DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - MISCELLANEOUS - Olde Nashville Female Academy
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			Old Academy Girls

     The old Nashville Academy girls will meet today at the residence of Mrs. 
W. L. Nichol.  In connection with this meeting, the following list of pupils 
at the academy in 1823, handed in by a daughter of Mrs. James T. Holman, who 
as Miss Clementine Horton Boyd, attended the academy at the time, will be 
found interesting, especially to the older citizens of Nashville.

     Lydia C. White, Almanda McNairy, Carnelia S. Dickson, Evelina D. Bell, 
Frances L. Lanier, Frances E. McCurry, Rhoda B. Love, Eliza Phillips, Malvina 
C. Grundy, Louisa A. Gibbs, Susannah C. Beck, Susan J. Wendel, Mary A. Eastin, 
Mary J. Baird, Emeline S. Cantrell, Jane N. Love, Eliza N. Williams, Emila J. 
Bibb, Rebecca T. Wright, Elizabeth Anderson, Ann C. Hays, Jane E. Caswell, 
Mary H. Dickinson, Susan P. Trimble, Martha A. Camp, Martha A. Dunn, Lucy H. 
Sappington, Martha M. Purdy, Sarah J. Lytle, Margaret T. Gordon, Sarah W. 
Burrus, Mary D. Stothart, Susan E. Snow, Julia M. Lytle, Elizabeth V. Dunham, 
Sarah H. Dunham, Eliza M. Hume, Matilda C. Wendel, Martha T. Scales, Mary F. 
Dickson, Sarah F. Brown, Caroline C. Brown, Mary B. McNairy, Frances M. Love, 
Elizabeth D. Love, Elizabeth V. Harding, Martha J. Shutz, Mary E. Tate, Violet
C. Henderson, Caroline C. Hewitt, Malinda D. Clark, Georgiana C. Beck, Sarah 
G. Love, Sophia Hall, Sophronia J. Boyd, Martha M. Crutcher, Elizabeth S. 
Cantrell, Hannah E. Johnson, Nancy E. Barrow, Julia Ann Flourney, Clementina 
Boyd, Maria L. McDaniel, Mary Ann Lewis, Martha Ann Craddock,  Ann H. 
Nicholson, Susan J. Battle, Ann H. Shelby, Caroline W. Allen, Rebecca G. 
Allen, Susan P. Davis, Martha F. Grundy, Mary H. Shelby, Catherine J. Clemm, 
Eliza J. Tate, Maria M. Clay, Amelia A Clay, Elizabeth Coe, Sarah Coe, 
Caledonia Gordon, Martha P. H. Williams, Catharine L. White, Minerva A. Eakin, 
Mary E. Spence, Susannah D. Willis, Sophia M. Dickinson, Leeann Posten, 
Melinda T. Marshall, Mary R. Dobbs, Eliza Ann Baird, Priscilla E. Shelby, Mary 
Ann McLemore, Eleanor R. Nichol, Emeline Wooten, Susan P. Smith, Tennessee M. 
Stump, Ann Spence, Mary Robertson, Eugenia Kingsly, Elizabeth Nichol, Mary Ann 
Trimble

(Mrs. W. L. Nichol was the former Martha Johns, daughter of John Johns and 
Evalina  A. B. Hopkins.  She married first, J. D. B. DeBow, editor of DeBow’s 
Review;  and her second marriage was to Dr. William Lytle Nichol. recognized 
as one of the best diagnosticians in the country.  Although not listed on the 
above list, Martha Johns was educated by the noted Southern educator, D. C. 
Elliott at the Old Nashville Female Academy)