady. Indeed it became difficult to distinguish between the curriculum of male and female academies. The perceived importance of female colleges to southern culture can be illustrated,via the con tents of the 1857 Business Directory for the. City of Nashville and Suburbs which contained six pages boosting Williamson County and its county seat, a "pleasant town of about 2000 inhabitants." The opening paragraphs focused on the town's "objects of chief interest," listing first the Termessee and Alabama Railroad,its newly built depot, and the many turnpikes reaching out to Tennessee Female College—built in 1857 and burned the surroimding wealthy agricultural districts. in 1886 According to the Directory's compilers, the Franklin Female Institute and the Tennessee Female College ranked as the second most second generation of classically educated females important "objects of interest" in the cornmimity included Lucy Henderson, whose mother, Rachel and each received long descriptive paragraphs Hughes Henderson, was herself a graduate of the followed by advertisements. Franklin's position Hines Academy in Franklin.55 as governmental, service and legal centeij for the The 1857 fotmding of the Tennessee Female county made up the rest of the entry.^^ | College, the "ornament of Franklin," came at the In the heartland of Middle Tennessee,!a small height of the county's agricultural prosperity and but select group of yoimg women pursued their the South's desire to maintain its distinct and education beyond the female academy. In cherished way iof life.^^ Local attorney, judge and Williamson Coimty, the daughters of the wealth senator John Marshall iest and most politically active members jof soci foimded the scljiool and ety were aware of the importance of their role— offered eight lots total and if they were not, were carefully led, to that ing approximately four role. Encircled by well-bred female teachers and acres m the heart of girls of like quality in the female college,jparents Franklin to trustees for could be assured that their expectations for the building site. daughters would be met. An article in the local Incorporated in 1856, newspaper succinctly presents the view of the College opjened its Franklin's citizens: ' doors to 126 students in 1857. Large! enough there is, and ever will be, an immutable to house 250 students, alliance between the advancement of the Gothic brick struc FEMALE EDUCATION, and the glory| and ture had a cajstellated Judge John Marshall prosperity of the State. We go a step furjther, roofline, a chapel with and assert, that in the proper education of fluted column^ and student bedrooms on the the women of our country, is to be found the third floor heated with open fireplaces. The surest guranty [sic] for the performance of "highly adorned and beautiful" grounds were our religious and political rights and liber- "ample for recreation."^^ ties.54 i The schooll was imder the patronage of the I Methodist Episcopal Church South. Reverend J. I In addition, college education would seem a log M. Sharpe,"late of Emory and Herrry in Virginia ical progression to mothers who had themselves and an experienced and excellent teacher," been educated in elite female academies. This served as firsi president. Girls as young as ten i 20 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

made up the juvenile and preparatory classes, fourteen." After a lengthy illness which disrupt while older girls, up to age twenty, enrolled at the ed her schooling, the young woman was enrolled college level. Many local girls attended the at the Tennessee Female College, graduating at College. Lucy Henderson, Rachel Cummins, and the age of nineteen. Upon graduation, Mary sisters Leigha and Maud Perkins, upon gradua taught for nine months at an academy on Mill tion from the Franklin Female Institute, contin Creek, in a "a brick building upon the Hillsboro ued their schooling at the College.s^ Pike . . . within a hundred yards ... of the Little Two sessions, each twenty-one weeks in Harpeth", and during this time period became length, comprised the school year. Basic tuition engaged.®5 However, she changed her mind, averaged twenty dollars per session with addi "came home, visited, sewed, read . . . [and] tional charges for room and board, washing and received several offers of marriage." Like other fuel. Families paid extra fees for electives includ genteelly educated young ladies such as Lucy ing $12.50 for ancient language, $25.00 each for Henderson, Maggie Maney and Alice McEwen, piano and guitar and $5.00 each for needlework Mary also traveled during her young woman and drawing. Lucy Henderson's father paid hood. Although not a "grand tour," she and $60.50 for one session in 1859.59 Compared to the friends spent two weeks "drinking sulphur /six to ten dollars charged by Mrs. Long at her water" at a hot sulphur springs resort in / academy in 1832, this illustrates the high cost of Hickman Coimty.®^ a college education and hence its restriction to In an undated journal entry, Mary reflected the elite. As at the Institute, girls attending col on the five months she taught at Union (Female) lege enjoyed each other's company and grew Seminary in Wilson County, Tennessee, assisting with the experience of being away from home Mr. John Hamilton, the man whom she would and in a homosocial einvironment. Of all the later wed."A desire for a change more than the memories that Lucy Henderson could have love of gain induced me to accept his offer."®® recalled from her years at the College, what Mary did not feel herself "called" to teach, but stood out were pranks played and memories of did so out of boredom with life after her recent influential teachers. Her memoirs include collegiate experiences in town. Although deny descriptions of the first floor Chapel—meant to ing "love of gain," Mary's financial circum be a place of reverence—but instead the site of stances following her widowed mother's death schoolgirl fun: "m the Chapel on the first floor played a part in her decision to teach. However, were fluted columns through the center behind her exposure to intellectual freedom, the inde which we small girls sometimes hid from Miss pendence of living away from family and the Antoinette Stirling, our singing teacher, while conviviality of shared female experiences at the eating apples."5° College led to a post-graduation sense of frustra Mary Louise Pearre, whose family resided in tion when back on the farm. Mary poignantly northern Williamson Coimty in the Beechville reflected upon her frustrations: community, was graduated from the Termessee Female College on June 23,1858. In the years fol a woman that thought and reasoned to an lowing her graduation, Mary kept a diary in extent, was unhappy, that they had to feed which she attempted to sort out the daily trivia of too much on men's husk's, the outward life in order to cope with her experiences.®! Its world and that, that they hide within their operdng pages included a "Review of Self" in hearts do not agree, if I had read less and which she summarized her interests, education imagined less and educated my mind from and dreams.®2 For the tirhes, Mary was well-edu the practical instead of the ideal in life, I cated. Before her collegiate experience, she would have been better adapted for the pro attended "four years at school here," followed by saic existence, that appears to be mine.®® "five months to Mr. McMillan at Gallatin." Well- read, Mary wrote that she loved to sit in a nook Mary Pearre's diary opens wide a window with a book, and liked "history, novels, biogra into the daily life of a young, educated Tennessee phies and read the life of Napoleon before I was woman and raises the question of what options. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 21

if any, were available the inscription on Mary's 1858 diploma aptly to the well-bred, col reads: "[given in] testimony of our approbation m lege trained and culti of her correct deportment and of her literary vated, southern lady attainments."^^ The Termessee Female College, in the years prior its board of trustees, principal, teachers and the to the Civil War. Williamson Co|unty community that supported Between the polite it, approved first of its graduate's correct "lady conversations with a like" behavior j and secondly of her undefined constant stream of "literary" achievements. visitors, the reading Throughout the antebellum period, the of biographies and Termessee Feniale College and Frarrklin Female Godey's Lady's Book, Institute, alorig with the other schools in Mary Louise Pearre— and the endless mend Williamson Cormty, served as purveyors of insti c. 1861 (1838-1913) ing and stitching of tutionalized gender roles, as symbols of egalitar- trousseau, readers ianism and as arenas of regional cultural identity. learn of Mary's hunt The students, jas well as the buildings them ing expeditions, of her feelings of being unappre selves, reigned j as prize possessions of the coun ciated by her family, of her keen mind, of her ty. Cirls such as Lucy Henderson, Fanny Park deep interest in politics and her love of outdoor and Mary Pearre briefly sampled the array of activities. It is also possible to glean a sense of her possibilities education offered and were indelibly lighter side as she comments on a guest's "nasal changed by them. Some were more confident and music."^'' independent than others, but all of the young As a southern woman who worked outside of women who jcame together in Williamson the home, Mary Pearre belonged to a minority County's academies, seminaries, institutes and group. For the majority of yormg women, the college xmderstood and honored the dictates of purpose of a college education was to reinforce their society arid lived graciously within its con cultural traditions and improve their matrimoni straints. ' al prospects. For other women graduates, who may have been strongly influenced by teachers who successfully combined independence with ladylike behavior, life post-graduation could 1. Stephen V. Ash, Middle Tennessee prove less than satisfying. Although Mary only Transformed 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper mentions her teachers in passing as "a half dozen South,(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Yankee female assistants," their pedagogical Press, 1988), 31j. techniques left a lasting impression. Within her 2. Donald Mathews, Religion in the Old South, own school, Mary drilled her pupils for their (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 115. examinations, and wrote and directed a play for 3. Franklin (Tennessee) Independent Gazette, 23 the end of year exhibition, calling it "A Southern March, 20 Apjril, 14 November 1822 and 15 Girl at the North.''^® August 1823. If Mary's diary is any indication, the South's 4. Ibid. "cherished way of life" for many young ladies 5. Steven M. Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the could be a life richer than that of the pedestaled, Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters, mythical southern lady, and yet personally frus (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, trating. Miss Pearre's journal clearly demon 1987), 133. I strates the tensions created by "cultivating a taste 6. Ibid., 133. for intellectual improvement." The intellectual 7. Steven kjl. Stowe, "The Not So Cloistered improvement of daughters was highly desirable Academy: Elite Women's Education and Family and served as evidence of the South's general Feeling in the Old South," in The Web of Southern ized refinement and morally correct way of life. Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education, Yet the improved mind could only go so far. As eds. Walter Fraser, Jr., R. Frank Saimders, Jr. and 22 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Jon Wakelyn, (Athens: University of Georgia Papers, Private School File, Williamson Coimty Press, 1985), 90. Historical Society, Franklin, Tennessee. 8. Dr. Barbee, Franklin (Tennessee) Western 25. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Weekly Review, 20 September 1844. 30 April 1841,1 January 1847, and 28 May 1847. 9. Christie Anne Farnham, The Education of the 26. Ralph M. Lyon, "The Early Years of Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Livingston Female Academy," The Alabama Socialization in the Antebellum South (New York: Historical Quarterly 38 (Fall 1975), 192-205. The New York University Press, 1994), 51-60. development of the Franklin Female Institute 10. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, closely parallels that of the Livingston Female 27 July 1832. Academy in Sumter Coimty, Alabama. Also a 11. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Presbyterian venture, Livingston Academy (ca. 3 February 1832. 1838) was a source of local pride with up-to-date 12. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, equipment, a fine building, wide patronage, a I August 1834, 3 February 1832, and 19 October Presbyterian minister as principal and female 1832. faculty imported form the North. 13. Reverend W. R. Thomason, "Annual 27. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Address on Female Education," Pulaski Female Review, 14 July 1848. Academy,June 1836, Tennessee State Library and 28. "Steady Improvements in County School Archives, Nashville, Termessee, 12. System," The Franklin (Tennessee) Review Appeal, 14. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, 17 October 1963, 1-E; and "The Institute," II January 1833 and 11 July 1834. McEwen Family Papers. Adelicia McEwen 15. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly German was quite specific in naming all sub Review, 11 July 1834, Williams S. Monroe, History scribers, managers and northern firms who con of the Pestalozzian Movement in the United States tributed to the Institute. The subscribers consist (Syracuse, New York: Bardeen Publishing, 1907; of a "who's who" of Franklin and one assumes reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1969), passim; these men proceeded to send daughters to the Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The new female school. Her own father, John B. National Experience 1783-1876(New York: Harper McEwen, was appointed a commissioner of the Row Publishers, 1980), 77; and Carl F. Kaestle, Institute by the state. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and 29. Louisa E. Parkes, "Reminiscences of the American Society 1780-1860 (New York: Hill and Old Institute," Williamson County Historical Wang, 1983), 87. Society Journal 9 (Spring 1978), 47. 16. Mathews,Religion in the Old South, 103-115 30. Ibid., 45-47. Louisa Parkes was the daugh passim. ter of Mrs. H. Walker of Pleasant Grove Academy 17. Cremin, American Education, 85, 89 and fame (1832). 140 and Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic, 89. 31. Farnham, The Education of the Southern 18. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Belle, 21-70 passim. 29 June 1838 and 7 July 1839. 32. Sally G. McMillen, Southern Women: Black 19. James Scobey, Franklin College and Its and White in the Old South, (Arlington Heights, Influence (Nashville, Tennessee: McQuiddy Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1992), 81. Printing Co., 1906), xii, 160-171 (first quote on xii, McMillen's research iadicates that elite academy second quote on 171). education in the antebellum period "varied from 20. Emma Page, The Life Work of Mrs. Charlotte $80 to $200 per year, keeping it beyond the reach Fanning (Nashville, Tennessee: McQuiddy of the region's poor." Printing Co., 1907), 48-49. 33. Parkes,"Reminiscences," 49. 21. Scobey, Franklin College, 170. 34. Ibid., 47. 22. Stowe, Intimacy and Power, 137-38. 35. "Steady Improvements," The Review 23. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Appeal, 17 October 1963. 8 August and 5 January 1844. 36. Stowe, Intimacy and Power, 139-42. 24. "The Old Institute," McEwen Family 37. Richard Warwick, coordinator, Tennessee Williamson Gounty Historical Society Jo urnal 23

Stitches: A Catalog to Accompany an Exhibit' of 19th attending school in 1850 was approximately 54 Century Williamson County Samplers (Franklin, percent, but in the south central states this num Tennessee: That's Printing, 1993.) ber dropped to 39 percent and rose only slightly 38. "Steady Improvements," The Review over the next ten years. Maris A. Vinovskis and Appeal, 17 October 1963. Richard M. Bernard,"Beyond Catherine Beecher: 39. Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Daughters of Female Education in the Antebellum Period," Canaan: A Saga of Southern Women (Lexington; Signs:• Journal of i Women in Culture and Society The University Press of Kentucky, 1995), 97. (Summer 1978),j 859 and 864. 40. Mary Pearre, "Diary, 1863-1864," 51. James G. Corgan, "Toward a History of Williamson County Historical Society Journal 25 Scientific Agriculture in Antebellum Williamson (Spring 1994), 22. County," Williamson County Historical Society 41. Stowe,Intimacy and Power, 159. Journal 19 (Spring 1988), 68. 42. McMillen, Southern Women,84. 52. Harlan Hagler, "The Ideal Woman in the 43. Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia Antebellum South: Lady or Farmwife?" The 1740-1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Journal of Southern History 46 (August 1980), 405- Carolina Press, 1982), 255. According to Isaac, the 07 and 416. I tableau served to communicate more than words 53. Reverend John Campbell ed.. The could the "collective conscious of belonging to a Nashville Business Directory for the City- of virtuous community." Nashville and Suburbs (Nashville, Tennessee: 44. John S. Park, "Diarial Letters of Travel Smith, Camp & Co., 1857), 286. Through the United States and Canada from 54. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Sept. 12 to November 10, 1859," Williamson 10 April 1849. County Historical Society Journal 26 (1995), 3-71. 55. "Hines Academy," Williamson County 45. Mary Pearre,"Diary," 33. Historical Society, Private School File, Franklin, 46. Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review, Termessee. 16 February 1853, 9 September 1853, and 6 56. Lula F|ain Major, "Tennessee Female January 1854, and John Jordan, "History of College," Williamson County Historical Society Triune," Williamson County Historical Society Journal 10 (Spring 1979), 66. Journal 17(Spring 1986), 76. 57. Horton Family Papers,"Termessee Female 47. "College Grove School Site Deeded for College 1856-1885," Williamson County Education in 1854," The Franklin (Tennessee) Historical Society, Franklin, Termessee. Review Appeal, 14 November 1978. 58. Kay Beasley, "Female College Prepared 48. Ibid., and Franklin (Tennessee) Western Mind, Body," ilashville Banner, 6 October 1993, Weekly Review, 11 February 1854. and "Catalog,j" Tennessee Female College, 49. "Family History," Lucy Henderson Private School File, Williamson County Horton Family Papers, Williamson County Historical Society, Franklin, Tennessee. Historical Society, Franklin, Tennessee, 137-38. In 59. Receipt in Horton Family Papers. addition to his sponsorship of female education. 60. Horton Family Papers, "Termessee Female Dr. Henderson was also involved in attracting College." The Civil War interrupted Lucy the railroad route through Williamson Coimty to Henderson's education. She continued her studies Franklin, serving as stockholder and director of at the College after the war imder Dr. Hargrove, the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad until it and sometime ajj'ound 1873 was offered the chair of merged with the Louisville and Nashville line. mathematics at her Ahna Mater. 50. In their study of female antebellum educa 61. Patricia Buckler and Kay keeper's investi tion, Maris A. Vinovskis and Richard M. Bernard gation of antebjellum women's journals, diaries report a high rate of female illiteracy in the south- and letters notes the "social vogue" that prompt em states between 1850 and the start of the Civil ed middle and upper class women to imdertake War, observing that one out of every five adult these testimoriies to consciousness. Journal white women remained illiterate. The national authors were "mdividuals who were educated, percentage of white females aged five to nineteen cultivated, and had sufficient extra time to 24 Williamson County Historical Society Journal devote to these and other domestic composi academy, or "public" school. The Williamson tions/' Patricia P. Buckler and C. Kay Leeper,"An County Historical Society believes the school to Antebellum Woman's Scrapbook as have been the first brick building on the Autobiographical Composition," Journal of Hillsboro Pike. American Culture 14 (Spring 1991), 1. 64. Pearre, "Diary," 21-38 (first three quotes 62. Pearre,"Diary," 21. It should be noted that on 21, fourth on 38, last on 21). Mary Pearre's diary entries cover the years 1863- 65. Ibid,. 21. 64, a period outside the date of this article. 66. Ibid., 27. However, her reflections and comments provide 67. Ibid.> 33. valuable insight into the daily life of a young, 68. Ibid., 21 and 35. educated southern woman. 69. Lula Fain Major, "Tennessee Female 63. Mary's diary does not make clear whether College," Williamson County Historical Society this school was a female academy, coeducational Journal 10 (Spring 1979), 68. Williamson County Historical Society Journal

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TENNESSEE FEMALE COLLEGE FRANKLIN,TENNESSEE 1869-1870

Faculty

Rev. R.K. Hargrove, A.M.., President Science and Belles-Lettres Prof. R.F. Bmford, The Latin Languages and Literature Prof. D.J. Heineberg, Music Miss Louise Garland, Drawing, Painting and French Miss Lunnette Johnson, Mathematics and English Branches Miss Mary A. Barker, Music and Latin Miss Bessie Sarmders, English Branches Mrs. R.K. Hargrove, Science and Art of Reading

Pupils Residences Pupils Residences

Andrews, Arietta Franklin Armstong, SaUie Brazoria Co. Tx. Barrington, Minnie Canton, Miss. Baugh, Cicilia M. Fraiaklin Baugh, Fannie F. Franklin Beasley, Laura Triime Beasley, Sallie S. Tritme Boddie, Maria E. Gallatm Bradley, Matt Franklin Brown, Emesfee C. Franklin Bryant, Lena Franklin Campbell, Carrie Frankin Campbell, Lulie Franklin Carter, Olenaj Franklin Carter, Ruth Franklin Cecil, Izora j Moxmt Pleasant Chittum, Mary E. Franklin Cocke, Hortense Fraiddin Cody, Mary Franklin Cody, Sallie ' Fraiaklin Comer, MoUie Bethesda Cox,Imogen I Franklin Critz, Mary C. Thompson's Station Crockett, Sallie A. Triime ' I Cummins, Willie Franklin DeFrance, Arinie H. Lake Provid.,La Dietrich, Emma Fraiaklin Dietrich, Ida j Franklin Doss, Alice Columbia ! Douglass, Mina H. Franklin Drake, Mattie E. Carrollton, Miss. Drake, Mollie C. Carrollton, Miss Drake, Etta Thompson's Station Eddy, Charlotte Franklin Epps, Lucy E. Nashville Fairbanks, Edna P. Franklin Fairbanks, Horatio Franklin Fitzgerald, Fannie Bethesda Fleming, Blanch Williamson Co. Fleming, Molhe A. Williamson Co. 26 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Pupils Residences Pupils Residences

Ford, Sallie E. Lexington, Ky. Ford, M. Ella Lexington, Ky. Frost, Mary L. Brentwood Garland, Carrie M. Univ. of Miss. Garland, Alice Univ. of Miss. Glass, Corinne Williamson Co. Gray, Eugenia Williamson Co. Green, Henrietta Franklin Hardeman, Kate Williamson Co. Hargrove, Alice College Hargrove, Battle College Hargrove, Harris College Hargrove, Kate College Hargrove, M. Carrie Lowndes,Miss Harris, Mollie Centreville, La. Harris, Mattie Centreville,La. Harrison, Matilda A. Williamson, Co. Haynes, W.R. Franklin Haynes, N.J. Franklin Henderson, Lucy Williamson, Co. Henderson, Susie Williamson Co. Hicks, Olah Franklin Horton, Willie Franklin Horton, Annie Franklin House, Matilda Franklin Hughes, Eliza A. Moimt Pleasant Himnicutt, L.Anna Gordo, Ala. Hunter, Sallie W. Nashville Hunter, Roberta Williamson Co. James, Lucy M. Nashville Johnson, Samuella Franklin Jones, Mollie R. Louisville,Ky. Leaghy, Hannora Williamson Co. Long, Mattie Williamson Co. Lotz, Matilda Franklin Marshall, Annie Franklin Marshall, Genevieve Franklin Marshall, Mary Franklin Marshall, Sarah Franklin ' Matlock, Susie B. Olive Branch, M Matthews, Robertana Williamson Co. Maury, Mattie Franklin Mayberry, Nannie Franklin McAlister, Mary J. Williamson Co. McAlpin,Ida Franklin McAlpin, Morgan Franklin McClannahan, Josie Lowndes, Miss McFerrin, Myra P. Nashville McGrew, Olivia Columbia, Texas McLemore, Anna Lou Franklin Moore, Mary E. Newberne, Ala. Morton, Fannie A. Rock Hill Moseley, Addie Franklin Moseley, Nannie Franklin Moseley, Mabel Benton, Miss Moss, Carrie Franklin Moss, Lena Franklin Moss, Adilee Franklin Moulton, Carrie Franklin Moulton, Etta Franklin Neely, Mary Etta Williamson Co Neely, Luella Williamson Co Neely, Lena Williamson Co Nurm, Lizzie Chestnut Bluff Owen, Lizzie Franklin Parrish, Bettie P. Williamson Co Patterson, Fannie R. Austin, Miss Patton, Agnes J. College Grove Park, M.Maria Franklin Parkes, Mary L. Lawrenceburg Parkes, Bettie J. Lawrenceburg Perkins, Leighla Williamson Co Perkins, Maud Williamson Co Perkins, Ellen Shelby Co Pope, Bettie D. Franklin Pugh, Mary J. Franklin Ratcliffe, Mary O. Williamson Co. Riddile, Mary C. Franklin Roberts, Bettie Tritme Rozell, Ella N. Olive Branch,M Rozell, Willie Fraiiklin Russell, Helen Williamsport Scruggs, Florence Williamson Co Sheehan, Mary J. Franklin Sheehan, Alice A. Franklin Sinclair, Maggie Williamson Co Sinclair, Mary E. Franklin Sweeny, Lucy A. Williamson, Co Taylor, Mary W. Franklin Toon, Fannie D. Williamson Co Trigg, Alexina Franklin Truett, Jennie Franklin Truett, Alice Franklin Vinson, Lhlie Nashville Waddems, Lizzie Franklin Wall, Lena Franklin Walters, Dora Williamson Co Webb, R. Virginia College Grove White, lone Williamson Co Winstead, Ida Williamson Co Williamson County Historical Society Journal 27

Curriculum Ethics and Methaphysics Logic (Wha!teley) English Language and Literature Mental Science (Hickok) Spelling (Webster and Worrester) Moral Scierice (Hickok) Reading (National and Shakesperian Evidence of Christianity (Alexander) Readers) Penmanship (Spencer) The Course of Study is adjusted with a view Dictation Exercises in thorough elementary training, to proficiency in Grammar (Smith and Quackenbos) language-the inedirun and instrument of all Greene's Analysis thought-and toj substantial attainments in science. Prose Composiitions (Bormell) Latin and French are in the Regular Course, Rhetoric (Quackenbos) without additional charge. Their adaptation to Composiition Excercises the peculiar mental aptitudes of the sex, the English Literature (Shaw) excellent discipline they give to the analytical and discrimmative faculties, and especially Latin Language and Literature their importaijt relation to our English tongue, Introductory Latin Book (Harkness) of which every cultivated woman should be Grammar (Harkness) mistress demand for them a place in female edu Latin Reader (Harkness) cation. Caesar (Harkness) In the Literary Department there are no Virgil (Frieze) "extra studies'^ ar "extra Prices"- a system at fault Cicero (Anthon) in principle, and tending to supericiality. A French Language and Literature Regular Course must be adjusted to the medium Granunar (Fasquelle) capacity. Hence,every "extra study" is that much Telemaque more than the average mind can accomplish. Corinne Neglect of some one subject, imperfect knowl Racine edge of all, or both, must result. The least evil Mollere likely to follow, is neglect of the "extra study," in which, because both expensive and optional, History and Geography there is least competition, and which, by its very Geography (Cornell) elective character, is declared beforehand to be, if History of United States (Goodrich) not unnecessa:^, at least not so important as oth History of England (Goodrich) ers. In not a few cases discouragement severs the Universal History (Weber) sinews of energy, and defeats the education. Special prominence is given to Reading, an Mathematics elegant accomplishment, for which the Institute Arthmetic (Ray) possesses thai rarest of rarities-a competent Algebra (Davies' Bourdon) teacher. Geometry (Davies' Legendre) The Curriculum must be completed for a Trigonometry (Davis' Legendre) Degree in the College, yet pupils may pursue an Mensuration (Davis' Legendre) eclectic coursel and receive Certificates in Special Departments. Natural Science Natural Philosophy (Quackenbos) Rates (Per Session) Botany(Wood) Chemistry (Youman) Primary Classes $15.00 Physiology (Cutter) Preparatory Cla'sses 20.00 Zoology (Agassiz) Academics Classes 25.00 Astronomy Collegiate Classes 30.00 Geology (Termey) Drawing in Pencil and Crayon 20.00 28 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Painting in Oil or Water Colors 30.00 Music Use of Models in Drawing and Painting 2.00 Instrumental Music 30.00 This Department remains under the direction Use of Instrument 5.00 of Prof. D.J. Heineberg, a gentleman, in his spe Vocal Music, in Class 5.00 cialty with few equals in any country. Incidental Fee 3,00 The instruments are excellent, including sev Board, including lights and Fuel 90.00 eral purchased the present year, and one of Board, Monday to Friday 75.00 Chickering's new magnificent Concert Grande Diploma 5.00 pianos. Very rare facilities are offered. Washing obtained at 75 cts. per dozen, or $2.00 to $2.50 per month. Each boarder must furnish a pair of sheets and pillow Boarding cases, and her towels. The apartments are large, newly plastered Special Terms to itinerant ministers. and painted, neatly carpeted and furnished, and each appropriated to four yoimg ladies. It is Payments believed that every provision has been made for comfort convenience and taste that ought be Bills are due and payable on entering, except desired. by special contract. Yormg ladies study at appointed hours, under When payment is not made on entering, ten the eye of the teacher, and are in pleasant and per cent is added to the above charges, and a note profitable social relation with their instructors. required, which,if paid during the session, is dis The entire domestic economy is intended to counted at the same rate for the unexpired time. refine and educate. A limited number will be Our prices-about fifty per cent less than in some received. popular schools of the same class- make this Excellent boarding may be obtained in pri requirement imperative. vate families convenient to the College. No deduction for temporary absence. Irregular attendance is troublesome to teachers Location, Access and Communicaton and fatal to scholarship. Fees are refunded in cases of protracted or Franklin is in the heart of the great Limestone severe sickness, requiring the permanent with Basin of Termessee, a most healthful, beautiful drawal of the pupil. and boimtiful region; is within one hour of Nashville, by the Nashville and Decatur Drawing and Painting Railroad, with three passenger trams each way daily; and has telegraphic communication in all As an element of education this Department directions. is commended to the attention of patrons. It enlarges the intellect, refines the taste, and Grounds, Buildings, Charter and Equipments quickens the moral sensibilities, at the same time that it unseals the Book of Nature,and introduces The Grounds are extensive and attractive; the us to the cheapest and the richest pleasures. Building is spacious, and admirably adapted to In these elegant Arts, Miss Louise Garland its purpose; The Charter is liberal and ample in will continue to give instruction. Having com its provisions; and all the appointments and pleted her Arts Studies at the Cooper Institute, equipments are fully up with the progress of the under the best instruction the continent affords, age. The Proprietor has renovated and refitted she has eminent qualifications for her position. throughout in handsome style; has introduced Success already achieved is the guarantee of her the most improved appliances for ventilating, for skill. heating, for conducting water to the several sto For another session still increased equipments ries, and for bathing; and has supplied the best are provided. Apparatus and the most tasteful patterns of Williamson Gounty Historical Society Journal

School furniture. In a word, he has not j spared money, as he will not spare labor, to make the Institution eminently worthy of public favor, and a blessing to the country. i

Calendar Fall Session begins Monday, September 5, 1870 Spring Session begins Monday,January 30,1871 Uft Special Remarks

1. The first lessons of every subject coritain its * definitions and basis principles, and hence are .1 indispensable in its study. To advance without these were to read without an alphabet, to fly without wings. The loss of a few days at the opening of a session, always a disadvantage, is sometimes fraught with serious and permanent results. 2. Each yormg lady should have an iimbrella, thick-soled shoes and water-proof overshoes. 3. Wilful or reckless damage to property is charged to the pupil.

R.K. Hargrove, President Bishop Robert K Hargrove 30 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TENNESSEE FEMALE COLLEGE FRANKLIN,TENNESSEE 1885-1886

Board of Advisors that I know of no Female College in the South, furnished with better talent, more practical Hon. Burke Bond, President Teachers, or more pleasant surroundings. I know J.S. Park, M.D. R.G. Buchanan, Esq. Prof. Edgerton has spared neither time nor J.P. Hanner, M.D. C.A. Bailey, Esq. money in securing the best talent in the country Hon. H.P. Fowlkes J.B. Lillie, Esq. affords. Every Teacher had been selected solely J.L. Parkes, Esq E.M. Heam,Esq. with reference to her fitness for the special Prof. H.B. Todd Wm. House, Esq. department to which she has been assigned. I feel C.R. Berry, Esq. Judge J.G. Wallace sure you carmot intrust your daughters to a more Hon. Atha Thomas Judge W.S. McLemore carefully selected corps of Teachers; and no gen John C. Wells, Esq. Rob't J. Jordon, Esq. tlemen and lady will exercise greater care for the Bishop R.K. Hargrove healthful, moral, and intellectual welfare of your daughters than the President and Matron of this Faculty popular insitution. M. Thos. Edgerton, L.L., President Miss M.E. Stradley, of S.C., Mathematics and Latin Respectfully, Mrs. M.A. Maxey, of Va., French and Natural Sciences S.S. Woolwine (To be Supplied), Elocution and Vocalization Miss Jennie Goldamer, German and Fancy Work History of the College (To be Supplied), Art Mrs. Annie M. Chirm, Instrumental Music John Marshall, a distinguished citizen and Miss Florence Bandy, L.I., of N.C., jurist, of Tennessee, was founder of this institu Prepartory Department tion. It was established in 1856, entering at once Mrs. Belle Edgerton, Manager Home Department on a prosperous career. Its work has been unin terrupted, except during the late civil war. At no time in its history has it known such prosperity Nashville, Term, as during the past four years. The present year's June 1st, 1885 demands have required the building of two new music rooms, in order to accomodate the To the Patrons and Friends of the Tennessee increased patronage. Female College of Franklin, Tennessee The College property has been recently pur chased by the President whose practical experi I have had special occasion to investigate the ence in School management began in 1876. character, training, and ability of the Faculty of He will renovate the Building thoroughly The Tennessee Female College of Franklin, from top to bottom, and offer advantages equal, Termessee, and I take great pleasure in saying if not superior, to any institution in the South. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 31

The College Building I Libre ry and Reading Room

This is a magnificent three story brick edifice, A Library of useful and entertaining Books, built especially for School purposes; commodi- for reading and reference will be accessible to the ously and admirably arranged. The chapel will yoimg ladies arid Teachers of the College. be refurnished with improved single seats, and In cormectidn with the Library, there will be a fitted up m the most tasteful and comfortable Reading Rooml supplied with the best periodi manner. The boarders,rooms are large and newly cals of the day, consisting of Quarterlies, furnished, and the college is well supplied with Monthlies, Teacher's Journal, and Newspapers. musical instruments, spacious studios,(the latter Selections will be made with reference to correct with folding doors between, rendering them con information, arid judicious mental and moral cul venient for separate classes). The Building is sur ture. rounded by beautiful groimds, ample and suit able for recreation. System of Instruction

Location Our Course of Study will be arranged and sufficiently extlensive. Instruction is designed to Franklin, situated in the heart of the Great be systematic and thought. The constant aim of Central Basin, of Termessee, possesses many the Faculty |will be to secure accurate advantages as a center of education. The remark Scholarship, arid a high standard of attainments. able purity and healthfulness as its atmosphere,its The object of pursuing a course of study is not accessibility and the beauty of the surrounding only to acquire lorowledge, but also to train and scenery, render the location peculiarly eligible for develop the infellectual powers,so that the mind a seat of learning. It is eighteen miles south of may become capable of correct, disciminating Nashville, on the Louisville, Nashville & Great and vigorous thought. Southern Railroad; has telegraphic and telephoruc connection with points North and South. Its prox Lectures-Monthly imity to Nashville gives it all the advantages of the city, combined with the healthfulness and freedom Realizing the great advantage derived by of the country. Youth, to be fitted for the exigences yoimg ladies firom lectures on important topics, of life, should have physical development as well concerning which they are especially interested, as mental culture. Parents, North and South, real we have arranged to secure some of the most dis izing for their daughters. Persons residing in the tinguished Lecturers and Educators of the coim- malarial districts of the South, will find nowhere a try, who will 'attend the excercises held in the country and College more perfectly adapted to 'Chapel at the jclose of each month and address this end. In a career of twenty-nine years, with an the Students on some practical and interesting average patronage of 150 pupils,not a single death subject. The students of the Music and Elocution has occurred among the boarders. Classes will aid in making these exercises even more enjoyable, and they will followed by social Apparatus intercourse between the pupils and visiting friends. j Of the College consists of excellent Phillosphical and Chemical Apparatus, Scientific Leligious Privileges Charts, Maps, Globes, Cabinet of Minerals, which will afford material aid in the lectures and experi While the College has no sectarian features, ments illustrating the Natural Sciences. either in its management or purposes, (its Board We shall keep pace with the progress of of Advisors, Faculty and Officers, comprising Education, by adding to om present apparatus members of several leading denominations), still such other appliances as the future may develop in pupils will tie expected to attend regularly the further illustration and teaching of the sciences. Simday School and Divine worship at some 32 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Church. The Churches of the various denomina For Winter-Black Cashmere. tions are within convenient distance and parents For Summer-White Lawn, are urged to give specific directions to the The Uniform will be worn only when the pupils President, on entering their daughters, as to the appear in public. Church they wish them to attend. When no For Ordinary Wear, plain, neat clothing is prefernce is expressed, boarders will accompany amply sufficient. Parents are advised not to the President and his family. In harmony with indulge their daughters in expensive articles of these views and regulations, every effort will be dress, for their co-operation is necessary to pre made to instill into the hearts of all, the elevating vent extravagance. and wholesome principles of our common Christianity. Special Requirements

Domestic Department 1. Pupils are required to be pimctual at every meal. This Department will be under the immediate 2. No one will be excused for absence from control of the President's wife, who is experi meals except in case of sickness. Perfect enced in the management of young ladies, and neatness is required at each meal. who will give them her entire time and attention. 3. No Student will be permitted to purchase All the sanitary arrangements of the building any articles on credit without the written are so made as to promote the health and comfort consent of her parents. of the pupils. The table will be constantly supplied 4. Pupils are not allowed to receive calls on the with the best quality of wholesome food, well Sabbath, especially from gentlemen. cooked, and in abundance. Every attention neces 5. Pupils are not permitted to have any corre sary to the welfare of the school will be given. spondents except those whom the parents When boarders enter the College they will be specify. received as members of our own farnily, and 6. Boarders are not allowed to spend the night guarded with parental care from all evil influences. out of the college, unless with their parents con Hours of study, rest and recreation will be sent. arranged with reference to their physical as well 7. Visiting the music rooms without permission as intellectual development. A portion of each is not allowed, nor can any conversation be car day will be set apart for invigorating outdoor ried on in these rooms. exercise. When well, their health will be guarded 8. At the ringing of the bell after supper, every with constant care, and in sickness they will pupil must repair to the Chapel, receive the most kindness and attention. promptly, for prayers, after which study hours will begin under the same rules as in School Calisthenics hours. 9. At 9:30 o'clock P.M. the young ladies may In addition to the facilities afforded on the prepare for bed, and at 10 the house must be beautiful grounds for outdoor exerise, a suitable quiet. course in Calisthenics offers every advantage for 10. No young lady is allowed to leave the regular and healthful excerise in doors. This grounds without express permission, or to department, which is now considered so impor appear on the streets unless accompanied by a tant an auxiliary in female education, is under the teacher. direction of an accomplished and judicious lady. 11. Pupils will not be permitted to receive visi tors during the School and study hours, nor the Uniform visits of young gentlemen at any time, except at the discretion of the President. Young gentlemen, To prevent extravagance, unpleasant distinc coming from the homes of pupils, will not be tions, and needless attention to dress, a uniform received unless they bring letters of introduction will be adopted: to the President from parent or guardian. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 33

12. The boarding pupils must furnish toweils, nap Fancy Work,which whl be made a special feature of kins,one pair of piUow cases, and one pair of sheets. the College, and conversational classes in French 13. Every article of Clothing must be marked, and German wiU be organized from time to time, and each young lady will furnish herself with a who together wdth the Teacher will sit at. one table pair of overshoes and an umbrella. where all conversation wiU be carried on during the Boarding pupils are required to pay ^tuition meals in one or the other of these languages. and one-half of board, in advance, the other at the middle of the term. Course of Study and Text Books

Deduction will be made only to those enter I ing two weeks after the opening of the session or Will for the! present remain the same as has on account of protracted illness. existed in the college for several years, but will be Regular attendance and tmceasing efforts are changed and improved as educational progress the only things by which any pupil can hope to demand. The English Language, and the correct be promoted from one class to another. use thereof, jwill receive special attention Patrons will deposit with the President, or throughtout the entire course. furnish their daughters a sum of money sufficient to pay for books, stationery and sheet music. Faculty Meetings

Music Will be held at least once a week and a report of each pupil's standing in her respective Classes The department of Instrumental Music, fur will be furnished by the Teachers. In addition to nished with excellent instruments, is imder the which, inquiries will be made as to the health, direction of an accomplished Pianist, who wil be habits, dress, language, moral and religious ten well sustained by an able and efficient corps of dencies of the daily life of each pupil. assistants. The success of the Teachers of this At the close| of each month these reports will department has been such as to justify us in rec be collected and placed on the records of the col ommending it to the patronage of the public. The lege, and when!desired, the report will be sent to Course of Study will be systematically arranged, parents or guardians. Those pupils who are doing ranked with the best Colleges in the land. well, will be er^couraged to keep on, while those Recitals will be given at the Monthly Lectures who may haved failed to acquire a satisfactory in which pupils of all grades will be called upon standing, wih jbe kindly adinonished to exert to take part. extra effort to raise their standing. Diplomas will be awarded to those who com plete the course of Study. Examinations, Marks and Medals

Vocalization From occasional written and oral reviews and the Monthly Reports, the standing of each pupil This department will receive special atten will be ascertained, as there will be no set exami tion, it being our aim to afford the best facilities nations or nurherical scale of grading to tempt for cultivating the voice. pupils to dishonesty or induce them to tempo Two kinds of instruction will be given-Special rary over-exertion, by a "cramming process," but Vocal Lessons and Free Lessons in Singing to the systematic work, honest development of the entire School. mind, storing |up useful knowledge (without undue emulation for grades and medals), as Modern Languages shown in the class work, will determine the progress or promotion of every pupil. WiU be taught with a view of enabling the learn er to speak them fluently and for the advancement Elocution of this object a lady of superior talent and a native of Germany has been secured to teach German and Since the ability to read with propriety and 34 Williamson County Historical Society Journal good taste is one of the most desirable attain her familiar with all kinds of commerical transac ments, special attention will be given to tions, legal papers, from an ordinary receipt to a Elocution. In order to accomplish this most desir most complicated set of Bills of Exchange. able end, there has been secured for this depart The time required to complete this Course will ment, a lady of experience and ability who will be about four or six months,according to previous teach, Delsarte's popular system of Gestures, preparation, though with other studies it will con which are noted for their beauty and naturalness. sume a Scholastic year. In addition to Elocution, she will teach Vocal This Department will be exclusively imder the Culture and Singing. This lady comes from on of care of the President of the college, and his business the southern States with the highest endorse experience and training guarantees complete suc ments. We commend her to the public. cess in this new department of Female Education. Scholarship, time unlimited, $25. Drawing and Painting Business Arthmetic, Commerical Correspon dence, Business Customs, Practice in Business The Department of Art, which has been in the Forms, Commerical Law will constiitute the highest degree satisfactory, will be kept up to its course. This Department will be conducted on present high standard. A lady of patience, enthu the plan of the best Business Colleges of the land. siasm and experience, who has succeeded emi Every transaction will be actual; titles, in the way nently in the various branches of this subject, will of Bills of Sale and Deeds, will convey all proper have charge, and we confidently recommend her ty invloved in every transaction, and everything to those desiring such instruction. The course of throughout the Course will be done by the pupil, instruction will be graded so as to cover four by which means, it is evident, she carmot fail to years, at the completion of which a diploma will become as familiar with business as any boy be given. The object of this School is to make each could in an expensive Business College. pupil an independent student of nature and art. Expenses (Per Session of Twenty Weeks) Teachers' Duties Primary and Preparatory Department The duties of the Teachers do not end with the $10.00 and $15.00 close of the School each day, but the general wel Collegiate Department 20.00 and 25.00 fare of the College must ever be an object of Board including lights, fuel and servants 75.00 attention by each member of the Faculty. Instrumental Music 25.00 The Teachers will be required to superintend Vocalization 25.00 the pupils one week in succession; conduct their Art Department, either oil or china painting 25.00 study hours, watch over their health, habits, etc.; Art Department Drawing. 15.00 accompany them in their daily exercises, also to French and German 10.00 Church and Simday School. Those expecting Graduating Fee 10.00 their salaries should be willing to lend their entire influence to the College, and those not There is no charge to any one for incidental fees, Latin willing to do so are not desired. and Vocal Music twice a week, free-hand Drawing, Penmanship or Calisthenics. Ladies Business College Tuition for day pupils payable monthly in advance.

Realizing the great importance of the present Calendar generation of young ladies being trained thor oughly in every Department of Business, we have Fall session opens Tuesday, September 1st, decided to open a department in the Tennessee 1885; closes January 15th, 1886, and without Female College, independent of the regular intermission except legal hoHdays the Spring course,in which any lady of any age can enter and session will open, and close with the acquire that business knowledge requisite to make Commencement Excerises on June 23rd, 1886. From this photograph of the celebration of Miss Alice Charlton's Diary the ninetieth birthday of Dr. Joseph Murfreesboro Female Insitute

Charlton of LeVergne, Rutherford Coimty I in 1917 (next page), many Williamson connec Saturday Nov. 6fli 1876 tions can be drawn. Dr. Charlton's yoimgest This being my first attempt in writing daughter, Leura married Henry Himter Davis of diaries, I hardly know how to commence. But as Leiper's Fork in 1891 and became the mother of our teachers have requested it, of us, I will try J.O., Allene, Elise, and Earle. Soon after their although it be 'ever so difficult. I arose early this marriage, they built a new house on the Davis morning & having atttired my self for the day I farm in the village of Hillsboro. Leura graduated thought I woujld spend a few moments in writ from the Murfreesboro Female Institute under ing my diary. I have done a little of many things Professor James E. Scobey in 1882. today. Have read a little, written & talked a Professor Scobey is pictured on the second great deal. I received a letter from home today row, with his famous white beard and striped tie, of which I was very proud; for there is not any seated next to Alice Charlton. After teaching in thing, that affords me more pleasure than to Murfreesboro and Hopkinsville, Professor hear from horne. I think the girls are all quite Scobey came to Frariklin and Hillsboro. The busy to day preparing for the concert to night. I Scobeys made their home on Adams Street in hope they will have a good one, as Prof Scobey will be here. The bell is ringing for supper and I Franklin. Other Williamson County connections must go. I include on the second row, first seat; Mrs. Foimt Hulme nee Cleo Charlton; on the third row; November 6 th,1876 (l)Mrs. Lucy Prowell Shaw, (2)Mrs. Jennie This is quite a tedious business to me as I Atwater Sparkman, (4)Elise Davis, (5) Earle have never written many. It is quite a gloomy Davis, and (6)Allene Davis; on the top row at the looking day arid it has been raining some. I have end; Clint O. Shaw and Ernest Sparkman. not missed but one word to day in any of my Dr. Charlton's second daughter, Alice studied lessons. I hope I will have as good lessons all the under Professor Scobey at the Murfreesboro week. Female Institute and her diary, presented here, provides insight into the daily routine of a post- November 7th, 1876 Civil War girl's school. Alice's diary was made I see that I have made several errors in my available by Sarah Davis Cummings, who first attempt. But I hope by dilgent studying I received it from her aunt. Miss Allene Davis, a will be competent to write one without a single beloved Hillsboro and Franklm teacher. , error. It keeps me quite busy to day to have all

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,* Dr. Charlton's ninetieth birthday party February 25,1917 my lessons perfect; Mrs. Cauthorn gave me three the bells commence ringing, they would only be lessons to recite to her this afternoon, and I have ringing for the political news. not time to study them. It is now twelve o'clock and the bell is ringing for diimer. Mr. Scobey has gone to town, and we November 9th, 1876 are all anxious for him to come back, so that we This has been a very beautiful day (except) can know who is elected. I am afraid it will be another wind has been blowing very cold. I have Hayes. It is very cold today and I am afraid we had very good lessons to day. I have to recite a are going to have some very bad weather. I did lesson after school this evening, as Mrs Cauthorn not know some of my lessons as well this morn had some very important business to attend to. I ing as I usually do, as I had so much to do I did received a letter to day containing some very not have the time to study them. interesting news. I was excused from taking exer- rcise and I was very glad for it was so cold. I Nov. 10th, 1876 expect there will be quite a stir in town to night It does not seem like there has been any when the news of the election arrives. Miss Lizzie school to day, as Prof Scobey is not here. It is so came in and told us not to think it was fire when much easier, when he is here. Some of the girls Williamson Caunty Historical Society Journal 37

home yesterday and it contained some very bad news. I expect you will get tired correcting this.

Nov 13th, 1876 \ I**? Two weeks of the second month has passed and we are now;entering upon the first day of the third week. I do not expect I will have good lessons to day, as my lessons are generally worse on Monday than any other day. Mr. Scobey is not here this morning but I do not expect it will be Alice and Leura long ere he wiU be here, I hope it will not any Charlton way. I wonder |if he will let the girls go to the torch-light procession to night. I do not care are glad he is gone, but I had rather he would about going myself. I would much rather stay at stay for he explains every thing so well to us. I home and study my lessons. have recited my lessons very well to day. We do not have to take exercise this evening and I am Nov. 14th 1876 \ very glad of it for I do not feel atall like walking. We arose quite early this morning and had our room all in order when the prayer bell ring. It is Nov nth 1876 the first time we have had to go down to prayers, When I awoke this morning the srin was since last Friday morning and we thought we shirming brightly in at my window and there would be ready in time. It is raining this evening was not a spark of fire to been seen, and ajs I had and I do not think Miss Lizzie ought to make us to remain in bed till the fire was made] I was take excerise, but I know she will. I wrote home to thinking to my self that we would be too late for day and I hope to receive an anwser in a few days. prayers forgetting Mr. Scobey was not here and I have not heard from then in so long. I hardly being so used to going down to the (Ihapel. know what to write in my dairy this week as there Tonight is the night for the concert. I expect it has not been any news hardly and I do not expect will be a failure as Prof is not here. They are to it will be very interesting. have a torch-light procession in town to night, but I don't expect any of us will go. I do wish I Nov. 15th 1876 ; could write a good diary but it seems like I can When I arose this morning I saw it was going not. It will soon be time for supper so I will bid to be a very bad day. It has been raming a little you adieu. and is still cloudy. To day is Wednesday half of the week. It seems but a very short time before Sunday, Nov. 12th 1876 this month will'close, and Christmas will soon be Time passes away so fast m a few hours it will here. It does not seem like we have been here one be Monday again. I wonder if we will have good month and it is nearly four since school com lessons for tomorrow. If we do I think Prof menced. I think I have improved so much and I Scobey ought to compliment us. We had om con hope I will getja better report this month than I cert last night and had a very good one' better had last. I know if any one will try they can learn than I expected. Miss Lizzie Geoghagen criticized here. I have had very bad lessons to day, worse our concert for us. She said it was the first time than usual. Butjl have had such little time to pre she had ever been called on to speak in public pare them in. I do not think I have missed any in and she felt a little embarassed but thanked us my arithmetic yet. I do hope I will get a hrmdred very much for the compliment. Major Cauthorn in it, for Pa likes it better than any of my studies. came last night, just after our concert. Th^re has been a great tumult in town to night, tlie bells Nov 16th 1876 have been ringing and they have been screaming I do not knOjW what to write to day as nothing and keeping a great noise. I received a letter from of any importance has occurred since yesterday. I 38 Williamson County Historical Society Journal have had my lessons very well today. We had a Nov 21th 1876 minister to take supper with us to night. He This is a much prettier day than it was yester preached at the Christian church to night. I expect day. I can hardly write in my diary today as there he will preach every night this week. I would like is nothing of any importance has occurred since very much to hear him but I have to prepare my yesterday. Prof. Scobey told us to describe an ele lessons for tomorrow. I have written this very phant. I think it would be quite difficult for any badly,but my pen is so bad I can hardly write at all. one to give a full description of one not being accustomed to seeing them very often. It is so Nov 17th 1876 pleasant this evening I expect Miss Lizzie will To day is the last day of the week, and it is a make us walk. But I will be excused, as I have to very gloomy looking day. It has been raining be excused, as I have to take a music lesson, and most all the time. I received a letter from home to will not get through in time. day and Pa told me he would be here to see me tomorrow, if it were pretty weather, but I do not Nov 22th 1876 think he will come. We had a very good spelling We were up quite early this morning as Prof. lesson this evening. One of the broaders went Scobey had to carry his Uncle and Aunt to the home this evening and we miss her very much, depot. I was very glad,for I had time to study my for she is so lively. She left before school was over lessons a good while. I had a perfect Physiology and missed reciting some of her lessons. I know lesson this morning and I hope all of my lessons she must have been sorry to go, as it will take five will be good every day. I have not missed a word off of her report. in dictionary this month. I wish I could say the same for all my other studies. Nov 18th It is now Saturday morning and the weather Nov 23th 1876 is not any better. If there is any change at all I When I went down to the study hall this believe it is getting colder. We have had very morning all of the pupils were there and Prof. pretty weather imtil the last two ir three days, Cox was preparing to call the roll. I was afraid I and I expect this will be the commencement of a was tardy. I did not know my lessons as well to cold winter. day as I usually do. I failed to work an example It rained so much Miss Lizzie did not go up in in my mental arithmetic this morning, the first town to day. I think a gobd many of the girls were one I have missed this month. I did regret miss very much disappointed. We are to have our con ing that one example more than all of my other cert to night and Prof. Scobey has invited some studies combined for I love mental arithmetic company to attend. Butlit is such a gloomy night better than any of my studies. I do not think they will attend. But I hope we will have a good one. Nov 24th 1876 This is the last day of the month and is also Nov 20th 1876 the day our reports will be issued. I await for my It was quite late when the breakfast bell rung report with "bright" hopes whether it be a good this morning, and the school bell rung before we one or a bad one yet I trust it will be good, for I were through eating. I have had good lessons all do not like to send home a bad report. I know I day, and I hope I will continue to have good ones do not study as hard as I should at times yet I do during all of the week. I have to take a music les strive to do as my teachers direct me and have son in a few minutes and I expect it will be a very my lessons passable. bad lesson. I have not studied it as I should have done. There will be preaching at the Christian Nov 25th 1876 church to night, I expect the teachers will go. The It is now Saturday morning and we have to preacher and several other gentlemen dined with have a general arrangement of our rooms. It us yesterday. We had a very nice dinner which I keeps us busy all day. To night is the night for our liked very much as I was himgry. concert, and I expect there will be company here. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 39

Anna Nelson came this morning and will remain Pa will be pleased with it for I do not like to dis with us rmtil tomorrow evening. I received a let please him in any thing. He seemed very anxious ter from home to day and I was delighted to hear for me to have a good report but I did not excel from there. It is looking a little like raining this the other girls as a great many of my friends afternoon. I do hope it will be a pretty day tomor wanted me to try to do. But I will strive to do my row so that we can go to church. best.

Nov 26th 1876 Nov 29th 1876 This has been quite a pretty day. We all went I will not have a long diary to day as it is to church this morning and heard a very good Wednesday and a very busy day with me. We sermon. Prof. Scobey told us he was going to take have to recite jour primer lesson to day but I us to the Methodist church to night. I hope I will think I will have a very good lesson as I have have good lessons tomorrow as it is the first day had very good ones all day. Mrs. Cauthorn said of the month. Mr. Nelson came after Anna this I had a very good music lesson this morning evening. She was not very anxious to go home and she know I had been practicing much better and I was sorry to see her go home,for she is very than usual. We| are to have holiday tomorrow as good company. I expected to see Pa at church to it is Thanksgiving day. I had rather they would day but was disappointed. I suppose he thought teach. it was too cold. It will not be long before it will be time for us to go to church,I know it will be very Nov 30th 1876 cold when we come out of the church house. This is the {great national Thanksgivng day. And Prof. Scobey is going to take us to the Nov 27th 1876 Presbyterian church. But I think it is too cold to I feel quite jovial to day as I have had good go any where. It is now evening and dinner is lessons. Better than I have had on Monday since over. Captain Beard and lady dined with us, and I have been. here. We will get our reports this we had quite a merry time. We had a very nice afternoon. I do hope I will have a good one. But I dinner. He told us we were not to have any thing need not expect a good report unless I have stud more to eat until tomorrow evening. I think we ied my lessons well and obeyed the rules of would be quite himgry by then. Three of the girls school. Sometimes I fancy I study very hard and went to church and have just returned. They stat have some very good lessons. But I know if I ed that they heard a very good sermon. Mrs. could be energetic like a great many girls I would Cauthom went to Nashville to day. I expect she always have my lessons perfect and would never will have a very nice time as she has so many old fancy them so I know not what are the opinions friends there. Ijercy seemed delighted at the idea of my teachers, but I hope they are not bad. For if of going to see his Papa as many other children there is any thing I do appreciate, it is the good would be. The girls all assembled in Carrie Deans will and confidence of my teacher. And I know room to night and had quite a lively time. They there is only one way of obtaining their love and seemed to enjoy it hugely. But 1 do not expect it that is by obedience. will be quite so gay tomorrow when we go to recite our lessons. I expect Prof. Scobey & Prof. Nov 28th 1876 Cox will become disgusted with us and will not Being at leisure for a short while I will devote want to give us another holiday. a few moments in writing. There has not any thing of any importance occurred since yesterday December 1st 1876 and it is quite tedious for me to write ariy thing The last day of another week has come again. that is interesting. But I will try though it may be I had very good lessons to day considering yes ever so hard. I have gotten my report. Prof. terday was holiday. A great many of the pupils Scobey distributed them yesterday afternoon. I were absent toj day, it being such a gloomy day. was surprised when I saw it was so good. But Mary Nelson received a letter from her Pa to there is great room for improvement yet. I hope day, and he tolld her to come home tomorrow. But 40 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

it is only three weeks until Christmas and I think mind or soul lives. How wonderful this sepera- if I were to have my choice I would much rather tion of the soul and body is. It seems as if they wait imtil then, and I would not be absent from could not by seperated. It does not seem possible any of my recitations. It seems to me I have not that the body,after decaying in the groimd can be been here a month, and it will soon be four since raised. But God says m his word that it shall be. I came. I think I have improved a great deal since And he is showing us every day by his works I have been here. that it is not hard for him to do.

December 2nd 1876 December 6th 1876 The day is almost past and I have accom The art of making ones self happy plished but little. I have been reading a little There are various ways of making our selves which made time pass quite pleasantly. I have happy. We should be kind, obliging and content been reading about the lives of several great men. ed. If we are kind we will be loved by all. How Washington's life, for instance, of his adventures much easier it is to speak a kind word than a through war and various other things that are not harsh one. How often is the spirit bowed down worth relating. There is not a book more interest beneath the burden of sorrow and iniquity, which ing to me than history. I received a letter from was caused by some unkind word or act. BCind home to day and was very glad to receive it, for I words,like kind deeds, are always appreciated. It had not heard from there in several days. We are depends upon the nature of a person, as to his to have only two meals to day. I do not.expect it pleasure. If a person be reckless and wild he will will be long before the bell will ring, for it is two never be happy and where. If they by gentle and o'clock. I expect you will think this a poor diary kind they will be contended with all things. but I will try to do better on my next as I do not feel well to day. December 7th 1876 Beauty December 4th 1876 Beauty is but seldom seen. Now I am going to After having completed my lessons I thought speak of human beings; not of inamimate objects. I would read awhile and try to improve a little As I have said it is seldom seen. There are some out of school, as well, as during school. We had a few persons that are said to be beauties, but very interesting Latin reader lesson to day. It told which by a minute examination are found want us of Ceres, the Goddess of corn. Also of a per ing in something to complete their beauty. Their son, who discovered wine and various other eyes are too large or too small, their nose too things. There is nothing more interesting to me crooked, or too straight, and various, other than history. I could never tire reading of real defects, that are too tedious for me to have men interesting history. It tells us of so many different tion. I have often heard girls remark, that they things. Yet I can not say it is the best book. For the had much rather prossess beauty than riches. Bible is the best of boks and it is also interesting. Beauty is as the person does. If a person is pretty, It teaches us the knowledge of right and wrong. and behaves nicely, and has nice manners, she My diary looks quite soiled on this page but will be pretty to all, if not she will only be the some of the girls accidentally sat down on it. reverse. But we should remember that beauty will not carry us through the world and wish for December 5th 1876 something more valuable. Such as ambition and Death in Man and Animals. intellect not beauty alone. All die at some time; and like the leaves and flowers they become a part of the earth again. December 8th 1876 The earth is the mother of all living things, and It is now three o'clock, and it will only be a yet most of it is the dead remains of things that few minutes before the bell will ring to dismiss were once living. There is one difference between school. I have had very good lessons all day. I do the death of animals and that of man. When the know Prof. Scobey has more patience than any animal dies his mind dies. But when man dies his one, or he would get angry with me often, for I Williamson County Historical Society Joiirnal 41

do some times have very bad lessons. I do i hope I for he knew the British would soon be upon him. can go on in my practical arithmetic for I think, Washington was a brave man and stood among when I have to keep going back in my classes, I many dangerous battles. think my teachers will not think I am studying. But I know I can learn, as well, as any of them, if December 12th 1876 I try. And I think I will enter upon a new resolu This is the second day of the week, one of the tion and that is I will try to do better. days in which I have best lessons. I had a very That is a noble resolution, and if persistently good Physiology lesson this morning and it was followed will lead me on to a glorious success. so interesting. It told us of the tissues of animals- they differ much in different animals. The struc December 9th 1876 ture of the heart, lungs and liver may be well Last night was quite a stormy night.; And I studied by using minute pieces of lower animals. was surprised when I arose this morning and A complete knowledge of all minute structures is foimd the weather so different. It is very cold, yet not to be expected at once,for you are here intro the sun is shining quite pretty. I think it quite a duced into a ne^ reahn of Nature, a world of lit cold day for the girls to go up in town but they tle things as vast, as wonderful and as carefully will go. This is our concert night and Prof. Scobey constructed as the starry firmament, that other is going to have company. I hope we will have a realm of grand ojects which the astronomer good concert for I know it would dishearten him nightly sees witih the telescope. were we to make a failure. I do not have aiiything to do my self, but I wish all, who are engaged in December 13th 1876 it, success. If I were in it, I would be of but little It is quite late this morning but I will try to service, but I would try my best, not that I always write a little in my diary before the bell rings. I try in every instance. think I knew my lessons very well for today. I hope I will haAj-e good lessons aU this month. I December 10th 1876 have to take a music lesson to day, and I know it Another Sunday has come upon us and we will be a good ojne. MQss Lizzie Geohagen went to are once more permitted to attend the rhorning Mr. Collier's yesterday afternoon and spent the services. We went to church this morning with night with them. I dislike very much to see next but one of the teachers with us. Miss Lizzie C. week come, for it is my week to clean up and I Geohagen was sick and we went with Prof. know it will keep me busy until school time and Scobey. Mr. Yoimg preached for us. He preached I will not have time to study at all. The bell is a very good sermon, but not as good as \ye gen ringing now and I will have to quite writing. erally hear. We are going to have Sundayj school down m the parlor. I know we will have but little December 14th 1^876 time for mischief then. It keeps us quite busy Days have glided into weeks, and weeks into from Friday until Monday arranging for our con months so swiftly. I can scarely realize that three certs and for chiurch. 1 months have flown, and we are now entering upon the fourth. In a few more days Christmas December 11th 1876 will be here, and then we will spend but a few Washington's Retreat more days, before the armoimcement of new I will give you a brief description of year. We enter upon the new year with hopes,but Washington's retreat at Trenton. His arrny was alas; we are left to battle with the trails of anoth discouraged by the defeat on Long Islknd. A er year. But we will not think of this now,but will greater part of his men were sick, and he was strive to do our best at the present. unable to repel the British from attacking the city. They came and took possession of it and retained December 15th 1876 it until the end of war. They took Fort Washinton Neccessity of an Education and it was the heaviest blow the patriots had yet We all Imow that we need an education, and received. Washington did not remain at Trenton why is it we do not strive harder to obtain one; Is 42 Williamson County Historical Society Journal it because our teachers do not try to make us food than others. The term food includes all learn; or is it beacuse they are unkind to us? No, those substances whether liquid or solid which it is because we do not try to leam. Frequently, are necessary for the nourishment of the body. when our teachers correct us, we get angry and do not try to leam, or if they assign us a lesson December 20th 1876 and we think it is too long for us, we become Nice Manners wrathy and say we will not try to learn it, and we There is not any thing more attractive in a lady do not care if we do miss it. this is very wrong, or gentleman than nice manners at home as well and we should strive to overcome it. And we as abroad. There are but very few polite persons, should remember while we are idling away our some pretend to be polite, but there is something time our parents toiling every day in order to lacking. Politeness depends a great deal on the educate us. This is an age of improvement. way your parents have taught you while you are young. If they teach you to be nice while you are December 16th 1876 small, you will be apt to continue it through life. I It is Saturday morning again. I do hope some have always had a desire to be kind polite and one will come from home to day. It seems an age neat. Some say they can judge a parent by the since I was at home. Though the time has passed child. That is by its manners and behavior. But I quite pleasantly since I have been here. I know of do not think they can for I am sure they cannot but little to write as it is not a shcool day, and I judge me by my parents. For I have been told that have seen but little. Prof. Cox told me to give the in neatness and kindness. Mamma could not be history of a pin. But I fear it would be quite diffi excelled. But I know nothing that I do could equal cult, although it is very useful, for if we did not her. I remember but very little about her as I was have pins we would not have any way of fasten quite small when she was taken from us. And I ing our garments. I have made quite a blot on this Imow I am not neat by any means, but 1 have diary and it looks quite bad. But it was an acci never had any one to teach me but Papa and a dent. man can not teach a child like a woman, that is to be neat and have mice manners. December 18th 1876 The trials of another Monday will soon com Dec. 21st 1876 mence. I say this because I generally have worse This is a beautiful day, and very near the last lessons than any other day. I have concluded 1 day before our reports will be given us. One of will try to have good lessons all the week, as the girls this morning and two or three others there is only one week before our reports will be will go in the morning. I know it will be quite issued again. I wonder if my report will surpass lonely here for awhile. But we will not have long any others: I know it will not. Miss Lizzie to stay away. They are making out our reports to Geohagen is not very 'well this morning. But I day, in time for us to receive them tomorrow know she will be able to teach, for she never is afternoon. I hope mine will be a good one. Prof. absent a day. Cox said I would get a very good report in Latin of which I am very proud. I like Latin much bet December 19th 1876 ter than I thought I would when I commenced it. My first recitation this morning was physiol ogy. And I think I had a very good lesson. It was Dec. 22nd 1876 a very interesting lesson. It gave us a few inci This is the last day. dents of our food and drink. When the system is This is the last day of the week and I enter deprived of its food during a longer time than upon it with a happy thought as I am going home usual, nature gives warning by a sensation of to night. It has been some time since I was at hunger to repair the losses that have taken place. home and I am overjoyed at the idea of going. The quantity of food required varies greatly Not that I am tired of staying here. For I am sure according to the individual and his mode of liv I could not be better pleased elsewhere. Mr. & ing. Those who lead active lives require more Mrs. Scobey are as kind and good to me as I Williamson County Historical Society Journal 43

could wish them, to be. But still I must go home Dec 27th 1876 for there is no place like home. Katie Trevathan is Wednesday morning finds me again seated in going home tonight also. I do not expect she will my accustomed place in the school room. I feel come back any more. Hope she will. quite lazy about studying after resting so long. It was quite late when I arrived here last night and Dec. 23rd 1876 upon entering my room I found the girls prepar I arrived safely at home last night at nine ing for a party I felt quite cold and tired, and I o'clock and found Papa and sister there to wel hesitated for some time about going down when come me. And I can assure you they met with a some of the girls said they wanted aU of us to go hearty welcome. It was qrdte a pretty night, but I down. And I know I never wanted to get out of a do not think it will remain pretty long, for it is a room as bad as I did that one. For the gentlemen little cloudy this morning. I do hope we will have were all strangers to me and I had but few words some preety weather while I am at home for I to say. I enjoyed listerung to the others talk and anticipate a pleasant time while here. Pa is quite the girls comp'any who were not talking to the busy to day and will have but little time to be men. I caughti every ones Christmas gifts, but with us. I have seen a great many of my friends Prof. Scobey's. I did not think I could get the girls. to day. And Cousin Bella Mason will be with me tonight. I will have but a short while to stay at Dec. 28th 1876 home but will enjoy it while here. And will return The weather is so disagreeable we have but to the Institute with the intention of studying, few scholars to day. I will be very glad when aU whether I succeed or not. the girls return. We feel quite lonely to night as there is only two of us in a room. I will be glad At Home Dec. 25th 1876 when my roonunates return. It will be only a few Only two more days will elapse before I will more weeks before the examination. I dread for it return to the Institute. Time passes away so fast, it to come. For I jam afraid I will not stand a good does not seem to me I have been here a day, and examination. But I hope it will soon be the com it will soon be time for me to return again. I am mencement of the neat fifth month and I have not having a delightful time. I am invited to a dining been absent from school or from the chapel only to be given at Mr. Batey's to day. But as the weath when I went fiome once. I do hope I will be as er is so disagreeable, I do not think I shall attend. prmctual next five months. There has been several weddings in our little i town since I came, but I have never attended any Dec. 29th 1876| of them. I had much rather spend my Christmas I do not suppose we will have school to day at home. But I intend going to a conversation as it is such a bad day. I have just returned from party to night if the weather will admit my going. taking a music lesson. I had a very good lesson Mrs. Cauthorri said. She gave me a new piece to Dec 26th 1876 leam, I think it very pretty. I am real anxious to Only a few more hours pass before the shrill take another lesson. The girls went to a Simday whislte of the locomotive will warn me of my school party. I did not want to go as I have a return to the Institute. I dislike very much to leave severe cold. I hope they will have a nice visit. I home,though I love the school dearly. But my duty thought Miss Mary Davis was going to have to bids me return. I have had a pleasant visit home stay at home. But fortimately the omnibus came and I hope it has been so to aU whom I have asso back after her.| I staid in Miss Lizzie Geohagen's ciated with. I do not suppose I will come home room and had i quite a pleasant time. again before Jime as it takes so many off my report. I would love to see them aU often. But Destiny has Dec. 30th 1876 wiUed it otherwise. I know Prof. Scobey wiU do aU It is now Saturday morning and I feel quite in his power to make those who remain with him dull and sick. My cold seems to get worse instead happy, and I think it is my duty to return to school of better. This [ morning Miss Lizzie was to have to day and be ready for tomorrow. her party for the little girls. But I think they will 44 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

be disappointed for the weather is so bad. I do culation. The importance of the blood as essential not think I ever saw as much snow in my life as to life was recognized in the earliest writings. In there is now. They have been sleigh riding all day. the narration of the death of the murdered Abel, it The girls said they enjoyed themselves very is written that the voice of his blood crieth from much at the party last night and were exceeding the ground. In the Mosaic law proclaimed over ly sorry they could not remain longer. thirty centuries ago, the Israelites were forbidden to eat food that contained blood, for the reason Jan.lst 1877 that the life of the flesh is in the blood. It is still snowing. I do not think we will have school again today. I will try and write a little in Jan. 5th, 1877 my diary. But hark; the bell us ringing now;. I Character of Napoleon Bonaparte wonder if they will teach to day. I am again in the We may now pause before that splendid school room. Prof. Cox said we could spend the prodigy, which towered amongst us like some day in reviewing as we have not any thing else to ancient ruin, whose frown terrified the glance its day. I am real anxious for school to commence magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy and again. It does not seem like it will ever be pretty peculiar he sat upon the trone a sceptired hermit; weather again. wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. He was thrown into life in the midst of the revolu Jan. 2nd, 1877 tion that quickened every energy of a people who School did not commence until quite late to acknowledge no superior, he commenced his day. I do not suppose they will teach all day. We course, a stranger by birth,and a scholar by char have a very good school to day several of the ity; With no friend but his sword, and no fortune girls have returned. Mary Nelson and Leura but his talents, he rushed in the list where rank, Kittrell came this morning. I expect several of the and wealth and genius had arrayed themselves girls will come tomorrow. It does not seem to me and competition fled from him as from the glance we have had a week, it has been such a gloomy of destiny. He worshiped no God but ambition, disagreeable weather. but with devotion he knelt at the shrine of his I think this is quite a bad diary. But I know of idoltry. A professed Catholic he imprisoned the but little to write about. pope; a pretended patriot, he improverished the country; and in the name of Brutus he grasped Jan. 3rd. 1877 without remorse; and more without shame the To day is Prof. Scobey's birthday. I suppose he diadem of the Caesars. will have a great deal of company. And I hope he will have a pleasant time. For he is so good and Jan. 6th, 1877 kind to us we could not think otherwise, than to Saturday morning. I was awakened from a wish him a pleasant day. A great many of the sweet slumber this morning by the tolling of the girls are here today. I wonder why they can not rising bell in the distant hall. It was quite cold and come every day, for I am sure to day is not any I disliked very much to rise. But I did not want to warmer than any other day. be absent from the chapel, for I have not been Dr. came this morning to work on Prof, teeth. absent since I have been here. Pa told me to obey But I suppose he thought he would wait until all the rules of school, and I want to obey him. I tomorrow. We had a very nice diner to day. do not suppose we will go to church tomorrow as Dismissed school at twelve o'clock. Miss Lizzie it is such bad weather. I have been quite busy to Geohagen sent for her little girls in the sleigh. I day sewing. I think I have accomplished more to know they will enjoy it. day than any Saturday since I have been here.

Jan 4th 1877 Jan.-8th, 1877 It was quite late this morning when the school Dear Diary bell rung. Our first recitation was Physiology, and I will attempt to narrate you a few incidents of it was a very interesting lesson. It was about cir Vanderbilt's death and burial. No doubt you have Williamson County Historical Society Journal 45 read of it but it is so impressed on my mind ;can not Thursday Jan. 11th 1877 resist telling you, although you may have become A Poets Siirnmary of the Circulation weary of reading it. He is said to have occupied an apartment on the second floor. Two windows The smooth soft air with pulse like waves opened to the south to give the room an abimdance Flows murmuring through its hidden caves. of light. This room was furnished very nicely and Whose streafns of brightning purple rush comfortably. He felt that his strength was failing Fired with a new and livelier blush; I ' him and he said to Dr. Linsly, "I think I am nearly While all their burden of decay gone.Doctor." It was but a short time before his rel The ebbing current steals away. atives were gathered about his bed to catch the last And,red with Nature's flame, they start words of the dying man. Some one proposed From the warm foiintains of the heart. singing at which the Commodore assented. They i commenced singing one of his favorite hymns, he No rest that hobbmg slave may ask. began to brighten up and made several attempts to Forever quivering o'ver his task. join them. He was in full possession of his faculties While far and wide a crimson jet and calmy bade his children arid grandchildren Leaps forth to fill the woven net; good-by. He talked to his pastor of the Christian Which in imnumbered crossing tides. faith and said I shall never cease to trust ia Jesus. The flood of burning life divides; He made various other remarks, but I fear I will Then, kindling each decaying part weary your patience and will conclude. Creeps back to find the throbbing heart.

Jan. 9th 1877 Friday Jan, 12th\1877 I have been busily engaged this morning m As it will be some time before the dinner bell reading Andrew Campbell's visit to the Irish. He will ring I will write a few lines. My lessons have was a good man and had a great desire for others been tolerably good to day. While we were recit to be good. He had visited the Irish and they were ing our latin lesson this afternoon. Prof. Cox do kind to him, he wanted to reward them for it. received a tele^am stating that his mother was But he could not decide m what way he could do dead. He seeined very much distressed. I felt it. He at last concluded he woiild visit them again very sorry for him for there is not anything half that he might become better acquainted with their so dear as a mojher. When a mother is taken all is ways. He spoke to his mother about it and she gone. I never knew what a mother's love was as consented for him to go. They were quite a rude I was quite yoimg when she was taken from us. set of people. The men were idle and lived in But I value a rriother's love a fortrme. Prof. Cox huts.They were of the Catholic religion. Mr. will go down on the train tonight. Prof. Scobey Campbell had an aunt who had married an will have to stay in the hall. I expect he will think Irishman and it grieved him very much to see her us quite a rudel set of girls. bow at the shrine of idolatry. He conversed with several of his relatives about religion and suc Saturday Jan. 13th 1877 ceeded in directing many of them to the reading The Brain j of that great and good book, the Bible. And from Our brains are seventy year clock. The Angel that book they learned their wrongs. of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and givesi the key to the Angel of the resur Jan. 10th 1877 rection. Tictoc;Titoc; go the wheel of thought; our It is clear this morning but I do not think it will cannot stop them they cannot stop them will remain so long. A great many of the scholars selves; sleep cannot stop them; madness only are here to day. I hope it will only be a few days makes them fo faster; death alone can break into before all will return. I hardly know what to the case, and swinging the everlasting pendu write in my diary to day. I have written so many. lum, which we call the heart; silence at last the I have had very good lessons to day. I hope I will clicking of the terrible escapement we have car stand a good examination but fear I will not. ried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. Our 46 Williamson County Historical Society Journal brains are enclosed in a cavity in the skull and are proper care of her own person and clothing surrounded by a complete box of bone. demands much of her time. Miss Edgworth says a girl should not spend her few umemployed Jan. 28th 1877 moments in idleness, but she should have some It has been several days since I have written nice needle work on hand. any in my diary and I hardly know how to com mence. I have been quite negligent for some time Jan 31st, 1877 but I hope I will obercome all such habits. I have Wednesday morning again and we are still in not been feeling very well, as I have been suffer the school room. I feel quite lively today as I have ing a great deal with tooth-ache. I will be real heard from home and have had very good glad when we get to reciting our lessons regular lessons. Miss Lizzie gave us a lecture on neatness ly. I did not go to church to day. I wanted to go and I have just been reading about it, so I think I but Mrs. Scobey told me not to go. I hope you had better try to be neater. This is the beginning will excuse me this time and I will try to do bet of the second term, and I am still toiling day after ter here after. day, deligently seeking an education. I am going to strive to learn more this five months than I did Jan. 29th 1877 last. I hope I will commence well and end well. This is Monday morning. We will soon enter Papa said he was very well pleased with my upon our weeks' assignments and I am very progress last term, but I want him to be better glad, for I am tired of idling about. The school pleased. And it is my sincere wish that I amy bell is ringing. I hope I will have good lessons please him. I am sure if I do not improve it will this week. There is not any thing that I love bet not be the fault of my teachers. ter than to have good lessons. Yet I must say I do not always have them well. I know it is very Thursday Feb. 1st, 1877 unpleasant to our teachers to hear such bad The art of reading well is quite an accom lessons as we sometimes have. plishment to any one I think, yet there are but few good readers. It not only improves your Jan. 30th, 1877 reading to read a great deal, but it is improving in Having read a very interesting subject on the every way. If you wish to improve in your read improvement of time and thinking it very essen ing selecting some good books such as histories. tial that I should remember it, I will write you a Every educated person is acquainted with the brief diary. Selecting it as my subject, I must great poets who have adorned and enriched the admit I can not give you a very good account of literature of England. We should become inti my time. I could say a great-deal of my time, is mately acquainted with Milton and Shakespeare, spent in idleness, yet each year, I try to improve, Cowper, Campbell, and many other. Johnson's and perhaps by diligent application I may some Lives of the Poets is a celebrated work, and one day become a smart, intelligent woman. How worth of an attentive perusal. precious is the moment of time yet there are but few who can realize its worth. A year appears a Feb. 2nd, 1877 very long while to the young, but as they This is the last day of the week and it seems become older this proportion becomes less and almost impossible for me to think of any thing to less, till in old age, a year seems no longer than a write in my diary. It is such a gloomy day. Prof. month. I have often heard girls say, and I my self Cox promised to take us to the mill and several say I have so much to do to-day I can't make that other places; but it is raining so that we can not dress and it is all my own fault. It is time some go. I have not had very good lessons this week times a person will have more to do than at oth but they have been arranging the classes so often ers, yet a great deal of my time is spent in doing I could not get interested in my lessons. I do not things that do not profit me or any one else. hurt myself much any time but I hope I will have Much of a woman's time is necessarily con good lessons every day this term. I think I shall sumed by the everyday business of life. The try to have them. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 47

Feb. 5th, 1877 \ Feb. nth 1877 This is quite a pretty day. It seems very much Rules of Behavior like Spring. I recite my first Philosphy lesson this 1 have chosen a subject which 1 do not expect morning. 1 think it quite an interesting study. 1 1 am competent to give a history of. Yet there are hope 1 will have a good lesson in it. It will only be some things 1 c^ tell in regard to good behavior one week before our reports will be issued. I do and also to bad. There is not any thing more not expect we will have very good ones. It seems attractive in a lady than nice marmers. When you to me 1 can not study since Christmas but 1 am see a young lady go to church and sit up and doing better. laugh and talk j during the whole time of service, you may know what her conduct is else where, Feb. 6th, 1877 also of a young gentlemen spitting amber all the Tuesday morning and 1 am again in the school floor. room. 1 have had very good lessons this morning, much better than yesterday. 1 received a letter Feb. 12th 1877 \ from home yesterday, and 1 can assure it afforded This is a I'pvely day. It seems almost like me a great deal of pleasure. 1 would like to go Spring. It will not be long before Spring. The home for a while, but 1 will not go until Jrme as it people are preparing their ground for another causes me to have such a bad report. 1 think it crop,1 hope ealih one will have splendid success. best for me to stay. 1 have had every good lessons today, have missed only one word. 1 had a very interesting Feb. 7th, 1877 latin lesson. We are in fables. 1 have found in one chapter of my Philosophy 1 am lonely to night, a remarkable balloon ascensions. The first ascen Sighing for home. sion was made in October 1783 by De Rosier. His balloon was filled with heated air and was con Feb. 18th 1877 fined by a rope so that he rose to a height of about "I Can" \ a hrmdred feet. He last made another ascension "I can" has done many wonderful things. It in the following year. They started from Bois de has climbed jmountains tops. When people Boulogne and in twenty-five minutes desended resolve to do a thing and find it difficult, they in Paris. In a subsequent ascent De Rosier lost his should always'say 1 can do it and will not give up life by his balloons catching on fire. by using it opponent "1 can't". "1 can was the companion of all great men. It was constantly Feb. 8th 1877 whispering in the ears of the great Napoleon. Conduct to Teachers We should be kind and obey our teachers in all March 1st 1877\ things. A scrupulous attention to politeness is not Several days have elapsed since 1 have had to only useful to prevent hurting the feelings of oth write a diary. And as 1 have a new book, 1 will ers, but it is the best shield to your own delicacy. commence to clay, my first diary in it. It is quite difficult for me to write one, as 1 can neither write Feb 9th, 1877 nor compose \yell. Yet 1 trust in a few years,1 will Special Education be so accomplished in both that 1 may be able to True education in its highest sense is, as we complete eachjone with accuracy. 1 have had very have again and again remarked, the thorough continue as well through this month. 1 dislike and happy development of the whole nature. It is very much to recite bad lessons; yet 1 frequently not the mere acquistions of knowledge of accom do. 1 was scolcied a little in the class to day which plishments of manners- it is not the cultivation of wounded my feelings very much; yet 1 know my the intellect or of the heart, but it is the blending teacher was o^y trying to teach me; and 1 feel of all these means for the attainment of one grand proud to think he is so deeply interested in me,as end- and end to be arrived at by silent and almost to make me le W.1 would love to be perfect in all perceptible degrees. things, but it is impossible 1 know. 48 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

March 2nd, 1877 little good to be obtained by "secret telling." You Saturday the second of March is a lovely day. will see one girl talking to another and she will be The girls are as busy as bees, arranging their telling her a secret and making her vow she will rooms and practicing for the concert. Mr. Deans not tell any one, when in a few moments she will left us for school this morning. I know Carrie and be telling some one else. Such a girl will not be Mettie will feel quite lonely after he is gone. They capable of keeping a secret or of telling the truth. received a great many nice presents from home. It will soon be night and we are expecting some March 6th, 1877 company to be at our concert to night. I hope we Days have gladed into weeks and weeks into will have a good one. I have had a great deal of months until two months of the Spring term has sewmg to do. I think i shall write a letter home passed, and it is very near the close of the ten this evening if Miss Lizzie gets my paper for me. month. I can hardly realize that I have been here six months. There are only three more months to March 3rd, 1877 elapse before I will go home. I am sorry the time We have just returned from church. Mr. is so near at hand,for I must admit time has been Denton preached for us, but I can not say it was passed quite pleasantly since I have been here. I a good sermon, as I was so sick I could not listen think I have improved a great deal since I have to it. I suppose it was very good. I seldom ever go been here. Yet there is great deal of improvement to church without hearing a part of the sermon,if yet to be made. I missed my first word in spelling not all. I had a very good Sunday school lesson to last Monday. I did not really miss spelling the day; but my teacher was not there. The preacher word but did not understand how it was spelt. I came home with Prof. Scobey and dined with us. did dislike very much to let it pass me. I could As it is the day for rest I will not thmk it is right have wept over it if tears would have helped the for any one to write on the Sabbath. cause.

March 5th 1877 March 8th 1877 It seems to me I will never get time to study The art of making ones self happy. my lessons this morning; every thing seems to The essentials of happiness are generally prevent. Yet I hope I will have all of them perfect more easy of acquiisition than many suppose. notwithstanding the trouble I have of studying Our happiness is in a great measure in our own them. This is quite a pretty day. I would love to hands. It is just as easy to cultivate a good dispo be at home today. But as I am very well pleased, sition as a bad one. And here I will give you a I will not go home before June. It is very near rule for promoting self happiness, which has ever time for the noon recess. I do hope I will get a let proved infallible. It is this: Do unto others as you ter from home to day. I have not heard from them would have them to do unto you. Contentment is in a week or.two. I have had very good lessons to by almost every one, considered the great source day but did not get to take my music lessons. of pure happiness. If we once learn the art of Miss Cauthom went to Nashville Friday and has making ourselves contented we will be thor not returned. oughly acquainted with the art of making our selves happy. March 6th, 1877 Friendship March 9th, 1877 The instability of girlish friendship has How wonderful are the works of nature. become a by word in society of young persons. When I ponder upon the subject for a while every There are however few young persons of intima thing seems a perfect mystery to me. How many cy, which deserve the sacred name. Beauty and changes will take place in a moment of time. We the accomplishments of a yoimg companion know not to day what tomorrow may bring forth. often cause another many pains by selecting her It has been snowing to day and is very cold, but as their confidential friend. None but the upright we know not what a change may be made ere the in heart are capable of being true friends. There is dawn of tomorrow. Prof. Scobey is not here to Williamson County Historical Society Journal 49 day, and I am very sorry, for he explains every Miss FannieI Davis and two other yormg ladies thing so well. They are expecting Prof. Lipscomb were here to day but did not remain long. I came here to night and I hope he will come, for I am very near missmg one example in my Mental anxious to see him,as I have heard him spoken of arithmetic to day, the first one I have missed. But so often. One of my roommates is going home Prof. Cox gave sometime for me think on it and I, this evening, her Pa came after her. I hope she at last, succeecled in working it. I think he was will have a pleasant visit. j very kind to me and am proud I succeeded.

I I March 9th, 1877 ^ March 14th, 1877 Saturday morning has come again. And I do As I have ibeen writiag a great deal this not think I ever spent a more rmpleas^t day evening I thought, perhaps, it would be very com since I have been here. For my room has been mendable, if I jwould devote a few moments to crowded with girls all day. I have accomplished writing my diajy. I have written a letter home to but little m the way of work. To night is the night day, and I hope to receive an answer to it in a few for our concert. Miss Vick Dryfen and Miss Fox days. I have been quite busy today, as most of my will be here. I hope we will have a good one, but lessons have been very difficult for me to leam. I I fear it will be a complete failure. They expect to do not think I eyer studied harder m my life, than take tea with us. I am sorry Prof. Scobey is not I have studied during the past two weeks. I hope I here. As we have just returned from the concert I wiU improve a ^eat deal this five months. will try and write a little. We had a very good concert so they said Miss Vick complimented us March 15th, 1877 very much and said she enjoyed it very much. I really do jnot know what to write in my Prof. Scobey criticised for us. | diary today, as jittle of importance occurred since I yesterday. They formed a new class today in March 12th, 1877 ! Botany. I would love to study it if I could but I do One day of the past present week is i almost not know whether they can arrange it so that I passed. I have had very good lessons to day. Prof. can . I would love to have ,as many studies, as I Scobey has not returned yet. I hope he will come can have time to study. It is quite a pretty day; the home tomorrow. I received a letter froih home Sim has been seining very prettily all day and it today, which contained some very bad riews. A is quite pleasant. I do love pretty weather, for cousin of mine was accidentally poisoned by the then, we do ndt stay in the house all the time. Doctor giving him some medicine in which some one had accidentally turned over a paper of the March 16th, 187^ poison that was lying near. It did not kill him,but I have enjoyed every lesson that I have recit he is frantic. I expect it would have been much ed today; for e^ch one has been interesting to me. better for him if it had killed him. For he \yill suf Philosphy, wl^ch was my first recition was fer so much pain and perhaps may never recover. uncommonly interesting. The balloon, was the I know it will grieve his parents to give him up subject of our lesson, and Prof. Scobey was quite for he was a favorite with all. ; jovial and explained it so well. I think it quite an i interesting study. It will be only a few moments March 13th, 1877 \ before school is dismissed for two holidays, that This has been quite a pretty day. And I have is from the scljiool room, but not from work. I had very good lessons to day. Prof. Scobeiy came think I had very near, as soon be in the school home this morning, and we were all very!glad to room, as in our| rooms. Nannie Batey went home see him; he has been gone four or five idays. I this afternoon and Nannie Smith intented to go hope he will not leave us often as we iiave to but was disappjointed. recite a good many of our lessons to hirn. Prof. Cox is very kind to us but he has so much to March 17th, 187\7 attend to I know he becomes weary of listening This is quite a pretty day and we are all very to us. I busy as we are to have our concert to night and 50 Williamson County Historical Society Journal we also are to have company. Prof. Lipscomb report while I am here. We had a very interesting came last night. He has been expected to come Philosphy lesson this morning, and Prof. Scobey for some time. I have been assisting Mrs. Scobey spent a great deal of the time in explaining it to some this morning. She made some very pretty us. I am afraid Prof. Scobey will think before curtains,I am very uneasy for fear I will catch the many days,I do not try to learn my lessons; espe disease that most of the other girls are having cially Algebra. and will be absent from school and have another bad. I know you will think I have written my Wednesday March 22nd, 1877 diaries very badly, but, the girls keep so much This morning I awoke some time before the noise and jar the table so, I cannot write. rising bell rung and as I did not know all of my lessons, I attired my self, and went down into the March 18th, 1877 hall to study. I was there several minutes before We have been to church today and heard a the prayer bell rang. It seems to me I have had splendid sermon. Prof. Scobey's text was the more difficult lessons this week, than I have had fourth verse of fifth chapter of Romans. I though, in a great while. I was sure I would not succeed perhaps, I would get a letter from home today; in working my Mental Arthemetic examples but but I did not. I am very lonesome this afternoon i did very well. It is time for me to receive a letter as everything is quiet, so I have been reading. My from home. I hope I will get one today. diary for today will be very short as I do not like to write very much. Thursday March 23rd 1877 It is quite a difficult task for me to write a Monday March 19th, 1877 diary, and, especially one that would be interest I feel very happy today, as I have had perfect ing to anyone. I will commence by saying, I have lessons all day. But I fear my happiness will be had very good lessons today. I also received a let turned into sorrow, ere tomorrow is passed. This ter from home containing some very pleasant evening we shall receive our reports, and I am news. Papa said he thought perhaps he would sorry to say,I will have a bad one. But I have been come up to see me Saturday. I have been quite absent once or twice. I hope I will get a good busy this afternoon as I have had very difficult report this month. I got one hrmdred in several of lessons to learn. It seems to me,I will never find my studies. Prof. Scobey did not cormt one word time to take pains with my writing as I should we missed in Dictionary, yet I am afraid he does do. not think we really deserve a perfect. I want what I deserve and no more, and want my teachers to Friday March 23rd, 1877 give what they think is right. I am sure they We were very much surprised this morning to always do the best they can . I notice on the pro learn that Prof. Scobey had gone to Nashville. We ceeding pages a great many mistakes which I am were not aware of his departure until we were very sorry to see. I do not like to see so many cor assembled in the dining room. I was amused at rections made on one page. I hope my next will my desk mate this morning when two new be better. pupils came in. I think they were teased by our laughing, but we were not making light of them Tuesday March 20th, 1877 by any means.I am sorry Prof. Scobey is gone,for I feel quite sad today to think this is the com he intended to explain our Philosphy to us this mencement of another month and I have missed morning. two examples in Algebra for my next report. I am very sorry, for I dislike to send a bad report Saturday March 24th, 1877 home. I have always had a great desire to become Perhaps I had better write a few lines in my an accomplishment, and intelligent woman,but I diary while I am at leisure. I went down into Mrs. fear destiny has willed it otherwise. I sometimes Scobey's room a few minutes since and asked her believe I would not be smart it I were to study all for some nails to fasten our carpet down with. of the time I have. I hope I will get one good Blanche Miller's brother came to see her this Williamson County Historical Society Journal 51

morning; she was very much surprised to see have a splendid music teacher. We went walking him. It made her feel very homesick after he left. this evening, and was very tired when we 1 do not know whether we will have our concert returned. 1 like to walk when we do not go so far. to night, as Prof. Scobey is not here; but perhaps Prof. Cox will be here and 1 am sure he will be Wednesday March 28th, 1877 welcomed with much pleasure as Prof, is not 1 have studied a great deal this morning as 1 here. Florence Smith came this afternoon and will awoke sometime before the rising bell rimg. 1 remain rmtil tomorrow. was amused alJ one of my roommates, when she awoke and say 1 was dressed, she thought the Sunday March 25th, 1877 j rising bell had rimg, and it was time for the It has been raining almost all day. We|did not prayer bell to ring. 1 do not think 1 ever saw her have to go to church today and it seems| to me 1 dress in as great a hurry in my life, she was a lit can not remain in doors all day. We did riot have tle angry becailise we made her get up so early; our concert last night. The serenaders carne a few but we soon made her laugh about it. 1 received a minutes before the retiring bell, and 1 think it was letter from horne to day which 1 was very proud quite a gay serenade. 1 am expecting Papa today; to get. 1 am always glad when 1 hear from them. but it is such disagreeable weather, 1 expect he will decline the idea of coming. 1 hope he will Thursday March 29th, 1877 come, as It has been a great while since 1 have 1 will give you a brief description of a yoimg seen him. Cora Prewit and Forest are exp|ecting a lady, of whorri 1 am very well acquainted with gentleman friend from their neighborhood. 1 and who expects to remain with us only a few know they will enjoy his company, the j girls in days longer. She is a very good girl and is very front of me are moving and shaking the desk, so accommodatinig and kind to all. She is a very low 1 can scarcely write. j and tolerably jfleshy; has dark hair and brown eyes and has fair complexion. She plays splen Monday March 26th, 1877 j didly on the piano. We shall miss her a great deal; Prof. Scobey came home last night and his sis for she has a part in our concert, arid also, in Mrs. ter came with him. It was a very disa^eeable Cauthorn's concert. 1 know she will dislike to night for his return; we were not expecting him. 1 give her up. 1 hope she will return again soon, as have had very good lessons today. Miss Lizzie we think so much of her. Geohagen's Rhetoric class came into the ijiall, and read their paper. It was very interesting; but there Friday March 30th, 1877 were some parts of it 1 did not like 1 think they This is the last school day of this week. 1 have deserve a great deal of credit for their paper. But had good lessons today, and 1 can assure you 1 1 think 1 have said enough concerning thie paper, feel quite happy. How much more pleasant it is to to speak of something of more importante. Papa recite good lessons. 1 wish 1 could always have came to see me and 1 enjoyed his visit very much. mine perfect. ! Prof. Cox has been busy all the evening working Katie Trevathan will leave us this afternoon examples for us. 1 know he has a great deal of and will return home. 1 am very sorry she is patience or he would become angry at us. going for we will miss her a great deal. Miss Lizzie Geohegan and Sallie Scobey are going to Tuesday March 27th, 1877 | Nashville torriorrow. 1 hope they may have a It is now noon; half of the day is past and 1 pleasant trip. Miss Lizzie will have to celebrate have been perfect in every recitation but one, and her birthday in the city. worked the example 1 missed, after 1 came from the class. 1 dislike very much to have so many Saturday, March 31st, 1877 imperfects in my Algebra, but it seems to me 1 It was quite late when 1 retired last night, as will fail. 1 hope I will be able ere long, to be per Miss Lizzie in'formed the girls that Prof. Scobey fect in Algebra. Mrs. Cauthom gave me a new would take them to Nashville, to see the balloon piece today, and i think it is very pretty. 1 think 1 ascend, if they wished to go. Two of roommates 52 Williamson County Historical Society Journal decided to accept the offer. I would like very much to see it, but I can|not go. I received an express from home today, and as Prof. Scobey was not here I was compelled, to sign my name to it. I disliked very much to do it. I do not expect the gentl'eman could read it, for I do not think I ever wrote;as badly in my life. I can not write well by all me|ans. I only wish I could write well.

Sund, April 1st, 1877 It has been raining all the morning. We went to church and it rained very hard while we were I there. There was also, a . very large crowd there, notwithstanding the inclumency of the weather. 1 He did not preach a very long sermon and read the fifteenth chapter of j John, and also another chapter, which I do not remember; he did not have any special text, but commented on the chapters I have just mentioned. We came home in the hack. I was very glad|we did not have to walk home, as I do not like to walk in the mud. The girls have been April fooling one another all day. I think it quite funny for them, but I don't care any thing about it my self. Nashville balloon ascension, 1877 Monday, April 2nd, 1877 This is quite a pretty jday. Mary Nelson came an elegant lady. There was also, another lady, and home this morning. She jwas almost to recite her a gentleman there. They were very kind and Philosphy. Mrs. Cauthorh has not come yet. I do polite to us. We visited the tomb of President not expect she will return before tomorrow. Polk. I thought it very pretty and nice. I would Tomorrow is the day for| the balloon ascension. I love to be as intelligent as Mrs. Polk. do not suppose we will go as it is one of the school days. I know it wjould be very improving Thursday, April 5th, 1877 torus, as well as interesting, but I dislike to go to I feel quite sleepy and tired this morning, it Nashville, for it is such a tiresome place. I have was quite late when I retired last night. I fear I had perfect lessons to day. We had a very inter will not have very good lesson today, as I did not esting Philosophy lessonjthis morning. study them very much. But I could not study. All Miss Lizzie Geohegaii gave a surprise supper the girls went to a concert by two; myself and one last night. It was a nice supper. other. And as I was not feeling well, I thought I would remain at home, not knowing that every Tuesday, April 3rd, 1877 one was going but two, until they were ready to We were very much jsurprised this morning go. I did not like the idea of our remaining alone, when Prof. Scobey informed us of his intention to but said nothing about it, but returned to our carry us to the balloon asicension. I was very glad room. Soon Prof. Scobey sent for us and told us to of such an opportimity. IjVe had a delightful trip. go stay in Mrs. Scobey's room while they were When we arrived in the city, we proceeded to gone. We went through my room to put out the take limch. And after reposing ourselves for light and was going into Fannie Harris's room to awhile, we visited the wife of President Polk. I put out their light, when we foimd their dressing enjoyed the visit very much indeed. I think she is beaureau on fire. It did not frighten me very Williamson Gounty Historical Society Journal 53 much, but it frightened my companion very many questions. I was very much pleased with badly. The fire was extingusihed, withoull a very her sermon. Mrs. Scobey was the only one that great excitement. Prof. S. did not scold any one, went to church,We went into Miss Lizzie's room, but I can not say we did not escape! being and staid until dinner was ready. We had a very reproached very severely. She did not scold me a good dinner, and I enjoyed it very much, for I great deal, but the one that was with me. was very himgry. I have been reading a great deal I dislike to have any one scold me. It wound today, and som^ very interesting pieces. ed my feelings very much to be accused, aber my doing the best I knew how to do. But as Mr. and Monday, April 8th, 1877 Mrs. Scobey did not abuse us, we will forget the There is butilittle change in the weather. It has past, and strive to do better in the futirre. if know not been rainirjg today, but it has been cloudy. I it was only excitement that made Miss Lizzie say was confident I would not escape today without as much as she did,for she is very kind ank good, missing most of my lessons, but I have been per all the time. ! fect in every one, I have recited. Miss Lizzie Geohegan Rhetoric class will read their paper in Friday, April 6th, 1877 the hall this afternoon. I hope they will have a It looks very much like rairdng today. It seems good one, for I jthink them very interesting. as if we are not going to have anotheij pretty I went into Miss Lizzie G. room a few Simday I will be very glad when it clears off, and moments smcej and she was busy selecting some stays pretty awhile. I do love pretty weather. I dress patterns for the girls. I got one from her. I have had very good Algebra lesson. I have hoped thought I would finish this page without blotting that I would learn to work any exarhple m it, but in spite of my efforts, I made one. Algebra, and I believe I am beginning to under stand it very weU. I will continue to hope any Tuesday, April I'pth, 1877 way. But our brightiest hopes are often!turned It is quite difficult for me to write an interest into sad realities, yet I do not believe mine IwiU be. ing diary, as we are only allowed the priviledge I went in to see Miss Mary Scobey this after of writing what occurs during the day. And as noon, as she is going to return home tomorrow. but little of irnportance occrus, of course my diary will not b|e very new nor interesting. But as Saturday, April 7th, 1877 j it is my duty to obey all of the rules of school I Yesterday afternoon, I was down in the haU will try to write as good diaries as I can. Prof. Cox writing, when in a few moments it became so dark, says he has had very bad lessons today. I hope I I could not see to write ataU. I went up into my have not been one of the number to miss. I know room, and in a few moments it began to rain very I have had soirie of my lessons good, if not all. I bar. The wind was blowing so hard we could not have written this very badly, but I can not see to close our blinds. Miss Mary Scobey went home this write well as rrty eyes are sore. morning and carried Jimmie Scobey horne with I her. I think she had quite a bad day for heii return. Wednesday, April 11th, 1877 Hattie Layne will have her concert to nightl I hope I have recited tolerably good lessons today. she will have a good one. There are several girls We had a very]interesting Philosphy lesson this begging her to excuse them, but I do not tlunk she morning, and Prof. Scobey explained it so well will let them off. I hope you will excuse this badly that we could riot help from imderstanding it. written page,for my pen is dreadful bad. [ We did not recite any primer lesson today,for Mrs. Cauthom wanted the girls to practice a song Sunday April 8th, 1877 the division we were to recite. This has been quite a gloomy looking day. We Two yoimg ladies from the village of Smyrna did not go to church today, but Missj Lizzie came to the InS|titute this evening to see the girls Geohegan summoned us into her room, ^d we in room No 4. Ijrof. Scobey invited them into hear had a very good sermon. She made us read a his dictionary class recite. I was very glad no one chapter in the Bible, and then asked us a great missed any words. 54 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Thrusday, April 12th, 1877 Someone said Mr. Sewell was going to preach, but Prof. Scobey persuaded the girls to spend the they did not know for certain. I can not write a long night with us last night and they went home this diary as Mrs. Scobey told me not to look long at morning. They seemed |tb enjoy their visit very any anything. I hope you will excuse this writing. much, and said that they i had great inducements to come back. | Monday, April 16th, 1877 Mrs. Cauthorn has selected two very pretty This is the beginning of another month. I choruses and sent for the girls to come and sing entered the school room this morning thinking this evening. We knew the last division and sung that I would miss in every lesson, but I studied till school closed. i : until the bell rung and I can say, I have missed We did not go walking this evening. only one word today. I would have tried to have all perfect if I could possible have done so. Miss Friday April 13th 1877 ; Lizzie told me not to study at all, but I could not This is the last day of the week and also the bear the idea of missing so much.I dislike to have day our reports will be isisued. I hope for a good one in Algebra so soon; but it seems that it can report, but I fear it will be just the opposite. I not be otherwise. I will have to shorten my diary, have been thinking all this month that I would as my eyes are very weak and it might perhaps get one hundred in spelling. But alas; in my last injure them. Please excuse it. recitation, I missed a sirnple word,and my bright hopes were turned into 'sorrow. Some may think Monday, April 30th, 1877 it quite foolish for me to dislike to miss just one Several days have lapsed since I have written word. But if they would only ponder for a few any in my diary. And perhaps you will wonder moments they would s^e that one word a day why I have been so negligent. And as I do not would soon amoimt to ai great-deal in a month. It wish you to think that I am negligent. I will tell dishearten me to get a b|ad report. you that I was excused, as my eyes were very sore. I dislike very much to be excused from any 1 Saturday, April 14th, 187'J recitation. But it seems that it could not be other This is quite a pretty day. I would love to be at wise. I hope that I will not be absent any more. home, but my eyes were so sore yesterday, I On looking over my diary I see I have overlooked thought I had better posjtpone my visit imtil they two pages. I hope you will excuse this. I do not were well. I love to go home,but it always makes think it is improving on my eyes. me have such a bad repjort. I would not go until Jime if I were not compelled to go. But Papa told Tuesday, May 1st, 1877 ine to come as soon as I could, as they wished to This is the day of May, and it is quite a pretty fit my clothes on me. I do not expect I will go day. We were very much surprised yesterday after this time imtil school closes. afternoon, to learn that Prof. Scobey was going to Profs. Scobey and Cox are quite busy making be absent today. He went out near Franklin to out reports. I know they will be glad when they marry a couple. I believe the gentlemen was from are all made out. There'will be preaching at the this city. I have had very good lessons today. But Christian church at honte to night, and tommor- I am almost disheartened this month, as I have row. I do not know who:is going to preach. , been absent several days from sickness. I do not expect to get ninety in any of my studies. Sunday, April 15th, 1877! As I sit near my window this beautiful Wednesday, May 2nd, 1877 Sabbath morn listening to the sweet songs of so This is quite a pretty day. But I do not think it many little birds, I thought it a pleasant opportu will remain so very long. Prof. Scobey returned nity for writing in my diary. The girls have all last night. Just as the bell rang for retiring last gone to church but mysjelf and a few others. My night, we were very much,frightened by loud eyes being sore, I was excused. screams in one of the adjoining rooms, we I loved to go to church on such pretty days. thought perhaps omeone was almost killed, but Williamson County Historical Society Journal 55 on inquirying what could be the cause of such researching for some time, I fotmd a chapter noise, we were informed that two of the girls whose title wak Charity. I read it, and it was so wanted to have some fun and told them that impressed upon my mind. I thought I would there was fire, which frightened them very much. write a few lines of it in my diary. It was compar ing the people! of the present day with those of Thursday, May 3rd, 1877 i the former,in regard to charity. It stated that now, I received a letter from home today, ^nd was the word charity had lost its meaning. Instead of proud to leam that they were all well. Miss Helen the pure offering of the heart owing all value to Spence spent last night with Mrs. Cauthqm. She sentiment, it has become an insult, resorted to by seems to be quite a pleasant yoimg lady. Mr. the rich to remind the poor of their superiority Hahn has been here several days tunmg the and dependence. Charity is the sister of Humility. pianos. I am very glad, for they were needing repair very much. I expect Prof. Scobey thinks it Monday, May 7th, 1877 is useless to have them timed. It is only four This is the day of trials. A day of which Profs. weeks until school is out. How swiftly does time Scobey and Cdx expects very bad lessons. I have pass, it does not seem o me like we haye been not had very good ones myself this morning, but here long, and it will soon be ten months, since I did not prepare them, as I generally do. I our entrance. Time has passed quite pleasantly to received a lettejr from Papa today, and he told me me. I hope it has been so with others. I could go to Chattanooga if I wish, and that he would like very much to accompany us. But sup Friday, May 4th, 1877 posed we did not wish to have any one besides This being the last day of the week, I fear my our boarders. I^e was going up there ere long any diary will not be very interesting. I have been sick way. He seemed to be very glad for me having an most all day, but most of my lessons were perfect. opportunity of going. 1 believe if I had not been absent so much,I would have gotten a better report in Alegbra this month, Tuesday, May 8'th, 1877 than any I have ever had. I was absent hom the It seems almost impossible for me to write a spelling class again this afternoon. diaryj today,j, without commencing it about the I took a music lesson today and Mrs. weather, and as it is such a common mode of Cauthom gave me a new song. I thinkj is very expression, I am afraid I would not be edified by pretty. This is very badly written but I do not feel repeating it so often. The serenaders came last well to day, and will try to do better next time. night. I was asleep when they first commenced playing, but 1 was soon awakened. They behaved Saturday, May 5th, 1877 much nicer than they generally do. Their sere This is quite a calm spring afternoon, such a nades are so frequent, we are not surprised to one as I always like to have. Prof. Scobey and Sallie hear them at any moment. One of my roommates went over to their mother's this morning,j I do not is sick this morrdng. 1hope she will be better soon. know whether she is worse or not. I hope she is better. For what is home without a mother. I have Wednesday, May 9th, 1877 experienced it, and I am sure there is no one like a As this is v\friting divisions,I will try to write a mother. The reading club wiU meet here again little in my diary. It is almost impossible for me to before long, as they had such a nice time, ■jlhe girls write without blotting my book, for the ink is very near out of our bottle, and it makes it too thick. seemed to enjoy it very much. Leura KittreU went I ' home this afternoon and Alice Batey also. Fannie One of the girls in room No. 4 has the measles. Goodrich and several others went to Chattanooga Ido not expect she will be able to go home as she to day.I hope they may have a pleasant visit. was expecting. I have had very good lessons today. It will only be a few days before our Sunday, May 6th, 1877 reports will be issued again, andI am sorry to say This being the Sabbath day,I spent a;part of it that I will get a bad one. It seems to me, I can in reading; as I did not go to churc n. After never have as good lessons, and reports as other 56 Williamson County Historical Society Journal girls. I do not expect I study enough, but I have Monday, May 14th, 1877 been absent a great deal'. This is the beginning of another month. Prof. Scobey gave us our reports this afternoon. Mine Thursday, May 10th, 187j was not good atall, but I have been absent a great We have to sing this afternoon. I hope we will many times. I am afraid my report for this month have to sing tomorrow,for I love to listen to them. will be equally as bad, as I expect to have the I hope I will receive a lettbr from home today,for it measles. Lula Taylor read her paper in the hall has been several days sin'ce I last heard from them. this evening. I was very good. I was beginning to I am afraid I will have the measles before think that they had forgotten me. I will write school closes. I had rather have them at home, home this afternoon and ask about going to but because I think they do not attend to the girls Chattanooga. well enough, for I am sure I never saw any one more attentive than Prof. Scobey and Mrs. Editor's Note: Unfortunately, the diary ends with the Scobey, and they are so kind and good to us. I do May 14th entry. We are left hanging as to Alice's trip not like to give them any trouble. to Chattanooga, her fear of measles or her success in school. The curious fact of Alice only visiting her Friday, May 11th, 1877 ! home once during the ten month school year, even This is the last day of the week, and it is quite though her home in LaVergne was within ten miles difficult for me to write any thing of interest. I from Murfreesboro and near the railroad line to have had very good lessons today considering Nashville, is puzzling. Dr. Charlton's visits were rare that I have not been feeling very well. I hope I and his letters infrequent. Alice mentioned several will not have the measles, but I am afraid I will times the early loss of her mother and the respect she not escape. One of my roommates intended held for herfather. Alice finished her education under going home this afternoon, but they did not come Professor Scobey, never married and carefor herfather after her. She was very much disappointed. I until his death in 1917 at the age of ninety. shall not visit home any'more imtil school is out.

Saturday, May 12th, 1877\ Alice Charlton made a list of the students and facul This is such a pretty I day. I hope it will be as ty of the Mufreesboro Female Institute on Dec 18, pretty next Saturday. Miss Cora Barnes and Miss 1877: Harless came to see Mary Nelson. Mary's Pa did not say whether she could go to Chattanooga or 1. Cora Prewit 19. Quincy Davis not. I think it doubtful about any of us going. I 2. Forrest Prewit 20. Ida Hicks am expecting an express this evening. I hope I 3. Lettie Prewit 21. Nannie Batey will get it. It has been raining some today. Miss 4. Annie Gates 22. Nannie Smith Lizzie Geohagen came and spent time with us 5. Helen Gates 23. Mary Nelson this evening. This is very badly written but I have 6. Maggie Piill 24. Lucie Cron a miserable pen. 7. Laura Ivey 25. Miss Lizzie Geohagen 8. Mettie Deans 26. Lidia Schomaker Sunday, May 13th, 1877 . 9. Carrie Deans 27. Dena Witterhall I went to church today, and heard Mr. Hall 10. Addie Harkreader 28. Lou Gates preach. We had a very ilarge crowd. The bride 11. Rattle Layne 29. Mary Overall and groom, Mr and Mrs.' Smith were at church. 12. Lillie Stanbrugh 30. Sallie Carter I was vey sorry Prof Scobey was not there. Mr. 13. Celia Wisenbaker 31. Estel Thiurman Scobey went out ino the country to preach. I do 14. Bettie Young 32. Alice Charlton dislike to hear Mr. Hall preach. 15. Susie Dasher 33. Jermie Scobey My diary for today is quite short. But two or 16. Sallie Rogers 34. Gussie Scobey three of my roommates are sick, and it keeps me 17. Alice Foster 35. Prof. E.G. Cox quite busy waiting uponjthem. 18. Bennie Todd 36. Prof. J.E. Scobey Williamson County Historical Society Journal 57

MURFREESBORO FEMALE INSTITUTE FROM jHEARTHSTONES The Story of Historic Rutherford County by Mary B. Hughes in 1942

A young girl sat at the window, a book in her dred pupils, was built. It was an L-shaped build lap and a pencil in her hand. ing with rooms measuring 20 by 20. The college From time to time she left off gazing out the was duly dedicated and named for Dr. J. H. window to glance at the book and make nota Eaton, president of Union University. tions on the wallpaper near the window frame. Later the building passed into the hands of Part of what she wrote evidently hacl some the Christian demonination, then the connection with the book she was studying for Cumberland Presbyterians and back to the there were words like "amo" and "nox",^d yet Christians, who ran it as the "Eclectic Normal ' I something next to the yoimg girl's heart. The rest School," with Dr. James Waters as president. in plain English, had nothing to do with the heart There was an interlude, however, when Latin for the pencil wrote "I love-." and theology and English Grammar no longer Later other young girls like herself added were heard within the solid walls of the old their scribblings to the Latin ones-scribblings house. Instead there were the moans of wounded which were to be discovered 75 years lat:er by a and dying soldiers, both Union and Confederate. young man, who likewise sat with a book at the The story goes that one union soldier's leg same window, and happened to pull away a part was so badly hurt, and his other woimds were so of the second layer of wallpaper. j serious, that it seemed only a matter of time imtil The young girl and her aspirations-later real- he should die. iThere was apparently no need of ized-have long since departed, but the' house amputating the leg, even. where she sat still stands,like the face of an aging But one Murfreesboro lady-she later became person, mellowed by experience. It is tile large Mrs. Thomas B. Fowler-was of a different opin brick home on East Bell Street, and for many ion. Each day she carefully tended the yoimg sol years was occupied by the family of Mrs. J.B. dier's wounds] with particular attention to the Kirk, whose grandson, Thomas Cook,discovered crushed leg. Gradually, under her care, her the handwriting on the wallpaper. But forever, so patient began j to improve, until after a few long as generation tells its story to generation, it months, he was able to walk out of the "hospi will be Imown as The Dan Perkins home." tal," completely cured! But our story begins before even the house Shortly affer the war, the building was was known by that name. It begins back in 1853, resumed as the Eclectic Normal School, but later when the Board of Trustees of old Union was taken over by Prof. Scobey and run as a girls' University decided to purchase land for an school. Institute for yotmg ladies, to be known as Eaton One story stands out from the "Scobey College. I School" days as recalled by former pupils who The land was bought from Dr. James Maney stiU live in Murfreesboro. and a brick building 50 by 88 feet, two stories Prof. Scobey had engaged a yoimg peda high and large enough to accomodate one hun gogue, Prof. Benjamin Franklin Hooker, to call at 58 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

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M'*fwliTTf^ii i Elam, J. M. Haynes. the school periodically and conduct examina Perkins, formerly a Confederate soldier and lum tions on the various subjects taught. berman, went to live in the house. Prof. Hooker was a learned young man, but Mr. Perkins, known as "Daddy Dan" to suc unfortunately, none too,popular with his pupils. ceeding generations, had served with Company They considered him a young upstart and I, 44th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, from 1861 dubbed him "Bennie." to April, 1865, when he was captured at While in Murfreesboro, "Bermie" would stay Hatcher's Rim, near Petersburg, Va. and held a at a large brick home,around the corner from the prisoner at Fort Delaware until after the close of school. One night the professor retired early, the war. especially weary after a; day's tussle with exami The old house imderwent extensive repairs at nation papers. He laid his trousers neatly on a the hands of its new owner. As a lumberman, he chair near the window, and settled down among replaced much of the old, handcarved woodwork the feathers. with the then "modern" cabinet mantels, door Now those were the days before the invention frames, and interior decoration. The old L was of window screens, and the professor had left his torn away and the house generally repaired. window open-the one near which lay his neatly The spiral stairway, and low doors were left folded trousers. and -in deference to the educational history of So the next morning, when the professor the house-the old blackboards and towel rack began to dress to return to the school-no trousers! used by the students were left intact. There were no examinations that day and Many a guest visited the home during the although nothing was ever proved, every young "Perkins regime" and it was noted for its fine lady in Scobey School was suspected as having hospitality. Shortly after the death of Florence spirited away the professor's trousers. Perkins, who was Mr. Perkins' second wife, he When Scobey school was closed, the property married Mrs. Mattie Wilson, who was one of the passed into the hands of Judge Edwin H. Ewing, town's gracious ladies and hostesses. who owned the home now loiown as the Nelson Today the old "Perkins house" stands in School, a block away on what is now Highland remarkable preservation, a monument to the Avenue. In 1889 Judge Ewing's daughter, Florence educational, military and family life of Ewing Fletcher and her husband, Daniel P. Murfreesboro. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 59

[Unfortunately, the Dan Perkins home was was captured at Hatcher's Run, near Petersburg, demolished to make room for the expanding hos Va., and held a prisoner at Fort Delaware until pital several years ago.] after the close of the war. He returned home much impaired in health, and until 1870 was THE GOODSPEED HISTORIES of Maury, engaged in farming. At that date he began keep Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedihrd & ing a retail boot and shoe store in Nashville, and Marshall Counties of Tennessee printed in 1886 continued unltil 1873, when he came to relates the following information: Rutherford Colmty and located on a farm near the city. In 1883 he engaged in the Irunber busi DANIEL PRICE PERKINS was bom in Hinds ness with George W. Ransom. Mr. Perkins was County, Miss., Jime 27, 1839, son of Peter and married in 1861 to Miss Kate Morgan, who died Sarah P. Camp Perkins, who were born in in 1873, leaving five children, all now living; Tennessee and Virginia, respectively. When Daniel P. was but one year old his father died in Mary M.(wife |of J.B. Ransom), Morgan, Charles P., Jennie and Kate. In 1873 Mr. Perkins wedded Mississippi, and he and his mother came to Mrs. Florence (jSwing) Fletcher, daughter of Hon. Tennessee and located in his father's nativje coim- E.H. Ewing. To them were born three children, ty (Williamson). Here Daniel was reared and secured a fair literary education. At the! age of two now livin'g: Rebecca W. and Sarah L. Mr. eighteen he began his business career as clerk in Perkins is a Democrat, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church and K. of H. a mercantile store, where he continued until the , j breaking out of the war. In 1861 he enlisted from Nashville, in Company I, Forty-fourth Regiment Editor's Note: Daniel Price Perkins's grandparents Tennessee Infantry, and served in the were Ann Perkins and Nicholas Tate Perkins of Two Confederate Army until April 2, 1865, when he Rivers on Del Rio Pike. A,Wonderful Visit

A:Composition by Rnth Pearre^ age

Harpeth Academy March 25,1877

Editor's Note: The spring, of 1877 must have been an exciting time for teachers and students in and around Nashville. Alice Charlton[related in her diary the trip to Nashville with Professor Scobey to witness the balloon ascension on April 3,1877^. A week earlier, Professor Scobey had explained the physics involved. No doubt the scientific law that hot air rises was the subjectfor many Middle Tennessee classrooms. Ruth Pearre (1861-1952), a student under Professor John Hamilton at Harpeth Academy, near Harpeth Presbyterian Church on the Little Harpeth, was apparently caught up in the balloon excitement and incorporated the subject into her composition. Readers may wish to refer to Journal No. 25, where in Mary Pearre's 1863 diary, she mentions her niece, "Little Ruth." As related in that article, Mary Pearre married John Hamilton after the Civil War and with the early death ofRuth's mother, Mary Cato Pearre, the little girl was reared by the Hamiltons. Ruth Pearre married Edward Sawyer of Ash Grove in 1880 and became the mother of Wilton, John, Lucy, Abbie, Rose, Grace, Benton, Pearrp, Caroline and Dixie. With the early death of her husband in 1910, Ruth endured the hardships of rearing a largefamily on a rockyfarm on Chickering Road next to Warner Park.

Last Friday evening my teacher told me I there time enough to enjoy ourselves. Sure must write an essay on the entertainment. I enough they kept their promise for at eight told him that I could not write any, but he o'clock the next morning we were all ready to said there was nothing like trying. Finding that I start. could not get out of writing one, I went to work Now there was one bother and that was we to find me a subject. I tried in vain to get help. I had nothing to ride but I soon settled that matter, thought of everything imaginable but nothing (for it was only two miles to where we were would suit me. And,at last, I got so disheartened going). By telling them we could walk that dis that I sat down and cried my self to sleep. In a tance in a short time without getting the least few minutes, I was back'in old Kentucky talking fatigued, and besides we would have such a nice with some of my friends about what had hap time gathering the wild flowers as we went on, pened, since our departure. As I could not stay they all agreed to it and we went off looking as long, I wished to see all my old friends before I happy as you please. We went on very quiet rmtil returned for home. So some of the girls and we got out of town then we began laughing, talk myself concluded we would spend one day in ing, and gathering wild flowers as if we were in no the country (town girls think it a grand thing to hurry. Although we were on the public road, we visit the coimtry). Novy as it was getting very had not seen any one since we left town. But late, all girls returned to their homes promising presently we saw an old man who seemed to have that they would rise early so that we would get a very large burden. Thinking it be a sack of com.

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hearing. We w^ere very well pleased with our excursion at firs:, but when we got so high that we could not see anything atall, we began to get frightened and wondering how we would ever get back again, What could we do? We knew not how to manage the baUoon or even if we did we could not attem,pt such a thing for fear we might land in the middle of the ocean. While yet think ing of some plan to pursue, we saw a fight at some distance off which seemed to becoming to watch us, seeing we took courage again and thought there were some hope of seeing home once more. Now the fight which we saw a few minutes ago had got so close to us that we could even see what kind of person it was carrying. It was a tall slen der man who seemed to be of about middle age and was dressed in complete fur. Now our fears were awakened again when we foimd that our balloon had lodged in the top of a tree but by our calling and crying, we soon brought a crowd of people to our assistance. Some of the persons see Ruth Pearre Sawyer and son, Wilton Sawyer, on ing our condition tried to help us, while others Mother's Day, 1944 stood gazing and seemed anxious to leam the par ticulars. In the rnean time,someone brought a lad we began laughing and talking about it, (as girls der and we got out with but little difficulty. Then, will) but as we drew nearer we soon discovered we were taken tp a tavern and given supper and a that it was a balloon. Pleased at this we ran on as nice warm roorn to sleep in. Of course, as we were fast as we could to catch up with him and when strangers, we did not ask many questions but so we got close enough for him to hear us, we began anxious to know where we were, we asked one of talking about the balloon and how nice it j would the servants. She told us we were on the moon. be to take a ride in it. After a while the old man We asked no more questions for we were stricken turned around and asked us if we had ever ridden down with astonishment. I in a balloon. We told him we had not but would We started for home early the next morning go at the least invitation. Then we went on some accompanied by a man who knew how to man time in silence. Presently, the old man, after age the balloon.j We went very well for some time putting his balloon upon a stiimp, began fixing until the wind began to blow very hard. On see some ropes and telling us not to meddle wi^ any ing this, we almost fainted for we thought there thing concerning it or we might get ourselves into was something approaching and we knew if there trouble. Thinking him to be joking we paidjbut lit was it would be the last of us. One of the girls, on tle attention to what he said and once when he looking out,thpught she saw the storm approach I was not looking we all jumped into the balloon ing. She uttered aloud something. Suddenly I and were floating in the air before the old man awoke and to my gladness and astonishment saw us. He called in vain for we were out of all found that it was only a dream. arah Katherine (Kate) ECirkpatrick was born there about an hour. , October 8, 1868 and died July 8, 1923. She And it rained all night! 'was the daughter of Constantine Davis It was still raining Kirkpatrick and Henrietta Tennessee Reams of the next morning. the Southall community. Rev, Joel Anderson, Everybody that was noted Christian preacher, was her great-grandfa there sat up all night. I ther. She married Ashley Po)mer Thweatt (1871- had a very nice time, 1920) on April 5, 1893. She referred to Ashley as played snap until I 1L. "Doctor" in her diary presumedly because he couldn't hardly move. Someone said that they was the namesake of Dr. A.B. Poynor of were happy when near Bingham. me. Of course I January 1,1891 believed as much of Deaf Journal, New Year's Day-Today is some that as I wanted to. As what like Xmas day-clouds dark and lowering in we were going to have Kate Kirkpatrick Thweatt the forenoon, but in the afternoon the sun broke a party at home Xmas through, the clouds, making everything seemed night (Dec 25), we had bright and happy. Why shouldn't I be when the to come home in the rain the next morning. We best and truest fellow is coming to carry me over came home before breakfast, and just as soon as I to Mr. J.W. Gee to a party tonight? I presume I am looked to see what Santa Glaus brought and eat a happy! bite, I went to bed. I don't believe it ceased rain Miss Mary Smith of West Harpeth came home ing all day. Cousin Sam Allen came after I had with me yesterday, Wednesday, and Mr. Lew gone to sleep and stayed a while. Cousin May Allen will come to go with Mary, New Year's Kirk & Blanche came about night, and the night. We went to about twelve, and arrived "Doctor" and Joe Vaughan came after a while. So home about twenty minutes to one o'clock. Ed this was all our party, but I enjoyed it neverthe Thweatt came on home with Brother to wait for less. I always enjoy myself when the "Doctor" is the "Doctor". Mr. Lew Allen spent the night here. about, but he was a little sick that night and was If you will forbear with me for a while, I believe n't quite as jolly as he usually is. They took their I will jot down a few Xmas items. departure about half past 11 o'clock. Xmas Eve night we went to Mr. Frank The next morning was rather cold but still Parrish's to a party. We went horseback and it cloudy. About two o'clock I donned my blue began to rain on us before we had gone halfway, sateen to go to see Miss Laura Hulme and spend but it did not rain very hard until we had been the afternoon. I hadn't quite finished my toilette

62 Williamson County Historical Society Journal 63 before Mr. Jim Allen drove up in the buggy. He came in the afternoon and stayed until about came over to ask me to go with him to Mr. John nine. The "Doclor" seemed quite jolly tonight. Haney. Mr. Lew Allen and Miss Mary Smith went with us. We were in a double seated buggy. Monday Jan. 5. \ Fulton Lillie carried Miss Jennie Allen & Mr. Will Aimt Lizzie & two children spent the day Mefford with Miss Ida Allen. We nearly froze here today. Uncle Mike Smith came after them going and coming back. We got home about two about three. I got dinner today, and of course it o'clock. Mary spent the night with me, alnd Mr. would be needless for me to say that everything Lew came after her the next day. We concluded to was good. j have our party Monday the 29th. Simday the 28th the "Doctor" came and spent the afternoon, Tues. Jan. 6,1891 left about six. Went to sleep soon after they left, Nora and 1 went down to Mr. Crocker's and but did not sleep very much. Willie went'over to spent a whileJ Came back by the store and Mr. Fitzhugh's and stayed until ten. I bought some stamps. Blanche Peay and Ella K. The next morning we began to preparej for the came this afternoon and stayed until quite late. party. 1 made two cakes today. The "Doctor' and Willie went horne with them. Miss Annie Thweatt came before I dressedl for the party. I wasn't long in donning my new plaid Monday Jan. 19 dress. I believe 1 will give a list of the names who A great many things have happened since I were here: The "Doctor", Annie Thwektt, Ed last jotted any items down. Cousin Abner Bowers Thweatt, Jerry Gooch, Joe Vaughan, Ed! Smith, came to see us jfrom W. Term, last Sunday was a Harvey Parrish, Isom Parrish, Lew Allen, peorge. week. He spent nearly a week with us, 1 like him Lee,and Stephen West,WiUie Sweeney,Beiji & Earl very much. He|was very kind to me while here, Vaughan, Fulton Lillie, WiU & Jim Mefford, Jim carried me to the theater one night, and give me West, Charlie McRay, Dr. Kirk, Jesse Young, Bob a new silk handkerchief. He left for home yester King, Laura & Ida Vaughan, EUa Parrish, Alice day (Sunday ISth) Cousin Ed Smith and Jim Hughes,Janie West, Delia & Minnie Yormg, Sallie Mefford took |dinner with us yesterday. The Vaught, Ida & Jennie Allen, Fannie Mefford, May "Doctor" camejbefore we eat dinner. George West & Ella Kirkpatrick. Ella Parrish spent the night. came this evening. I have been sick for several The next morning, Dec. 30, we all went down to days with bad cold. see Mr Jkn Hughes and Miss Susie West inarried. The bride and bridegroom look very nice! 1 came Monday Jan. 26) 1891 with Harvey P. in his cart but he did not come in. Not much of consequence has happened since 1 took a little nap after dinner, and got up and got last Monday except we had a snow Saturday. Jan ready to go over to Mr. Tom Allen's to a party. 24- It is still on the ground yet. I never saw it Willie went with me. We spent the night over snow any prettier than it did Saturday. The flakes there. Mr. Jim Allen had the rheumatism. look to be nearly as large as my hand. Ella Kirkpatrick came Friday night and it snowed so Friday night Jan. 2nd, 1891, hard she didnjt get home til this morning. She We went to a party at Mr. Will Coleman. The and Maude have had a gay time. The "Doctor" "Doctor" went with me to Cousin Sarn Allen came yesterday, stayed til half past six. We where 1 was going to spend the night. Mary enjoyed the afternoon very much. I did at least. 1 Smith went with Willie K. over there, btit came can't say whether he did or not. I don't think he back with Lew Allen. We spent the next day with likes me very ivell, anyway. By the way, it is not Cousin Sam & Mary. Had a splendid time. When my fault. I did not go to church yesterday. This is we got home Willie was so mad he couldn't see two Sundays 1 have missed. right straight because Mary went back on him. (Saturday) Brother Owen is here tonight,j he will Monday Feb. 2nd, 1891, board with us this year.(Simday Jan. 4)\^e went I went to church yesterday and Bro. Cayce to church today. Joe Vaughan and the "Doctor" talked for us. He came home with us for dinner. In 64 Williamson County Historical Society Journal the afternoon we wenti up to Grandma K's for He said he was not mad last Sunday but was sick. prayer meeting. Bros. Owen and Cayce held forth. About six o'clock Fulton Lillie and Jim Allen came, and they all three stayed til a half past ten. Sat. Jan. 31 I enjoyed the afternoon and night very much. We had the hardesti rain you ever heard of. Fulton loves to talk, better than I do, and that is Jim Allen came yesterday afternoon I had gone to saying a great deal, you know. Well can you guess Grandma"s and left before I got home. Began why I am happier this week than last. You can. school this morning at Southall with 7 pupils. I Well, I thought you ought to, if you don't. feel very grateful to God for His goodness. Monday Feb 23,1891 Monday Feb. 9th, 1891 I went to church yesterday. Mother & Papa Well, I feel less like writing this time, than I and Brother Owen went to Cousin Ed Smith's ever have. Yesterday I went to church and in the from church and stayed until late in the evening. afternoon George Wes!t, Jerry Gooch, Harvey Eddie S. came home with us to dinner and Parrish, Ed Thweatt and the Dr. came calling. We Brother and Ed went down to the tollgate yester all enjoyed the afternoon finely rmtil we went to day. sing, and then I asked the Dr. to come help us sing but he would not comeJ I asked him 4 or 5 times Monday March 9,1891 and finally he said "O,you have got enough with I went up to see Grandma Kirkpatrick last out me." There was notiso much in what he said Thursday night. She is real sick yet. Uncle Tollie as in the way he said it. He left quite early, mad I has been sick with the grippe, but is some better believe. Mad at me for some reason, I do not today. Cousin Johnny K. & wife went home last know what. Joe and Jenny stayed imtil about 8 Saturday March 7,1891. Well, we just had anoth o'clock and just ask me to sing more songs. Bro. er hard, hard rain Thursday night and still hard Owen says it doesn't hurt me a bit about Mr. T. er rains Friday night and Saturday. The waters getting mad, for he said I simg just as loud and are very high. Brother went to town to see the merry as ever. And that is all he knows about it. I "highwaters", I wanted to go but it was so rainy felt more like going off somewhere and having a I concluded to stay home. I went to church yes good cry. I never slept tWo hours last night, but I terday. Brother Charlie Lillie conducted the guess I will get over this after awhile (when I am Sunday School and prayer meeting. He said it dead). Someone said that he just wanted to quit was his first time, but he did very well. The coming anyway. Well,if he thinks he does not like "Doctor" was at church yesterday. I just got to see me,I would rather he wpuld find it out now,than him and that was all. I made sure he would come later on. Brother andj G. West went to Mr. home with Brother from church, and I hurried on Parrish's Saturday night Feb. 7th. home and fixed dinner for him. But Alas! he went back home to dinner. Some one said, "he was Monday 16th afraid of the high waters." Well, all I have got to Last week was very rainy. Have ten pupils on say about it is, that if I had been that near his roll now. The weather is so bad,I don't expect any house I would have called by to see liim a line, more until the weather gets fair. I felt a great deal anyway,high waters or no high waters. Mother better this week that I did last. I am not going to Willie went up to Grandma K's for dinner. Ella K. say why, but I will just let you- guess. Went to came home with us to dinner, but she did not church yesterday, there Were only eleven present, stay but a little while after dinner. We had quite a but God has promised| "where there are a few lonesome time of it, there are always such a gathered together in My name there I am in the crowd here on Sundays. midst." Aunt Lizzie & Uncle Mike came over Saturday night and spent the night,and yesterday Monday March 17th 1891 was so rainy they stayed all day. Bro.went down We planted a few beans last week, will finish to the tollgate last Saturday night to see his best this week if the weather remains as nice as it is girl. Before we eat dinner yesterday the Dr. came. today. The sun is shining as warm as spring. We Williamson Gounty Historical Society Journal 65 all came home from school this afternoc n over Monday March 23,1891 the hill - had a delightful time himting wild We planted some beans today. Last week with flowers, never formd very many but what we the exception of one or two days was the finest did find were very pretty. You could not! please weather for gardening you ever saw. We finished me better than to let me hunt wild ferns and planting beans jlhursday. Friday night EUa May flowers of all descriptions. When I get to heav and myself spent the night with Aimt Lizzie. I en, I think you could not make me any llappier enjoyed the evening very much. Friday evening it than to let me work the flower gardens, and sing was clear and not a sign of rain to be seen, but the praises to my God. But flowers there will be per next morning it was raining quite hard, but did fect; They will not need any work at all. All not rain very long. We rode with Cousin Ed as far flowers are beautiful to me, but my favorite are as our gate, so \ive did not get muddy. Yesterday I the honeysuckle, phlox, the monthly rose, and went to churchj We did not expect any preacher forget-me-not. Cousin Sam Kirkpatrici; came yesterday, but Brother Cayce took us on surprise home Saturday night. He came to see us yester by coming out ^d preaching for us. He preached day morning. He is very well, physically and an excellent sermon. I do love Brother Cayce. Mr. financially. He went to church with us I told Campbell came home with Papa from church. him he was a regular flirt. Willie says,"Yes, you Yesterday afterrioon for a rarity Maude and I went would be as much of a flirt as he if you jiist had down to the Methodist church.(White's Chapel) a chance." But I do not think so, for I believe all Mr. Sullivan preached. I liked him very well. The flirts get paid back for all their flirtations. "Doctor" came home with me. Lew Allen and Messrs. Lew Allen and Will Mefford, Miss Ida Jerry Gooch got home a little ahead of us. Lew and and Jennie Allen came home with me tojdirmer Jerry went home quite early, so did the "Doctor". I yesterday, and before we finished dirmer, went to bed about 8 last night. Brother went over Messre. George West, Lee West, Fultonj Lillie, to Mr. Vaughanfs yesterday evening. He reports a Jerry Gooch and the "Doctor" came. We passed jolly time. He said "Ida doesn't talk very much, a jolly afternoon (as Lee wanted to j go to but Laura is quite lively." Willie did not get in imtil' Nashville) Jerry and the "Doctor" stayed imtil late. He went toiMr. West's, he reports a good time. ten o'clock sharp. Cousin Sam K. camie back I won't say whelther I had a nice time or not. I will down here yesterday evening, and he got after just let you guess. I suppose you will guess cor Willie to go with him to Mr. Fitzhugh to see rect, you usually do. Au revoir. Nina and Sadie, and Willie got Jerry to go, too, i but they had not got a half-a-mile before they Easter Sunday March 29,1891 met Nina, Sadie & Tom coming over to see me. I went to ciiurch today. Today being review So that was just as good as Cousin Sam|would day, we recited the lesson in one class with have, so he and Willie got down and walk with Brother George Lillie as teacher. No one knew the girls. They staid until nine o'clock. I \jvas the their lesson, teachers or pupils, but answered the sickest poor child you ever saw last night. My questions by looking on the book. Uncle ToUie head ached Oh! so bad. I had talked, laughed held prayer meeting. Charlie Lillie & Cousin Eliza and sung until I was sick-sicker-sickest, So my & Harry Parrish came home with us to dinner. dear good Mother gave me a dose of c uinine Soon after dinner Jerry Gooch & Ed Thweatt, Joe and I felt a little better. How good our h others Vaughan and the doctor came & staid til about six are! My Mother is so kind to me. But alre you o'clock. We had plenty of music this afternoon. I always kind to her, you ask? No, I am sl)rry to do not know which I love the best-music or flow say not always, but I do try to be kind and obe ers. Grandma went over to Aimt Lizzie's yester dient. If I could love the one she wants me to. day and will stay several days. We miss her so she would be happier, but would I? Should I much. I love her next to Mother and Papa. sacrifice my love ,the only insurance of happi ness, for money? Oh God,I ask it of you, would Monday March 30,1891 it be right? I will say no more on the sul^ject at The public school began at Southall this present. We will wait and see which it will be. morning, and I don't believe I ever did see it rain 66 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

any harder. We did not have very many pupils, Willie, Maude, Marietta, Ella May and myself but are very thankful for the few. went up on the spring-lot hill. We had not been up there very long before Mr. T. came by, and Thursday Willie called to him to stop. We did not stay long Mother went over to Aunt Lizzie's today to after he came, and had not been home very long spent the day. Aunt L., is not very well, has a before Brother came home from church and toothache. wanted us to go with him to Mr. HasselTs. And we went and stayed til nearly seven. We got Friday home a little after seven. Had very nice time, the Mother went to see Grandma Kirkpatrick evening passed away like a pleasant summer today. She is some better. Cousin may came home dream. Mr T. left a little after eight. I have began with Mother. We had a nice time tonight, singing to believe what G. said was true, for he never and telling Tennessee anecotes. I enjoy Cousin cares to leave Miss Ida until about midnight. No, May's company very much. I will not believe it imtil he tells me so himself, then I will have to believe it, I suppose. Bro Sunday, April 1891 Anderson preached today. By, By. Kate. I went to church today. Cousin S.A. & Ed Thweatt came home with us to dinner. Mother is Saturday, April 18 sick in bed with the headache, but Maude had Papa and myself went to town this afternoon. dinner nearly done when I came home. I just put It began to rain soon after we got to Franklin. I the finishing touch to dinner and rang the bell. had to go down town in the rain. Bought me a Jim Allen came about: 3 o'clock, George West pair of shoes and the trimmings for my new came later on. I think he just came to tell me Mr. dress. Grandma Reams and May Haffner came Thweatt was over to see "Miss Ida". He said, "I home with us. It rained on us a little coming don't think "P" knows which one he likes the home, but we did not get wet. Papa and myself best, you or "Miss Ida". He says, "I believe you entertained them tonight with vocal & instru are jealous-hearted". I told him I was jealous- mental music. Well, I will go to sleep to dream of hearted to a certain extent, but I would not think tomorrow with its joys and sorrows. Au revoir. of being selfish as to not want him to look at another girl, or visit any but me. Furthermore I Sunday April 19th, 1891 said I don't know as I have any right to get mad Willie went up to Mr. Thweatt's this morning about him going to see other girls, for I receive to have his hair cut, got back about 1 o'clock. Mr. other company; and besides it would be foolish Parrish and Mr. Ed Thweatt & the "Doctor" came for me to get angry with him when we are noth home with him. Shortly after dinner Messrs. Lem ing to each other but good friends. He might tell Allen, Jerry Gooch, Lew Allen, James Mefford & me it was none of my business where he went. Joe Vaughan, and yes, I forgot one, Ed Smith, But I did not tell Mr. G. the last part of this. I came home with us from church. Part of the boys would not gratify him that much. I changed the started for home,but as very angry cloud was ris subject, and began to talk about something more ing they turned and came back, and did not leave pleasant. I believe this was the longest afternoon until about eight. We passed a very pleasant I ever spent,in my life. I don't know why- unless- afternoon. Mother, Grandma and Papa went to it was because I had the sore throat. Mr. Jim see Aunt Gooch. She is not much better, if any. Andrews was here this afternoon. Saturday 25th 1891 Sunday April 12,1891 Today has been one of our busiest days. Aunt I went to church today. We were looking for Lizzie came over to help us finish my new spring Mr. Thweatt and his sister Annie, but they were dress. I was looking for Mr. Lew Allen to come not at church, and I was disappointed not a little after me about four o'clock, but lo! and behold, bit. I could not eat any dinner, but this is not the he came about one, and I didn't begin to have my first time I have been disappointed. After dinner dress finished. I had to ask him to wait for me. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 67

We got off about 4. I enjoyed this evening and night very much. We played croquet and talked and had a good time. We went to sleep about m three.

Sunday April 26 Ida Allen, Mary Smith and myself went in the buggy to Bethel. The boys Jim & Lew Allen & Willie Kirkpatrick walked, but they got there m nearly time we did. In the evening Will Mefford TP ^9- & Fulton Lillie & Mr. Willie Kittrell came calling. We passed a very pleasant afternoon, one visit I shall always remember. We got home about seven o'clock. Mr Lew left about nine. Sons of Byron j and Minerva Berthenia Sweeney Saturday May 2,1891 Lillie—Lack roztj (left to right): James Fulton and Well, I have not done much today but talk, Monterey Byron; front row (left to right): Charles and I have done my share of that. This morning Sweeney and George Akin Mother said she wanted me to do a big day's work, but before I had finished the first job Miss May 10,1891 Annie Thweatt came and I was so glad to see her. Misses Dora and Mary Hassell came by this I never thought about work any more. In the morning to go with us to church. Bro Charlie afternoon I went to the kitchen to make a cake, Sparkman preached for us today, and such a but before I had hardly commenced Misses Dora good sermon itj has not been my good fortune to & Mary Hassell came to spend the afternoon. So hear in some time. I wish we could get him to I had to go in the pairlor and entertain them, but preach for us all the time. Misses Ida & Jermie I got my work this time, and used my fingers as Allen and Mary Smith and Mr Jim Allen and well as my tongue. Miss Annie went to the Cousin May K. came home with us to dirmer. kitchen and stayed with Mother, and helped her Later on Messrs. A.P. Thweatt, Lem Allen, Joe to make the cake. Ella Kirkpatrick is here tonight. Vaughan,Harvey Parrish and "Lord" Lillie came We have had a nice time tonight, playing, a-calling, and later still Jerry Cooch and Ed singing, and telling anecodotes. Miss Annie & Thweatt came l^y as they were coming from Mr. myself talked rmtil the "wee small hours". I think HasselTs, but did not come in. All of the compa so much of Miss A. I hope she likes me,too. ny left about seven o'clock except Mr. Thweatt, he stayed a sho^rt while after the others left. I was Sunday May 3,1891 very sick this afternoon, but I well know it did We went to church this morning, and the not make me any sicker for Mr. Thweatt to stay. "Dr." was there, brought me home in the cart. Of For I verily believe if I were half dead, I would course, I enjoyed the ride. I always enjoy myself not think it very hard task to talk to "him". I when I am with the handsome Doctor. I am mad would forget I was dying and think of no one and tonight, not with the "Dr." though. I never do get nothing but the present. mad with him. I do not know why I never get angry with him imless -it- is- because I hate him Saturday May 16th so. But I am mad with "Lord" Lillie for some of I have not done much today but job around, his smart sayings. I will not say what about, but I such as ironing, sweeping, dusting, sewing, and think the less he has to say to me,the better it will help to cook dirmer. Mother and Papa went to be for him. Joe Vaughan, Jerry Gooch, "Lord" town this morning, got back home about twelve. Lillie, Mr Lew Allen came this afternoon. Mr. Papa had his peas gathered today, there was Thweatt and Miss Annie left about six. Joe V. tar about ten bushel. Bro. & I went to Franklin late ried imtil eight o'clock. this afternoon. 1 bought me a wreath and fan. 68 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Mailed a letter to Ezella ;K. this eve. When we got of slumber and I began to prepare breakfast. We home Aunt Lizzie, Uncle Mike and children were (Brother Willie,Ed Smith & myself) were ready to here, and Mother was sick in bed. Maude had start by nine o'clock. Mr White preached a very supper ready when we got home. Received a let good sermon,I like the old Baptist very well, but ter from Mrs. Nannie Austin,Lonoke, Ark. I never don't think they believe just right. Brother & I met her, or received a letter from her before, but went to Mr. Thweatt's to dinner. Had a very good she has heard Uncle Joel K. speak of me so often, dinner and a delightful time. I presume that you and has read my letters I wrote Uncle and of would know I had a good time without me course she could not resist the temptation of cor telling you about it, but I'll just tell you for fun. responding with so charming a composer. I am so We heard the sad news of Aunt Gooch's death lazy I am afraid she will be disappointed in me, tonight. We all loved her very much. She was so for I generally answer about three months after I good. I am sure she is at rest. get a letter. But I think I will do better m the future than I have in the past. I just tell you what, I am Monday May 18,1891 going to quit thinking about the "boys" so much, I wanted very much to go to Armt Gooch's for they are all heartless flirts, and not worth the funeral today, but as she was to be buried in the time I waste thinking about them. morning I couldn't go, for I would have had to missed school all day, and I couldn't well do that. Sunday May 17,1891 Mother, Willie and Brother went. I was sorry I Today being the day Tor the Old Baptist Foot- could not go. So one more good Christian has washing, we arose quite early from our couches passed over the river of death to meet her Savior,

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William Peter Thweattfarnily, 1903 Williamson County Historical Society Journal 69 whom she loved. It rained a little today not horse, and Joe rode with me in the cart. We had a enough to do much good.Papa went to Nashville very good dinner. By time dinner was over three this morning and came back this evening. "young gents" cjame viz. Messrs P. and Ed Thweatt Received $3.00 a barrel for his pease. and Henry Parrish. Some time after this Messrs Jerry Gooch and Richard Kirkpatrick came calling. Thursday We had a very nice time. All of us went to Hillsboro Bought me a dress today and Maude & Nora to hear Bro. Elam preach. It was quite late when we one, too. got there,he was half done preaching. But what we did hear was good soimd doctrine. Sunday May 24th, 1891 We did not get up very early this morning. I Saturday June 6,1891 had so much to do I liked never to have got off to Today has been another busy day in the church. Had to bake a cake, pick a chicken, and Kirkpatrick mansion. I have made two dresses, job arotmd much. Just did get to Sunday School besides finish ojne. And Mother finished a pair of in time. Uncle Andrews K. and his 3 daughters, pants & made ^ dress, made some jam, and then Maggie,Allie & Pearl and Mack Kirkpatrick took such another irpning you never saw. and worse dinner with us today. They left about three. Willie than all I had the headache so bad I could hardly went down to the M.E. church before he came sit up. I feel so badly tonight. I think I could go home. He brought Ella Parrish home with him. off and rest soinewhere for six days. I am so very Harvey & WiUe came about dark and stayed tired tonight, I think I will not sleep much,if any. until 9. Ed Thweatt came this evening to spend the night with Brother and Willie. I like Ed very much. May 31,1891 Papa got back from Nashville tonight. According to promise, Willie & I went over to Good night, your tired friend. Mr. John Vaughan's to dinner. Willie rode Joe's End of Diary. by Hugh Walker Tennessean Staff Writer

For a book htinter, the book had instant eye the real beginning of my story. appeal. The marbled board covers were On the first page of the book, foxed and yel stained and discolored, but solid. The three- lowed with age, were two names. The first one, quarter leather binding had one comer missing. written first with pencil and then with ink, was But the leather spine was ribbed and gold Samuel P. Allison. The second time he wrote stamped, decorated with little gilt fleurons. The under his name, "Nashville, Tennessee," using title was" "Artist of America." the form of the letter "s" that looks like an "f". The title-page elaborated: "A series of bio Just Beneath, in a larger, bolder hand was graphical sketches of American artists; with por written: "William Allison, Mt. View, Williamson traits and designs on steel. By C. Edwards Lester. County, Tennessee. May 20,1859." New York. Baker & Scribner. 1846." On another blank page appeared: James The price was $10-a sum not easy to part with- Allison, Franklin, Term., 1877." but I laid the money down and the book was I never heard of any of these people, but I mine. "This offering is made." the author said on noted that there is no "Mt. View" on my old map a fly-leaf, "to all the friends of American artists." of Williamson County. The conclusion was that it In his preface Mr. Lester wrote that the purpose was the name of a home. of his work was to make "our artists and their work better known at home." He felt that such men as West, AUston, Lhrrand and Powers were already appreciated abroad. "I have drawn freely from Dunlap." the author admitted, "who has written the only work which affords me any aid." The illustrations, the preface said, "are exe m cuted upon steel by Mr. Burt, the artist who ill engraved "The Last Supper," just published by A.L. Dick, Esquire." V' ■ *■ There follow brief biographies of the artists- the story of their triumphs and failures, the titles of their paintings. The steel engraving of each one is sheilded by a sheet of tissue paper. Washington AUston, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, John TrumbuU- they are names out of American history. Once read, or read over, a book goes on the shelf. But it didn't happen that way- and that's Mt. View, also known as Allison Heights

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That would have Bowman's recent book [1971] on Williamson ended the matter, but Cormty homes-and struck gold. -h. m ci just inside the book's Mrs. Bowman tells the story of the Allhson cover was the book family and of th^ old home,"Mt View"- sometimes

Things went on as usual, and on December lavish, beloved by a wide circle od friends 10, 1857, Rice, McGavoick, Sam Allison and Dr. and relatives, endeared to life by that noble Berrien Lindsley had dii^er together. And Sam is ambition which prompts its votaries to seek not mentioned again imhl spring. On April 2 this the arena of fame and usefulness, otu friend entry appeared: was called to relinquish all and yield up his spirit to "Him who doeth all things well". "The papers this morning annoimce the death of my old friend SamjAUison. He died at his "It seems but yesterday that the subject of Uncle's Mr. Perkins, lin Williamson County this notice was among us, full of vigor, buoy night before last of I consumption, I little ant with hope and with every promise of a thought he would be; nmnbered son soon long life of usefulness. among the dead. j

I I "Now,alas, he has passed away, and the grim "We have been intimate friends and compan tyrant has given us thus another evidence that ions for many years and before my marriage truly he-"-delights to smite what, smitten we passed much time jtogether. He was not a most proclaims the pride of pow'r and arbi popular man, on account of his austere man trary and His joy supreme to bid the wretch ner, but was Uked and|admired by his friends. survive the fortimate, the feeble wrap the ath He had a fine solid mtellect, and was well letic in his shroud; and weeping fathers build educated, but I doubt whether he would ever their children's tomb." have attained much iii the profession, or as a politician. Peace be to his ashes." Sam left most of his property to his brothers, William and James. A pistol and seal ring he left Very likely McGavock- a bluff, hearty, virgor- to William Rice- his derringers to brother Thomas ous man- was wrong in his estimate of Allison, and his horse-pistols to James. And he asked that looking down from his portrait on the wall, does he be buried- not in the family cemtery at Mt. indeed say something of kusterity. View, but in the new Mt Olivet cemetery at But there is depth and brilliance in whose Nashville. He wanted a simple but upright mark- dark eyes, and the painter caught them. There er-not a flat stone. seems to be a sombre quality, too, almost a sad Members of the Nashville bar met at ness. Here is a man you'cllike to know- a face not Chilton's office, then went over to the depot to to be forgotten. i , meet the train, as Sam's body was brought up to The Nashville Reputilican Banner had an edi Nashville on the Termessee & Alabama Railroad. torial on Sam's death. Itjsaid: At Christ Church Rector Leonidas Smith, read a simple fumeral service, and the brief life and "We caimot let the event pass without a brief work of Sam Allison was done. tribute to the memory of one so highly Today Sam's remains lie under a great spread esteemed. Mr. Allison was a yoimg man. With ing oak at Mt. Olivet beside his upright monu a mind highly cultivated and disciplined by ment. It also marks the grave of his brotiher James. the arduous duties of the legal profession he A few feet away is the grave of Rector Tomes,safe promised to become distinguished among his guarding his parishioners in death as in life. fellow citizens. i Mrs. Overton Thompson of Nashville says: I ' "Sam AUison was my mother's imcle." I called "But that fell disease, consumption, fastened her son to inquire about a portrait of Sam. It was itself upon his system! and slowly but unre a holiday, and Mr. Thompson had gone on a lentingly stopped the fountain of life. canoe trip. His daughter answered the phone and Surroimded by all that worldly wealth could said:"My name is Allison." Williamson County Historical Society Journal 73

RECORD BOOK OF THOMAS E PERKINS SR.

Editor's Note: The following material was made Upon the death of available to the editor by Thomas F. Henderson, William Allison m 1831, Jr. Mr. Henderson received the record book from Thomas Feam Perkins, his father, Capt. Thomas F. Henderson, who had Sr. served as guardian for received it from his grandmother, Theresa Ewin his nephews, WilHam, Perkins. Samuel P., Thomas Feam Perkins Allison. His accounts for Sair|.uel and T.F.P. Allison f|rovides insight into the affairs of two affluent | yoimg southern gentlemen. Samuel died inj young m T. F. P. Allison jf manhood as related in . . s' the article by Hugh Walker. T.F.P. Allison served as Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture. Also included in the record book, Thomas F. Perkins' list of his 108 slaves, with their ages and value, and provisions given his son, Samuel Above, James Allison (left) and Thomas F. Perkins Sr. Fearn Perkins, i

1843 Samuel P. Allison Delivered to

Febmary 1st Homer a Greek book 2 volumes 2.00 March 28 school books 6.30 April 28 Bought at Miles in Nashville 2 coats and 2 pair pantaloons 20.00 1 vest 1.50 3 domestick shirts 4.00 To cash paid him in Nashville 5.00 June 10 To cash received by T.F. Perkins 4.00 August 22 To cash paid him in Franklin 1.50 To pay his passage to Nashville 1.50 To cash to pay for traveling trunk 10.00 April 1st To five himdred and ten dollars reservec in hand to pay expences to Charlotsville Virginia at 1 per cent discount which would leave five hundred and five dollars which I paid August 22nd 1843 510.00 74 Williamson'County Historical Society Journal

July 1st To cash paid E.L. Crocker for tuition fee, fuel & c 14.50 August 29 To cash paid Mrs Nancy Perkins for money which Samuel P. Allison borrowed of her in Nashville to buy a cap 6.00 August 29 To cash paid Nancy Walton for making 5 pr drawers 1.25 To cash paid Rebecca Still for making 3 shirts 1.50 To cash paid Cannon Jordan for merchandize act. 17.64 To cash paid W.H. Crouch for a pair of shoes 3.50

1844 May 1st To a check sent him on the bank at Richmond for 150.00 cost of check 11/2 per cent 2.25 Sept 1st To check sent Sam when in Buckingham New York 200.00 cost of check 11/2 per cent 3.00 November 1 To check sent him at Yale College 200.00 cost of check 3.00

1845 March 1st To check sent him to New Haven,Conn. 250.00 cost of check 3.75 May 1st To check sent him on New York 250.00 cost of check 3.75 July.20 To check sent him on New York 125.00 cost of check 1.87 Sept 1st Cash paid S.P. 20.00 Oct 1 Cash paid S.P in Franklin 225.00 To cash paid Richard Graham for 3 fine shirts 7.50

1846 January 15 To a check sent to Yale College 303.00 April 1 To check sent on New York 252.50 July 16 To check sent him on New York 212.00 Nov. 15 To check sent to Yale College 176.75 Total $944.25

1847 April 15 To check sent him at New Haven for 500.00 cost of check 5.00 April 15 To check sent him by W.P. Carmon 500.00 cost of check 7.50 July 15th To a check sent S.P. to New Haven 300.00 cost of check 3.00 Sept 1st To a check sent S.P. to New Haven 350.00 cost of check 1 l/2per cent 5.25 Total $1,670.75 October 20 To cash handed him 20.00 Dec, 20 To cash handed him 100.00 Dec 20 To amoimt for acct at Graham & Bradley 17.00 Total $1,807.75

1848 February 10 To cash sent in Nashville 50.00 April 18 To cash or check on Planters Bank at Franklin 200.00 Williamson County Historical Society-Journal 75

Jvily 1st To cash enclosed you at Lebanon 100.00 July 25 To cash handed you in Franklin the evening you out to Col. Gentry 25.00 July 29 To cash paid you to go with T.RP. Allison to Ohio 150.00 October 20 To cash paid you at Lebanon 50.00 Dec. 20 To cash sent you at Lebanon 50.00

1849 July 15 By cash paid on final settlement 18.00

1843 Thomas P.P. Allison Account

July 1st To cash paid E.L. Crocker tuition fee fuel & c 14.50 August 29 To cash paid Nancy Walton for making pantaloons .25 December To cash paid J.E. Crutchelow for pair of shoes 1.50 Dec 14 To cash pd E.L. Crocker for tuition & fuel 14.18 Dec 30 To cash pd. E.L. Jordon Merchant 13.45 To cash pd Lucy Walton for making clothes 1.75 To cash paid Mrs. Marks for making cllathes 1.00 To cash paid Rebecca Still for making clothes 2.00 To cash paid WP. Cannon for goods bought 4.85

1844

Jany 1st To act pd E.L. Jordon 23.55 To act pd E.L. Crocker act for tuiition & board 41.20 To act with Colly & Brig .25 To act S.B. Roberson 1.25 To act pd Rebecca Still 4.75 To act pd Anna Archer .50 July 1st To cash paid E.L. Crocker for tuition fees & c 14.50

1845 To cash Mr. Fanning for tuition & other expenses 40.00 To cash paid DoctorBenedict for two session to Grammar School 10.45 To cash pd T.RP. for pocket money while at Franklin College 5.00 To cash paid Jessee Ellis for tuition .75 To cash paid Catherine Stephens for making coat & pantaloons 1.50 To cash paid R. Graham, tailor, for making clothes 4.30 To cash paid Edwin Paschall for tuition 12.25 To cash paid A.J. McLemore for board 7.50 To cash paid Catherine Stephens for making shirts pantaloons & coat 7.00 To cash paid Warren Allen for tuition .75 To cash paid Emeline Chaney for making overcoat .70 To cash paid Graham & Bradley for goods bought 29.62 To cash paid J.W Baugh for goods bought 5.94 To cash paid E.S. Chandler for tuition in singing school 2.50

1846 To Richard Graham act for tailoring 4.15 To J.B. Helm for shoe bill 8.60 76 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

,To Graham & Bradley for merchandize 39.71 To Sarah Gray for making clothes 5.75 To Andrew Campbell for tuition of 12 months 31.25

1847 Dec. 29 To amt paid Graham & Bradley merchandize 134.83 To cash paid J.B. Tenison for tuition 6.00 To cash paid Sarah Gray for making clothes 2.50 To cash paid Shannon&Mayfield Doctor's bill 18.75 To cash paid J.S. Park doctor's bill 5.00 To cash paid Doct. Morton 15.75 To cash pd A. Campbell for tuition 15.25 To cash pd Andrew Campbell for 31/2 months 10.75 To cash paid Dr. Morton 2.00 To cash paid John B. McEwen for board 31.25 To cash paid you at different times 12.00

1848 January 1st To cash handed you in Franklin near Marshal office 3.50 March To cash handed you at my house 5.00 April 1st To cash handed you in Campbells 5.00 July 25 To cash handed you the day you went to Nashville with your aimt, Eliza Williams & Miss Murfrey 3 trunks 10.00 July 31st To cash handed you this day being the day you start to Western Reserve College Ohio for the purpose of going to school 225.00 Dec 15 To cash paid John B. McEwen 40.00 To cash paid Barham & Barnett 2.90 To cash paid Nicholson & Crutcher 55.25 To cash paid Wm. Crouch 18.00 To cash paid O. Reams 2.70 To cash paid John H. Otey 4.69 To cash paid R & S Graham 19.25 To cash paid Nichols 2.40 To cash paid J.B. Helm 5.20 To cash paid A. Campbell 15.25 To cash paid A. Cavin 5.00 To cash paid Robert Ragsdale 8.00 To cash pd H L & R Crutcher 257.18 To cash paid Graham & bradley 29.33 To cash pd. S.R Allison expences to go with T.F.P to Western Reserve College 75.00 Total $788.65

1849 February 1st To cash sent to him in Hudson Ohio 103.00 March 1st To cash sent to Hudson Ohio 103.00 April To cash paid S.R for money advanced T.F.P. 50.00 May 1st Check sent him 153.25 Jime To cash handed him 18.00 Sept. 15 ' To cash handed him to start to Jackson College at Coliunbia 85.00 Total $511,25 Williamson County Historical Society Jo urnal 77

Nov 25th To cash paid James Allison to equallize in the divison of his father's estate 5.82 July 30 To amount of Mrs. Doyle Act for board 9.00 Dec 25th To amotmt of Tavern bill with Flarvey D. Parrish 8.80 Dec 25th To cash paid Saml P. Allison to equalize' him in division of W. Allison estate 1 11.82

1850 January 1 To cash handed him to pay his board &!tuition & bills 130.00 Jany 26 To check handed him on Planter's BaiOs Franklin 40.00 March 1 To cash sent by letter to Columbia j 50.00 June 15 To cash sent him to Columbia by Sam Ijerkins 100.00 July 1st To cash handed him the day he left for the springs 50.00 Sept 1st To cash handed him when he returned to Columbia 50.00 Nov. 20 To cash handed Mr. Tredway from request of T.F.P. 30.00 Dec 30th To check handed T.F.P. Allison on the bank at Franklin for $250, fifty of which is to be given tojSam Perkins, the balance retained for self 200.00 Total ! , $650.00 To cash paid for tax recpt j 12.00 To cash paid John S. Tredway 55.00 To cash pd Harvey D. Parrish | 12.05 To cash paid House & Brothers j 13.30 Total I $742.35

1851 February 1 To cash handed in Wm.Crouch shoe shop in Franklin 200.00 April 1 To cash sent you by Samuel F. Perkins | 25.00 May 18th To cash sent you by your Brother James who is on his way to Baleys Springs and will pass through Columbia 200.00 June 1 To cash sent you in a letter by Samuel F. Perkins at the close of your college course at Jackson College 150.00 August 1st To cash handed you by your Aunt America at Weems Springs [Bon AquaJ 15.00 Sept 1st To cash handed you at different times j 15.00 October 1st To cash handed you the day you start iLaw school in Lebanon 120.00 Nov To cash paid Thos Watson for money borrowed 100.00 Dec 1st To cash sent to T.F.P. Allison at Lebanon 10.00 Dec 24 To cash handed him 10.00 To cash paid for tax recpt 12.00 Dec 29 To cash paid H.D. Parrish bill | 18.50

1852 February 1 To a check James McAllister of Nashville 150.00 April 1st To check on James McAllister due at sight for 100.00 To cash handed you by your Armt America 2.00 April 29 To cash paid Avery Tarkington 10.00 To cash paid William Polk 11.15 To cash handed you 18.00 April 27 To cash paid John J. Gant 210.50 June 20 To cash sent you the day you left the law school in Lebanon 100.00 78 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

July 25 To cash handed you the day you left my house in busgy for Rutherford 10.00 July To cash pd H.L. Crutcher act 2.75 August To cash handed you at different times during the month 18.75 October 4 To check on the bank at Franklin 150.00 Sept 27 To cash handed you by your Brother James the day you went to Columbia 15.00

1853 January 1 To cash advanced him by T.F. Perkins, his guardian To a note on B. Roberts for which he received the cash 550.00 To note on S. Patton principal & interest 1185.56 April 4th To cash paid T.F.P Allison 125.00 Total 1860.56 Sept 29 To cash paid him 400.00 Total 2260.56 January 1st 1845 i Andrew Rogers Drto. T.F. Perkins, Guardian of Thos. F.P. Allison for rent land To 64 1/2 acres corn land at $1.50 96.75 To 30 acres of small grain at .75 22.50 To 7 1/2 acres in seeds of different kinds at 1.00 7.50 Total $126.75 Dec 1845 credit for building one house -two rooms below & two rooms above with a 12 foot passage above and below two brick chimneys all finished of good order well painted.Total $126.75 January 1st 1846 Andrew Rogers Drto. T.F. Perkins, Guardian of T.F. P. Allison for rent of land To 75 acres of corn land at $1.50 $112.50 To 24 acres in small grains at .75 21.00 Total $133.50 December 1st 1846 Credits by the making of 10,237 rails and putting them up on fence and cleaning out fence rows $102.37 For work done on bam and stables $11.63 Total $114.00 Balance due for rents for 1846 ($133.50-114.00) $19.50

Robert Logsdeb Dr to rent for year 1845 of 17 acres of land for corn $28.00 Asa Ragsdale dr to rent for 1845 of 20 acres of land $32.00 John Belcher Drj to rent of land of 15 acres $23.00 Malvina Crosen Dr to rent 1845 of 8 acres of land $12.00 Dmry Parsley Dr to rent for 1845 of 7 acres of land $10.50 Levin Ragsdale Dr to rent for 1845 of 20 acres of com land $32.50 Robert Logsdon: Dr to rent for 1846 of 15 acres of com land $25.87 credit for 1666 rails $16.16 Robert Logsdon: dr to rent for 1847 of 15 acres of com land $26.25 Asa Ragsdale Dr to rent of 1846 of 22 acres of com land $35.75 credit for 1000 rails 10.00 Asa Ragsdale Dr to rent of 1847 of 23 1/2 acres of land $41.22 Williamson County Historical Society Journal 79

Andrew Rogers Dr to rent of 1847 To 57 1/2 acres in corn $86.25 To 13 acres in com $19.50 To 10 acres in corn $15.00 To 10 acres in small grain $7.50 To 1 acre in com $1.59 Total $129.75

A mernorandum of - Samuel R Allison indebtedness to T.R Perkins for ginning his crop of cotton for the year 1851 which amount I believe is one twelveth part of the net proceeds arising from the sale of 32 bales of cotton this October 1st 1851

Samuel S. Morton Drto T.R Rerkms for gioning his cotton for the year 1850 which was on twelveth of the net preceeds of his entire cotton crop which I believe is about $70.00. This October 1st 1851 I Allison Estate April 10th 1843 | 4 beeves sold to Coleman in Nashville $74.41-which is m the handsi of John S. Claybrook I August 29th 1843 i Received of John S. Claybrook fifty-eight dollars it being the net jproceeds arising from the farm belonging to Allison estate the above amt belonging to S.R & T.RR Allison

August 1st 1844 Received of John S. Claybrook one hundred dollars it being the net amount after paying all the expenses of the farm taxes & that came in to my hands belonging to S.R & T.RR Allison John S. Claybrook has all the act. of all the exspenses of the farm arid the income

Received for the hire in 1844 of the Negroes belonging to S.R & T.RR Allison $313.75 80 Williamson County.Historical Society Journal

January 1st 1856 ^ March 30th 1856 I this day make this statement believing it will I make this memorandum of the property I be useful to my children so as to enable them to gave my son,Samuel R Perkins on the first day of know the ages of the slaves I now own. I will put January in the year eighteen hundred and fifty- down the names of my IsJegroes and their ages at five and I wish my wife in the event that I should time the date and year above stated. not live to divide my property to give to my chil dren: Newton C., Letitiia L., Thos E Perkins & Randal 63 Squire 2 ^ Jacob 12 William C. Perkins at such times as she may find Fanny 53 John 33 Jackson 10 it convenient so much of my Negro property, Marier 34 Artmita 27 Betsy 8 stock, furniture, as will make an equal moimt in Ann 32 Alfred 11, Soloman 6 value to the property I have given to my son Evelina 30 John D. 9: Charity 4 Samuel. Letha 26 George 7\ Major 2 I will here affix the value of the Negroes & Polly 24 Nepoliah 5 Grace 60 other property given to Samuel F. Perkins and I Ceylon 23 Paul 1 Josua 23 wish the same order of Negroes given to my Randal 21 George 44 Major 21 other children and valued at the same prices as White 19 Polly 40 Ruben 18 those given to Samuel regardless of the prices Jacob 17 Nancy 22 Waker 29 that may be selling at in county at the time they Levi 16 Spencer 20 Ray 36 are given. Margret 15 Daniel 18 Bob 21 Easter 13 Jane 16 Dennis 21 I gave Samuel E Perkins- Archil Clay 14 Arch 20 Tom & Major both worth $800 each $1600 Anderson 19 Penny 12^ Lawyer 20 Ruben, a boy about 16 years 700 Nicy 13 Rachel lo' Wilkerson 40 Archer 11 years 500 MiUvS George 81 Joseph 45 Lucy 46 years & Macon 7 years 800 Caledonia 15 Felix Grundy 6 Bob Hardeman 54 Mary 16 years 700 King 14 Polly 4 ' Mahaly 36 Leathy & 3 children Nelly, Martha, Fanny 1600 Marthean 12 Dinah 48' July 22 One black mule 4 years 100 Jincy 10 Ned 15 I Margret 18 One mule & gray mare 100 Ellen 6 Lette 45 Louisa 4 1 yoke oxen & wagon 50 Fanny 4 Vina 42 old mare & colt 40 NeUyS Ruth 24 ; Stock hogs 150 Martha 6 Lucius 4 ; 8 head of cattle 40 Luraner 11 Dawson 2 Com,fodder, oats, bacon. Ploughs 100 Elvira 9 Eliza 45 ; Green 7 Francis 23 I wish him to have the tract of land on which Lucy 45 Tom 21 he now lives to valve I give at twenty dollars per Evenline 25 Kibble 19: acre. I wish this to be a part and parcel of my last Hesehiah 21 Catherine 17 will written by John Marshal. Jinan 15 Ann 15 | Macon 7 Elizabeth il2 Witnessed by James Allison Emily 40 Allice 9 Signed: Thos. F. Perkins Mary 16 Thadeus 7 Ugeni 15 Lafayett 3 Editor's Note: Samuel R Perkins's home, Hillside, was Alcy 13 Eliza 5 ! located on Old Hillshoro Pike and Old Charlotte Pike Miles 11 Soloman 75 and burned in 1969. Daniel 9 Harmah 65 Josphine 7 Mat 39 Susannah 4 Artemitia!30 I Williamson County Historical Society Journal 81

PERKINS

The library has the coat-of-arms of Richard Perkins one side of the fireplace, and that of his lady Merwny, qn the other side. One of the early ancestors was Henry "Pierkins". John Perkins, son of Henry Perkins was appointed by Ann Neville , Marsljial of Warwick Castle, when she inherited the great estate. He was called "bold, honest and reliable." At Upton Court the whole chancel of the church is paved with tombstones Theresa Perkins (left) and Tom Henderson of various Perkins and the Coat-of-atms is much in evidence ujion the monument. Sir Thomas Franklin, Tennessee Perkins wrote a book on wrestling, boxing and fencing in 1727.1 For Thomas Feam Perkins Henderson John Perkins (son of or rather descendent of the afore mentioned John Perkins) the first settler, My dear Grandson, I have imdertaken to compile or emigrant, ofj the Perkins to this cormtry, was the geneology, and to some extent a history, of the born about 15^0 in Cloustershire, England. He several families from which you are descended brought his family, wife and five children. They through your mother. It is my desire to leave a came over on| the "good ship", Lyon, which sketch like this, to at least one child of each of my brought provisions to the Massachusetts Bay children; as you are the eldest, and have shown Colony. This was in 1629-30 when provisions some interest on your ancestry, I write this for you were so scarce (hat muscles, clams, ground-nuts with the request that you will ever bear in mind were a staple oJf diet. One of John Perkins fellow that your grandmother is seventy-two "years passengers was Roger Williams, the famous young" and altho she never intends to grow old devine. A day of thanksgiving was appointed, however long she may live, acknowledges that she which is said to be the beginning of the customs can neither see, hear, nor think as clearly as in the of keeping a ! National Thanksgiving day. It spring-time of life. Youth,"which creates the world occurred on February 22,1630. anew, every morning, and smilingly declares it John Perkinls was prominent in the affairs of good", or as in the summer-time, womanhood the colonies and lived at Ipswich. One of his which unlocks the buds, and paints the full blown great, great gr^ddaughters was Emily Perkins, blossoms; or, as in the splendor of Autumn,maturi wife of Dr. Edyard Hale of Boston. The Perkins ty, which harvests the blessings of both spring and have always answered their country's call to summer. In the winter, which is now upon me, I arms. Col. Isaap Perkins of the Batallion :Elying refuse to believe that "sorrow's crown of sorrow is Camp" of 1776 was known on account of his the memory of happier days"(or things). The warp impetuous bravery as the "Elaming Patriot." He of my memory are strands of Hght, the woof received his commission May 19, 1775. It was threads of gold,culled from the past in which I bury signed by General Joseph Warren. Capt. Ben with the red leaves of disappointment, lost oppor Perkins was in the hottest of the fight at Bunker tunity, and sorrow, which years now crown. You Hill and was near General Warren when the wiU not care for this little book now Tom; Preserve General was killed. I have stood on the spot it; in your old age it wiU be to you a rich legacy. where he fell aipd a monument marks the spot. The three sons of John Perkins, the emigrant, Yoiir devoted grandmother, settled in Massachusetts and Viirginia, their Theresa Ewin Perkins descendants, spreading to North Carolina, Franklin, Williamson County, Term. Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and California. 82 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

"They were as a family; remarkable for indepen All the heads of these families were born in dence of character, integrity, industry, freedom of Virginia. Nicholas Perkins V, son of Nicholas III speech and wealth: also for their great clannish- and his wife Bethenia Hardin, married Leah ness, claiming relationship to the remotest gener Pryor about 1767. They had 11 children: ation, and for family pride." (quote from A.M. Sharp's History) 1. Jolm Pryor-bom 1768 married Elizabeth It may be added, they were noted for inter Harris marriage. They intermarried to such an extend, 2. Bethenia-born 1770 married Daniel in those early days that it is difficult to trace lin Perkins, son of Harden P. eage through the tangle. 3. Amia-bom 1772 married Nicholas Tate Captain John Smith of colonial fame mentions Perkins, son of Charles P. the brothers William, Martin and Robert in his 4. Margaret-born 1774 married William history of Virginia Colonies and their names Perkins III, son of Hardin P. were entered in ship's log-book as "Gentlemen of 5. Elizabeth-born 1776 married Nicholas meaning", it stating that they were of noble Scales, son of Joe and Ann blood, generally the younger sons of titled fami 6. Nicholas -born 1778 married Mary lies seeking their fortune in the colonies. Perkins dau. of Hardin P. The Christian name Hardin or Harding, came 7. Peter -born 1780 married Rachel Lewis into the family from intermarriage of Nicholas 8. Agatha-born 1782 married Thomas Perkin III and Bethenia Harding of Virginia. Gen. Edmiston William Harding of Nashville, who owned the 9. Sarah-born 1784 married Samuel Perkins famous stock-farm, BelleMeade, came of the son of Wm.Perkins 11 same family. 10. Leah never married The children of Thomas Harden Perkins I and 11. Susanna never married his wife Sarah Price were ten in number: Six of the children of Nicholas Perkins V and 1. Nancy-born 1764 married Mr. Edwards Leah Pryor married their cousins. Nicholas and 2. Sarah-born 1766 married Mr. Lewis Leah Pryor were progenitors of both your great- 3. Daniel-born 1768 married Bethenia grandparents Thomas Fearn Perkins and his Perkins dau. of Nicholas &Leah wife, America Cannon, as their daughter Leah 4. Thomas Harden-born 1770 married Miss Perkins was the wife of Governor Newton Moore Cannon, said America's father. The above Sarah 5. Price-born 1772 married Miss Blakely and Samuel Perkins were the parents of Thomas 6. Elishia-born 1774 married Elizabeth Fearn Perkins, Sr., Daniel and Bethenia Perkins, Watson as you see both Perkins,were Lulie Cochrane's 7. William -born 1776 married Margaret (wife of Thomas Fearn Perkins, Jr.) grandpar Perkins dau. of Nichols V ents. The above Arma and Nicholas T. Perkins 8. Mildred-born 1778 married Mr. Key were Mary Tate Fentress and Dan Perkins grand 9. Maachah-born 1780 married Jessie parents. Franklin The preceding "Perkinses" are your great 10. Mary-bom 1782 married Benjamin Moore grandfather's maternal ancestry. I will not trace his paternal ancestry back to the same Benjamin Moore was the father of Col. Nicholas Perkins 1. William Perkins I (son of Thomas Moore, who married his cousin, Mary Constantino I) born in 1682 married the widow Tate Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Tate Perkins Massie, nee Susanna Holland, daughter of and his wife Anna Perkins. Said Anna was the George Holland of Goochland and settle at daughter of Nicholas Perkins V and Leah Pryor. Perry Hill Buckinngham County Va. John W. This Nicholas Tate Perkins was the father of Perkins, who married Elizabeth Bondurant Joseph Warren Perkins who was the father of and Col. William Perkins II who married Mary Tate Perkins now Mrs. James Fentress, Sr. Elizabeth Lee Fearn, daughter of Capt. John Williamson County Historical Society Journal 83

Fearn of Westmorland County, Virginia were emigrated to Tennessee in the same emigrant his sons. [ train as my grandfather, Daniel Hill. They Samuel Perkins(son of William Perkins II and brought their families (tmder guard of 50 men to his wife Elizabeth Lee Feam) married Sarah protect them fiom the Indians) on pack horses Perkins, who was the daughter of Nicholas and remained some time in the old fort on the Perkins V and his wife Leah Pryor. Said Samuel Bluff at Nashville which was then only a fort. My and Sarah Perkins lived at Triime, "West-View", Grandmother Hill, Mrs.Minos Carmon and Mrs. a magnificent plantation of more than 1,000 acres Buchanan moulded bullets while the men in the on which his son Samuel II built the handsomest fort fired through holes at the Indians. On one country mansion in Williamson county. I expect occasion they saw a large clumsy looking hog the handsomest in the state at the time about approaching th!e blockhouse, or fort, about twi 1857-58. light. They fired at it, and lo, a great big Indian Children of Samuel and Sarah Perkins: rolled over deeid. He had skinned the hog and 1. Thomas Fearn (1809-1887)-married Leah tried to reach the fort unseen presumably to America Cannon clhnb over the palisade and open the gates to the 2. Louisa married Col. Wm. AUison I Indians. Mr. Buchanan and his wife went to a 3. Eliza Mildred married 1.Harding Perkins spring under the bluff of the Cumberland River 2.Ben WilUams S.Will Dawson with buckets to get water. Ambused Indians 4. Mary Ann married John S. Claybrooke caught them and, not having time to kill and 5. Elvira married Gen. James J. Guy scalp, just scalped them and ran pursued by the 6. Sara never married settlers. Grandma Hill said the Buchanans wore 7. Susan Agatha married Col. W.P. Carmon black silk caps as long as they lived, not having Samuel Perkins married Nancy Richardson wigs. in 1827 Minos Cannon's wife Letitita Thompson was 8. Samuel F. Jr. married 1. Susan May 2. an aunt of Jacob Thompson, who was a member Eleanor Rybum Brown of Jefferson Davis' cabinet of the Confederate States. She was also an aimt of John Thompson of Davidson Coimty, who was the father of Col. John and Joseph Thompson, who lives near THE CANNON FAMILY Nashville. Minos Cannon(1756-1829) married Letitia Eleanor Lexington wrote a genealogical Thompson(1754-1852) in 1780. sketch of the Cannon family in which she says Their children were: the name originated with a church office and was spelled Canon. She mentions many prominent 1. Fanny-born 1788 married Samuel Gentry people among them in the early settlement of this and Thomas Gheatham country, among them Mrs. James MonroeJ wife of 2. Lotsy - married a Morton the president whose mother was Hester Cannon. 3. Newtonj-born 1781 married Leah Prior She says they are descended from William the Perkins and Rachel S. Welbum Conqueror through Le. Grand Carmon/ whose 4. Robert | ancestor Lt. William Lambert married a grand 5. Clement-born 1783 married Susan Locke daughter of William the Conqueror. 6. Minos Jr.-born 1795 married Lucinda J. Minos Cannon was born in 1756 in Maryland. White He moved to Guilford Coimty, North Carolina, 7. Thompson and settled near Guilford Court House. He was a soldier in the Continental army in the War of the Governor l^Jewton Cannon, your great, great Revolution which fact is inscripted on his monu grandfather, was born near Guilford Court ment in Williamson County, Tennessee near House North Carolina on May 22,1781. He died Triune. He married in North Carolina to Letitia at his residence in Nashville, Term. Sept. 16,1841. Thompson. At the close of the war about 1781, he He was a Col. in the War of 1812. Yoimg Cannon 84 Williamson County Historical Society Journal has some private trouble with Gen. Andrew 6. Adaline married Maj. Lewis Maney Jackson and resigned., He was a member of 7. Narcissa Welburn Congress from 1816 to 1820 and served as gover 8. Lavina married Maj. Micajah Claiborne nor of Tennessee twice, inspite of the antagonism 9. Mariah Graham married John Haston of Gen. Andrew Jackson> who never forgave a foe 10. Newton Jr died in Confederate Army nor fought a friend. They were political oppo 11. James died in Confederate Army nents-Jackson a Democrat and Carmon a V^g. Cannon had incurred Jackson's dislike when There are many branches of the Perkins fami quite a yoimg lawyer. Once in a lawsuit they ly by other names who are related through mar were opposing counsel. Cannon who many years riage of Perkins women. The Bosticks, his junior, offended him in some way and Edmistons, Pryors, Scales, Bradleys, Baxters, Jackson pointed his finger at him in the court McLemore, DeGraffenreids and countless others. house and said, "Young man, I will mark you." Gen Fountaine DeGraffenreid's wife was They were ever afterwards enemies. Margaret McLemore. Her mother was Margaret Gov. Cannon was twiced married. His first Perkins. John D. McLemore (Bettie House's wife was Leah Perkins, the daughter of William grandfather) married a daughter of Nancy Green Perkins and his wife Margaret Perkins. (Said Perkins, who was a daughter of Daniel Perkins William Perkins was the son of Harding Perkins and Bethenia Perkins, who was his cousin. I of Tennessee and his wife Sarah Price. Said Margaret Perkins was the daughter of Nicholas Supplement on the Perkins Family: PerkinsV of Tennessee and his wife Leah Pryor.) As those families are recorded elsewhere m this Samuel Fearn Perkins and Sarah Leah Perkins writing, you can look back and see that your great grandparents, Thomas F. and America 1. Thomas Fearn Perkins (1809-1887) mar Cannon Perkins were cousins. ried Leah America Carmon A. Samuel F. Perkins(1833-1885) mar Newton Cannon first married Leah Perkins and ried Therese Ewin their children were: B. Newton Cannon Perkins (1835- 1902) married Sallie Todd 1. Leah America (1814rl878) married Thomas C. Louisa Perkins (1836-1850) Feam Perkins in 1833 D. Laura Susan Perkins (1838-1841) Their Children: Louisa, Letitia, Laura, E. Leah Susan Perkins (1841-1858) Samuel E,Newton C.,Thomas E,William C. F. Thomas F. Perkins Jr.(1842-1893) 2. William Perkins (1817-1895) married 1st. married Lousia Cochrane Susan Agatha Perkins G. William Carmon Perkins (1845- Their Children: Leah America, Newton C, 1863) Samuel Perkins 2nd. Mary Elizabeth Ewin 2. Louisa Perkins married Col. William Their Children: William Perkins Jr., John Allison Hhl, Thomas EPerkins, Elizabeth Ewm, A. Samuel Perkins Allison Theresa Ewin, Katherine DeGraffenreid, B. Sarah Alhson Alice Donelson C. James Allison married Margaret Caldwell Newton Cannon secondly married Rachel Welbum D. Thomas F. P. Allison married I.Jane and their children: Marshall 2. Clare Bills E. William Allison 3. Rebecca Letitia (1822-1900) married Richard Whitman Hyde Bostick in 1841 3. Eliza Mildred Perkins married I.Thomas 4. Ann married Benjamin McCuUough H. Perkins 2.U.S. Senator Ben WiUiams 3. 5. Macon married Col. Wm. Brien Judge William Dawson Williamson County Historical Society Journal 85

4. Mary Ann Perkins(1815-1863) married D. Letitia Perkins Jordan married James John S. Claybrooke I King Lytle A. Frederick Claybrooke (1837-1863)! E. Montford Fletcher Jordan(1889-1889) killed in Confederate army F. Eliza 3eth Fletcher Jordan married B. Sarah Claybrooke John Harrison Rees C. Annie Claybrooke (-1922) G. Henijy Ewin Jordan married Venus D. Samuel F. Claybrooke (1864-1910) Wilson E. Mary E. Claybrooke(1847-1873) 2. Elizabethl Ewin Perkins (1860-1918) mar married Jerome P. Humphreys ried Johi^ Hughes Henderson F. Elvira Claybrooke (1850-1844) A. Samuel Henderson (1880-1881) G. Susan Fearn Claybrooke (-1908) B. Thomas Feam Perkins (1882-1966) H. Virginia O. Claybrooke (1856-1945) married Lucile Carter 5. Sarah Perkins C. Theresa Ewin Henderson (1885- 6. Elvirah Perkins married James J. Guy 1941) married Edward Hamilton A. Susan A. Guy D. John Hughes Henderson (1888-1896) B. Ella M. Guy E. Saral. Martin Henderson (1892-1912) 7. Susan Agatha Perkins (1821-1849) F. John Hughes Henderson (1902-) married William P. Cannon married Margaret Heron A. Leah America Caimon married 3. Thomas Feam Perkins (1863-1872) William P. Wilson , 4. Theresa Ewin Perkins (1865-1848) Frajrk B. Newton Cannon married Jennie McEwen Yotmg McGavock C. Samuel P. Cannon married Wilmoth A. Theresa Perkins McGavock married Pointer Booker T. Smiser B. Louisa Gnmdy McGavock married 1. Samuel Feam Perkins and Nancy Richardson William Todd 2. James F. Stokes 5. Samuel Fearn Perkins (1865-1866) 8. Samuel F. Perkins Jr. (1828-1889) 1. Susan 6. Heray Clayton Ewin Perkins(1867-) mar May 2. Eleanor Rybum Brown ried Sadie Bell Tansil A. Theresa McGavock Perkins married Samuel Feam Perkins and Theresa Ewin (dau. of Currin p'ather I Heruy C. Ewin and Elizabeth Hill) B. Marjr Perkins C. Letitia Perkins married Thomas Lyons 1. Leah Letitia Perkins (1859-1910) married D. Henry Ewin Perkins(1899-1899) Leland Jordan E. Saraljv Bell Perkins A. Theresa Ewin Jordan married 7. Newton Cannon Perkins(1869-1924) mar Henry Clayton Rees ried Mary Sam Smithson B. Samuel Perkins Jordan (1881-1914) A. Samuel F. Perkins C. Leland Jordan Jr. married Gertmde 8. Leah ArrJerica Perkins (1872-1875) Watson 9. William liwin Perkins (1874-1874) Capt^ Thomas E Perkins Jr,

Editor's Note: Background information about Thomas F. Perkins Jr. isfrom "Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls"from J. B. Lindsey's MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE: CONFEDERATE. PERKINS'S COMPANY I—Capt. Thomas R burned the wagons and carried off about one- Perkins, Jr., the commander of this compa himdred and fifty mules. A few days afterward ny, was eighteen years old when he entered Perkins's company, on the Charlotte pike near the service in June, 1861, and had just graduated Nashville, surrounded and captured a Federal at the Western Military Institute, at Nashville. He picket post, killing two of the Federals and cap was active in recruitingjfor an artillery company, turing seven. A.M. Davidson,the pilot, was mor of which Richard Greeri was chosen Captain and tally woimded. , himself First Lieutenaht. The battery had six In October, 1862, Perkins's company, in con guns. Shortly after the organization of the com nection with Capt. Hayes Blackburn, burned the pany Capt. Green died, and the command bridge across Big Harpeth, below Franklin,Tenn., devolved upon Lieut. Perkins. It took conspicu and on the same day attacked and defeated a ous part in the first battle at Fort Donelson, los large foraging party, guarded by about three ing eight men killed and fourteen woimded. The hundred infantry, killing and woimding a num men and guns were surrendered, with the other ber of the enemy and capturing one Major, two Confederate troops, at Fort Donelson, but Capt. Captains, one Lieutenant, and fifteen men. Perkins, after three days of imprisonment made In the latter part June, 1863, this company his escape. He came- back to his home in attacked about two hundred of the enemy on Col. John Overton's farm, killed two, captured twenty Williamson Coimty, and lost no time in recruiting whites and about one hundred and fifty negroes, and organizing an independent cavalry company and about one hundred wagons and teams. On of sixty five men. On the day after the organiza the night of the same day, at Franklin, a detach tion of the company, in July, 1862, armed with ment of the company, imder Capt. Perkins, cap eleven shot-guns and about as many pistols all tured a picket post, including the Captain com told, this company, under command of Capt. manding, a Sergeant and a Corporal. Perkins, at Brentwoodi attacked a company of In trying to get South with a number of the Federal cavalry of eighty men-guarding a forag- wagons and prisoners which had been taken in ing-tram of thirty wagons, loaded with corn and the vicinity of Nashville and Franklin, the compa meat taken from the citizens of that neighbor- ny was overtaken about the 1st of July at Pulaski, hood-killed eight of the enemy, captured the and was forced to abandon the prisoners and Captam(Garrett) and sjeventeen of his men. In wagons, losing seven men captured. It was with this action Lieut. Kirby and three of Perkins's difficulty that the company reached the south company were wounded. Perkins's company side of the Tennessee River, being so hard pressed

86 Williamson (Jaunty Historical Society Journal 87 by the enemy. In all these carried to Hilton Head,and operations Capt. Perkins placed in close confine was materially assisted in ment; cut a hole with his the command by his brave pocket-knife through the and dashing officers, Lieuts. floor of the cell and, with John Bostick, M. Kirby, and Cen. Fowlk, of North Sol. Rozell. Carolina, made his escape; In December, 1863, was captured and taken while recruiting in Middle back; again escaped by Termessee under orders putting on a Federal uni from Gen. Wheeler, Capt. form; was again captured; Perkins was captured; was then placed in a log cell incarcerated for fifteen days four feet square, kept then in the jail at Franklin; came about four weeks, and fed near being hanged by the through the cracks, without Federal authorities on the bed-clothing, and with no charge of bush-whacking, room to lie down. About being mistaken for another this time he, with others, man of the same name; was was sent to Fortress sent to the penitentiary at Monroe for exchange. Out Nashville, where he was of the two hundred prison imprisoned about a week; ers originally confined at was carried thence to Hilton Head only about the military prison at ninety-six were able to be Louisville, where he moved, the others being remained four weeks; was Capt. Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. C.S.A. while in either dead or sick. On ordered to Camp Chase, Fort Delaware Prison, June 1864 reaching Fortress Monroe, Ohio, as a prisoner of war; instead of being exchanged, effected his escape at Seymour,Ind., and made his he was carriecJ on to Fort Delaware, where he way back to Louisville, where he was again cap remained till the 20th of Jrme, 1865, when he was tured; was then chained to a thirty-two- pormd released from prison, and returned to his old ball and carried to Camp Chase, where he home in Williamson county. Term. remained two months; thence he was taken to Perkins's company, while on detached ser Fort Delaware; again made his escape through a vice, killed, woimded, and captured about five net-work of guards, and was captured while try hrmdred men of the enemy; and lost in killed, ing to swim the bay with canteens tied about his wounded and jcaptured about twenty-five men,a body for bouys; was selected, with six hundred list of whom, except to a very partial extent, has other Confederate officers, for retalatory purpos been furnished the writer. es, and placed in front of Forts Cregg and Wagner, exposed for forty-eight days to the fire of the Confederate guns; again attempted his escape by trying to swim to shore with the aid of a life-pre Military Prison Louisville, Ky. server; drifted on an island, where,after five days, Jan. 9,1864 he was picked up in a famished conditiorr. In July, 1864, he was sent to Fort Pulaski, at the inouth of Mother & Father the Savannah River. While on the way he again attempted his escape by sawing a hole iu the hull This is the third time I have written to you of the ship; was detected and taken from;the ship since I have been in this prison and have received and placed in the casemate of the fort, where he no answer. I a'm comfortably situated in a warm remained four weeks. With two hrmdrdd others room with plenty of beding & warm clothing and he was again chosen for retaliatory purposes. expect will remain until the time for exchange 88 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

which I hope is not far distant. Fort Delaware, Delaware Col. W.S. Hawkins ;smce my last letter has Jime 3,1864 become my room mate. My health is very good. Weather is cold & disagreeable. Give my best love Dear Mother to all of the family. I am your most obedient son. I have just received your very welcome letter Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. and also the box of clothing expressed on May the 25th. The clothing came in a very needful Prison No 7. Mess 14 time not before. I had nearly supplied muself Camp Chase, Ohio with under-clothing ( being necessary com Feb. 11,1864 pelled) with the money received a few days ago. The clothing fitted and suited me very weU. I Dear Mother wiU send you my photograph as soon as I have an I received your letter on yesterday which is opportunity of having it taken. I have some but they the second that I have received since I left are not good. Give my love to Father. My health was Nashville. I was glad to learn that you were all never better. I would like to be at home to enjoy the well. You spoke of my hot writing often. I have fine summer I suppose you are having. Remember written on an average three times a week. You me to my friends. I am your obedient son. not receiving my letters Is to be attributed to the Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. irregularity of the mail. I have succeeded in procuring a sufficient Fort Delaware, Delaware amoimt of clothing to last me until the winter is June 25,1864 over. My health is good excepting a boil on my neck wliich is very painful. Capt Chisolm will Dear Mother leave this place to return to his home in Florence, I received your letter and the box of provi Alabama. He promised me to call and see you. sions several days ago and would have answered My love to Father. I am your most obedient son. it at the time had it not been that I was waiting Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. for the photograph that I promised the send. The box was a great treat for myself. Everything kept Fort Delaware, Delaware well. The pickles were excellent. My health has May 20,1864 been very good since I last wrote. Give my love to Father. Dear Father I have been eagerly awaiting an answer to I have been anxiously awaiting a reply from two letters I wrote several weeks ago. Enclosed my several letters written in the last four weeks, you will find the photograph it is by no means a but to no avail. I do not attribute it to your non- good one. My friends say that I could not be rec compliance (for Lt. Clouston receives letters from ognized by the picture. So soon as opportunity home regular) but to some enemy of mine con presents itself I will send a facsmile of your son. nected with the mail line who is trying in an Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. underhanded way to glutton his revenge. That one I suppose to be : either at Franklin or Fort Delaware, Delaware Nashville. I do not accuse any one connected to Jrme 5,1864 the military for I too well know how to appreci ate a soldier, to make thejaccusation. I have heard Dear Father nothing from the box and am feeling the want of I have just written to Mother to acquaint the articles it contained (nor having a cent). My you both of a few circumstances that I thought health is good. Lt. Clouston is very unwell. Give necessary for a son to make to such dutiful parents my love to Mother, brother Newton & family, if as you both have been to me. Father please send present. I suppose it wo|uld be best not to send me fifty dollars as I think we wiU probably have to anything more to me as if seems impossible for stay at this place for the summer.You will see from me to receive. I am your devote son. my other letter while I make the request I will Thomas F. Perkins, Capt. C.S.A. assure you that I hate to ask it and will try to be of Williamson Gounty Historical Society Journal 89 little expense as possible while my stay in j prison. Give my love to Mother. I am your most obedient son. Thomas E Perkins, Jr Capt: C.S.A. Lt. Clouston wishes me to enclose a photo graph of himself to be handed to his sisters. I will send mine in a day or two. Your son

Fort Delaware, Delaware Jime 16,1864

Dear Father

Since writing my last letter I have received the m box of clothing sent to me at Camp Chase. I dis posed of the surplus as best to promote my private interest. The box contained the articles prescribed on the list I wrote to you several days ago for another small remittance which I suppose you have not received from your silence. Tbere is no i news of an exchange. My health is very good. Give my love to Mother. I am your most devoted son. Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. CapJ. C.S.A.

Fort Delaware, Delaware T. F. Perkins Jr. as Knight Templar member July 15,1864 I as those I haye received after being washed Dear Mother, became entirely too small. Give my love to Father I have received your letter dated on the 2nd m and all of my relatives. I remain your devoted son. which it seems that my last 2 or 3 letters have not Thomas F. Perkins, Jr been received. I have written to you three times Capt. C.S.A. since I received the money and provisions each time acknowledging the receipt of the sairie. I also Fort Delaware, Delaware enclosed in one of my letters a photograph of July 24,1864 myself, which you will not miss much!by not Mr. Thomas F. Perkins receiving. It was very indifferent. You wished to know how the different articles in the box kept, Dear Father which I can assure you they did well until reach I answered your letter several days ago since ing the hungry clutches of myself and mess where that time Brother Newton has called to see me and there was no quarters shown. You also wished to been refused for what reason I know not. It could know the demenisions of this island which I am not possbUy have been so strictly against orders sorry that I can not give accurately. I suppose there for officers have been indulged in similar cases. are about 80 acres. We(the prisoners) are not His stay was very brief. He did not leave until allowed the privilege of the entire island only offering everything and depositing money with about 2 acres enclosed on three sides by the bar the commander for me, which was done mostly racks facing inwards on the fourth by a very high through mistake. A request of mine that was imin- fence which entirely excludes all external views. tended. Gen. Shoepy wished to know what I Tell Brother Newton that he will be allowed to wished. I replied money,and a hat,(not stating an visit me. Please send me a hat and two overshirts amount, nor knowing that Brother Newton was 90 Williamson County Historical Society Journal near). I wrote immediately after finding out but it only doomed to disappointments. I have been was too late. My letters were returned in a few paroled about three weeks ago. I am afraid that it days afterwards unreceived. I will keep the will be of little use to me, as Richmond is now in money and use it when I need it. I know you the hands of the Federals, which will necessarily think that I am very extravagant and I feel that I delay the exchange for sometime, if not for the am depriving you, wheijiever I make a request for war. We were all much supprised at hearing of money knowing the resources for which you have the fall of our capital, but not disheartened, as to depend on. Give my love to Mother. My health regards to our final success, but rather so as to the has been very good. There is no exchange news. exchange. Their is now in this prison about sev I remain your devoted son. enteen hundred officers and about five thousand Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. privates. It has been rumored in our barracks, that the surplus of prisoners in the hands of the Military Prison Hilton Head,S.C. Federals, would be held at this place, it seems Feb 3,1865 that those, who were non-combatants and bogus Mr. Thomas F. Perkins : officers that never did any real service were more successful than others, that if exchanged would Dear Father have probably placed a different aspect upon the I write to you every'few days without being condition of our national affairs at the present encouraged by a single reply. I remember any day. I am again without money and in much need promise, when leaving IJranklin and will endeav of a few articles, that I could purchase if supplied or to keep it while in prison. My health has been with it. There is nothing on earth but extreme very good since my trarisfer to this department. I necessity could induce me to call on you again wrote you from Ft Pulaski to send me a pair of because I think I can very well guess your condi boots & other articles, which if you have not yet tions relative to finanical matters, knowing the done, will be useless to do. There is very few resources upon which you have to depend. If you packages received by the prisoners here. I am in can conveniently, please send me fifty dollars. We hopes you did not suffer from the invasion of are allowed many privieges here. I admire the Hood's army. I received a letter from Chas. prison and the officers connected with it very Clealand a few days ago stating that you had much. The rations are very short consisting of a some of the woimded 'with you. I am glad to small piece of bread & meat twice per day. My know that the citizens iri & around Franklin were health is very good excepting a very sore mouth, permitted once more to feel the effect of this war. something like the scurvey. Give my love to As regard of my treatment I don't feel at liberty Mother, brothers & sisters. Tell them all to write to give a statement, suffice, to say that it is not me. You are the only corespondent I have had for good. Give my warmest love to Mother. My sometime. I am getting very tired of this kind of regards to my friends. life. I wish that I could change it. Hoping to hear I am your devoted son. from you soon. I remain your obedient son. Thomas F. Perkins,Jr Thomas F. Perkins Capt C.S.A Capt. C.S.A. PS. write to me the news from my company I presume that it is very small. Military Prison Divison 26 Ft Delaware, Delaware Military Prison Ft. Delaware, Delaware April 28,1865 Division 26 April 4,1865 Dear Mother Yoiu" most welcome letter of the 9th was Dear Father received on yesterday. You cannot imagine the I have written to you several times since my feelings of the war worn captive on receiving his return to this prison. T expected at the time of first letter in the last six months from his much writing my last to you That I would have been esteemed Mother. You must excuse me for not south. But it seems to me that my life in prison is speaking of my health in the letter you alluded. It I Williamson Gounty Historical Society Journal 91

was not good at that decide, whether or not to take the oath. There time but never better was about one hundred that refused it. About that at present, My eight thousand expressed a desire to do so. "1" friends say that I am included with jthe majority. The rolls have been much fleshier than I made out and sent to Washington for the action have been since in of the President. We are at present unable to tell prison which I what our future destiny will be. On receiving attribute to the sea your letter I wirote to the A.A. Genl. asking, his sickness on returning advice whether it would be of use for me to ask to this prison. You your assistance to procure a speedy release. I also Judge T. F. Perkins Jr. spoke of being anxious inquired aboull a permit (that I applied for some to see me hoine, you weeks ago) to have clothing sent me. I have not will rmdoubtedly be surprised when I inform you heard from hirti yet as soon as I do I will write. Lt that I expect to return before long. The armies of Clouston sends his regards. He is well. My health the south have been defeated. I no longer look for has been bad. but never better than at present, support from that quarter, consequently I expect Give my love to Mother, Brother Sam & family. to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, Write me the news. I suppose the western sol return home and devote the remainder of my diers have returned to their homes. 1 days in supplying the wants of you and Father. I I am your obedient son. am in hopes that you both will approve of my j Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. course. In the last five days there has been orders received to make out a list of those willing to take the oath as well as those not and forward the list MILITARY PASSES to Washington City in view of speedily releasing i those that desire it. The privates accepted nearly rmanimously. There were fifteen hrmdred officers who expressed a willingness to take it. Five him- Head Quarters U.S. Forces dred refusing. Myself and Lt Clouston went with Franklin, Term. the strong party this time. I am in hopes that I will Dec. 9,1863 never have a cause to repent of the course I have Corporal declared upon pursuing. You will allow Mrs. Perkins to see her son Hoping to hear from you soon and that you Capt Perkins in the presences of a commissioned will not censure me for what I have done. I will officer not othjerwise. close. Gen. Grummdnd I am your devote son. Lt. Col ! Thomas F. Perkins, Jr. Comdy Post ! 11th Regt Termi Cavalry

U.S. Military Prison Ft Delaware, Delaware Officers Barracks Division 26 Head QuartersU.S. Forces May 10,1865 Franklin, Term. Mr. Thomas F. Perkins I Dec. 21,1863 | Corporal | Dear Father You will allow Mr. and Mrs. Perkins to visit I received yours of the 9th on yes|terday.J. I their son Capt Perkins on this pass rmtil further suppose that you have received my letter written orders. about the last of April in which I endeavored to Gen. Grummond explain the status of affairs that are now tran Lt Col. spiring at this place. We have been called upon to Comdy Post Feb. 29th 1855. By referring to the second page of this book it|will be seen that on the 11th day of Februariy 1855 that a congrega tion of disciples was organized for the purpose of worshiping God according to his appointments as revealed in the new and everlasting con- venant. At which time the following appoints were made: Seth Sparkman, who had been acting bishop for the Leiper's Fork congregation for years & who lived in the vicinity of Boston was by the unanimous consent of the Boston congre gation set apart to the ofifice of bishop to act for the Boston congregation. I And William A.Johnson was appointed to act as elder for the congregation until he should be proved to be qualified or be ordamed or for ordination. Likewise William Beasley and Thomas W. Sparkman were appomtejd to act as deacons for the congregation until they should be proved to be qualified to be ordained or for ordination. ' W BEASLEY Clerk

May 13th 1859 was set apart as a day for fast ing and prayer in order Ito the setting apart of overseer and servants of the ordination of an Seth and Rebecca Sparkman Evangelist. Where upon [the following persons were set apart; Thomas W. Sparkman and L.B. Beasley were set apait as overseers and Alexander Dodd and R.J. iHughes were set apart as servants of the church and W.A. Johnson was ordained as an Evangelist: Jno. Jackson Sparkman, Clerk

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NEW BOSTON

Ftibruary the 11th 1855 Being the Second Lord's day

We whose names are hereunto agree to organize as a cong]:egation of our Lord Jesus Christ for the purpose of worshiping according to the holy appointments of God as revealed in the new and everlastirig Covenant.

TARTER MEMBERS

MALE MEMBERS FEMALE ME MBERS

Seth Sparkman 1 Rebecca Sparkman William A. Johnson 2 Rosana Sparkman,sen. William Beasley 3 Isabella Mitchlsl T.W. Sparkman 4 Mary Grimes Jesse J. Sparkman 5 Nelly A. Sparlpnan G.W. Cone 6 Rosana Sparkman,Jtm. V.H. Robinson 7 Matilda Beasley John J. Sparkman 8 Margaret E. Beasley L.B. Beasley 9 Martha J. Johnson John H,Shannon 10 Margaret Cone William T. Sparkman 11 Martha H. Bopd Seth C. Sparkman 12 Emily D. Sparkman Samuel T. Sparkman 13 Rebecca J. Spalrkman William L. Sparkman 14 Jane C. Dodd 15 Elizabeth Johnson 16 Elizabeth Burns 17 Margaret Burns

MALE MEMBERS FEMALE MEMBERS

Seth Sparkman-died Oct.8,1884 Rebecca Sparkman- died April 20,1883 J.H. Sparkman 2 Rosana Sparkman William L. Sparkman- 3 Emily Sparkm an took letter to Lick Creek Seth C. Sparkman- Rebecca J. Sparkman took letter to Lick Creek William T. Sparkman 5 Jane C. Dodd-died May 5,1885 Samuel T. Sparkman 6 Elizabeth Burns Jesse Brown 7 Margaret T.Spjarkman Alexander Dodd 8 Mary A. Browp James Litton-moved off without letter 9 Sarah C. Sparkman James Litton Jr.-removed without letter 10 Lucinda Sparkman-membership at Lick Creek Thomas Prowell 11 Sarah Lock-membership at Leiper's Fork J.R. Wood/Sen. 12 Sally Dodd J.R. Wood. Jun.-moved without letter 13 Mary Skelly-moved without letter 94 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

J.B. Andrews 14 Rosana B. Polk-gone not where James lock-moved without letter 15 Charity B. Polk-died Dec. 21,1881 Marin Robinson-went to Methodist 16 Rebecca L. Blackwell-gone without letter Thomas Brown 17 Marisis Godwin W.C. Wall 18 Ellen Godwin John Polan 19 Margaret Wood-gone without letter Z.W. Beasley 20 A.P. Hassell John Wood-moved without letter 21 F.F. Hassell William Burns-died April 12,1883 22 Jane Sparkman Brown Godwin-sent a letter 23 Elizabeth Robinson-went to Methodist Tailor Jones-moved without letter 24 Emma Brown-gone without letter Carrel Dodd-moved without letter 25 J.M. Brown-gone McDonald Sparkman 26 Mit McLm-gone without letter John Holt 27 Luvunda Skelly G.W Pardner-moved with letter 28 Jane Holt-gone without letter James Skelly-excluded '■ 29 Nancy Wilks-left without a letter Richard Polk-moved to jLitton Schoolhouse 30 Fannie Polk-sent letter ^ J.T. Wilks-gone without]letter 31 Emeline Mealer W Shannon-gone withojut letter 32 Adaline Mealer William Shannon-gone to Methodist 33 Ally Mealer-gone without letter James Polk ! 34 Ida Sparkman J.W Gregory-gone withput letter 35 S.E. Beasley W.C. Skelly : 36 S Hargrove F.C. Litton-gone to Methodist 37 Rosana Sparkman B.S. Polk-gone without letter 38 Mary Robinson G.W Mealer 39 E. Prowell M.S. Wilks-gone without letter 40 Jane Godwin R.F.G. Blackwell : 41 Nettie Godwin R.R. Wall-went to Methodist 42 Betty Sparkman J.P. Leaper-gone without letter 43 Dove Polan C.N. Sparkman-sent lettpr 44 Elizabeth Polk Alexander Skelly-moved to Beasley's Chapel 45 Lucy Prowell J.L. Polk-sent letter : 46 Lucasy Skelly J.H. Robinson-gone to l^ethodist 47 Rebecca Pardner-gone without letter Thomas Shaw-excluded 48 H.R.C. Lock-withdraw from B.C. Wilks-sent letter ] 49 M.F. Gregory-gone without letter Daniel Olingo-immoral conduct-withdrawn 50 M.A.S. Lock-gone without letter William Brown-excludek 51 M.A. Mealer Tolbert Dodd-gone without letter 52 P.G. Wood Gaines Grimes-gone without letter 53 E.J. McKee-gone without letter R.M. Brown-sent a letter 54 S.G. Brown George Brown, Jr.-sent l|etter 55 . Gully Polk J.W. Beckett-moved to llick Creek 56 Nancy Blackwell M.E. Little-went to Methodist 57 Dory Hedgpeth-joined at Lick Creek John Robirdes 58 M.E. Wilkins-moved to Leiper's Fork A.C. Beasley ; 59 S.S. Hassel S.J. Coats-sent letter ! 60 S.B. Fergerson John Mealer 61 A.E. Hassel H.C. Vick-went to Methbdist 62 A.G. Brown J.E. Abies ; 63 M.E. Brown Williamson County Historical Society Journal 95

J.M. Sparkman 64 S.E. Skelly-died 1887 Tom Little-went to Methodist 65 LB. Little-serit letter Tolbert Sparkman-sent Ietter-Jan25,1880 66 Lucy Little-glDne without letter Ivrey Grigrey-gone without letter 67 Emly Wilks-sent letter W.B. Young-died sudden after immersiori 68 Mildred Godwin W.C. Waller 69 Maggie Wilks William Stinnett-excluded 70 Sallie Beaty-sent a letter Southern Harper-died May 20,1886 71 L. Lock-moved to Leiper's fork William F. Stirmett 72 Amanda Olingo William Polan 73 Fannie Olingo Thomas Goodgine 74 Sara A. Robairds William Mitchel-gone without letter 75 Sallie Bet. Beasley William Grigory-went to Texas 76 Susan E. Robjinson Sephus Shaw 77 Mary V. Sparkman WJ. Beasley-moved to Linden 78 Salie Hawk Hardin Skelly-gone without letter 79 Ema R. Sha\y-gone without letter J.H. Mealer 80 Maryan Mealer Robert Moor 81 Lena Johnson-went to the Baptist Tom Johnson 82 Mahaley McKay Gus Skelly 83 Termy B. Coats-died 1887 Sisrow Skelly 84 Emea E. Brojvn Ross Sparkman 85 Mary Hargrove Baily Heley 86 Nana Little-\jvent to Methodist E.R Beasley 87. Amer. Sparkman-sent a letter George Mitchel 88 Anna Mealer-gone Gim Stirmett-gone M.E. Church 89 Javis Vick-excluded Will Mealer-gone to M.E. Church 90 Ellea Stinnet H. Vick-excluded 91 Milinda Mackay-gone without letter James Sparkman 92 Nanea Robards J.M. Robison 93 Jane R.D. Co'ats-gone without letter

94 Catherine Stinnet 95 Jeane Mckay-gone without letter 96 Mathan Coner-gone to Methodist 97 Melvina Yoimg 98 Fana Brown 99 Fana Butler-sent letter 100 Jane Goodgine 101 Caroline Mit:chel-moved on bad conduct 102 Rebeck M Stinnet-gone without letter 103 Maria A. Poljan 104 Ida Skelly-gone without letter 105 Mary Grigryj-gone without letter 106 Aley Johnson- gone without letter 107 Susie Jane Robinson 108 Suya Kelley 109 Fibey Gilbert 110 Becky J. Morer 111 Roda Johnson 112 Sudeler Prowell 113 Martha A. B:'own 114 Maggie Olingo 115 A. Sparkman 116 Elir Robison 117 Lizzie Polan 118 Ea Sparkman 96 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

RECEPTION OF MEMBERS BY CONFESSION October 16,1855 AND BAPTISM Martha J.E. H. Robinson came forward and professed faith in the Savior and was baptized for Aug. 16,1855 ! the remission of sins and on the 21st of the same John P. Beasley was received in the Christian month she received the righthand of fellowship. congregation at Boston.! To whom likewise the W. Beasley, Clerk. right-hand if fellowship[was extended upon the same. W.Beasley, Clerk ; July 27,1856 Elizabeth A. McBride came forward and was John S. Grimes came forward and professed received into the Christian congregation at faith in the savior & was baptized the 28th, and Boston. To whom also the righthand of fellow received the righthand of fellowship the 31st. W. ship was extended the same day. W.Beasley, Beasley, Clerk Clerk James T. Sparkman Came forward and was July 29,1856 received into the congregation at Boston and the James Little, Sen. and James Little, Jun & Nancy right hand of fellowship was extended to him. W. Little, Tabitha J. Grimes,Ellen J. Hargrove and Sarah Beasley, Clerk , E. Sparkman came forward and confessed the Racheal Locke came forward & acknowl Savior and were baptized the 30th and received the edged her faith in the Savior and on the 17th was righthand of fellowship the 31st. W. Beasley, Clerk baptized and received the right hand of fellow ship. W. Beasley, Clerk i July 30,1856 James Munroe Holt came forward professed August 17,1855 the faith of the Gospel and was baptized the 31st Orran L. Davis came forward & professed received the righhand of fellowship the same faith in the savior and on the 18th was^baptized day. W. Beasley, Clerk and on the 19th received the right hand of fel lowship. W. Beasley, Clerk July 31,1856 Reese R Hughes came forward & confessed August 18,1855 , the savior and was baptized & received the right- William Bond came| forward confessed the hand of fellowship on the 3rd of August. W. savior and was baptized for the remissions of Beasley, Clerk sins and on the 19th received the righthand of fel lowship. W.Beasley, Clerk August 1,1856 Elizabeth T. Hughes came forward was bap August 19,1855 ! tized and received the righthand of fellowship on Alexander Dodd cam^ forward and confessed the 3rd. W. Beasley, Clerk the Savior and was baptized for the remissions of James Aldridge came forward was baptized sins and on the 9th of September received the and received the rightand of fellowship on the righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Clerk 3rd. W. Beasley, Clerk

August 20,1855 ! May 31,1857 Mary A. Brown came forward and confessed Lucinda Aldridge and Jane Alridge came for the savior and on the 21st of the same was bap ward & confessed the savior & on the 1st of Jime tized and on the 26th of the same she received the were baptized & received the righthand of fel righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Clerk lowship. W.Beasley, Clerk Elizabeth Gregory came forward and pro fessed her faith in the Savior and on the 21st was Jrme 1,1857 baptized for the remission of sins and on the 9th Minerva Newcum was admitted to member of Sept she received the righthand of fellowship. ship at Boston & received the righthand of fel W. Beasley, Clerk lowship. W. Beasley, clerk Williamson County Historical Society Journal 97

June 7,1857 Sept 2,1858 Wiley E. Beasley came forward confessed the EHza Little came forward confessed the Savior Savior and was baptized & on the 14th received and on the 3rd was baptized and on the 5th received the righthand of fellowship. He had jbeen a the righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Clerk Methodist for about 35 years & a classleader for a considerable time. W. Beasley, Clerk Sept. 5,1858 Hester and Mahala(slaves of Seth Sparkman) Sept 3,1857 came forward,confessed the Savior & were bap- Thomas W. Prowell came forward confessed tized and on t re 12th received the righthand of the Savior & was baptized and on ^he 6th fellowship. W.Beasley, Clerk received the righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Clerk Sept 4,1858 Charlotte slave) was restored to member- Jime 11,1858 ship. W. Bealsey, Clerk Sampson Prowell came forward & confessed the Savior & was baptized & on the 20th received Sept 2,1858 the righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Clerk Samuel Siriith, Thankful Smith & Mary A. M.Jenkins were restored to membership. W. July 28,1858 Beasley, clerk William Aldridge came forward confessed the Savior and was baptized & received trie right- July 28,1860 hand of fellowship August 1st. W. Beasley Nathan A. Sparkman was baptized and on the Elizabeth Aldridge came forward confessed 5th of August received the rigrithand of fellow the Savior and was baptized & received the right- ship. J. Jackson Sparkman, Clerk hand of fellowship August 1st. W. Beasley, Clerk Sept 30,1860 Jany 30,1858 Harriet Bryant was immersed Sept 30 and Peter Daniel came forward desiring to unite received the righthand of fellowship Oct 6th. J. with the brethren & received the righthand of fel Jackson Sparkman, Clerk lowship. W. Beasley, Clerk. Oct 1,1860 August 30,1858 Ann Grirties was baptized Oct 1st and Thomas Bryant, Tennsess Bryant, Julia Bailey received the righthand of fellowship Oct 6th. J. & Lucinda Sparkman came forward ccinfessed Jackson Sparkman, Clerk the Savior & were baptized and on the! 2nd of Sept received the righthand of fellowship the 5th Oct 3,1860 of Sept. W. Beasley, clerk Nathaniel Butt and Martha A. Gresham were baptized Oct 2rd and received the righthand of August 31,1858 fellowship Oct 6th. Elizabeth Adams came forward confessed the Savior and was baptized and on the 2nd of Sept Oct 4,1860 received the righthand of fellowship. W. Beasley, Nancy Ferguson came forward and was bap Clerk tized and November 18th received the righthand of fellowship. Sept 1,1858 Kiza Adams was baptized Oct 4th and Elizabeth V.T. Carson and Nancy AIdridge received the righthand of fellowship. J.Jackson came forward confessed the Savior & were bap Sparkman, Clerk tized and Mrs. Aldridge received the righthand of fellowship the 2nd of Sept & Mrs. Carson Oct 11,1863 received it the 5th of Sept. W. Beasley Danny Turner confessed his Savior and was 98 Williamson County Historical Society Journal immersed and afterwards received the righthand May 29,1870 of fellowship. J. Jackson Sparkman. Clerk John B. Cotheran was received in the church without baptism being satisfied with his former Oct 13,1863 I baptism May 29th 1870. J.R. Wood, Clerk. Luivisia Dodd confessed her Savior and was baptized and afterwards received the righthand Sept 11,1870 of fellowship. J.Jackson Sparkman, Clerk J.R. Brook, J.B. Andrews, James Lock, Mrs. Brook, Sally Ann Brown confessed their Savior Sept 27,1864 | and received the righthand of fellowship. J.R. Sarah Burns confesse^d her Savior & baptized Wood, Clerk & afterwards recieved the righthand of fellow ship. Seth C.Sparkman, Clerk Nov 9,1873 Ellen Godwin, Margret E. Wood, A.P. Hassel, Oct 4,1866 I F.F. Hassel, Elizabeth Robinson, Emme Brown, Wm. M. Sparkman jconfessed his Savior & J.M. Brown, M.A. McLin, Luvinda Skelly con was baptized & received!the righthand of fellow fessed their Savior and received the righthand of ship the 8th of Oct i fellowship. J.R. Wood, clerk Alice Wilkes & Fannih Wilkes confessed their Savior & were baptized & received the righthand Jult 27,1874 of fellowship Oct 8th. Jolm P. Beasley, clerk Marian Roberson, James Hassel, James Page , G Ayers confessed their Savior and received the Oct 7,1866 I righthand of fellowship. J.R. Wood, Clerk James Sparkman & John W. Wilkes confessed their Savior & were baptized & received the right- Nov. 22,1874 hand of fellowship Oct 8th. John P. Beasley, Clerk Thomas Brown, William Stinet, W.C. Wall, Rebecca J. Roberson, Nancy Wilks, Farmy Polk, Oct 8,1866 I Jane Holt confessed their Savior and received the J. R. Wood,Jr. & Sallih Dodd, M.P. Sparkman, righthand of fellowship. J.R. Wood, Clerk Wm. G. Brown, Sarah Lpck, Wm. Poiner & M.P. Poiner confessed their Savior & were baptized & Sept 15,1878 received the righthand!of fellowship the same John Holt, G.W Partner, William Bryant, J.T. day. John P. Beasley, Clerk Wilks, Lige Bate, J. Bryant, Richard Polk, H.C. Garner, Cornelios Bryant, James Grimes, William Nov 11,1867 I Moor, Mrs. Bates, Elizabeth Polk confessed their Robt. Noolin, P.O. Npolin, F.J. Yank confessed Savior and were Baptized and received the right- their Savior & were baptized & received the hand. J.R. Wood, Clerk righthand of fellowship Nov 18, 1867. John P. Beasley, clerk i Sept 21,1879 R.A. Hassell having been baptized by the Lucy O. Prowell, Sarah Holt confessed their Methodist confessed the Savior was not baptized Savior and was emerst and received the right & received the righthand of fellowship Nov 18th. hand of fellowship. J.R.Wood, Clerk John Brown confessed his Savior &. was bap William Shannon was received in to the church on his former Baptism by the Methodist. Johntized P.& Beasley, received Clerk the righthand| of fellowship, January 1881 Sept 12,1869 R.M. Brown & Sister Seley and M.A. Brown Jas. Robinson, Sara Hedsbeth, Rebecca L. was received in to the church by a letter. Z.W. Blackwell, Charity B. Polk, Melviny Hargrove Beasley.Clerk confessed their Savior & received the righthand of fellowship. John P. Beasley August 1882 Williamson County Historical Society Journal 99

Saley B. Little & Lucrey Little and Emily This is to certify that Mary T. Beasley was admit Wilks confessed their Savior and was emi^rst and ted into fellowship with the congregation at received the righthand of fellowship. | Boston by a letter of commendation given by the J.W. Beckett, M.E. Little and Mildred Godwin Church at Liberty Sept 19th 1858. W.Beasley, and Maggie Wilks and Saley Bailey anjd Lizzy Clerk Lock and A. Olingo, Fannie Olingo confess their Savior and was emerst and received the right- Copy of the Letter-State of Termessee-Maury hand. Z.W. Beasle, Clerk Cormty- For aU persons to whom this may be presented it is| certified that Mary T, White now December 25,1882 consort of William Beasley is a member of the John Robards and wife confessed their Savior Christian Chmch at Liberty and in good standing and was emerst and received the rightfland of & is worthy th'e fellowship of the brethren wher fellowship. Z.W. Beasley, Clerk ever she may wish to be united done by order of the Church at Liberty this Sept 19th, 1858. Burton August 28,1885 Warfield, Clerjc Ida Skelly and Mary Grigory Alls Johnson, Susie Kelly, Sara J. Robinson, Harda Skelly, J.H. This is to certify that Mary A. Wilks was admitted Mealer confessed their Savior and was baptized into full fellojwship with the congregation at imder the preaching of Bro Charley Sparkman Boston by a letter of commendation given by the and Bro Gin Litton. Z.W. Beasley, Clerk Church1866. J.P. at Beasljey, Columbia, Clerk Tennessee on March 11th August 1886 Bro Lem Johnson and Sister Roda Johnson This is to certify that Bro. Jas. M. Truett and Sister confessed ther Savior and baptized uiider the Caroline Truett was admitted into full fellowship preaching of Bro. Gin Litton. with the congregation at Boston by a letter of commendation given by the Church at Totty's Oct 17,1886 Bend (Hickma^ County) April 11, 1866. Copy of Sister Prowell and Sirrow (Cicero) Skelley the Letter- To'tty's Bend, Tenn.-We give to the and Gus Skelley confessed their Savior and was congregation at Boston the following recommen baptized imder the preaching of Bro Gin Litton. dation of Bro. Jas. M & Sister Caroline Truett for merly members of the Christian Church at this July 24,1887 place. Sister Truett from the time she enlisted into Martha A. Brown and Ross Sparkm^an con- the service of our heavenly Master she lived a fessed thar Savior and was baptized under the pious orderly member and was in good standing preaching of Bro Gin Litton. at the time of her removal to your vicinity. Bro. Truett duriag the trouble that we have recently August 27,1887 passed through became lukewarm but he has Bro Gin Litton and Bro Brooks held a protracted nobly come fo'rward and made acknowlegement meeting at Sycamore and had one addition BUey in order for restoration. Johnson H. Totty, E.M. KeUey confessed the Savior and was baptized. Baird, M.L. Wlliams

RECEPTION OF MEMBERS BY LETTER This is to certify that Bro. J.R. Wood & Sister BOSTON WILLIAMSON COUNTY,TENNESSEE Wood were ad mitted into full fellowship with the congregation at Boston on the first day of Oct This is to certify that Margaret E. Beasley was 1866 they having lived in the neighborhood for admitted into fellowship with the congregation sometime were admitted without a letter. John P. at Boston by a letter of commendation given by Beasley, Clerk the Church at Dunlap April 21,1855 in Hickman County. This is to certify that Nancy M. Moor was admit W. Beasley, Clerk ted into full fellowship with the congregation at 100 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Boston on the 30 day ojfjune 1872 by a letter of May 16,1882 R.M. Brown, Sely, M.A. George commendation given by|the Church at Leiper's Brown Fork Williamson Coimtyj in September 1869. J.R. July 8,1883 Sally Bett Bailey Wood, Clerk Sept 21,1884 Lidya Bulter

This is to certify that Ida Sparkman was admitted MEMBERS EXCLUDED FROM FELLOWSHIP into full fellowship with the congregation at Boston on the 15th day I^Iovember 1874 by a let August 24,1856John H. Shannon having aposta ter of commendation given by the Church at tized from the faith, was withdrawn from, there Nashville, Term May 1874, J.R. Wood, Clerk by excluded from fellowship.

This is to certify that R.M. Brown and A.G. anf Aug 23,1857 Jesse D. Brown charged with mis M.E. Brown was admitted into full fellowship treating his family by being too intimate with the with the congregation by a letter of commenda opposite sex in an unlawfiil manner & refusing to tion given by the Churcla at Berea. This January comply with the requisitions of the law of Christ 16,1881. Z.W Beasley, Clerk to the satisfaction of the church was excluded from the fellowship of the Church at Boston. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION BY THE Also Racheal Lock charged with being too CHURCH AT BOSTON I intimate with Jesse D. Brown was excluded from fellowship. Sept 10,1855 N.T. Robipson Also Elizabeth Gregory charged with being Oct 21,1855 Martha E.H. Robinson too intimate with her opposite sex was Jan 17,1858 Martha F, Bond excluded from fellowship. Oct 5,1858 William Beasley and wife, Mary T. Also Monroe Holt charged with intemberance Beasley | was excluded from fellowship May 1,1859 Peter Daniel Oct 17,1859 W.A. Johnson and wife, Martha J. April 15,1859 Mahala(slave) having apostalized Johnson ; from the faith was withdrawn from and thereby Nov 15,1859 John S. Grimes and wife, Mary excluded from fellowship. Grimes ; Sept 16,1860 Nancy Aldridge, WiUiam Aldridge, MEMBERS RECLAIMED AFTER BEING wife, Eliza:beth Aldridge, James EXCLUDED Aldridge,jane Aldridge Nov 4,1860 Margaret fdasker April 7,1855 Lucinda Thompson who was on Dec 15,1861 L.B. Beasley and wife, M.E. Beasley the 11 day of February 1855 excluded from fel Oct 26,1862 Elizabeth Hughes lowship and who at that time stood connected Feb 28,1868 Harriet Bryant with the Leiper's Fork congregation & who lived Nov 1,1868 Wm M. Sparkman in the vicinity if the Boston congregation was Nov 4,1872 James S, Sparkman restored to her former standing in the congrega March 27,1874 John P. Beasley and wife, Sarah E. tion at Boston after making the necessary Beasley | acknowledgement in reference to the conduct she Nov 9,1874 James H.\|Vilks and wife and had allowed herself to indulge in. W. Beasley, daughter ; Clerk Dec 8 1879 Nancy Wilks no date given Jas. H. Wilkes who was formerly a Aug 23,1880 James Page and wife' member of the Christian Church at Columbia July 17,1881 Joseph Polk and wife. Charity and Tennessee & having been excluded from fellow Fanny, Baijkley, Elizabeth Polk ship with the Disciples at that place he having Aug 21,1881 John Moor moved in the vicinity of the Boston congregation Jan 20,1882 Toley Dodjd was restored to his former standing in the con March 9,1882 L.E. Bingham gregation at Boston after making the necessary Williamson County Historical Society }c urnal 101 acknowledgements in reference to the conduct he Jime 5,1855 'our dollars were paid out for had allowed himself to indulge in. ^ ohn P. bacon for the benefit of William Bond and family. Beasley, Clerk W.Beasley, Clei'k

MEMBERS UNITING WITH THE SECTS Jvme 13,1855 One dollar and twenty-five cents expended for wine. W. Beasley. Clerk August 1856 Ehzabeth J. Johnson forsook the faith of the disciples and united with the July 10,1855 Two doUars and fifty cents were Methodist. W.Beasley, Clerk distributed for com for the relief of Sister Mary Grimes and family. W. Beasley, Clerk July 1859 Elizabeth Adams forsook the faith of the disciples and united with the Get 17,1855 Sixty cents were paid out for beef Methodist. for the benfit of William Bond and family. W. Beasley, Clerk DEATHS OF MEMBERS Get 28,1855 pne dollar and ninety-five cents Feb 12,1858 Matilda Beasley died ageci thirty- were paid out for the benefit of Bro. William Bond one years ten months and sevendays having a and family. W.Beasley, Clerk member of the Christian Church eight years five months and twenty-seven days Baptized August Jany 7,1856 Ihree dollars and twenty cents 16,1849 were paid out for clothing for the benefit of Sister Isabella Mitchel. W. Beasley, Clerk May 1859 Sampson Prowell died May 1,1856 pne dollar & ten cents expended February 1861 Rosana Sparkman died for wine. W. Beasley, Clerk

July 24,1874 William Skelly died July 15,1856 Four dollars & fifteen cents were invested in the|purchase of ewer at $2.25 & $1.90 November 7,1874 Nancy M. Moss died for table cloth & c. W.Beasley. Clerk

September 19,1876 Jesse J. Sparkman died Get 13,1856 drty dollars were paid to Brethren Lee & Hardison for ministerial June 3,1877 Priscilla Wood died services. W. Be asley. Clerk

February 26,1879 Mary Wilks died Dec 18,1856 pne dollar and fifty cents paid for wine. W. Beasley, clerk August 21,1879 Nelly A. Sparkman died March 2,1857 ive dollars were paid out for gro- DISTRIBUTIONS WHEN HOW MUCH AND ceries for Mrs. Wright FOR WHAT PURPOSE DISTRIBUTED May 2,1857 Three dollars & eighty cents were March 6,1855 Three dollars & seventy cents paid out for clothing for Bro James were expended for sugar and coffee for the bene Aldridge fit of William Bond who was sick & like-Jvise for benefit of his family consisting of two sisters & Jime 3,1857 i'ive dollars Bro Green Hill two little brothers. W. Beasley, Clerk $3.75 received for ministerial services

March 19,1855 Eight dollars were paid out for Jime 3,1857 Twelve dollars were paid to two barrels of corn for the benefit of Mary Brother Trimble for minsterial services Grimes & family. W. Beasley, Clerk 102 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

Oct 7,1857 One dollar & seventy-five cents Oct 2,1860 Paid Bro Sewell fifteen dollars paid for wine Oct 4,1860 Paid Bro Bantan ten dollars . Nine

Feb '1,1858 Five dollairs I Bro Hale received for dollars out of the weekly contributions and one ministerial services two dollars of which were dollar by G.T. Southall taken from the weekly contributions. Dec 16,1860 Paid Bro Stephen Ricks five dol May 16,1858 Seventy-five cents were paid out lars for wine. Dec 30,1860 Paid Bro James Little two dollars Oct 3,1858 William ^easley delivered to John for keeping the house in order Jackson Sparkman the keeping of the records for the Church at Boston i May 9,1861 Paid Bro James Little three dollars for keeping the house in order November 22,1858 Ohe dollar and fifty cents paid out for wine ' Oct 12,1861 Paid Bro D. Games ten dollars for ministerial services April 13,1859 Paid Brother R.J. Hughes five dol lars for keeping the house in order for 1858 out of Oct 12,1861 Paid Bro Andrew Sites eight dol weekly contributions. I lars for ministerial services

April 18,1859 Four dollars and thirty cents was Oct 12,1861 Paid Bro Robert Trimble five dol paid out for clothing forj Sister Eliza Little lars towards supporting him as an evangelist Jime 29,1859 Paid seven dollars and twenty cents for shoes for Sister Grimes Nov 7 1861 Paid Bro James Little two dollars Paid three dollars and seventy cents for for keeping the house in order flour and meal for Bro. Peter Daniel. i April 30,1862 Paid Bro James Little eight dollars Sept 28,1859 One doll'ar and forty cents for for keeping the house in order wine j May 4,1862 Paid Bro Trimble ten dollars out of Oct 1,1859 Four dollars and 80 cts paid out weekly contribution for candles August 29,1862 Bro E.G. Sewell ten dollars Oct 11,1859 Two dollars and twenty-five cents out of weekly contribution was paid out ! of the weekly contributions to Bro. Goladall Sept 29,1862 Paid Bro Trimble ten dollars out of weekly contribution Oct 11,1859 Fifteen dbllars was paid to Bro. Goodall for ministerial Iservices. Twelve dollars December 1862 Paid Bro James Little two and 75 cts was paid by different person. dollars for keeping the house in order for the pre sent year Nov 18,1859 Paid Sister Mary Grimes five dollars Jan 12,1864 Paid Sister Jane Aldridge five dol Feb 5,1860 Paid Bro| James Litton three dol lars to buy family supplies lars for keeping the houke in order May 2,1864 Thirty-six dollars and sixty-five Sept 24,1860 Paid Bro.James Litton for keeping cents in confederate money and other uncurrent house ia order $2.50 i fimds handover to S. Sparkman which he is to Williamson County Historical Society Journal 103 accoiint to the congregation at Boston fdr what Feb 24,1868 Paid for wine three dollars seven ever it brings ty-five cents

May 2,1864 Three dollars and ten cents on Jime 22,1868 Paid for clothing for Bro Brown hand in worthless funds and destroyed four dollars anjd twenty-five cents

May 17,1864 Paid Bro Robert Trimble twenty Oct 8,1868 Paid for clothing for John Brown dollars six dollars and mnety cents

Sept 27,1864 This is the first day Seth C. Oct 11,1868 Paid for candles for church two Sparkman first taken charge of this book dollars

Sept 29,1864 Gave Bro James Pickens five dol Dec 1868 Paid for wine $3.50 lars for ministerial services July 1869 Paid Brother Wm. Sell by Brother Feb 9,1965 Paid five dollars for wine Seth Sparkmari fifteen dollars Paid by Bro Seth Sparkman to Brother E. April 22,1865 Paid Bro. G.Y. Sewel ten dollars Sewell fifteen dollars for ministerial services Nov. 1869 Paid for wine $4.00 Sept 30,1865 Paid Liddy Brown for waiting on Sister Mitchel two dollars Jan 1870 Paid for clothing for John Brown $7.85 Nov 24,1865 Paid Brother James Pickens ten dollars for ministerial services May 1870 Paid for makiag clothes shoes and For wine Brother Seth Sparkman fur pants $9.10 for John Brown nished the church $10.00 Paid for candles $1.00 Paid to James Wilks for taking care of Paid toI Sister Blackwell for waiting on Sister Mitchel Sister Mitchel ^5.00 Paid Brother Caldwell for ministerial ser March 4,1866 Delivered book to Brother John P. vices $15.00 Beasley Jrme 1870 Paid for candles $1.50 April 26,1866 Paid to Bro James Wilks fdr taking care of Sister Mitchel $7.00 June 1870 Paid to Brother John Morton for ministerial services $15.00 Oct 8,1866 Paid Brother Joe Brown $15.00 for ministerial services Sept 2,1870 Paid for lamps & oil for Boston Church $15.00 May 18,1867 Paid for wine $3.50 Paid to Brother James Morton for ministe- rial services May 23,1867 Paid by Brother Seth Sparkman to Brother Siderier five dollars for Oct 1870 Paid to Sister Brooks for taking ministerial services care of Sister Mitchel $8.00

Nov 1867 Paid for glass and putty to repair June 12,1871 Paid to Bro W.H. Dixon for minis the Church at Boston three dollars and five cents terial service $18.00 Paid Sister Hassel $.650 Paid for wine $1.00 Jan 1868 Paid Jas. Truett for taking care of Sister Mitchel $20.00 Dec. 1871 Paid for wine $3.00 104 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

June 27,1872 Paid for oil fifty cents Aug 15,1878 Paid to P.M. Davis for ministerial Paid Bro Lane for ministerial services services $20.00 $10.00 To amount paid for books for church $2.70 Apr 1873 Paid for wine $3.00 Oct 23,1878 Paid for oil for church fifty cents May 27,1873 Paid to Bro John Smithson for ministerial services $10.00 Feb 1879 Paid for wine $2.00

Oct 22,1873 Paid for oil ninety cents Sept 20 1879 Paid for can and oil $1.85

Mar 1874 Paid Brother John Smithson for Nov 23,1879 Paid to Brother James Litton $4.00 ministerial services $30.00 Paid to Brother Wm.Anderson $5.00 i April 1874 Paid for Wine $3.00 Dec 5,1879 Paid to T.W. Sparkman $10.00 i May 30,1874 Paid to Bro Lawrence $2.80 Dec 11,1879 Paid for wine $2.00

July 31,1874 Paid to M|.F. Smithson for ministe Jan 1,1880 Paid for lock and matches fifty rial services $40.00 cents

Nov 13,1874 Paid for oil seventy-five cents July 15,1880 Paid for coal oil seventy-five cents

Nov 27, 1874 Paid for wine $3.00 July 22,1880 Paid to Brother Harden for to build a meeting house 75 Nov 27,1874 Paid for Hymn books $3.00 July 23,1880 Paid to Brother P.M. Davis for Feb 1875 Paid to Bro M.F. Smithson $5.00 ministerial services $10.00 Paid for a testarnent for Bro Stinet and lamp wicks for church $1.40 July 25,1880 Paid to Brother Polan $5.00 Paid to Brother James Litton for minister Feb 26,1876 Paid for Wine $3.50 ial services $10.00

Jan 24,1877 Paid SethiSparkman $8.00 Aug 1,1880 Paid for wine $2.00 Paid for chimney and oil $1.80 EVANGELIST EMPLOYED AND AMOUNT Aug 11,1877 Paid for wine $2.50 PAID THEM EACH YEAR

Aug 23,1877 Paid to Bro. P.M. Davis ,Bro Lee, 1855 For the year 1855 G.W. Cone was evange Bro Anderson $25.00 | list for the Church at Boston and vicinity and was Paid for wine thirty cents paid one hundred dollars by the congregation at

I Boston. W.Beasley, Clerk Jime 8,1878 To amount paid for wine $1.75 1858 The 1858 the congregation at Boston gave July 22,1878 To cash paid to Brother Polan Brother W.A.Johnson the righthand of fellowship $5.00 ' that he should go and preach and paid him the I sum of one himdred and twenty dollars Aug 8,1878 To lamp oil & chimney ninety cents And on his return made the following report; Paid to Bro M.F. Smithson for ministerial Absent from home one hrmdred and thirty-seven services $25.00 ' days, spoke one hundred and seventy-two Williamson County Historical Society Journal 105

times, travelled about fifteen himdred miles, 1880 Brother Davis and Brother Litton held a visited about one hundred families, added about protracted meeting embracing the third and seventy to the churches where he travelled fourth Lord's days in July and added ninteen to mostly by confession and baptizm ,visited the the Church by Confession and baptism following congregations: Liberty, Cathey's Creek in Maury Coimty, Totty's Bend, Beaverdam, 1882 Brotheij Godwin and Bro. Charley Dunlap, Little Roak and Pinewood in Kbckman Sparkman arid Bro Gin Litton held a Coimty,Linden in Perry Coimty, and Charlotte in protracted meeting at Boston on the fourth Dixon Countyreceived from the brethren at the Lord's day and held to the fifth with two addi- different points which he visited $47.50. tons by confession and baptism. Z.W. Beasley J.Jackson Sparkman, Clerk Bro John Roberds and his wife confessed 1874 Brother Smithson held a protracted meet the savior and iwas baptized ing at Boston embracing the third and fourth December 25,1882 Lord's days in July and added twelve to the con gregation of the Lord by confession and baptism September 1883 Bro Charles Sparkman & for which he received $40.00. J.R. Wood, Clerk Bro Gin Litton held a protracted meeting at Brother Lee held a protracted meeting at Boston commenced Saturday before the third Boston embracing the third Lord's day in Lord's day and held 14 days with twenty-one November & added seven to the congregation of additions: A.C.j Beasley, S.J. Coats, John Mealer, the Lord by confession and baptism. J.R. Wood, Lisey B. Coats,Ivry Griggry, MacDonel Sparkman Clerk was restored, j H.C. Vick, J.E. Abies, Tolbert Sparkman, Salie Bet Beasley, Susan E. Robison, 1877 Brothers Davis, Lee and Anderson held a Mary E. Sparl^an, Salie Hawk, Ema E. Shaw, protracted meeting at Boston embracing the third Mary An Mealer, Ema C. Brown, Mary Hargrove, Lord's day in August and added nine to the con Mana Little, Amer. Sparkman, Senajohnson con gregation of the Lord by confession & baptism fessed their Savior and was baptised. Mahaley for which they received twenty-five dollars. J.R. McKay from the Baptist and Tom Little from the Wood, Clerk Methodist took! membership. Z.W. Beasley, Clerk j 1878 Brother Smithson held a protracted meet September 1884 Brother Brown Godwin ing at Boston embracing the first Lord's day in held a meeting commenced on the second Lord's August and added fourteen to the congregation day and held over to the third Lord's day and William Burns, Brown Godwin, Tailor Jones, had about thirty additions as follows: WB.Yoimg Carel Dodd, Tolbert Dodd, McDonel Sparkman, died soon aftbr was immersed, W.C. Walls, Samuel Hawk, Rosana Sparkman, Mary William Stinett, Suthan Harper, W.F. Stinett, Robinson, Erie Prowell, Jane Godwin> Nelly William Polan,| William Mitchel, William Grigry, Godwin,Betsy Sparkman,Dove Polan for which Sefuf Shaw, Meldina MacKay,Maned A. Robreds, he received twenty-five dollars. J.R. Wood,clerk Jane R.J. Coatsl Cathrine Stinett, William Polan, Jina MacKay, Mattan Goner, MelvinaYoung,Fana 1879 Brother Davis held a protracted meeting Brown, Fana jBulter, John Holt, Thomas C. at Boston on the third Lord's day in September Googine, Jane Googine, Caroline Mitchel, and added three to the congregation 2 by confes William Mitchel, Rebeek M. Stinett, William G. sion and baptism and 1 from the Methodist. J.R. Grigry, Maria A. Polan, John Mealer. These are Wood, Clerk the names that jjoined the church or came back to the church. Z.W. Beasley, Clerk 1880 Brother Williams held a meeting at Boston the second Lord's day in July Jime 13,1886 Bro Robert Moore and wife con and added one to the church James Polk. J.R. fessed their Sa-|ior and he was baptised and she Wood, Clerk came from the Methodist. 106 Williamson County Historical Society Journal

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR;THE MINISTRY Leiper's Fork, Boston and Beech Grove

July 13,1856 William A. Johnson contributed Beloved Brethren $1.40 You are aware doubtless that there exist some July 20,1856 Martha Johnson contributed .50 misunderstanding and dissatisfaction among a portion of the brotherhood of different congrega August 1,1856 L.B. Beasley contributed tions in regard to the action of Franklin College $1.00 i Church towards Eld. S.E. Jones. We fear the cause Alexander Dodd contributed .50 is suffering and will continue to suffer under the existing state of affairs and believing it to be the Oct 11th 1856 William i Beasley contributed duty of all professed Christians to labor for $10,00 ' peace, harmony and prosperty among the broth i erhood. It seemed good unto us being assembled Oct 12,1856 L.B. Beasley contributed $5.00 with one accord to write unto you and ask you as T.W. Sparkman contributed $10,00 members of one body to assist us in examining S.Sparkman contributed $10.00 into the matter and if possible bring about a bet Jesse J. Sparkman contributed $3.00 ter understanding among the brotherhood. We Alexander Dodd contributed$1.00 have the consent of the parties to let the brethren John J. Sparkmah. contibuted $1.00 look into this matter. We propose therefore that Jesse D. Brown contributed .50 each of the above congregations select one or two of their most experienced senior brethren to meet Nov 17,1856 O.L. Davis contributed $2.00 one or two of our seniors at this place on the 27th day of next month (September) as a committee to Feb 13,1857 W.L. Sparkman contributed $1.00 examine the whole matter. Beloved Brethren let us hear from you at your March 10,1857 WA. Johnson contributed earliest opportimity and if these suggestions $5.00 meet your approval we trust you will be here on the day appointed and remain from day to day March 31,1857 various persons together imtil you are able to come to wise and just con contributed $14.00 j clusions then give a written report of your con

1 clusions. We would be pleased to hear any sug Feb 1,1858 Seth Sparkman, T.W. Sparkman, gestion from you brethren these are ours and W. Beasley contributed jeach $1.00 they are submitted for your consideration in much kindness and brotherly love. Let us hear Up to this date Oct 1858 $68.90 W.Beasley, Clerk from you brethren. Delivered tojohn J. Sparkman Oct 3,1858 Truly O.T. Craig, Clerk August 27,1860 ' i The above is a true copy of a letter received from The Elders . & Brethren at Franklin Williamson the congregation at Franklin whereupon Eld. County, Tennessee [ Seth Sparkman, Eld. Thomas W.Sparkrnan were appointed to attend said meeting by the congre I Send greeting to the Saints & faithful Brethren at gation at Boston. Nashville, Murfreesboro, Hartsville, Rock Done by order of the Church of Boston. J.Jackson Springs, Owen Station, Thompson Station, Sparkman, Clerk {Article written in 1928)

From records, authentic information, and in original Nashville road at the A.B. Ewing house part, from my own recollection I seem to [1996-Dunklin Bowman]. have gotten a fair line of facts about the In 1819 the dormty court contracted for a new bridges at Franklin. The original Nashville- bridge on the same site, but later changed the Franklin road in and before the year 1799 and up location to a point a hundred feet or more up the to the latter part of 1805, ran past what was later river, at a place where that bridge of 1819 and all the old Dr. A. B. Ewing (later John Whitfield) subsequent pike bridges have stood. It must have [1996-Dunklin Bowman] place at Spencer's been a costly bridge, for the contractor agreed to Creek. A grist mill was operated by a race from strike off $1,300 because of the more economical the McEwen place in the angle of the creek thence nature of the nejw location. So, the original bridge the road ran down the north side of Spencer's was north of 'Brittain's creamery [1996-stone Creek and forded Harpeth River just below the formdation still;visible] instead of south of it as at mouth of creek. The road then came up through present. In tho^e days Miles White ran a "bake what is now the J.R. Buckner farm [1996- Joel house" at that place, and a "tavern" near-by on Cheek] and bent into Town, crossing the small Bridge Street. Tlie Town bought from him land stone bridge over Sharpe's branch; there Joel on which the west half of the bridge stands, and Parrish operated a grist mill. the space from| that to Water Street, now First That was a round-about way, and to correct Avenue, for about one dollar. The bridge of 1819 that fault the cormty court, in the year 1805, stood until burned in 1862. It was a large covered ordered a bridge to be built at Franklin and a new bridge with a strong middle pillar. It was covered road to be laid out running directly from the and was double, having a partition along its mid bridge northward so as to"intersect" the dle course, and!was inclosed on its sides and had Nashville road- that is, so as to make a straight two open windbws on each side. BuelTs army of road from Franklin to the bend in the Nashville 25,000 men crossed the bridge on March 16, 17, road at or near Spencer's Creek. and 18, 1862 on its way to the battle of Shiloh. - This bridge was accordingly built at or near The water wasj belly deep over the pike at the the east end of Bridge or Jail Street, probably a lit time. It has long been a question what effect the tle above (south of) that street about 140 feet leaving of this fridge standing at that time had below the present pike bridge. My reason for on the course qf the civil war, and on the fate of locating it thus is because I believe the pile of Gen. Grant in particular. rocks and gravel in the river at that point shows In the Suirimer of 1862, Gen. Bragg invaded that a middle pillar stood there. Termessee and Kentucky from Chattanooga, The road ran thence past the H.H. Mayberry which caused the Federals to evacuate our sec residence[1996-Dr. Jeff Bethurum] and through tion. Confederate detachments again occupied the Farmer farm [1995-Harlinsdale farm] to the middle Termessee.

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Later, Bragg returned from Kentucky and bridge. It was open-topped, and was supported took up position at Murfreesboro, and still later by light iron girders imdemeath resting on the and in November the Federals began to send out pillar. These girders or imdertrusses extended wings of their army ov!er a front of about forty five or six feet beneath the bridge floor, and were miles, threatening to envelope Bragg's army. the cause of the bridge being washed away ia Many bridges were destroyed by Confederate 1901 or 1902. The company bmlt a new bridge at authority in order to impede this movement. The once, being single span. This stood until January Nashville pike bridge was burned imder this pol 1, 1919, when the east pier was washed out and icy at that time, on November 13,1862. the entire bridge was wrecked. Mr. T.B. Johnson There is a legal maxim, "Inter army silent who owned the stock of the pike immediately leges." (In war the laws are non-effective." It went to work and built the present steel bridge. would perhaps be better to say. War has its own [In 1929 this steel bridge was dismantled and laws). Whoever actually struck the match was placed at Millview on Amo Road which stood justified by those laws. Little Harpeth bridge until the early 1970s.] The new highway bridge seems to have been burned about November 17 [opened in July 1929], which is a little higher up or 18. stream, being designed to lead directly to the There was no new bridge at the place at mouth of Main Street, is the seventh bridge (or Franklin until after Gen. Hood's retreat from eighth, if you take it so) that has been put up for Nashville, December 16; 17, 1864. But some time the service of the Nashville road at Franklin, not after that the Federals iuilt a make-shift bridge including pontoons and temporary war bridges. there, which in the period soon after the war was When the Romans built a bridge at such a either destroyed, or repaired and strengthened by place it was good for one or two thousand years the turnpike company. After a few years, at any imless destroyed in war, and the English are rate, I think the turnpike company built a new nearly as good. Williamson County Historical Society Journal 109

1865 Bridge over Harpeth River, Murfreesboro Road

The "Yankees" for a long time had a pontoon also destroyed the Murfreesboro bridge, either bridge just where the highway bridge [1929] is to by bmrning or cutting it down, I do not know be, and dumped a great deal of rubble rock on which. the road near each end of it; at times they had a In the Sumnier of 1865 A.W. Moss and a man pontoon about a hundred yards above that place. named Moore, of Maury county, got the contract They also built a temporary bridge on piles just for rebuilding the Murfreesboro bridge. It was a above Sandy Brown's small branch [1996-behind very strong bridge built of first-class seasoned Harpeth Academy]. It was burned, leaving the poplar, with four-ply chords, two below and piles sticking up one or two feet. The night of the two above, with heavy truss work on both sides battle Gen. Schofield, not having and pontoons and above and below, and with heavy iron on hand, had these piles sawed off, and laid plates and rods on all sid^s. It was covered, and stringers and a floor about six inches above the boarded up two-thirds of the way. Ten years water. He spent his time superintending this, later it began to sag a little, and was tightened though he was the commanding general, while up to proper position. After some eighteen years the battle was going on. Half of his army retreat more it needed tightening again, but it seems ed over it and half over the railroad bridge. He the county court were not disposed to do that, forgot to burn it, and some of Hood's army for some reason or none. It finally fell into the crossed on it, though Hood soon laid a pontoon river in 1895 or[96. Instead of repairing it it was bridge at the site of the highway bridge. Hood condemned and a ford was used quite a while at took his pontoons south with him and the that time. It was said that some irresponsible Yankees,following, laid still another. person aided its fall by sawing it at places. That Schofield burned the railroad bridge after is merely hearsay. The present Murfreesboro retreating towards Nashville, Hood's engineers bridge is dated 1896. nearly finished a trestle railroad bridge, but then threw it down. A new one was, of course built by the Yankees At the same time the Confederates destroyed Editor's Note: On December 6,1956 Franklin experi the Nashville pike bridge m November 1862 they enced the loss of the (1898) Murfreesboro bridge due to 110 Williamson County Historical Society Journal j

this morning when a chicken-loaded truck attempted to cross into Franklin. The 42- year old negro driver received only minor scratches in the weird accident. To* Isaac Rob, the driver, said that he "felt the world was coming to an end" as the *T state bridge began to fall. Early morning jit r' spectators naturally concurred in his m feelings. m m m. Rob, who resides in Gallatin, was deliver ing 5,754 chickens from Dalton, Geogria to Dixie Poultry. [For those who were not arormd in 1956, Dixie Poultry was located on Second Avenue and South Margin TS »• »' k V Street where the Franklin Antique Mall is i located.] Several himdred of the chickens were killed. Ail m. Three local citizens barely escaped injury when they heard the roar of the collaps ing bridge, and then went to investigate the incident. Jim Thompson, local taxi s/t % fleet owner, was accompanied by Ross Trice and Frank Crabtree. However, m because of the early morning mistrand dark, Thompson, who was driving, came Murfreesboro Bridge collapsed, 1956 within inches of skidding into the 50 foot drop. an overload of chickens. The Review-Appeal covered the story asfollows: State Highway Patrolman Guy Phillips reports that the heavily loaded truck Murfreesboro BriJdge Collapses This probably exceeded the 10,000 pound Morning limit.

The 60-year old Murfreesboro bridge, Eddy Lane and Liberty Pike will be the located at the edge of the city limits of probable routes of any who want access Franklin, completely collapsed about 4:45 to the area on the Murfreesboro Road. PROFESSOR JAMES EDWARD SCOBEY

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Professor Scobey founded this School and was president for thirteen years. The School; name was changed in honor of J. M. Haynes, a long time friend and public spirited citizen, who owned the property, and dedicated it to the cause of education. i The property included a full city block. MEMORANDA PERTAINING TO THE SCOBEY FAMILY. As written by James E. Scobey on October 28, 1920

The progenitors of this family, in the United States, were a man and woman, who emigrated from Ireland to America, and settled in the Colony of North Carolina before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The given names of these original Scobeys I do not know; and what I do know, I gathered from statements ihade by my grandfather in his conversations with others, when I was quite a lad. i My great grandfather, the original Scobey, when the Revolutionary War broke out, joined the Colonial Army to fight the British, and forl the independence of the Colonies. He never retiumed to his family. He either die'd from disease or was killed in battle. His wife was left a widow with a family of seven boys, most of whom were small children. | After independence had been achieved, several families, aiid others without families, conceived the idea of emigrating to Tennessee, then a part of the State of North Carolina. Others had already preceded them and had settled in an exceedingly fertile valley, near the Cumberland River, which is how in Trousdale County. They had built a strong fort, to protect themselves 'from the hostile theyIndians would who massacre, roamed ifthe possible. country at large, and often attacked thej settlers whom The fort was located at a point now between the towns of Gallatin, in Sumner County, and Hartsville in Trousdale County. They named the fort Bledsoe. There is a fine flowing sulphur well near where the fort stood, and the village settlement near by is called Castalian Springs. j My great grandmother with her seven boys formed a part of the emigrating party which made a start from North Carolina, with Fort Bledsoe, in Tennessee, as their objective. There seemed to be a community interest !in the means of transportation. Mrs. Scobey furnished a one horse cart, and those of her family unable to walk, and herself, with what supplies and plunder could be loaded in the cart, were pulled into Tennessee by a faithful old horse. Over the .mountains of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee the train of emigrants came into the fertile valleys watered by streams uniting farther south forming the great Tennessee River. In these valleys [were prosperous settlers, who bestowed on them a genial hospitality. Here they replenished their dwindling supplies, and though besought to remain and settle j there, they had started to Fort Bledsoe, and to Fort Bledsoe they would go. So resuming their journey to the west, in due time the Cumberland Mountains were reached, and after a rough passage, together with some delay in travel, they finally reached the long sought fort. | Here Mrs. Scobey reared her family of boys to manhood. However, one of the boys was killed by the Indians, leaving her only six. Their names, as I now remember, having heard my grandfather call them, were Hamilton, Matthew, Madison, James, John and Joseph. ] After the country had been rid of hostile Indians, immigrants flowed in, and the country was being rapidly settled up. Matthew Scobey settled on the banks of the Cumberland River south of Gallatin, established a ferry called then Scobey*s Ferry. He subsequently sold his possessions to a Mr. Bender, an'd the ferry, still in operation, for years past, and until now has been called Bender s Ferry. James and John settled in Wilson County, amilton soon went west to the territory of Missouri, Joseph (if that be his name) went to Texas, then a state of Mexico. Matthew, after selling out, emigrated to the territory of Illinois, and from him tliere has sprung a large connection of Scobeys in Illinois, Michigan and contigibus states. Madison Scobey went to West Tennessee, and settled in or near, a village called Mooresville. There are several families of Scobeys living in andi around Newbern, of whom he is the progenitor. James Scobey—^my grandfather—reared a large family in Wilson County, consisting of seven daughters and one son, whom he named John Berry; after his brother John and his wife's maiden name. For he had married a Miss Berry whose[parents had emigrated from Ireland to Kentucky, settling near thhe village of Ada'irsville, Ky. My father, John Berry, Scobey, was born ten miles east of Lebanon April 9, 1809. He lived and died in Wilson County. He was twice married. His first wife—my mother, died when I was seventeen months old. My father married the second time and from that union there were five childern, three boys,—Joseph, John and Robert —twojgirls, Mary and Sallie. Of my father's children only two are living,—the yoimgest, Mrs. Sallie. Colyar of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, and the oldest, myself. My half brother, Robert Scobey, died leaving one child living, a son—^Loyd Scobey, married and living in Nashville. I am, I believe, the patriach of all the living Scobeys. Born January 3, 1834, I am now past 86 years, in the enjoyment of splendid health, and retain in a wonderful degree all my facilties. I graduated at Franklin College near Nashville, under[the Presidency of Tolbert Fanning, July 4th, 18^ past the age of twenty-one years. I chose teaching for a profession. I began my work in the fall of 1855 and taught continuously till 1862. In the meantime, on the 31st day of August, 1859, I married Sallie Alice Harris, a daughter of Major Jas. S. Harris, and a graduate of Mrs. Fanning's School and of Franklin College. She was my assistant teacher after our marriage till the first year of the Civil War. I enlisted in the Confederate Army, was elected Captain of my company, and led them in the battle of Shiloh. After the war I began to teach again in February, 1867, and since then I have taught continuously up till I was seventy years old, having been the principal of twb academies, the president of two colleges, and a professor in another. I have jtaught forty-seven years in my life. In 1871 I began to preach some, as opportunity offered or occasion required, and this I continued during'my school work; but since I quit teaching I have mainly given my time to preaching. In the last eight years, I have failed to preach only on nine Sundays. So far this year I have not missed a single Sunday. I have been twice married. My first wife bore me seven children, four girls and three boys. Of these I have lost two, an infant girl and a grown daughter, Alice.! The other five have all been married, and three have living children. I will give the names of these living children in the order of their birth; Sarah Jane, Mary Augusta, James Berry, John Edward, (Alice dead) and Robert Harris. My first wife died in Murfreesboro, August 26th, 1881, where I was President of Murfreesboro Female Institute for thirteen years. On June 25, 1884, I married Miss Fannie P. Sowell, daughter of Col. W. J. Sowell of Maury County. She had been a pupil of mine at Murfreesboro some ten years previous to our marriage. We have had bom to us five sons and one daughter. All of these have reached the age of manhood and womanhood, save an infant boy which died when five days old: and all are actively engaged in business, save the youngest, Herndon, who is twenty-two years' old. He is now a student at Vand'erbilt University. Carrie Gates, the girl, belongs to the faculty at Peabody College, and teaches there. Edward and Wilbum are both business men of the city. Only one of my last wife's children is married, the oldest boy, William Powell, who belongs to the U. S. Army. HeBarracks is a Captain near Honolulu, in the 44th N. T.Infantry, and he now, with his wife,j is at Schofield All of my children live in Nashville, where I now live, e:xcept the one in the Army, and a daughter in Hopkinsville, Ky. Both married daughters have reared families. j I do' not know at what age or where my grandfather's mother died: whether in the fort, or at the home of one of her sons. I would be glad to know. There is no son or daughter of James Scobey living; there are only fiye grandchildren, three women,and two men, and I am the only one bearing the name of Scobey. I have given few dates, for I did not know them, I could only have made a rough guess at best. But I will give you the dates of birth and| death of some of those I have mentioned. James Scobey born in North Carolina Feb. 24, 1777. Died in my father's home in Wilson County, Tenn. (where he and his wife had made their home for a few years) Sept. 2, 1861. His wife Polly Berry Scobey died just eight days after he died, both being 85 years old. My mother, Sarah Caroline Sweatt was the daughter of Edward Sweatt born in North Carolina, May 13, 1786, his wife, Mary Rash born Aug. 15, 1793. My mother bom Dec. 21, 1817. My stepmother Sarah Neal (Widow Branch) my father's second wife bom January 11,1818. She died June 7th, 1897. My mother Sallie C. Scobey died Sept. 30, 1835. My great grandfather, Sweatt was of English and Irish descent. My grandfather, Edward Sweatt, was well educated and taught school both in North Carolina and Wilson County, Tenn. He had represented the Coimty of Yadkin in the Carolina Legislature prior to his coming to Tennessee. He became a preacher after he had been converted and baptized by Barton W. Stout. He was twice naarried. He reared a large family of seven children by his first wife, and seven by| the last wife. He emigrated to Texas in 1852, and died in Ellis County, Jan. 12th, 1854. James E. Scobey. October 28, 1920

MEMORANDA OF SOME OFTHE INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF JAMES E. SCOBEY

As written by Him on January 31, 1921 Born January 3, 1834 and reared in Wilson Coimty, Tenn., my mother having died when I was only seventeen months old, my grandparents, James Scobey and his wife,—took me to their home to care for me, which was well done. I could not have fallen into better hands. For five years I was principally all the time with them. ] j My father married the second time, then my father took nie home to live. I was sent to the free school, for a few weeks each year, but there jwas little progress made, because the teachers were usually poorly prepared for their business. Up to the time I was seventeen or eighteen years old my advancement educationally quite meager. I had been taught to work on the farm; and had pulled the bellcord over a mule's back and ploughed my row "with the balance of the negroes." My father owning a negro blacksmith, had a shop and carried on the business. When I was seventeen years old he gave me the choice of working on the farm or in the shop. I chose the latter, and for about two years weilded the sledge hammer. Old Jini—the smith—and I made money for father. In my nineteenth year, I said to my father, "Father, I would like to have a good education." He replied saying I should have the opportunity: and I could select the school. I chose Frcinklin College near Nashville, which was under the presi dency of Tolbert Fanning. In February 1853, I entered college, and by studying some two summer vacations, besides the entire sessions, I graduated July 4, 1855, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After teaching three years the college conferred on me the degree of Master of Arts.' I also received in 1874, while president of Murfreesboro Female Institute, the degree of Master of Arts, conferred on me by Peabody College for distinguished service as a teacher. After my graduation in 1855 I began to teach in August the free school in my father's neighborhood. It lasted three months, and I was paid $125.00. Early in January 1858, a friend of my father's traveling from Nashville to his home six miles east of Lebanon, stopped at our house to spend the night. Learning I had be^ to college, and had been teaching, said he had stopped especially to see me.; He said they needed a good school in his neighborhood: that they did not want a free school; that if I would agree to take charge of the school, they would go right to work and build a good comfortable room for the school: that he himself!had five children of school age, and he would guarantee me forty pupils. I a^eed to his propositions, and by the first of March 1856, the room was ready and the pupils secured, and I began to teach. We named the school Union Academy. In the summer of 1856, they built an additional room to accommodate the increasing patronage. I taught there, having an assistant teacher, and generally from 80 to 100 pupils 'till the fall of 1861; and from the school room January 1862 I yent into the Confederate Army. (And that forms another chapter of my life which I have written.) After the war, having engaged very successfully in buying and selling all kinds of live stock, I had a desire to enter upon my older work of teaching. I was liying at the place, and in the house .which my grandfather, Edward Sweatt, had built for his residence prior to his removal to Green Hill, a place he had pur chased,|because of its elevation, fine freestone water and other things he thought conducive to health. In the rear of the dwelling house was a large log-house, which had been used as a dormitory for slaves. I conceived the idea of converting it into a schoolroom. I did so', and opened the school in March 1867. The patronage was generous, and I had niore pupils than I could well provide for in room or teaching. So I deter mined to build a good school room, and to make the school permanent. During the summer of 1867 I built the room. I could now accommodate all who would come. My dwelling was commodious; and by furnishing it fully, I could! take under my care about one dozen girls. I let it be known I would take a few boarders. It was but a short time till aplications for board were sufficient to fill the rooms. I then named the school Oakland Academy. The session opened the first Monday in September with a largely increased patronage. 1 converted the old building into a primary department, and the new building I carried on as a High School, with a full course of academic work. From that date forward to January 1872 the school prospered. jYoung men, from various sections of the countyj sought board in neighboring families and attended school. I continued to have more applications for board thanj I had room. By some means I learned that a large boarding school in Murfreesboro, Term, could be acquired. I went there, saw the Principal, leamedj the terms upon which he would transfer his position and interest to me. With some modifications suggested by me, we agreed, and I was to take possession the 12th of January, 1872. I continued the Oakland School up to the Thursday before I was to take charge at Miurfreesboro the next Monday. So Friday I had all my furniture packed, loaded in a car, and Saturday my wife and every boarder took train and landed in Murfreesboro the evening of the same day. The Monday moring succeeding 1 began to teach in Murfreesboro. | For thirteen years I was President of Murfreesboro Female Institute. The school, all the while, was well patronized. I was induced in 1884 to become con nected with South Kentucky College at Hopkinsville, Ky. I w^ Vice President and had charge of the boarding department, as well as the Music Department, for two years. The patronage was good. In 1887 I became the Pijesident. In 1890 I resigned in consequence of not harmonizing my views with the Board of Trustees. The difference did not arise with reference to school manage ment nor to school work, but because I would not agree to be J party supporting instrumental music in the worship in the church and also the societies, and con ventions to which the church there had been committed since I had become connected with the College. I The Trustees took property from me that had cost me $600o'; and for which I could have obtained $4500 in cash, provided the Trustees would elect O. A. Carr to succeed me as President. But this they refused to do because he had written a tract opposing the use of instrumental music in the worship. They said they had a man at the head of the. school opposed to the instrument! and they would not have another. All the furniture and all the furnishings in the building I had supplied. I could sell to no one, and was compelled to accept the Trustees' proposition to give me $1700. It broke me flat. But I did not lose my self respect, nor sacrifice my conscientious convictions of religious duty. ! I left Hopkinsville in June 1890. I opened a school at Pulaski in September and taught ten months, my son, James, assisting me. We had |a fine patronage, and we made money. In '91 1 moved to Franklin and taught several years, and from there to Hillsboro, teaching there for some time. From there to Franklin, and in a short time to Maufy County teaching a school at Andrews, east of Coliunbia. I then in January began a school in Columbia, renting a room from Dr. Smith who owned the building Atheneum. After teaching there a month or two, the Trustees of the city schools proposed I consolidate with them, and I did and taught in the puplic school to the close of the session in June. But no more public school teaching for me.j j During the summer I made a contract with Miss Charlotte Henderson, Prin cipal of the May Long College,' Mt. Pleasant, to teach. I was to h'ave no pecuniary or disciplinary responsibility in the school. All I had to do was to be in my recitation room at the proper time, hear and teach my classes, and when through my da^s program depart in peace. I taught there for five years, and I can say that I never pssed more pleasant days in teaching. And besides, the stipulated salary |Was promptly paid at the end of each month. And here I ended my career as a school teacher, having taught forty-seven years of my life, ten months in the year. I then moved back to Franklin in June, having purchased a small residence of three rooms adjoining a lot of four acres we had purchased some ten years before. The residence and the acres were both within the corporate limits of the town. I soon made additions to the dwelling, enlarging it to seven rooms. The ciirch at Franklin made me the offer to become its minister, and I accepted and served them four years to the best of my ability. I then accepted an offer of the St. Bernard Land and Development Company whose ! headquarters were at Houston, Texas, to become a general agent for the sale of their lands located in Brazoria Count on the St. Bernard River. I remain'ed in their service until the great European war destroyed all desire for land investments, and desire to seek new homes by emigrating. It was a profitable business and I did well. But in my travels going to Texas, and while there, I seldom! missed a Sunday I did not preach. Since 1915 I have done no business, but have continued to preach, and for the last ten years have missed only nine Sundays preaching. And though now 87 years old, I preach every Suunday, and will continue to do so, as long as the Lord gives me health and strength. In ^ September 1915, having purchased a house and lot. No. 859 Bradford Ave. in Nashville, Tenn., we moved to the place, where we now reside. We have reared!(my second wife and I) five children, one daughter and four sons to womaiihood and manhood, four of whom are still with us, and who give us much comfoi^ in our declining years. While my children (and I have ten living— three daughters and seven sons), live, we, (neither myself nor my wife) have any fear that we shall suffer either for the necessities of life or its comforts or its pleasures. For the blessings we have enjoyed, and still enjoy, and for the hope we entertain of eternal life, and pleasures evermore, we sincerely thank and praise God, our kind and merciful Heavenly Father. ' —J. E. Scobey January 31st., 1921

MEMORANDA OF THE WAR RECORD of JAMES E. SCOBEY.

As Written by Him on October 28, 1920 In ithe fall of 1861, I volunteered with a number of others from Wilson County for the service in the Confederate Army. We all assembled and were transported to Camp Trousdale to a training camp in Sumner County near the Kentucky line. Iri the organization I was elected Captain, and with other companies formed the 55th Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers. McCo^ was elected Colonel, Wiley B. Ree'd, Lieutenant Colonel, and—Jones, Major.i_V^en the Federal troops were moving on Fort Donelson, we marched to Nashville, and were stationed at Fort Zpllicoffer just below the city on the Cumberland River. Fort Donelson fell into the hands of the Federals, and General Albert Sydney Johnson ordered all troops south. I remember to have seen the fine suspension bridge across the Cumberland in flames, as we marched through the city towards Murfreesboro. From Murfreesboro we liesurely continued o|ur march through Shelbyville, Fayetteville, Himtsville, Decatur to Corinth, Miss, where General Johnston collected his army prior to his attack on Grant and his forces at Shiloh battleground near the Tennessee River, where Grant's army was encamped. Friday night we camped within hearing distance of the enemy's bands. Saturday the line of battle was formed and General Johnston expected to begin the attack, but General Folk's 'division failed to reach the ixjsition assigned them in the line, so we remained in line during the day and bivouaced at night sleeping on our arms. Before sunrise we were marching on the enemy's encampment. They were thoroughly surprised, and confusedly fled, leaving their morning's rations imconsumed. By noon we had driven them back upon the bank of the river; and 3 P.M. we had captured Prentice's whole brigade, j Soon General Johnston was killed and General Beauregard called a halt. By next morning Grant's army had been reinforced by General Buell's, and the Confederates, against this reinforced army, now largely su^rior in numbers, held their line 'till late in the afternoon, when we were ordered to fall back. Later, orders came to return to camp at Corinth. j My regiment with another was detailed to guard Prentice's brigade to the rear: and we coralled them in an open field and stood arotmd them the entire night. During the night there were several thunderstorms and heavy rains fell. We were all, both prisoners and guard, thoroughly drenched, smd sleep was impossible. Prisoners were detailed imder guard to bring in raUs from the sur rounding fence to burn, and by morning few rails were left. At 9 A.M. the cavalry took charge of the prisoners, and marched them away towards Corinth. We were marched back to the line of battle and entered the fighting about 11 A.M., and did our part in the conflict till ordered to fall back by General Beauregard. Arriving at our camp, I fell sick from the severe exposure to which I had been subjected. I went to West Point, near which my wife had an uncle living, and where my wife was staying. They took me to his home, and csJled a doctor. I was a very sick man, but with medical attention and good nursing, after a month, I was able to travel. j During the time of my sickness, the army was reorganized. My company was consolidated with another, and I being away sick, was a|ssigned to no duty, but received a full discharge from the Confederate service by General Beauregard. I left Corinth in company with my wife, going to Mobile, theiice to Montgomery, thence to Chattanooga, thence home. I I do not stop to tell of various incidents of our attempts !to reach our home. At one time, we unavoidably fell in and among the Federal troops in the Tennessee Valley; but I managed to escape arrest after some detention. After remaining at home for some time, growing stronger, I moimted a horse, and in company with my father-in-law. Major J. S. Harris, drove out of Middle Tennessee about 1200 head of cattle, down through Chattanooga to Car- tersville, Ga. I received from Major Cummings, Chief Commissary, an appointment as Assistant Commissary. I remained in Cartersville for more than a year, bought all the cattle and feed I could in all of North Georgia, and shipped cattle regularly to the army. I was in Cartersville when the Battle of Murfreesboro was fought. Went with Bragg's forces as they marched into Kentucky, as far as the Red Boiling Springs, where considerable flour was secured and shipped to the South. I was a civiliM agent, and was allowed to do all I could for the collection of food for the soldiers, without specific direction, or restraint. With the retreat of General Hood sifter the Battle of Nashville, December 1864, I ceased to be with, or to do mor^e, as a commissary agent. During the battle at Nashville, Deceinber 5th, I arrived at my father-in-law's home where my wife was, and that night she gave birth to our first living child. I remained with her, instead of going back to and with the retreating army. Being a civilian, in the spring following, I, like the great majority of civilians, renewed my allegiance to the government of the United States. And I have this to say,|if it were all to be done over again, I would pursue the same course. I have no regrets, nor have I any apologies to offer for the course I pursued during the Civil War. ,, Myiorigion&l discharge and appointment by Major Cummings are in the archives of the Pension Bureau, Nashville, Tenn. ' —James E. Scobey. October 28, 1920

FOEMER PUPILS PAY TRIBUTE TO VENERABLE TEACHER I Feb. Hi 1921 ! In appreciation of a long life spent in beautiful service a number of the former pupils of Prof. James E. Scobey gave him a "storm party" Friday evening at his hoine on Bradford avenue. Pupils came from Murfreesboro,.Lebanon, Franklin and Hopkinsville, Ky., places where Prof. Scobey had taught. Projf. and Mrs. Scobey were assisted in doing the honors of the occasin by their children. Miss Carrie and Messrs. Edward and Wilbum Scobey, and Mrs. Jennie Srygleyj. The house was prettily decorated with gift bouquets. Th^ interesting program was in charge of Miss Will Allen Dromgoole. During the evening music was rendered by the youthful members of the Valdes isrchestra. It -vyas first planned to entertain with a banquet for Prof. Scobey, but the pupils decided to give an envelope shower instead, the money intended for each plate to|be sealed in an envelope, on which was written a message to the venerable teacher.' Mrs. Mary Webb Haggard read these which expressed much gratitude and affection for the high ideals and influence of a life spent in the work of the Master.| An eloquent response was made by Prof. Scobey, who spoke of his great love for pupils and how their presence brought back pleasant memories of bygone days. A p^oem, "Just for Tonight," written especially for the occasion, was read by the author. Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, and was an inspiration to all present. A pleasant feature of the evening was an old-fashioned "experience meeting," a number of guest-pupils relating interesting incidents of their school life. The presence of the oldest pupil, Mrs. Kate Shipp, who has passed her seventy-fifth birthday, added to the enjoyment of the event. She was one of her cousin's first pupils, and was a student in his school before the civil war. Mrs. Shipp resides with her daughter, Mrs. T. C. McCampbell, on Ordway Place. Thej youngest pupil, Mr. Hemdon Scobey, was next introduced, and expressed his appreciation of his father's life work. Miss Dromgoole gave, by request, two of her clever Negro dialect readings, entitled "George Washington?!s Birthday" and "The 'Possum Trap,"' and as an encore recited "The Doll's Funeral.'' Vocal selections were given by a quartet composed of Messrs. Edward, Wilburn and Herndon Scobey and Douglas Srygley. '

In conclusion, the guests gave Miss Dromgoole a rising vote of thanks for her splendid work in arranging the affair. During the social hour ices, carrying out the Valentine idea, were served by Mrs. Fannie Lillard Hopper, assisted by the following joung girls: Misses Frances Hopper, Jean Srygley, Lucy and Dixie Owen. The beloved honor guest of this delightful affair was bom Jan. 2, 1834, on the Lebanon road, seventeen miles east of Nashville. He was graduated from Franklin College at the age of twenty-one, and began his career as an educator at Cedar Hill academy. The following year, Prof. Scobey accepted a position to teach at Union academy, remaining there imtil the outbreak of the civil war, when he enlisted in the Confederate army at Camp Trousdalei He was appointed captain of his company, which he led in the battle of Shiloh. Tliis company formed part of the Fifty-fifth Tennessee, volunteers under Col. McKoin and Lieut.-Col. Wiley B. Reed. ' After the war. Prof. Scobey organized a school near his he me, taking a dozen girls as boarders. He successfully conducted this enterprise for five years. In January, 1872, he became president of the Murfreesboro Female Institute, occupying this position with| marked success till 1884. Then Prof. Scobey accepted the position of vice-president of South Kentucky College, th!e president at that time being Maj. S. R. Crumbaugh, who resigned in two years. Prof. Scobey succeeding him. After spending six years here, he moved to Pulaski teaching in the school there one year, assisted by his son, Mr. James Scobey. He then became associated with Prof. Patrick Campbell atj Franklin academy. Franklin, remaining at this institution of learning for four years, afterward teaching for the same period at Hillsboro academy. Prof. Scobey next taughlt for one year at Leftwich academy, Maury county, and later a brief while in the public schools of Columbia. Miss Charlotte Henderson, principal of Hay Long College, Mt. Pleasant, offered him a position in the college, where he taught five years. There, at the age of seventy years, this prominent educator closed his work as a teacher, having taught for forty-seven years and more. Prof. Scobey has been ffie recipient of several well-desei-ved honors. Three years after his graduation, the Franklin college bestowed on him the degree of master of arts, and while president of the Murfreesboro Female Institute, received the same degree for distinguished school work from Peabody college, under Qie presidency of Dr. Eben Steams. Prof. Scobey has been preaching in the Christian church for over fifty years, as opportunity offered, and since his retirement from educatioral work, almost all the time. ; Prof. Scobey has been! twice married, first to Miss Sarah Alice Harris, daughter of Maj. James S. Harris of Wilson county, and after her death to Miss Fannie P. Sowell, daughter of Col. and Mrs. J. W. Sowell of Columbia. LAST RITES FOR ELDER SCOBEY TO BE HELD SUNDAY

Services to Be Held From Lawrence Avenue Church

Nashville Banner

The death of Evangelist James E. Scobey, which occurred Friday afternoon at his home, 859 Bradford avenue, marks the passing of one of the distinguished figures in the religious and educational life of Tennessee, a teacher and preacher active and widely known more than half a century ago, one of the most prominent mlnlstere of the church of Christ and the patriarch, so far as Is known, of all the living Scoheys. On January 3 he would have been 90 years old.

The funeral will be held from the Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ Sunday aftemopn, conducted by Elders F. C. Sowell of Columbia and George R. Bethurum of Nashville, followed by Interment at Mt. Olivet cemetery. His six sons, James B., John E., Robert H., James E., Jr., Joseph W., and Hemdon S., will serve as active pallbearers.

Was A Pioneer i Elder Scobey's life and activities link back with that of many of the early pioneers In the restoration movement of the Cambells, Barton W. Stone and others,{he having been closely associated for years with Tolbert Fanning, under whom he was educated. He was In later years closely associated with such widely known{men as D. T. W. Brents, Dr. J. W. McGarvey, David Llpscomb, E. G. Sewell and others. He was the father-in-law of the late F. D. Srygley, widely-known minister and one time editor of the Gospel Advocate. Elder Scobey was bom January 3, 1834, in Wilson county. His father was John Berry Scobey, member of a pioneer family for whom old Scobey Ferry, south of Gallatln, now Bender's Ferry, was named. The progenitors of the ScobeyJ family emigrated from Ireland into the Colony of North Carolina prior to the Revolution. His great grandfather joined the Colonial Army but never returned. Elder Scobey's mother was Sarah Caroline Sweatt before her marriage, mem ber of| a prominent North Carolina family of Irish and English descent. His grandfather, Edward Sweatt, served In the Carolina legislature, and later became a preacher after being converted and baptized by Barton W. Stone. Elder Scobey graduated from old Franklin College, under the presidency of Tolbert Fanning, In 1855, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and three years later vidth the degree of Master of Arts. He commenced teaching In 1855 In old Union Academy In Wilson county, which he founded, remaining thete until 1861, when he joined the Confederate army. Immediately after the war he resumed teaching, and In 1872 was made president of the Murfreesboro Female Institute, which ; place he held for thirteen years. In 1884 he became vice-president and three years later the president of South Kentucky College at Hopklnsvllle. He resigned In 1890 and taught thereafter successively at Pulaskl, Franklin, Lelper's Fork, later closing his career as a teacher In 1907 with Hay-Long College at Mt. Pleasant. In 1874, while president of Murfreesboro Female Institute, Elder Scobey was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by Peabody College for distinguisbed serviceinstrumental as an in educator. founding HeMonteagle was prominent Summer in Assembly. other educational j activities and Elder Scobey, since bis i active career as a teacher, continued to preach, filling a pulpit somewhere every Sunday with the exception ofj less than a dozen times, until recently. He served as chaplain at the 1919 session of the state legis lature. He was honorary chaplain of the Forrest Scouts.

His War Record

In the fall of 1861 Elder Scobey volunteered in the Confederate army, and was elected captain of his company, which served with the 55th Regiment of Tennesseebeing on sickVolunteers. leave his His company company was participated reorganized, in theand battlehej received of Shiloh. honorable While discharge from General Beauregard. He was later appointed ^sistant commissary by Major Cummings at Cartersville, Ga.

Elder Scobey was twice married, first to Miss Sallie Alice Harris, daughter of Maj. James S. Harris. There were seven childdren to this union, three sons and two daughters surviving. They are: Mrs. Jennie Srygley of ijlashville, Mrs. F. W. Dabney of Hopkinsville, Ky.; James B., John E. and Robert Scobey, all of this city.

His second wife, to whom he was married in 1884, was Miss Fannie P. Sowell, daughter of Col. W. S. Sowell, of Maury county. Four sons and one daughter survive. They are: Capt. William P. Scobey of the 21st Infantry, Scofield Barracks, Honolulu: James E., Joseph W., Herndon S. and Mrs. Z. P. Beachboard, all of this city. I

A half-sister, Mrs. Sallie Colyar, of Mt. Pleasant, Tex., also survives. Prof. James Edward Scobey

(History of the Scobey Family)

ADDENDA ' I am indebted to Col. W. P. Scobey (Ret'd) of Chevy Chase, Md. for the following records. I am net so certain that papa's information about the progenitors of the faimiij' is accurate. Back in 1928 I made a re.'' 5arch| on the Scobey Family and from research I arrived at the conclusitr. that the 'Scobey" or "Scobeys" who came to Airserica were from Scotlrad. 'The name "Sco bey" is typically Scot and, as Wilburn can testify, many "Spobies" (a vari ation of the spelhng) still live in Edinburgh and on one of his trips there he met some of the "Scobies." j I first became interested in the research project in 1928 when I dis covered the War Department was custodian of the Confederate records. In the course of my research I learned that the War Department also was custodian of such Revolutionary records as were in existance. In searching through the Revolutionary records I found three "Scobey" entries, as follows. 1 "James Scobey (note it was interesting to see that the name was spelled Scobey)— Ellas Dayton's New Jersey Battalion. Enlisted Capt. Anthony Sharp's Company, Ma^y 13, 1776. Reduced to rank Jan. 1, 1777. Sent to Albany sick Feb. 23, 1777." , "James Scobey, 2nd Lt; 3d N.J., Capt. Ellas Dayton's' Company. Pvt. Capt. Samuel Flannigan's Company (Note: this remark is at variance with the first statement and appears enigmatic.) Appointed EnsJgn May 1, 1777 (This could mean that he was a/ppointed Ensign after having been sick in Albany). 2d Lt. Nov. 1, 1777. Resigned Dec. 15, 1777. j Then there was this enigmatic record: "James Scobey, Ensign, Virginia, ago 32. Taken prisioner Sept. 10, 1780, in Pennsylvania. Prisoner of war en Island of Orleans and sent from Quebeck for exchange Oct. 1782, by sea to New York." | Still another entry: "John Scobey. Spencer's Continental Regiment. Ser geant in Col. Oliver Spencer's Regiment, New Jersey. Benjamin Weath- by's Co. was at Valley Forge March 1778. Died Oct. 17. 1'778." From these records it appears that there were at least two "Sccbeys" in the Revolutiona-ry War, both of whom coming from Ne\y Jersey, though there is something enigmatic about the "James Scobey, Ensign," from Vir ginia. However, I concluded that the New Jersey James Sccbey must have been with the Continental Army in Virginia at the time the record was made. (Possibly he met a Virginia girl while serving in that state end following the war went back there and married her and then went tO| North Carolina. Following the search of the War Department record I discovered there was a "Sccbeyville" in New Jersey on the Shrewsbury River, not for from Long Branch. I then wrote a letter to the Secretary of State of New Jersey asking- him for any records of the "Scobey" immigration jto New Jersey. I received the following reply from him: | "Replying to yours of the 27th inst. (1928) relative to the Scobey family, there seems little to be supplied. The earliest that I find arje records in the •names of Alexander, 1722, ,and William, 1758 both of Middlesex County. There is a small settlen erit in Monmouth County bearing t'.ie name of Scobeyville, which undoubtedly, has taken its name from the Scobey family." (History of the Scobey Family)

In I an effort further to trace the geneology of the "Scobey" family and learn from whence they came, I researched to Congressional Library. I discovered the following entry page 1209, Fox-Davies Amorial Families: "John Scobie, Esquire, DL, JP. (I don't know what these initials mean.) of Keodale, Sutherland." and "James Scobie, Gentleman, b . Res. Keodale, Durness, Lairg County, Sutherland." Incidentally, Fairbank's Book of Crests, shows the "Scobie" crest, to be a dagger held upright in a closed fist. Baitk in 1928, when Vivian and I were spending a month on the North Jersey' coast I discovered a "Dr. Frederick Scobey." (Note the 'Dentist' spelling) a dentise lived in Long Branch. He could give little information except I that his people had "always" lived in New Jersey and a widowed Scobey! aunt had had a farm at Scobeyville. He wanltedi me to meet his fa ther, tiien in his 70s or 80s. I did and his resemblance to papa was striking. As I looked at him I could not help but think that he and papa came from the same family tree. Papa must be correct about the Scobey widow and her son emigrating from North Carolina to Tennessee, but could it not be that one of the Scobeyj men emigrated from New Jersey to Virginia and then to North Carolina? Possibly this Scobey married an Irish girl and that is where the Irish comes in. I have been unable to find anywhere where "Scobey or Scobie" is an Irish name or that any Scobies live there now. After reviewing all of the record, I am inclined to the opinion that •the male side of the Scobey family come from the immigrants frcmi Scot land, who settled in New Jersey. Since the only information my father had was handed down from the widow Scobey who settled in Ft. Bledsoe. it was I more likely the history of her side of the family than that of her husband, of which she perhaps knew little.

John E. Scobey JUne g, 195^ FAMILY OF PROF. JAMES E. SCOBEY

Sarah Alice Harris Wife. Born May 7, 1843. Died Aug. 29, 1881.

Fannie P. Sowell Wife. Born Oct. 6, 1857. Died June, 1940.

Children of Jas. E. Scobey and Sarah Alice Harris

Sarah Jane Scobey. Bom Dec. 5, 1865. Died Sept 9,1924. Married Fletcher D. Srygley, Dec. 26, 1888.

Mary Augusta Scobey. Born Sept. 18, 1867. Living. Married Frank W. Dabney, Aug. 18, 1886.

James Berry Scobey. Born May 25, 1872. Died Oct. 7, 1954. Married Mattie T. Braeshear, Dec. 27, 1897.

John Edward Scobey. Born Jime 25, 1874. Living. Married Annie Sue Moss, Oct. 28, 1903.

Alice Scobey. Born Sept. 18, 1876. Died Nov. 7, 1909.

Robert Harris Scobey. Bom Jan. 13, 1879. Died March 11, 1938. Married Etta May Farrar, Feb. 25, 1920.

Children of ,Jas. E. Scobey and Fannie P. Sotirell

William Powell Scobey. Born Dec. 5, 1886. Living. Married Vivian H. Darter, Sept. 11, 1916.

Carrie Gates Scobey. Born May 24, 1885. Died Sept. 12, 1924. Married Z. P. Benchboard, June 21, 1893.,

James Edward Scobey, Jr. Born July 2, 1890. Living. Married Ada Mildred Womack, Sept. 28,1921.

Joseph Wilburn Scobey. Bom Nov. 1, 1895. Living. Married Joe Elizabeth Thompson, March 3, 1923.

Hemdon Sowell Scobey. Bom Jime 16, 1898. Living. Married Mildred Cisco, Feb., 1936. SOUTH KENTUCKY COLLErT

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professor JAMES EDWARD SCOBEY was president and vice-president of South Kentucky College from 1884 to 1890. Abies, J.E., 94 Brwon,Sandy, 108 Cmtchelow, J.E., 75 Fergerson, S.B., 94 Adams,Elizabeth, 97 Brown, Tom,94 Cmtcher, H.L., 78 Fitzgerald, Farmie, 25, Aldridge, James, 96 Bryant, Lena,25 Cummings, Sarah Davis, 35 Fletcher, Florence Ewing,58 Allen, Jennie,63 Bryant, Thomas,97 Cummins, Rachel, 20 Fleming, Blanch, 25 Allen, Jim,63 Buchanan, R.G., 30 Cummins, Willie, 25 Fleming, Mollie A., 25 Allen, Ida,63 Bums,Elizabeth, 93 ; Cunningham, Rev. A.N., 14 Ford, Sallie, 26 Allen, Lew,62 Bums, Margaret, 93 , Dasher, Susie, 56 Ford, M. Ella, 26 Allen, Warren, 75 Bums, William, 94 Davidson, A.M.,86 Forest Hill Female Academy, Allison, James, 71 Butler, Fana,95 Davis, Allene, 35 17 Allison, Samuel P., 70 Caldwell, Margaret, 84 Davis, Earle, 35 Fort Delaware,87 Allison, T.F.P., 73 Camp Chase, Ohio,87 Davis, Elise, 35 Foster, Alice, 56 Allison, William, 70 Campbell, Andrew,45 Davis, F.M., 104 Fowler, Thomas B., 57 Anderson, Bro. William, 104 Campbell, Carrie, 25 Davis, Farmie,49 Fowlkes, H.P., 30 Andrews, Arietta, 25 Campbell, Lulie, 25 Davis, Henry Hunter,35 Franklin Female Institute, 10 Andrews,J.B., 94 Carmon, America,82 Davis, J.O., 35 Franklin Grove Academy,10 Armstrong, Sallie, 25 Cannon, Minos,83 Davis, Leura Charltori, 35 Franklin Presbyterian Church, Ash,Stephen, 9 Carmon, Gov, Newton,83 Davis, Mary,43 13 Bailey, C.A.,30 Carmon, Newton,85 Davis, Orran L., 95 Frost, Mary L., 26 Bandy, Florence, 30 Carmon, Samuel P., 85 Davis, Quincy,56 Garland, Alice, 26 Barker, Mary, 25 Carter, Olena, 25 Dawson, Judge Wiliam, 84 Garland, Louise, 25 Barnes, Cora,56 Carter, Ruth,25 i Deans, Carie, 39,56 Garland, M. Carrie, 26 Barrington, Mirmie, 25 Carter, Sallie, 56 Deans, Mettie, 56 Gates, Annie,56 Batey, Alice, 55 Cedl,Izora, 25. DeFrance, Atmie H., 25 Gates, Helen,56 Batey, Nannie,56 Cedar Grove Acadeiny, 10 DeGraffenreid, Gen. Fountaine, Gates, Lou,56 Baugh, Cicilia, 25 Chandler, E.S., 75 84 Gee, J.W., 62 Baugh,Fannie, 25^ Chaney, Emeline, 75i Dietrich, Emma,25 German, Adelicia McEwen,13 Baugh,J.W., 75 Charlton, Alice, 35 Dietrich, Ida, 25 Geoghagen, Lizzie, 37 Beasley, A.C. 94 Charlton, Dr. Joseph, 35 Dixie Poultry, 110 Gilbert, Fibey, 95 Beasley, John P., 103 Childress, Tom,71 Dixon, W.H., 103 Glass, Corirme, 26 Beasley, Laura, 25 Chirm,Aimie, 30 Dodd, Alexander,92 Godwin, Brown,94 Beasley, L.B., 92 Chittum, Mary E., 25 Dodd, Jane C.,93 Goldamer, Jennie, 30 Beasley, Margaret E., 93 Claibome, Maj. Micajah, 84 Dodd,Sally, 93 Gooch,Jerry, 63 Beasley, Matilda,93 Claybrooke, Frederick, 85 Dodd, Tolbert,-94 Goodgine, thomas,95 Beasley, Sallie S., 25 Claybrooke, John S., 79 Donelson, Alice, 84 Goodrich, Farmie,55 Beasley, Wiley E.,97 Clealand, Charles,90 Doss, Alice, 25 Graham, Richard, 74 Beasley, William,92 Clouston, Lt., 88 Douglass, Mina H., 25 Gray, Eugenia, 26 Beasley, Z.W,94 Coats, S.J., 94 Drake, mattie E., 25 Gray, Sarah, 76 Beckett, J.W,94 Cochrane, Louisa, 84 Drake, Mollie C., 25 Green, Henrietta, 26 Belcher, John, 78 Cocke, Hortense, 25; Dryfen, Vick, 49 Gregory, J.W,94 Berry, C.R., 30 Cody, Mary, 25 Eaton, Dr. J.H., 57 Grimes, Gaines, 94 Bethurum, Dr. Jeff, 107 Cody, Sallie, 25 Eaton College,57 Grimes, mary,93 Bills, Clare, 84 Coleman, Will,63 Edgerton, Belle, 30 Guy, Gen. James J., 83, 86 Binford, Prof. R.F., 25 College Grove Female Edgerton, M.T., 30 Halfacre, Mary,16 Blackburn, Capt. Hayes,86 Academy, 18 ^ Ellis, Jesse, 11,75 Hamilton, Edward,85 Blackburn, Rev. Jonathan,9 Comer, Mollie, 25 Elm Crag School, 12 Hamilton, John, 20,60 Blackwell, REG.,94 Cone, G.W,93 Elmwood Female Academy, 10 Haney,John, 63 Boddie, Marie E., 25 Cone, Margaret, 93 ! Epps, Lucy E., 25 Harmer, Dr. J.P., 30 Bond, Burke,30 Cook, Thomas,57 | Ewing, Dr. A.B., 107 Hardeman,Kate, 26 Bond, Martha H.,93 Cordes, Mrs. M., 181 Ewing, Judge Edwin jH., 58 Hardeman,Laura, 18 Bostick, John,87 Cox,Imogen, 25 I Fairbanks, Edna P., 25 Harding, Gen. William, 82 Bostick, Richard W.H.,84 Cox,Prof. E.C., 56 Fairbanks, Horatio, 25 Hargrove, Alice, 26 Boston Church of Christ,92 Crabtree, Frank, llCi Farming, Charlotte, 12 Hargrove, Battle, 26 Bowman,Dunklin, 107 Critz, Mary, C., 25 ! Farmiing Girl's Schocl, 10,12 Hargrove, harris, 26 Bradley, Matt, 25 Crockett, Sallie A., 25 Farming, Tolbert, 12 Hargrove, Kate, 26 Brewer, Rev. Sterling, 18 Crocker, E.L., 74 | Famham, Christie Arme,74 Hargrove, M. Carrie, 26 Brown, Eleanor Rybum,83 Cron, Lucie,56 , Feam,Elizabeth Lee, 82 Hargrovde, Rev. R.K., 25 Brown, Marie, 25 Crosen, Malvina, 78 Female Academy of Franklin, Harkreader, Addie,56 Brown,Jesse, 93,100 Crouch, W.H.,74 ! 10 Harper, Southern,95

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Harpeth Union Female Jordan, Leland, 85 McEwen,Alice, 17 Parkes, J.L., 30 Academy, 10 Jordan, Robert J., 30 McEwen,Jennie, 85 Parkes, LouisaWalker, 14 Harris, Mattie, 26 Karr, Julia, 17 McEwen,John B., 76 Parrish, Bettie P., 26 Harris, Mollie, 26 Kelley, Suya,95 McFerrin, Myra P., 26 Parxish, Frank,62 Harrison, Matilda A., 26 Kirby, M.,87 McGavock, Frank Young, 85 Parrish, Harvey,63 Hasselbring, Jeri, 9 Kirk, Mrs. J.B., 57 McGavock, Randal, 72 Paschall, Edwin,75 Hassel, A.P., 94 Kirkpatrick, C.D.,62 McGrew, Olivia, 26 Parsley, Drury, 78 Hawk,Salie, 95 Kirkpatrick, Kate,62 McKay, Mahaley, 95 Pearre, Mary, 16, 20^ 21 Hawkins, Col. W.S., 88 Kirkpatrick, Sam,65 McKee, E.J., 94 Pearre, Ruth,60 Haynes, N.J., 26 Kittrell, Leura,44 McLemore, A.J., 75 Perkins, Bethenia Hardin,82 Haynes, W.R., 26 Layne, Hattie, 56 McLemore, Anna Lou, 26 Perkins, Daniel P., 58,,59 Heam,E.M., 30 Leaghy, Hannora, 26 McLemore,John D., 84 Perkins, Elizabeth Ewin,85 Hedgpeth, Dory,94 Leaper, J.P., 94 McLemore,Judge W.S., 30 Perkins, Ellen, 26 Heineberg, Prof. D.J., 25 Liberty Meeting House, 12 McLin, Mit, 94 Perkins, Henry C.E., 85 Helm,J.B., 75 Lillie, Byron,67 Mealer, G.W., 94 Perkins, John, 81 Henderson, John Hughes,85 Lillie, Charles Sweeney,67 Mealer, John,94 Perkins, Leigha, 20 Henderson, John Hughes, Jr., Lillie, Fulton, 67 Mefford, Will, 63 Perkins, Letita, 85 85 Lillie, George Akin,67 Miller, Blanche,50 Perkins, Mary Ann,85 Henderson, Lucy, 18, 26 Lillie, James,67 Miss Bell's School, 10,12 Perkins, Maud,20,26 Henderson Masonic Female Lillie, J.B., 30 Miss Huggin's Female Perkins, Newton Cannon,84 Academy, 17 Lillie, Minerva Sweeney,67 Seminary, 10,12 Perkins, Nicholas, 82 Henderson, Rachel Hughes, 19 Lindsley, Dr. Berrien, 72 Michel, Isabella, 93 Perkins, Nicholas Tate, 82 Henderson, Dr. Sam, 18 Linsey, J.B., 86 Moor, Robert, 95 Perkins, Richard, 81 Henderson, Susie, 26 Little, Eliza, 97 Moore, Col. Thomas,82 Perkins, Samuel, 83 Henderson, Thomas F., 81, 85 Little, Lucy,95 Moore, Mary E., 26 Perkins, Samuel P., 80 Henderson, Thomas F. Jr, 73 Little, M.E., 94 Morgan, Kate,59 Perkins, Sarah Price, 82 Heron, Margaret, 85 Little, Tom,95 Morton, Fannie A., 26 Perkins, Theresa Ewin,81 Hicks, Ida,56 Litton, F.C., 94 Morton, James, 103 Perkins, Theresa McGavock, 85 Hicks, Olah, 26 Litton, Gin,105 Moseley, Addie, 26 Perkins, Thomas F.Jr,.73,83 Hill, Green, 101 Litton, James, 93 Moseley, Mabel, 26 Perkins, Thomas F. Sr., 84, 86 Hill, Maggie,56 Lock, James,94 Moseley, Nannie, 26 Perkins, Thomas Harden,82 Hilton Head Prison, 87 Lock, Sarah,93 Moss, Adilee, 26 Perkins, William Cannon,84 Hines, C.H., 10 Locke, Racheal, 96 Moss, Carrie, 26 Phillips, Guy, 110 Holland, Susanna,82 Logsden, Robert, 78 Moss, Lena, 26 Pickens, James, 103 Holt, James Munroe,96 Long, Judith, 10 Moulton, Carrie, 26 Pleasant Grove Academy, 10 Holt, John, 94 Long, Mattie, 26 Moulton, Etta, 26 Pointer, Wilmoth,85 Hooker, Prof. B.F., 57 Lotz, Matilda, 26 Mrs. Hodgson's School, 12,13 Polan, William, 95 House, Matilda, 26 Lyons, Thomas,85 Mrs. Long's School, 10 Polk, Richard, 94 House, William, 30 Lytle, james King, 85 Mrs. Ripley's Restalozzian Polk, William, 77 Hughes, Eliza, A., 26 Maney, Dr. James,57 School, 10,11 Pope, Bettie D., 26 Hughes, Mary B., 57 Maney, Maggie,17 Murfreesboro Bridge, 110 Poplar Grove Academy 18, Hughes, Reese P., 96 Maney, Maj. Lewis, 84 Murfreesboro Female Institute, Porter Academy, 10 Hughes, R.J., 92, Marshall, Annie, 26 35 Prewit, Cora,56 Hulme, Cleo Charlton, 35 Marshall, Genevieve, 26 Nashville Female Academy, 14 Prewit, Forrest, 56 Hulme,Laure, 62 Marshall, Jane, 84 Neely, Lena, 26 Prewit, Lettie, 56 Humphreys,Jerome P., 85 Marshall, John, 19 Neely, Luella, 26 Prowell, Thomas,93 Huimicutt, L. Ann,26 Marshall, Mary,26 Neely, Mary Etta, 26 Pryor, Leah, 82 Hunter, Roberta, 26 Marshall, Park, 107 Nelson, Mary,39 Pugh, Mary J., 26 Hunter, Sallie W., 26 Marshall, Sarah, 26 Newcum, Minerva, 96 Pulaski Female Academy, 11 Jackson, Andrew, 84 Matlock, Susie B., 26 Nolensville Female Academy, Ragsdale, Asa, 78 Jackson College, 77 Matthews, Robertana, 26 17 Ragsdale, Levin, 78 James. Lucy M., 26 Maxey, M.A., 18 Nunn, Lizzie, 26 Ragsdale, Robert, 76 Johnson, Elizabeth,93 Mayberry, H.H., 107 O'Bryan, Mrs. Lawrence, 14 Ransom, George W.,59 Johnson, Lunnette, 25 Mayberry, Narmie, 26 Olingo, Daniel, 94 Ratcliffe, Mary O., 26 Johnson, Martha J., 93 Maypole, A.V., 18 Otey, John H., 76 Rather, Currin, 85 Johnson, Saumella, 26 McAllister, James, 77 Overall, Mary,56 Reams, Heruriette Tennessee,62 Johnson, Tom,95 McAllister, Mary, 26 Overton, Col. John, 86 Reams, Oscar, 76 Johnson, T.B., 107 McAlpine,Ida, 26 Owen Hill Female Academy, 17 Rees, Henry Clayton, 85 Johnson, W.A.,92 McAlpine, Morgan,26 Owen,Lizzie, 26 Rice, William, 71 Jones, Mollie R., 26 McBride, Elizabeth, 96 Park, Farmie, 17 Richardson, Nancy,83 Jones, Tailor, 94 McClaimahan, Josie, 26 Park, Mary Ann Carden, 17 Ricks, Stephens, 102 Jordan, Cannon,74 McCullough, Benjamin, 84 Park, Dr. John S., 17 Riddile, Mary C., 26 Williamson County Historical Society Journal 131

Ripley, Eliza, 11 Shopey, Gen., 89 i Still, Rebecca, 74 Truett, Jennie, 26 Rob,Isaac, 110 Sinclair, Maggie,26 [ Stiimett, William, 95 Union Academy,16 Roberts, Bettie, 26 Sinclair, Mary E., 26 Stirling, Antoinetta, 20 Vaughn, Ben,63 Robinson, Elizabeth, 94 Skelly, Gus,95 Stradley, M.E., 30 Vaughn, Earl, 63 Robinson,J.H., 94 Skelly, James, 94 Stowe, Steven, 10 Vick, H.C., 94 Robinson, Marin, 94 Skelly, Mary,93 Sweeney, Willie, 63 Vinson, Lillie, 26 Robinson, Susan E., 95 Skelly, Sisrow, 95 Sweeny, Lucy A., 26 Waddems,. Lizzie, 26 Robinson, V.H.,93 Skelly, W.C., 94 Tansil, Sadie Bell, 85 Walker, Hugh,70 Rogers, Andrew,78 Smith, Mary,62 Tarkington, Avery, 77 Wall, Lena,26 Rogers, Sallie, 56 Smith, Narmie,56 i Taylor, mary W,26 Wall, R.R., 94 Rozell, Ella N., 26 Smith, Rev. Leonidas,72 Tenison, J.B., 76 Wall, W.C.,94 Rozell, Sol, 87 Smithson, John, 103 Termessee Female College, 19 Wallace, Judge J.G., 30 Rozell, Willie, 26 Smithson, Mary Sam,85 Thomas, Atha,30 ' Wallis, Isabella S., 15 Russell, Helen,26 Smithson, M.F., 103 Thompson,Jacob, 83 Walters, Dora, 26 Saunders, Bessie, 25 Sparkman, Emily D.,93 Thompson,Jim, 110 Walton, Nancy, 74 Sawyer, Ruth Pearre, 61 Sparkman, Ernest, 35 Thompson,John, 83 Watson, Gertrude, 85 Sawyer, Wilton, 61 Sparkman, Jennie Atwater, 35 Thompson, Letitia, 83 Waters, Dr. James,57 Schomaker, Lidia, 56 Sparkman, Jesse J., 93 Thompson, Mrs. Overton, 72 Webb, Dr. Sam,18. Scobey, Gussie,56 Sparkman, John Jackson, 92 Thurman, Estel, 56 Webb, R. Virginia, 26 Scobey, James E. 35 Sparkman, McDonald,94 Thweatt, Armie,63 Welburn, Rachel, 83 Scobey, Jennie, 56 Sparkman, Nathan,97 Thweatt, Ashley Poyher,62 Wells, John C., 30 Scobey, Mary,53 Sparkman, Nelly A.,93 Thweatt, Ed. 63 White,lone, 26 Scobey, Sallie, 51 Sparkman, Rebecca]92 Thweatt, Kate,62 Wilkes, B.C., 94 Scruggs, Florence, 26 Sparkman, Rebecca J., 93 Todd, Bennie,56 Wilkes, J.X,94 Sewell, E.G., 102 Sparkman, Rosana,93 Todd, Prof. H.B., 30 Williams, Benjamin,84 Shaimon,John H.,93 Sparkman Samuel X,93 Toon, Fannie, D., 26 Williams, Eliza, 76 Shannon, William,94 Sparkman,Seth, 92 Tredway, Johns S., 77 Wilson, Mattie, 58 Sharpe, Rev. J.M., 19 Sparkman, Seth C., 93 Trevathan, Katie, 43 Winstead,Ida, 26 Shaw, Clint O., 35 Sparkman, Thomas W,92 Trice, Ross, 110 Wisenbaker, Celia, 56 Shaw, Lucy Prowell, 35 Sparkman, William L., 93 Trigg, Alexina, 26 Witterhall, Dena,56 Shaw, Thomas,94 Sparkman, William X,93 Trimble, Robert, 102 Wolfe, Margaret Ripley, 16 Sheehan, Alice A., 26 Spence, Helen,55 Triime Female Academy, 10 Wood,J.R., 93 Sheehan, Mary J., 26 Stanbrugh, Lillie, 56 Truett, Alice, 26 Young, Bettie, 56 Sherman, Juliet, 18 Stephens, Catherine, 75 Truett, James M.,99 Young, W.B., 95