Hertford County, NC - Solon Borland's Children
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"Solon Borland & FAMILY"
Chapter 3: "Solon's Children"
THOMAS BORLAND
(11/09/08), (01-15-13)
Solon BORLAND (1811VA-1864TX) may have had seven children?
Thomas & Harold ("Little Solon") with first wife Huldah, possibly (?)
one with second wife Elizabeth, rumored to have had one (?) by creole
lady friend, George Godwin, Fanny Green & Mary Melbourne with third and
last wife Mary.
We find documentation that the five known children, Thomas, Harold
("Little Solon"), George Godwin, Fanny ("Fannie") Green, twice married
Mary ("Mollie") Melbourne plus Solon's two granddaughters Grace
("Darce") Melbourne and twice married Mary Borland BEATTIE, lived lives
any parent should be most proud about. We were unable to trace his four
grandsons, Russell & Charles BORLAND (Veterans of World War I), Godwin
Borland MOORES, or George Melbourne BEATTIE (with Oliver Typrwriter Co
in NY, 1903), --- hopefully they too lead good lives.
Material used herein from The College of William & Mary archives is
noted with (WM).
3E. MARY "Mollie" MELBOURNE BORLAND (1850AR-1938MO):
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Her ancestry.
MARY MELBOURNE BORLAND, known as "Mollie", at least during her
younger years, named for her musically gifted and talented mother,
Mary Isabel MELBOURNE (MILBOURN/E?) (1824LA-1862AR), was third and
last known born Friday, 28 June 1850 in Hot Springs, Hot Spring, now
Garland county, Arkansas while her father was seated in Washington
city as Arkansas' fourth United States Senator. First married in
Memphis to John M BEATTIE having three known children, widowed in
1878, second marriage June 1889 at Little Rock, Pu;aski conty,
Arkansas to widower Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY, moved to Kansas City,
Missouri, sometime before June 1929, died in Kansas City 17 February
1938 while in the Robinson Sanitarium, following a lengthily illness,
ashes buried (unmarked) next to second husband, plot 30, in Evergreen
Cemetery, Fayetteville, Washington county, Arkansas.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/shelby/obits/g/graybeat8ob.txt east,
across roadway from father's friend, Archibald YELL
LET IT BE NOTED: --- "Mollie", with daughters Grace M & Mary
Borland, were, for some gracious and unknown reason, dedicated to Deaf
Mute Schools, totalling nearly one-hundred years of faithful service
in Arkansas, Colorado, Michigan and Washington.
She too was active during Civil War days in Princeton, Dallas county,
Arkansas, very close to her older sister "Fannie", found throughout
Virginia (Davis) GRAY's (1st Mrs O C GRAY) 1863-1865 diary, published
1983 Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and both her unpublished 1867-1872
transcribed, 'baby diary' of son Carl (later "Mollie's" step-son) now
since August 2005 at Special Collection, University of Arkansas
http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/ead/transform.asp?xml=mc1618&xsl=findingaid
and in her unpublished letters (we had forty, dating 1857 Germany to
1886 death at Fayetteville). She (or cousin Fanny, Euclid's daughter),
in October and earlier her mother in September nearly died shortly
after 1850 birth at home in Hot Springs with Solon rushing home from
Washington city, taking political flack from his enemies, including
some modern day professors who write story books.
(WM) Mentioned in uncle Euclid BORLAND's 16 Oct 1851 letter from Hot
Springs, Arkansas to George GODWIN of Suffolk, Nansemond county,
Virginia who with wife Fanny GREEN raised and schooled her father and
half-brother Thomas (for whom her brother & sister were named), ---
"Little Mary" is noted:
"...running about and talking plainly."
Followng death of brother George Godwin, June 1862 and her mother,
October 1862, her father retained Ralph Leland GOODRICH
(1836NY-1897AR) January 1863 to instruct 12 y/o "Mollie" and sister
Fanny in arthmetic, until March when they returned to Princeton in
fear the Federal troops would overtake Little Rock. According to his
diary, Mr GOODRICH had a very low opinion of both girls, but thought
the most of Mary ---
www.griffingweb.com/january_1863.htm
(WM) "Mollie's" letters of November 1866 & May 1867 (future step-son,
Carl Raymond GRAY's born, noon 28 September 1867), from Princeton to
cousin, thrice wounded former confederate officer serving under
General William MAHONE, cousin Euclid BORLAND, Jr, at University of
Virginia (Fay HEMPSTEAD of Arkansas, a fellow student) reveal; she
thought herself at ages 16 & 17, unattractive, overweight and was
bored with the town of Princeton, Arkansas which had only three stores
and three churches (Presbyterian, Methodist & Baptist), with preachers
visiting but once monthly. She loved her boarding house lady, civil
war widow Mrs Martha A (Gee) HOLMES (1816VA-1901AR) because she was a
southern lady from Virginia (whom her father gave money and two female
slaves to look after his daughters when he left in 1863). "Mollie's
penmanship was far superior to that of sister, the published poetess,
Fanny Green.
Age 19 (1869), she left Arkansas with newly wed sister "Fannie" and
husband, James C MOORES, for Memphis. (marriage was at "Mollie's"
second husband's home, O C & Virginia GRAY) Mary, 21 y/o, married John
M BEATTIE, born in Scotland, at Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee,
bond obtained Thursday, 22 February 1872, with Fannie's husband, James
MOORES jointly making Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollar bond. Its
unclear, but doubtful, this be same John BEATTIE/BEATTY mentioned in
Virginia's 1983 published diary, footnote #61, a private with Twelfth
Missouri Calvary Regiment, from Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
Their union produced three children before John was caught up in the
Memphis yellow fever epidemic, Elmwood cemetery informing us 30 June
2011, they buried him 22 September 1878 in Chapel Hill Public Lot 2
space #256 the year some 5,000 others died in Memphis, along with
20,000 in Mississippi river valley, bankrupting City of Memphis,
included was Fanny's (ex ?) husband, James C MOORES, still unknown
where buried, then Fanny the following year in "Mollie's" home, 23
August 1879, buried same day at Chapel Hill Public Lot 2 space #552.
Widow "Mollie", listed "Marg M", in Shelby county, Tennessee 1880
Federal census, appears to be operating a boarding house and is less
seven y/o daughter Grace Melbourne. A check was made to determine if
by chance Grace was inflicted with a hearing impairment, checking from
1879-82 at Little Rock's Deaf Mute Institute found negative, as was
1910 census, by Brian ROBERTSON of the Butler Center for Arkansas
Studies for us.
Its unknown to me when "Mollie" returned to Arkansas after going to
Tennessee in 1869, but in 1883 she was appointed Matron at The
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute (she and daughters dedicated about 100
years service to deaf schools)
http://members.fortunecity.com/zoinky/deaf.htm serving six years,
http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEWAAAAIAAJ (search: 1st, "Mrs M M
Beatie", 2nd, "Mrs Beattie"), by new superintendent Major John C
LITTLEPAGE, ending with 2nd marriage, replaced by Celia Laura (Ramson)
CLARKE, w/o Francis Devereux CLARKE (1849NC-1913MI) (Francis
co-invented first hearing aide, 1880). (Noted as a Trustee was, the
most Reverend Thomas Rice WELCH minister of sister's wedding). CLARKE,
orginally an engineer, assumed superintendency in 1885 coming from
sixteen years at New York Deaf school serving until he left for
Michigan Deaf school December 1892, which was created at suggestion of
his wife's uncle, then Governor RANSOM. Younger brother, Tom, named
for their grandfather, Thomas Pollock Devereux CLARKE (1859TX-1925WA),
arrived at Arkansas in 1887, later as a widower in 1914 married
"Mollie's" youngest daughter, Mary Borland, in state of Washington.
The CLARKE family history is most exciting to study, --- mother,
writer Mary Bayard and father, Colonel Willam J CLARKE, see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=MQe5mTwIwWMC (search: "Francis D
Clarke"), Mary Bayard CLARKE,
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/w/Wootten,Moulton,and_Clarke_Family.html
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Clarke,Mary_Bayard.html
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1570034737 William J CLARKE papers,
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Clarke,William_J.html .
Mary "Mollie" M. (Borland) BEATTIE is listed living at 712 E 6th St.,
Little Rock in 1883, a Matron, when visited by her friend, Virginia
(Davis) GRAY (first Mrs O C GRAY
www.argenweb.net/washington/pics/vagrsy.html , mother of his
children). This visit is written of in 26 November 1883 letter by/at
Virginia's Fayetteville home which was:
"...a rambling English cottage type, olive green in color, with
charming ornamental woodwork at the porch and vines and shrubbery in
just the right places," (description by neighbor Hattie E WILLIAMS in
http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/knox/newspapers/ourneigh7nw.tx )
on north side of west Dickson street at Gregg avenue, were after
9-months illness, she died of cancer, 1:30 pm, Tuesday, 17 August
1886. Three years later, it became home for "Mollie" and her two
youngest children, Mary Borland and George M (daughter "Darce" working
at Deaf Mute school) with step-sister Ethel
Davis GRAY (1871AR- 1910IL) returning home from school in Wichita,
Sedgwick county, Kansas, where her brother, older Carl Raymond GRAY
and wife,Harriette lived, ~ ~ both girls attending classes at Arkansas
Industrial University (AIU).
The 1883 Little Rock, Polk's City Directory listed Mary BEATTIE as a
Matron at Deaf Institute, as did the 1886 Directory. Monday, 17th June
1889 widow Mary Melbourne (Borland) BEATTIE married widower Colonel
Oliver Crosby GRAY (1832ME-1905AR) (enlisted under her father Solon
BORLAND, in what was later the 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry,
Confederate States Army), in Little Rock, both with teenage children
setting up house, as above mentioned, in Fayetteville, at his home on
west Dickson street, next west to historic Frisco depot to whom the
GRAY's had provided eastern most portion of their 2-1/4 acre
homestead, purchased 10 July 1877 for $1000 from Judge LaFayette and
Mary A. GREGG, (whose 1871 historic home, replaced their log home, is
west, across street, at 339 north Gregg avenue), he a Union Colonel,
later a Supreme Court Justice, credited with getting the university
into Fayetteville in 1871.
Oliver was appointed, among other duties, Chairman of the Mathematic's
Department at AIU July 1888 (University of Arkansas after 1899)
following his service as Mayor of Fayetteville from 1886, that after
serving as first superintendent in Fayetteville's first public school
building, Washington school, a school building he with fellow school
board member and neighbor, LaFayette GREGG, got built in 1885 as
Fayetteville's first public school building.
"Mollie" and Oliver remained in Fayetteville until May 1895. After
serving some 21 years at AIU & Fayetteville, he was appointed
superintendent of The Arkansas School for the Blind (ASB)
www.webofroots.com/washington/pics/colgray.html , Little Rock, where,
26 years earlier, in 1869, ASB named their 1st brick building in honor
of "Colonel Gray". It was built on, former Arkansas' Territorial
Governor Senator William Savin FULTON's, property, "Rosewood", 18th
and Spring streets, land once owned by Roswell BEBEE, property at east
from farm house where Mary had been raised for four years, 1854 till
1858. Mary is documented as Matron for years 1896 and 1898.
The Blind school moved in c1938 to present location near Deaf school,
in 1948, its old buildings were demolished, --- using 300,000 of
school's bricks, cleaned by prisoners, in building the then new
Governors Mansion, now at 18th & Center Street.
A political problem arose in 1898 with GRAY being replaced, returning
after a couple of years spent in Searcy, White county, Arkansas at
Speers-Langsford Military Institute. The Colonel, re-appointed
superintendent died at the Blind School, Saturday, 9 December 1905
following 45 years of unselfish, dedicated service to his adopted
Arkansas, defending it with his life in both, war & peace, educating
and being a role model for hunderds of its future leaders, such as,
Honorable George B ROSE (1851AR- 1942AR), s/o GRAY's friend and fellow
mason Uriah Milton ROSE (1834KY-1913AR) of Little Rock who gave a
glowing tribute to his former teacher at his funeral, published along
with a nice Editorial as well as Colonel GRAY's picture and obituary.
Papers, in and outside of Arkansas published lengthly obituaries of
her husband, several:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/obits/grayoc.txt
A crowd of over 100, students, and former students, many now in high
positions, also friends from in and out of state, attended services at
Presbyterian Church, 5th & Scott
www.arkansasties.com/Pulaski/OldLittleRock/Presby30.jpg before his
body was removed by special train to Fayetteville for burial with
masonic honors the following day in Masonic Evergreen cemetery, plt
30, laid next to his first wife, Virginia LaFayette DAVIS
(1834ME-1886AR).
The Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute is reported destroyed by fire
September 30, 1899, so Tom and wife Lottie KIRKLAND (born New York
taught Western Pennsylvania deaf school, a twin sister was clerk in
Washington) went to Michigan as did both of "Mollie's" daughters,
Grace M and Mary Borland again joining up with Francis D CLARKE and
wife Celia, he heading school from 1892, and jointly as Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Michigan, layed corner stone for new school
sixteen months after other was destroyed by fire, a month before his
September 1913 sudden death at age 64. Younger brother Thomas P and
wife had gone to Oregon's school in 1902, then Vancouver, Washington
in 1906.
Its unknown to me how/why/when "Mollie" moved to Kansas City, she may
be in Carhage, Jaspe county, Missouri in 1909, so her life is lost to
me for thirty-three years, except for her death certificate. She
surely (?) attended Mary's wedding in 1914, and possibly her second
marriage, ca 1927, to Dr John C BELL.
"Mollie" lost her entire known family except her children, before she
died: half-brother Thomas, 9 January 1859, brother George Godwin, 24
June 1862, mother, 23 October 1862, father, 1 January 1864, husband
John BEATTIE, 1878, sister Fanny, 23 August 1879, second husband O C
GRAY, 9 December 1905 and other half-brother Harold, 20 July1921. Fay
HEMPSTEAD, in his 1890 book, notes she and Harold were then living.
Mrs. Mary Beattie GRAY, "Mollie", passed away in Kansas City,
Thursday, 17 February 1938, after years of poor health. Her ashes
were:
"...buried beside Col. Gray." ,
see obituary in Northwest Arkansas Times, 18 February, 1938,
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/obits/graymb.txt witnessed by
daughter Mary Borland (Beattie) Clarke-BELL, widow of Thomas P CLARKE,
wife of Dr. John C. BELL, of Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi,
with step-son Carl Raymond GRAY, President [actually vice-chairman],
Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska, --- grave is at plot 30.
www.usgwarchives.net/ar/cemph/washingtonph.htm , in Historic Masonic
Evergreen Cemetery at Fayetteville, Arkansas, east across cemetery
road from her father's friend and famous Arkansan, Governor (Colonel)
Archibald YELL's grave (see photo).
The Missouri State Boarrd of Health certificate of death, file #5733,
has her in Robinson Sanitarium, 2625 Paseo, Kansas City, Kaw township,
Jackson county, Missouri when she died, a patient of Dr ROBINSON's
since 20 June 1929. Undoubtedly, her step son Carl and wife Harriette
visited her from time to time, for Harriette was coming from Omaha to
Kansas City monthly, teaching a Bible class and son Carl jr lived
there awhile. "Mollie" likely lived there when I was born in February
1927, so my mother may also have visited her until her death April
1928.
We found Colonel GRAY's stone toppled to the ground in 2003 so sought
his masonic brothers, the Masonic Order, to correct, but ended up
having to correct it ourselves (how soon we forget) winter of 2003. We
also reported, with copy of obituary, the lack of Mary's name on
graveyard listing, and it supposedly is being added, for there is NO
gravestone.
www.argenweb.net/washington/cemetery/evergreen.html
Hattie E. WILLIAMS' May 1958 published article
http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/knox/newspapers/ourneigh7nw.tx in
Flashback of
href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6327>Washington
County Historical Society about her neighbors the GRAYS, mentions her
high thoughts towards the 2nd Mrs GRAY, Mary ("Mollie") Melbourne
(Borland) Beattie GRAY. see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm (search;
"Mary [Mollie]")
3E-a. GRACE "DARCE" MELBOURNE BEATTIE, (1873TN-1954MS)
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Her ancestry.
GRACE
MELBOURNE BEATTIE was 1st born of Mollie and John M Beattie in
Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, December 1873, never married,
served in deaf schools fifty-six years (1888-1944), at Arkansas,
Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 with sister's family in Belzoni,
Mississippi.
Grace M, missing from 1880 Federal census, became a true old maid
school teacher. She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at The
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute
http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEWAAAAIAAJ (search: "Grace M")
http://members.fortunecity.com/zoinky/deaf.htm where her mother spent
six years as matron.
Gace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was first found for us in
2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little
Rock living at The Arkansas School for the Blind in 1893-94 in City
Directory!
1900 Fedeal census lists her in Flint, Michigan at Michigan School for
the Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for the Deaf, in
Massachusetts, http://books.google.com/books?id=57IKAAAAIAAJ (search:
"Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf where
Lon Chaney's (1883CO-1930CA) parents were, he went on the road in
1902.
Grace attended her sister Mary when she married their friend Tom
CLARKE 1914 in Washington.
I met Grace summer of 1936 when my brother and I spent summer with our
maternal grandmother, widow Mrs Maude (Wallick) FLORA (1870IN-1940CO)
whose husband's sister, Harriette was married to Carl Raymond GRAY
(1867AR-1939DC), ~ ~ in Colorado Springs, a friend with whom Grace
often had sunday dinner.
see: http://books.google.com/books?id=d8AJAAAAIAAJ (1911) (search:
"Grace M Beattie") and,
http://books.google.com/books?id=xr4JAAAAIAAJ (1915) (search: "Grace M
Beattie")
Grace M was found in Colorado Springs' 1902 City Directory, during
search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, teaching at Colorado
School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in Colorado Territory in 1874,
same location since 1876) where she remained until 1944, not listed
employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado Springs last recorded in 1948,
no City Directories again until 1951, when she is missing. We assume
she moved to her sister's in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi
where Grace and sister's second husband, Mississippian born Dr John C
BELL, died 1954, Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys
county, Mississippi cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA (1921MO-2010CA) born in St
Louis, Missouri while her father was a medical student, then of
Pueblo, Colorado, last in California (whom I last saw in 1936, would
have celebrated their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary 30 June 2010
(water-skiing at age 85, at summer home they had forty years after ten
years renting, on south shore Lake Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she
remembered 'Aunt Grace' attending Sunday dinners in Colorado Springs
at our grandmother's, Maude (Wallick) FLORA, ie: Grace's
step-sister-in-law (widow of step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY's wife
Harriette FLORA (1869KS-1956ME) (reportedly first white child born in
Montgomery county, Kansas) younger brother, Dr. William Walter FLORA
(1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray) KNUTSON
(1923ME-1994MN) granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the
1863-1865 diary of her great,grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for
publication after meeting Dr Carl H MONEYHON of the University of
Arkansas, Little Rock during a Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who,
edited, noted and published it in Arkansas Historical Quarterly,
spring & summer of 1983, in which the BORLAND girls are often
mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and sister Mary Borland visiting their
step-brother Carl and wife Harriette at "Gray Rocks" (first known in
1919 as "Friendship Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, now Knox
county, Maine during summer vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca
1930 picture, on Harbor Island in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for
Carl's mother's favorite uncle, Captain Richard DAVIS & family),
furnished by Bob KNUTSON)
Grace M was included in Carl Raymond GRAY's 1939 will. Also see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm (search; "Grace M" )
3E-b. MARY BORLAND BEATTIE, (1875TN-1962MS)
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Her ancestry.
MARY BORLAND BEATTIE was 2nd born 2 April 1875 in Memphis,
Shelby county, Tennessee to "Mollie" and John M Beattie, graduating
"with distinction" in Class of 1896 (see photo), at Arkansas
Industrial University (AIU), (now University of Arkansas), first class
to wear cap and gowns. Taught nearly thirty years at Deaf schools in
Arkansas, Michigan & Washington, (possibly (?) Mississippi) twice
married, no known children, died 8 February 1962, buried at Belzoni,
Humpreys county, Mississippi.
One of Mary's classmates, John Ellis MARTINEAU (1873MO-1937AR), became
Arkansas' Governor in 1927, then appointed United States district
judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas (a position her
grandfather, Solon, desired in 1845, but didn't get) in 1928,
receiving a belated Honorary LL D degree of University of Arkansas, in
1929, same year as did her step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY, then,
president Union Pacific RR, school where in 1874, Carl's mother,
Virginia LaFayette (Davis) GRAY, was first 'chair', of their Drawing
and Painting, until 1881, (now Art Department), while Mary's
step-father, Carl's father, the Colonel, who, born in Maine, enlisted
in the Confederate army under her grandfather Solon Borland, first
chair Civil Engineering School, and teacher of his true love, math
which he taught until 1895. The University of Arkansas built &
dedicated "GRAY HALL" in 1906 in his honor
www.aegenweb.net/washington/pics/grayhall.html which they demolished
in 1966, hauling off his honors with all other unwanted debris to the
trash dump covering it over with dirt and then forgotten,--- replaced
with Mullins Library in 1966. Prior to starting the engineering school
in 1874, Oliver served as third president of first chartered
institution for higher learning in Arkansas, Masonic's,
href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3584>Saint.
Johns' College of Arkansas (1850-1882) in Little Rock where while
president, in 1873 was started their Law School, he soliciting faculty
members, Uriah M ROSE (1834KY=1913 AR), whose statute stands in the
National Statuary Hall, Washington, DC, Augustus H GARLAND
(1832TN-1899DC), later Governor, United States Senator. appointed
United States Attorney General, her grandfather Solon's law partner,
Chief Justice Elbert H English (1816AL-1888NC), and other like men.
www.argenweb.net/pulaski/St.Johns.College.of.Arkansas.1850-1882.html
Mary Borland BEATTIE is noted in the Sixteenth Biennial Report of
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, pages 5 & 24, furnished by Sue WATSON of
href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=242>Arkansas
School for the Blind, to wit:
"Miss Mary Beattie, almost brought up in the Institution [1883- 89],
and for several years our successful Art teacher, was, during the
session of 1900, transferred to a manual class, in which she did
excellent work. At close of this session she resigned, much to our
regret, and is now a teacher in the Michigan School for the Deaf."
See her writtten article and poem of 1911:
http://books.google.com/books?id=d8AJAAAAIAAJ (search: "Mary Borland")
1900 finds Mary as #12 on Twelfth Federal census of The United States,
teaching at the
href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2444>"Deaf-Mute
Institute" but shortly thereafter went to Michigan.
See Mary Borland BEATTIE's AIU school picture, and picture with her
sister Grace M (left) on Harbor Island, Knox county, Maine preparing
lobsters while visiting step-brother Carl R GRAY, ca.1930's,
Her Class of 1896 group photo oddly enough, was found in book by Ethel
C. SIMPSON of University of Arkansas, the supervisor who VERY COLDLY
refused to reply to our May 2003 request for information regarding the
GRAYs, then in 2004, as one of five committee members, another being
Dr Jeannie WHAYNE, Chair of the Department of History, University of
Arkansas, whose name is credited on "Arkansas Biography", published
2000, including Mary's grandfather, the Honorable Solon BORLAND, using
incorrect dates and names, --- said committee of five, refusing to
place a small sign denoting location of former "GRAY HALL", ---- he
serving 18, she 7 years as communit leaders and teaching at AIU. This
all occurring after we first learned, via 1880 Federal census, where
listed as teachers at AIU, during our beginning days of this research.
Included in picture is Oliver's Presbyterian minister's daughter, Lila
Chunn DAVIES, whose father, Rev S W DAVIES, D D, of the Presbyterian
church, gave their Benediction (Oliver served as church's Ruling Elder
for many years).
Mary Borland moved to Flint Michigan where sister Grace M and the
CLARKE brothers with their wives had gone, Celia Laura RANSOM & Lottie
KIRKLAND, Francis D, superintendent, Tom, her future husband, head of
ninth grade, were all with Michigan Deaf and Blind school. She spent
until about 1912 in Michigan then to Vancouver and Washington's deaf
school where Thomas P CLARKE, s/o Mary Bayard and Colonel William J
CLARKE,---- was superintendent with first wife Lottie KIRKLAND whom he
married in Arkansas, she died 14 February 1913 at age of forty-seven.
Mary Borland BEATTIE, July 2nd 1914, married Thomas Pollock Devereux
CLARKE, named for mother's father, one of the wealthiest landowners in
North Carolina.
The newspaper article about the wedding
http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/clark/vitals/marriages/beattie42gmr.txt
did not mention her mother, Mrs Mary M (Borland) Beattie - GRAY by
name, stating only a few close friends and relatives were present. Her
sister Grace M was her attendent. Her step-brother, Carl GREY (sic)
then president of Great Northern RR (1912-1914) is mentioned. For
pictures see: www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm
(search; "Mary Borland").
Tom & Mary reportedly returned to Arkansas', Arkansas School for the
Deaf in 1917 where two important legislative acts were enacted: one
act changed the name of the School from "Arkansas Deaf-Mute Institute"
to "Arkansas School for the Deaf" and the other act placed the school
under an honorary Board of Directors. Tom was then enticed back to
Washington by Governor HART in 1919 where in 1920 he became ill. Tom
gave up his position as superintendent becoming a teacher for five
years then died August 27,1925.
An interesting side-note:
Tom was a proud owner of one of the first automobiles in area in 1906:
www.columbian.com/news/strange/quirky/twisted.cfm
"Driving downtown, scattering horses everywhere, Thomas P Clarke,
superintendent of Washington School for the Deaf parked his car in
front of a downtown business. While he was inside doing some shopping,
police gave him a ticket for not having his vehicle tied to a hitching
post.
"Tom told police this vehicle are not a horse! Next day he drove into
town, parked right next to Police station and threw a large weight
with a rope attached to his bumper on the ground. He walked off and
did his shopping."
Widow Mary Borland (Beattie) CLARKE reportedly had a car accident
November 1925, uninjured, requiring $14.25 to repair, while on way to
school but thereafter became lost to us, as was her mother since 1905.
Fall edition 2007, of Washington School for the Deaf Alumini Assoction
publication said she went to Mississippi School for the deaf, however
we can NOT confirm such.
Her second marriage was in 1926/7, to a native Mississippian, Doctor
John C BELL confirmed by 1930 census, at home in Belzoni, Mississippi,
where he's found in 1920 census as single, 45 y/o, owning home. She is
next found at her mother's death, February 17th 1938, where we learned
she had married Dr John BELL and moved to Belzoni, Mississippi.
She and step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY buried her mother's ashes next
to her step-father Oliver C GRAY in Fayetteville's old Masonic now
Evergreen cemetery without a grave stone.
www.usgwarchives.net/ar/cemph/washingtonph.htm
Mary was included in step-brother, Carl R GRAY's 1939 will as was her
sister Grace.
Mary Borland (Beattie) Clarke-BELL died 8 February 1962, having no
known children, buried with second husband John and sister Grace M
("Darce"), in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi cemetery.
see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm (search;
"Mary Borland")
3E-c. GODWIN M BEATTIE:
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His .
GODWIN MELBOURNE BEATTIE was 3rd & last born in 1877 to
"Mollie" & John M Beattie, in Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, is
noted in a 1903 letter of his step-father as being in New York working
for the Oliver Typewriter company and in the article by Hattie E.
WILLIAMS, http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/knox/newspapers/ourneigh7nw.txt
published May 1958 in Flashback, the
href=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6327>Washington
County Historical Society's newsletter, "OUR NEIGHBORS -- THE GRAYS",
as her same age, otherwise not found before nor after his
step-father's, Colonel O. C. GRAY, 1905 obituaries.
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Additional Comments:
Much information concerning Francis D and Thomas P CLARKE & wives was
gained from Curtis "Arkie" PEART, who is associated with Washington
School for the Deaf Alumini Assocition.
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