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“HEARTS RESOLVED AND HANDS PREPARED, THE BLESSINGS THEY ENJOY TO GUARD.” Smollett February 2004 A Publication of the Historic Natchez Foundation Natchez, Mississippi Tour Christina Williams House this Sunday, Feb. 8 The Historic Natchez Located at 600 N. Martin Foundation and Adams Luther King St., the Queen County Supervisor Darryl Anne-style house was built Grennell invite the public about 1895. to tour the Christina Wil- A suggested donation of liams house on Sunday, $5.00 will benefit Zion February 8, from 3:00 to Chapel A.M.E. Church’s 5:30, and enjoy cocktails planned renovation of the ing adjacent to the church. received the Foundation’s donated the house to the and hors d’oeuvres. historic Club Delisso build- Grennell acquired the 2004 historic preservation Historic Natchez Founda- then deteriorated house award for his renovation tion in 2000. The Founda- (see photo above left) in (see photo above right). tion structurally stabilized 2002 from the Historic Dan and Roane Bland the porch before transfer- Natchez Foundation and and David and Judy Heard ring ownership to Grennell. Free Public Events at Historic Natchez Conference February 11-14 Free events at the 2004 York Life, at 7:00 p.m. cords preservation and re- Historic Natchez Confer- Friday at Stanton Hall. search program initiated in ence, “South by Southwest: The conference brings 1992 by California State Exploring the History of together recognized schol- University, Northridge, and the Old Natchez District,” ars, archivists, students, the Historic Natchez Foun- include lectures, visits to and the general public to dation, with major funding The perspective view of Natchez and the fort above were drawn in historic sites, exhibits, and discuss subjects as diverse and assistance provided by 1796 by French cartographer Georges Henri Victor Collot and two cocktail buffets—one as the planter aristocracy, the Natchez National His- published in A Journey in North America in 1826. Greg O’Brien at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the slave trade, Irish immi- torical Park. will focus on 1790s Natchez in his conference presentation, the Eola Hotel and the gration, the Civil Rights Graduate students serve “Choctaws, Chickasaws, Spaniards, and Anglos: Trade, Kinship, other, sponsored by New era, free African Ameri- as interns in a comprehen- and Politics in the 1790s Lower Mississippi Valley.” cans, and World War II. sive summer program in- The conference also volving conservation, re- HNF Elects New Leaders for 2004 recognizes the role of ar- search, and interpretation chival collections in re- of multiple manuscript Peter Burns began his Center. elected to 3 year terms searching and interpreting sources. Most student pa- tenure as President of the Members selected Dennis were Royal Hill, Stuart the history of the American pers presented at the con- Historic Natchez Founda- Switzer as President Elect, Margolin, Margaret Per- South. ference are products of that tion at the annual meeting Frances Morris as Secre- kins, and George Ward. The conference is an program. held jointly with the Cham- tary, and Chuck Caldwell Edie Christian assumes outgrowth of the Adams (See the following two ber of Commerce on Janu- as Treasurer. the office of immediate County Courthouse Re- pages for the complete con- ary 23 at the Convention New board members past president. cords Project, a public re- ference program.)

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W EDNESDAY, FEBRUA RY 11 Greg O‘Brien, University of Southern Mis sissippi All conference presentations will be in the ballroom of the Eola Hotel, except for 11:00 a.m. Session #5: Delineating a Decade: The 1940s. Moderator: Anne the Thursday evening session to be held at St. Mary Minor Basilica. All morning Lipscomb Webster, Mississippi Department of Archives and History sessions will break at 10:30 for refreshments in the Eola Hotel lobby. Camp Van Dorn, Natchez, and the 99th Infantry Division in 11:00 a.m. Registration opens, Eola Hotel lobby World War II. Charles P. Roland, Professor Emeritus, University of Point of Beginning Kentucky

1:00 p.m. Session #1 (Student Session): Putting Themselves on the Map: Federal Law Against Mississippi Mob Law, 1940-1947. Chris- Early Settlers Make Their Marks. Moderator: Ralph Vicero, Cali- topher Waldrep, San Francisco State University fornia State University 2:30 p.m. Session #6 (Student Session): Metes and Bounds: The Post-bellum From Jersey to the Wilderness: Revolutionary Era Migra- Era. Moderator: Charles Yarborough, Mississippi School for Mathe- tion from New England to the Natchez Area. Johanna Lee matics and Science, Columbus Smith, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Lost Cause Versus Lost History: Historical Memory and the Andrew Marshalk and the Fighting Press of the Old Black Troops of Civil War Natchez. Dan O‘Sullivan, California Natchez District. Anthony Seybert, California State University, State University, Northridge Northridge They Came on Like Locusts: Northern Merchants in Post- Fair Daughters of Charity: Women and the Ordering of Bellum Natchez. Aaron Anderson, California State University, Benevolence in Natchez and the Early American Republic. Northridge Nancy Zey, University of Texas, Austin Jim Crow, Louis J. Winston, and the Survival of Black Politi- 2:00 p.m. Break for Refreshments, Eola Hotel lobby cos in Post-Bellum Natchez. Sheryl Nomelli, California State Uni- 2:30 p.m. Session #2 (Student Session): African American Passages: All Over versity, Northridge the Map. Moderator: Charles Macune, California State University, The Unknown Soldiers: The Black Troops of World War I Northridge Natchez, 1910-1930. Shane Peterson, California State University, The Journey Home: Natchez and the African-American Northridge Colonization Movement, 1828 to 1855. Dawn Dennis, Califor- 6:00 p.m. Session #7: Gender and Ethnic Meanders. Moderator: Don Carleton, nia State University, Northridge Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. The Natchez —Over-Ground“ Road to Emancipation: Send- St. Mary Minor Basilica, Main and Union Streets ing the Enslaved to , 1830 to 1861. Roseanne Welch, Cali- Felicite‘ Girodeau: Racial and Religious Identity in Antebel- fornia State University, Northridge lum Natchez. Emily Clark, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon

Telling the Monmouth Story from the Perspective of the The Irish in Antebellum Natchez. David Gleeson, College of Enslaved. Cynthiana Parker, California State University, North- Charleston, South Carolina ridge

Making the Most of Freedom: Female Black Teachers in FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Post-Bellum Natchez. Darcy Bieber, California State University, 9:00 a.m. Session #8: Archival Expeditions: Traveling Well-Worn Paths and Northridge Blazing New Trails. Moderator: Ron Miller, Historic Natchez Founda- tion 5:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception: Eola Hotel The Benchmark of Downtown Natchez Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, Don Carleton 7:00 p.m. Welcome. Natchez Mayor F. L. —Hank“ Smith; Historic Natchez Foundation President Peter Burns; Natchez National Historical Park Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Louisiana Superintendent Keith Whisenant; California State University, North- State University, Baton Rouge, Faye Phillips ridge Ronald L. F. Davis Mississippi Department of Archives and History, H. T. Holmes 7:15 p.m. Session #3: The Compass Always Points North. Moderator: Faye Southern Historical and Folklife Collections, University of Phillips, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Louisi- North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tim West and Laura Clark Brown ana State University, Baton Rouge 11:00 a.m. Session #9: Betwixt and Between the Law: Mid-Century Explora- Not Quite Southern: The Precarious Allegiance of the tions. Moderator: Tim West, Southern Historical and Folklife Collec- Natchez Nabobs in the Sectional Crisis. William K. Scarbor- tions, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ough, University of Southern Mississippi When Natchezians Were Terrorists: Filibustering and the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Failure of American Law in the 1850s. Robert E. May, Purdue 9:00 a.m. Session #4: Crossroads and Cross Currents: Converging Cultures University in Early Natchez. Moderator: Charles Bolton, University of South- ern Mississippi White Christmas: Buy-ins and Boycotts in Civil Rights-Era Natchez. Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi Natchez Bluffs: Once Upon and Now Down Under, Ar- chaeological and Historical Investigations along the 2:30 p.m. Session #10: Living Within Boundaries: Free in Natchez Riverfront. Thurston Hahn, Coastal Environments, Ba- Antebellum Natchez. Moderator: Keith Whisenant, Natchez National ton Rouge Historical Park

Choctaws, Chickasaws, Spaniards, and Anglos: Trade, Kin- Not Everything is Black or White: Comparing and Contrast- ship, and Politics in the 1790s Lower Mississippi Valley. ing the Lifestyles at Melrose and the William Johnson House.

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Carol Petravage, Harpe r‘s Ferry Center, National Park Serv ice Dri ving Out the Traders: The Natc hez Uprising of 1833. Thom Rosenblum, Natchez National Historical Park In Search of Robert Smith: Preserving and Interpreting an African American Legacy. Jim and Ruthie Coy, Natchez Recognizing and Interpreting the Forks of the Road Slave Market. Jim Barnett, Mississippi Department of Archives and His- 4:00 p.m. Tour of William Johnson House and Bontura (home of Robert tory Smith). Scouting African American Landmarks www.slaveryinamerica.org and www.jimcrowhistory.org: 7:00 p.m. Cocktail Buffet at Stanton Hall. Scaling the Heights: A Classical The Life and Natchez Connection: a Partnership Monument of the Planter Class. This reception is hosted by New Voyage. Kathleen Jenkins, Natchez National Historical Park; Tim York Life in appreciation of the support extended by the Natchez Hallinan and Kathy Honda, Hallinan Consulting, Los Angeles, Cali- community in the creation of educational websites and documen- fornia tary programs on African-American history. 12:30 p.m. Lunch at the Carriage House (ticketed event) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 9:00 a.m. Session #11: Downriver and Cross Country: Slave trading to the 2:00 - Exhibits: Sign Posts and Guide Posts: Deep South. Moderator: Ralph Jennings, Historic Natchez Foun- 4:00 p.m. Envisioning the Past. dation Interpreting the Slave Narratives: An Artistic Vision by Johnnie M. , the Interstate Slave Trade, and the Maberry Gilbert of Tougaloo College. Natchez Museum of Afro- Election of 1828. Robert H. Gudmestad, Southwest Baptist American History, 301 Main Street University, Missouri Natchez in Historic Photographs. First Presbyterian Church, 117 Empire for : Capital, Cotton, and Slaves in the South Pearl Street Lower Mississippi Valley. Walter Johnson, New York Univer- Passover and Pilgrimage: The Natchez Jewish Experience. Temple sity B‘Nai Israel, 213 South Commerce Street

11:00 a.m. Session #12: Setting Markers: Staking Out the Sites. Moderator: 7:00 p.m. Cocktail Buffet at Longwood (ticketed event) Ronald Davis, California State University, Northridge Nutt‘s Folly–A Charted Course Interrupted 2003 Donations to the Historic Natchez Foundation On this list are the names of those whose gifts were dated during 2003. Gifts include dues, memorials, grants, and major donations to the foundation or the Church Hill Preservation Trust. Dorian M. Bennett, Inc Mr. Ernesto Caldeira Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L.F.Davis M/M Joseph V. Frank Dedicated Funds Ms. Bernice Berdon M/M C. Wesley Caldwell M/M Charles F. Dawkins Freeman's Welding Service Receiving Gifts M/M Robert C. Bertolet M/M Charles W. Caldwell Jr. M/M Tony DeAngelis Rev. & Mrs. Travis Fulton Church Hill Presvtn. Trust M/M Lewis B. Blackwell Miss Katherine Calhoun R. W. Delaney Construction Daniel J. Furden GMR Balloon Race Mr. Tomas R. Blackwell Mrs. Nathan M. Calhoun Mr. Donald DePriest Mrs. Jack Galloway Historic Natchez Conference M/M Dan L. Bland Dr. & Mrs. W. F. Calhoun M/M Daniel G. Dillard Mrs. Thomas H. Gandy The Ritz Theater Renovation M/M Warren Bland Callon Petroleum Operating Family of Morris Doughty M/M Roy J. Garcia M/M F. Rawdon Blankenstein Company Mr. Greg Drane Ann B. Garrity Memorials and M/M John P. Bornman Jr. M/M Sim C. Callon M/M Richard W. Dresser Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Gaudet Honorariums: M/M Thomas H. Bowen, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John R. Calvert Mrs. George F. Dunagan M/M Mike Gemmell Judy Kuehnle Maria Bowser Mrs. Richard A. Campbell Ms. Willie Mae Dunn M/M Jerry L. Geter Robert L. Hammach Mrs. Barney L. Boyles Jr. Mr. Robert E. Canon Prof. & Mrs. Robert C. Gillon & Co., Ltd. Margaret Moss Judge David Bramlette George Cantley Dunnell Dr. James Glass John E. Mulhearn, Jr. Richard & Cheryl Branyan Angelle M. Carbone M/M Charles W. DuPre M/M Eric Glatzer Howard B. Peabody, Jr. Britton & Koontz 1st Natl M/M Philip E. Carby M/M Richard M. Durkin G.M.R.Balloon Race Robert Schmieg Bank Jozan R. Carlton M/M Richard Edgin Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William E. Adolph Wagner M/M Larry L. Brown Dr. Phil Carr M/M Edward Eidt Godfrey II Mary Dunn Warren Leslie Bruning M/M Mark E. Carter M/M Charles N. Elliott Miss Ellen H. Goodell Dr. John R. Watts Mrs. Stratton H. Bull M/M Julius M. Carter M/M William Ernst Dr. & Mrs.. Herschel Gower Michael Burke, Ltd. M/M Rick Castiglione M/M Donald Estes Dr. Wesley Granger Donors M/M Stanley E. Burkley Mr. John Mott Coffey Mrs. Karl Ewald Jr. M/M Paul Green & Family Ahrens & Henry Mrs. Andrew Burns Ms. Carolyn M. Cole Mrs. Robert C. Farr Mrs. Jeanette Gremillion Mrs. Lyman D. Aldrich Miss Margaret Burns Ms. Kate O. Cole Fat Mama's Tamales Darryl V. Grennell AmSouth Bank M/M Pat Burns Jr. M/M James J. Cole Fayette Garden Club Mr. James E. Guercio M/M Thomas K. Armstrong M/M Peter T. Burns Jr. M/M R. D. Colter Jr. Mrs. Jeanette S. Feltus M/M Sammy Guercio M/M Kenneth R. Attenhofer Dr. & Mrs. John S. Burwell Donna Compradt M/M W. J. Feltus III M/M John Guice Automotive Machine Co. M/M Alphonse Buttross Concordia Bank & Trust Co. M/M A. J. Ferguson M/M George Guido Cyndy Bailey Mr. Peter Buttross Jr. M/M Richard Conner M/M Tommy Ferrell M/M Lucien C. Gwin Jr. Dr. Carroll R. Ball M/M Lucius M. Butts Jr. Cindy Cooke Ferriday Farm Equipment Gwin, Lewis, & Punches Dr. & Mrs. David Ball M/M Richard Byrd M/M Harry L. Corban Mrs. Dexter Ferry M/M David Haigh Mrs. Basil Ballard M/M Paul H. Byrne Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James T. Coy III Ms. Ozelle V. Fisher M/M Bobby Hall Mrs. Ethel G. Banta M/M Tony Byrne Page F. Craw Mrs. Forrest D. Flinn Mrs. G. Stuart Handy Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Barnes William J. Byrne III M/M John Dale IV Mr. Edward J. Foley Jr. M/M Gabe Hausman Melchior R. Beltzhoover III Mrs. Charles R. Byrnes Jr. M/M A. Vidal Davis Mr. Joe Fortunato Mrs. Ellen Hefley

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2003 Donors List (co ntinued) M/M William F. Heins III Louisiana Companies M/M Page Ogden Silas M. Simmons & M/M Terry Trovato M/M Bill Henley M/M David MacKenzie M/M O. Michael Owens Company Tuboscope Vetco Mrs. Janet B. Herold Ms. Anne W. S. MacNeil Anna A. Packer M/M Bill Slatter International, Inc. Mr. Richard H. Hess Jr. M/M Fred Mange M/M James L. Palmer M/M Cecil Gill Smith M/M Kenneth T. Urquhart Dr. & Mrs. R. B. Hester M/M John Marchbanks Patricia Palmer M/M Randall L. Smith M/M Robert Baker Valentine M/M William S. Hester George M. Marshall M/M Richard S. Parker Sandra S. Smith M/M Phil Vasser Mr. Carl F. Hicks M/M Floyd L. McCalip Jr. M/M Charles F. Patterson Jr. Mrs. Boyd Sojourner Miss Anne G. Vaughan M/M Carl F. Hicks Jr. Mrs. Gwen S. McCalip David H. Peabody, Architect Mrs. H. Steve Spencer Ralph Vicero Mrs. John E. Hicks Jr. W. B. McCartney Oil Mrs. Howard Peabody Jr. M/M H. I. Stahlman, III Vidalia Chamber of Historic Springfield Company M/M Forest Persons Premo Stallone, Inc. Commerce Foundation Mr. Jim F. McClure Mrs. Charles Petkovsek Jr. The Stamolis Family Fred Wagner, Architect M/M Charles D. Rev. & Mrs. Joseph M/M Glen Petty Stephens Hobdy & Company Mrs. E. C. Ward Hollingsworth A.McConnell III M/M Wayne Potter M/M Jack Stephens Jr. M/M James F. Ware M/M Claiborne P. Hollis Dr. & Mrs. John McGee Potter, Garcia Management M/M Vincas Steponaitis Mrs. Pat Washington Mrs. A. S. Hudnall M/M William Carl McGehee Adrianne Poulard M/M Marion G. Stewart Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Weed Judge & Mrs. John Hudson M/M William C.McGehee Jr. Preservation Society of M/M William E. Stewart M/M Robin Wellesley Mary Hudson M/M William D. McGehee Ellicott Hill Mr. Joseph B. Stone M/M W. T. West Jr. Mr. Gary L. Hume Frances McKinley Mr. David Preziosi Mrs. Luther A. Stowers Ms. Shirley A. Wheatley Mrs. Nancy Hungerford Janet McNeely Ella Prichard M/M W. B. Stowers Ms. Polly A. White Mrs. Neill Jeffrey M/M Thomas McNeely Jr. M/M C. G. Prospere M/M Jack Stubbs Mr. Newton Wilds M/M Hyde D. Jenkins Ms. Kay McNeil Susan Prospere Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. M/M Gray Williams Jr. M/M Hyde R. Jenkins, II Mrs. Ellen B. Menetre M/M Robin Punches Stubbs Dr. & Mrs. A. Terrel Dr. Gregory Jerkins M/M Albert W. Metcalfe Mrs. Hall Ratcliffe Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Barry Suber Williams Mrs. Kay Brewer Jinkins M/M Ronald W. Miller Jonathan Ray Mrs. Etta Mae Swalm Mrs. Thelma W. Williams M/M H. Lee Jones Jr. Ms. Sue Moeser M/M Bryant Reed Jr Fitzgerald M/M John Wodack M/M Jake Jones Mr. Matthew Monette Richmond, Inc. Mr. Ronald F. Switzer M/M Bernard P. Wood Mrs. John M. Jones Mrs. Kathy Moody Mr. Robert S. Rife Jr. M/M Dennis R. Switzer Mrs. Robert Y. Wood Jr. Mary Ann B. Jones Mrs. William W. Moore M/M Charles W. Ritter Jr. M/M George O. Tanner Mrs. Allen W. Woolf Mrs. B. Chandler Jordan Penelope S. More Shelley Ritter Mr. H. Michael Tatum Jr. Sally & Clarence Young Justiss Oil Company Gwen O. Moreton River Boat Gift Shop Melody B. Thayer Dr. & Mrs. John R. Young Jr. M/M C. Hayden Kaiser Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Mallan G. Morgan Mrs. Yvonne M. Robbins Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Tillman Mrs. Al G. Zerby Jr. M/M Edward Kaiser M/M Joe Sam Moritz Mrs. M. L. K. Robinson Dr. & Mrs. Barry Tillman Mr. Paul Keller Dean Morris LLP Mrs. William F. Rogillio M/M Adrian R. Trimble Edward & Katherine Killelea Mrs. George Morrison Jr. Frank Rowe Mrs. J.P. Trosclair M/M Jerold Krouse Miss Joie Morrison M/M Alvin Roy Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Kuehnle M/M Bill Rush Mosby M/M John K. Saleeby Progressive Preservation M/M Bruce M. Kuehnle Jr Dr. & Mrs. George Moss Jr. Christopher C. Salisbury Published by the Historic Natchez Foundation. M/M Charles M. Laird Mrs. George W. Moss Amelia Salmon & Benjamin Written by foundation staff and volunteers, whose opin- M/M Ray Lang Tammi Mullins Hillyer ions are not necessarily those of the board of directors. M/M Bazile Lanneau Natchez/Adams Chamber Miss Sarah Evelyn Salmon M/M Bazile Lanneau Jr. Commerce M/M Walter Sandel Printed by Natchez Newspapers, Inc. Mr. Elton L. Larry Mrs. Cary L. Noble Mrs. James L. Saunders Jr. Distributed with the Natchez Democrat and by mail to M/M Harry S. Laver M/M Ed Davis Noble Mrs. Paul Schilling out-of-town members and to members upon request. Mrs. Faye B. Lehmann M/M Daniel J. O'Beirne Mrs. Dunbar Shields 2004 Board of Directors M/M Robert J.Lehmann M/M Thomas J. O'Beirne Mr. William D. Simmons Peter T. Burns, President; Dennis Switzer, President Elect; MEMBERSHIP FORM Edith W. Christian, Immediate Past President; Frances L. Membership is open to all who seek to meet today’s challenge to create a better future for Natchez Morris; Secretary; Charles W. Caldwell Jr., Treasurer; by reusing the best of the past to enhance the special character of the region. Darryl V. Grennell; Royal Hill; Carol M. Hobdy; Larry E. 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