Old days in Nashville, Tenn

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By Mss Jane I). tDomas*

MISS JANE H. THOMAS.

Letter X. ■A(iK

Tlie Children's Friend — First Use of Morphine in Nash\ille 74

Le'jtek XI.

A Quilting- — Joke on a Long Nose — The Oldest Brick House 81

Letter XIL

A Time of Elahorate Entertainment S6

Letter XIIL A French Dancing-School — The Fogg Residence and Its Appointments 91

Letter XIV.

The Good Times at Christmas — A Widower Not Easily Discouraged : 103

Letter XV.

How Two Girls Outwitted the Indians — A Visit from Gen. Washington 1 10

Letter XVI.

The First Methodist Conference Held in Nashville 117

Letter XVII.

Dr. Edgar, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church — Social Diversions in the Old Days 121

Letter XVIII.

Nashville During the War — Hospital Scenes — In the Hands of the Encmv i 28

LETTER L

Nashville as I Found It in 1804.

EPTEMBER 1, 1804, my father started from Cumberland County, Va., in two six-horse wagons. One of these was his own ; the other he hired from Mr. Joseph Woolrich, who drove it. My mother rode horseback, and carried a child in her arms. My father rode his hunting-pony, named " Dreadnaught." We were three months coming from Virginia to Tennessee, and did not reach Nashville until December 24, 1804. There was but one road, and that came through Cumberland Gap and Sequatchie Valley. We first struck the Cumberland River at Carthage, Tenn., where we ferried it; and, keeping on the east side, we reached Nashville opposite where Lick Branch empties into the river. There we crossed over on a ferry. Oliver Johnson, who was originally from Boston, was the ferryman. He had three sons (Oliver, Winslow, and Anthony), who ferried the boat across. He had six daughters. The oldest was named Hannah, and was a widow by the name of Gleason. After reaching here from Boston, she married David Snow, the first tinner in Nashville. The second daughter, Betsy, married Probate, a tailor. They had one daughter, who married John B. McFerrin. His next two daughters were Gabriel and Parnell. Gabriel died from poison, having taken yellow ocher instead of flower of sulphur. Parnell married a farmer in Williamson County. Another daughter married Knowles, the cooper. The two other boys, Oliver and Winslow, never married, as I now recall it; but Anthony was married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Hobson, by whom he had three children, two daughters and a son; his second wife was the widow Cheney, her maiden name being Mary Smith. The present postmaster is her son. They had one daughter, the present Mrs. John Bransford.

On the west side of the river, between Lick Branch and the Publishing House, an old lady b}^ the name of Hay kept a tavern; and her house, a one-story frame, was painted red. David Mc- Gavock at that time was living where the present cotton-factory now stands, his house having been pulled down to erect the same. He owned from the river to where Fisk University stands, Jefferson Street being the southern boundary, extending north to Sulphur Springs, on Buena Vista turnpike, and there joining the Beal Bosley place. David McGavock had two blockhouses at the head of the lower island, and they obtained their water from the Spout Spring. One of these my father rented, and his brother-in-law, Phineas Scruggs, rented the other. In 1805 they rented part of the

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McGavock farm, and where they cultivated it the old race-track stood up to a few years ago.

David McGavock had six children, five sons and a daughter. His two eldest sons, John and James, were married, and lived on the east side of the river. James had two daughters, one of whom married Jeremiah George Harris, who w^as editor of a Democratic paper when Harrison was elected President; the other married Mr. Bryant. John was married twice, and had a large family, one of his daughters being the second wife of J. B. McFerrin. Frank, another son, married Amanda Harding, a sister of Gen. Harding, and the mother of Mr. David McGavock, Mr. John McGavock, Mrs. Susan Smith, and Mrs. Archie Cheatham. The next son, Lysander, married his cousin, and lived at Brentwood. His two youngest children, Hugh and Sallie, were twins. Hugh married Letitia Hagan, and Sallie married Mr. Ewing.

The old man, David McGavock, after the death of his first wife, married the widow Hubble, by whom he had one son. Dr. David McGavock, who married Miss Caroline Pugsley, a daughter of Dr. Pugsley, a physician from London, England. Dr. David McGavock had two daughters, one of whom married Mr. Felix Cheatham ; and the other, Emmett Cockrill.

There lived at that time a Mr. W. P. Anderson, in a log house, near the Buena Vista sulfur springs. He married a Miss Bell, by whom he had three children: Musidere, CaroHne, and Ru-

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fus. Caroline married Paul, an attorney; Musidere married James Campbell, another attorney.

The next place was Mr. Rivers's, who lived in a stone house. He was the father of Rev. Richard M. Rivers, who died recently in Louisville, Ky. In 1807 my Grandfather Thomas's widow moved to Tennessee, and lived in that stone house; and her daughter Polly was married to Abner Pillow in that year.

The next place was Beal Bosley's, who married Margery Shute, by whom he had three daughters. His second daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas Harding in 1820; the youngest daughter, Margery, married Hugh Irvin ; the oldest daughter married John Nicholl.

Judge John McNairy married the widow^ Robertson, who had been married twice before. She was Miss Bell, and her first husband was Mr. Hunt, who was killed by the Indians; her second was Gen. Robertson's brother, and he also was killed by the Indians.

Between Mrs. Hay's tavern and the Square lived Mr. Aken, a hatter by trade, and ran a tavern which he called the *' Boatman's Tavern." His eldest daughter, Jennie, never married; his second, Elizabeth, married a steamboat captain by the name of Smith; and the youngest married Capt. Minor, another steamboat officer.

The next house on the Square was owned by

Thomas Tolbert, who owned the whole eastern part of the Square. He ran a tavern also, in a hewn log house, which was located about the middle of the present Ensley Block. He married Ruth Greer; and by her he had seven children, three boys and four girls. His oldest daughter married Elias S. Hall, a dry-goods merchant; his next daughter married Dr. Hogg; his next married Thomas Fletcher, an attorney; his next married her cousin, Mr. Tolbert. His oldest son was named Eli; and the other two, Joe and Tom.

There was on the north side of the Square another tavern kept by a negro named " Black Bob." Later the Nashville Inn was built there. On the northwest corner of Market Street and the Square was the first brick *' office house" in Nashville. This was built by Dr. Claiborne, who married the oldest daughter of William Terry Lewis. It was two rooms deep and two stories high, the front room down-stairs being used as an office, while the other three were used as his residence. North of this on Market Street was built by Dr. Henning the first brick residence ever erected in Nashville. This house was commenced in 1805 and finished in 1806. It is still standing, and is now occupied by the Nashville Relief Society. It was called the Mansion House, and was run by a man named Brown as a select hotel. Adjoining this was a garden owned by Thomas Deaderick, after whom Deaderick Street was named. He married Miss Rawworth. He lived in a frame cottage. His oldest daughter married a Stewart, and after the death of her first husband she married Mr. Drennon. His son David lived in St. Louis, Mo., and was a very elegant and handsome gentleman. His youngest son was named Dangerfield.

Mr. Randall McGavock married Miss Sallie Rogers, a sister of Mrs. Felix Grundy, and she was the mother of Mr. John McGavock, of Franklin, Tenn. Dr. James May, who built the brick house adjoining Mr. McGavock, married Miss PoUv White, of Knoxville, Tenn., a sister of Hugh L. White, who was President of the United States Bank of Knoxville.

Dr. May's first child was named James, the second John, the third Mary, the fourth Margaret, and the fifth Anthony. James married Miss Perkins, and her children were: first, Susan, who married Mr. Sam Perkins; second. Miss White May, who was never married; third married first Henr}^ Ew^ing, w^ho was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, and next married Maj. Hardeman, of New Orleans, La.: the fourth child, Hugh May, was killed at Shiloh; and the fifth, Will May, is now living here. Mary Ma}', third child of Dr. May, married Dick Barry, b}' w^hom she had two children, William and Mary. William married a daughter of William Nichol. Mary never married. Mary May married for her second husband a Col. Martin, of Lebanon, Margaret, fourth child of Dr. May, married Hinton Phillips, by whom she had three children, Mary, Jane, and Hugh. Dr. May died, and his widow married Judge John Overton, by whom she had three children, John, Annie, and Elizabeth Cynthia Bell. John Overton's first wife was Rachel Harding, daughter of Thomas Harding and Elizabeth Bosley. His second wife was Miss Harriet Maxwell. He had one son by Rachel Harding, John Overton, Jr., who lived at Memphis. Annie Coleman Overton married Mr. Robert Brinkley, of Memphis. Elizabeth Cynthia Bell Overton married Judge John M. Lea.

At the time of 1804, ^vhere J. S. Reeves & Co.'s store now stands there stood a small one-story frame house used as a tavern and run by Thomas Childress, who married a Miss Curtis, and they had a beautiful daughter, Miss Paralee. On the northwest corner of what is now College Street and the Square stood a little house and about four acres of ground, owned by Mrs. Peck, who had a very fine spring on the lot of ground. On what is now the northwest corner of Cedar Street and the Square E. C. Hall had a storehouse and kept a general stock of merchandise. At the corner of Cherry and Cedar Streets Mr. Hall built a frame dwelling where Thomas & Sons' coffeehouse now stands. On the corner of Summer and Cedar Streets Dr. Sappington had a hewn log house with a long porch in front. Farther up on the hill, and about where Park Street is now, a

Mr. Turner had a log house ; and on top of the hill, where the Capitol now stands, Mr. John Bell had a frame house. The rest of the hill was Cedar Knob. Mr. Bell's house was afterward sold to George Washington Campbell, who had been previous to that United States Minister to Russia. He afterward sold Capitol Hill to the state, and the frame house was moved to just between where the residences of Maj. Thomas and Dr. Charles Briggs now stands.

About the corner of Spruce and Cedar Streets a man by the name of Pr3^or, a carpenter, had a frame house. On the southwest corner of what is now College and Cedar Streets there was a dwelling-house, and next to that a one-story storehouse owned b}- Thomas Kirkman, who ran a hardware-store. He was the ancestor of the numerous family of Kirkmans here, and his father was a major in the British army. The next house to that was James Irvin's store. He also ran a hardware-store. The next house was John Beard's, who ran a dr3^-goods store. All of these lots ran through to Cherry Street. Beard had two storehouses, the farther being a corner of what is now Deaderick Street and the Square ; and his son-in-law, Johnson, ran a dry-goods store.

LETTER IL

Early Settlers - Indian Mound — The First Jail —The Whipping^Post, li

HE tirst white man that ever lived in Nashville was named Demonbreun. He lived in a cave just above the Blind Asylum. There were two entrances to this cave, one on the river and the other on the south side. He had three children born in the cave. He made his salt at the sulfur spring and hunted buffaloes and deer that came there for water. He built his house at the spring known as the " Demonbreun Spring," after he left the cave.

On the north side of Lick Branch was a large Indian mound. When John H. Smith was Mayor he had it dug down to fill up College Street. On the Square there was a stone court-house and a whipping-post, a stone church, a stone jail house. Whenever a man stole a horse, or an3^thing worth over thirty dollars, he had his ears clipped at the ends. For smaller crimes he was tied to the whipping-post, his shirt was taken off, and he was given thirty-nine lashes with a cowhide.

Wiley Barrow was a very prominent man. He had about ten acres of ground in South Nashville. He had a great many locust-trees on his place, and it was called " Barrow's Grove." His first wife was Jane Greer, a sister of Mrs. Tom Tolbert. He had three children. David and Alexander moved to Mississippi, where they both became distinguished men. His daughter, Jane, married a distinguished young lawyer, Henry Crabb. After the death of his first wife, Wiley Barrow married Miss Anne Beck. She had three children, Washington, Micajah, and John E. Washington married Miss Anne Shelby, Micajah did not marry, and John E. moved to St. Louis.

Christopher Stump and Raper had two keelboats lashed together, which was called a barge. They used to gather up peltry, corn, and such things, and go to New Orleans in the fall. In the spring they returned and brought sugar, coffee, tea, rice, molasses, etc. The people went to them and laid in a supply to last until next spring. Coffee cost one dollar a pound and sugar fifty cents a pound. The country was bountifully supplied with all kinds of game: ducks, wild geese, turkeys, etc. There was a beautiful bird about the color of a parrot, but not so large, called paroquet.

Peter Bass, an enterprising and very prominent man, owned a tan-yard on Wilson's Branch, below Broad Street. His house was at the corner of High and Demonbreun Streets. He owned a great deal of land in that part of town. He had two sons, Eli and John M. He was a very energetic man, and speculated in soldiers' claims and owned a great deal of land in Missouri. Eli, his oldest son, moved to Missouri, where he raised a family of very distinguished children. John M. was a lawyer, and married Miss Malvina Grundy, Judge Grundy's fourth daughter. Judge Grundy's eldest daughter married Jacob McGavock; his second. Mason, a lawyer; Margaret married Dr. Rolins. Malvina married John M. Bass, as before mentioned; Maria married Masterson ; Felicia married Aiken, and after Aiken's death she married Dr. Robert Porter. John M. Bass's eldest daughter married Dr. Thomas Harding; Sallie married John O. Ewing; Maria married V. K. Stephenson; Mary married Henry Conner, of New Orleans; Felicia married Gen. Beal, of St. Louis. He had two sons. William, the oldest, married Caroline Watkins; John M., the youngest, married Miss Mary Berry.

Alexander Porter lived on Cherry Street, just a little below Church Street. He married a Miss Massingill. His oldest son, James, married a lady from Louisiana, by whom he had one son, Alexander. After her death he married Amanda Mc- Nairy. She had no children. Alexander Porter's next child, Jane, married James Campbell. Penelope married James Wood. Matilda married Richard Greene. His youngest son, Robert, married Miss Wilhams. She died, and he married the widow Felicia Grundy Porter.

Nathan Ewing lived on the corner of Church and Cherry Streets. He was the clerk of court. His oldest child, Dr. John Overton Ewing, married Miss Douglas, of Kentucky. They had one child. He died, and his widow married John Boyd. Henry, the second son, married Miss Susan Grundy. Orvil married Mildred Williams. Edwin's wife was Miss Rebecca Williams. He now lives in Murfreesboro. Albert married Miss Campbell, of Wheeling, Va. She was Rev. x\lexander Campbell's daughter. Andrew, the youngest, married Miss Hines. She had one son and died, and he afterward married Rowena Williams.

Rev. William Hume lived on Market Street, in South Nashville. He was a Presbyterian preacher, and the first President of the old Nashville College. He was a very benevolent and prominent man, and performed the wedding ceremony of nearly everybody about here who married. Alfred, his oldest son, the first Principal of public schools in Nashville, married Louisa Bradford. Jane married Sam Snowdan. Eliza married a Mr. Jones. She was the mother of Mr. Edgar Jones. John married Miss Petway. Rachel did not marry.

Jonathan Robertson, a brother of Gen. Robertson, married Miss Dolly Maclin. They lived on College Street in a log house. They had two daughters, Matilda and Betsy. Matilda married

John Childress, and Betsy married Washington L. Hannam, a lawyer. John Childress had a large farm near the Vanderbilt. It is Mr. Shields's present home. His eldest daughter, Jane, married Sam Marshall, and had two children. Matilda married Judge Catron. Minerva married Benjamin Litton. Jane married Judge Brown. Bessie was V. K. Stephenson's first wife. They had two children. John Childress had three sons, George, John, and James. George's first wife was Miss Vance. His second wife was Mary Jennings. James went to Arkansas, and lived in Benton.

Washington L. Hannam, Betsy Childress's husband, ow^ned a brick house on High Street. He built the house where Mr. Pilcher now lives. He had but two children, a son and a daughter. He sold his place to John Bell, whose first wife was Miss Sarah Dickerson. When he bought the place from Hannam, Hannam moved from here to Mississippi. It was afterward sold to John Kirkman, who built the stores now on Church Street between High and Vine. Bell built all the houses from Mr. Pilcher's to the club-house.

Judge Searcy's wife was Miss Susan Wendal, a very beautiful woman. They were very prominent people. They lived in a frame house on the corner of Deaderick and Cherry Streets.

When I came to Nashville the first physicians were Drs. May, Henning, Claiborne, Watkins, and Sappington.

There was an old Indian woman, called " Granny Nell," who was a female doctor. She was a full-blooded Indian. She got drunk every Christmas, got on a horse, and galloped around the Public Square three or four times. This happened every Christmas. She had a daughter, named Charlotte, also a doctor.

John Thomas was a colored barber, and was a very prominent negro. He had a garden, and supplied a great many people with vegetables. He lived on Summer Street, and had a large family of boys and girls. His oldest daughter married Graham, a barber. She had a big wedding, and invited all the prominent white people in town, and they all went. He was a very respectable, upright, humble negro. Gen. Andrew Jackson attended the wedding, and Dr. McNairy danced the reel with the bride.

LETTER III,

Hemp and Cotton Factories — Daily Paper Merchant Mill Theater.

ILLIAM TERRILL LEWIS was one of the wealthiest men in Nashville when I came here. He had six daughters. He lived in the house in South Nashville which is now used as a Catholic hospital. It is called Fairfield. His eldest daughter married Dr. Claiborne, who built the first brick office in Nashville. His next daughter married Alfred Baulch, a lawyer; the next, John H. Eaton, who was one of President Jackson's most prominent men. The next daughter married William B. Lewis, and the youngest married Baker. William B. Lewis's daughter married George Washington. She died, and he married Miss Jane Smith.

A man named Boswith had a hemp-factory on Water Street, w^here he made bags and ropes and such things. George Posier owned from where Phillips & Buttorff's store now is down to Church Street. He had a cotton-factory. He spun thread, but did not weave any cloth. He kept a dry-goods store also. Beside these stores, his dweUing-house and garden were on College Street. Across the alley a man named WilHam

Condon lived in a two-story brick. He had a very distinguished son, a young lawyer. Farther up on College Street Robert B. Currey's famil}- lived. When Lafayette was in Nashville Mr. Curre}^ kept the post-office, and entertained him in that house. Thomas Hill, the father of Mrs. Emeline Hamilton and grandfather of Mr. J. D. Hamilton, was clerk in George Posier's store. He afterward became a prominent merchant, and his dwelling and store were on College Street, where J. H. Fall & Co.'s store now is. He had three children, Robert, Emeline, and Susan. Emeline married Mortimer Hamilton, whose oldest daughter, Leonore, became the wife of John J. Davies, a lawyer of Kentucky. Another daughter married E. R. Richardson, a merchant on the Square. Susan Hill married Mr. Saffron, and Robert died young.

Joel Lewis, another very prominent man, lived where the Catholic convent now is in South Nashville. He had a large family, and was a very wealthy man. His eldest daughter, Charlotte, married Dr. King. After his death she married Thomas Claiborne. She had three sons and one daughter. One of her sons married, and lived in the house which is now used as a Catholic orphan asylum. He married his cousin, Miss King, of Abingdon, Va. Her daughter, Elizabeth King, married Dr. McCall. Joel Lewis's next daughter married Dr. Lea, an uncle of Judge John M. Lea.

He had several sons, one of whom became a very prominent man of Huntsville, Ala.

Dr. Coleman built a house in South Nashville. It was a one-story house, wdth five or six rooms in a row, and a latticed porch in front. He had some very pretty daughters. He sold the place and moved to Huntsville, Ala. Maj. Rutledge, a very distinguished and wealthy man, bought his place and lived there. His daughter Mary married a young lawyer from Boston, Mr. Fogg, w^ho became a very useful citizen of Nashville. Mr. Rutledge 's son Arthur married a daughter of Judge Underwood, of Kentucky. Mr. Fogg lived on the corner of Church and High Streets until he died. He had two sons; one died just a few days before he was to have been married to Miss Martin, and the other, a lieutenant under Gen. Zollicoffer, was killed at the same time that Gen. Zollicoffer was killed.

Mr. Anthony Foster owned twelve or thirteen acres where Mr. Keith's home now is, and built the house he lives in. His wife was a Miss Beckwith, of Kentucky. He was a very benevolent, hospitable, and wealthy man. His wife's sister was Mr. Thomas Yeatman's first wife. She had one child and died, and Mr. Yeatman married Miss Jane Irvin. She had four children — James, Tom, Emma, and Harry. James married Miss Pope; Tom married her sister. Emma married

Col. Player, and Hariy married Miss Mary Polk, daughter of Mr. Lucius Polk. In 1807 Benjamin Bradford's brother-in-law, Mr. Tunstel, began to publish a paper in Nashville. In 1808 his cousin, Thomas G. Bradford, came from Lexington, Ky., and bought him out. He published a daily paper here from 1808 until after Gen. Jackson was elected President. His paper was first called the Clarion. In 1808 he married Chloe Thomas, my eldest sister. After Gen. Jackson was elected President he was made Treasurer, and held the position until Harrison's election, in 1840.

A man named Love built a merchant mill below the mouth of Lick Branch, where he made flour and spun thread. It was burned down.

Where the Normal College grounds now are Pryor, Anderson & Rutherford had a race-track. Old Mr. Rains had a farm just beyond this. He used to come to town, and sometimes stay very late at night. When he went home he had to pass the race-track, and he always said that he saw Dick Pryor, Patton Anderson, and the devil killing race-horses. Mr. Richard Cross, a wealth}^ and influential young man, lived in South Nashville. He owned several lots on Broad Street. He died of consumption w^hen quite 3^oung, and having never married he left all his property to his nephew and niece. His niece. Miss Gordon, married Gen. Zollicoffer, from Germany.

Judge White, a prominent lawyer, owned a little farm on Broad Street from High to Vine Street. He had a large family, and lived in a one-story brick house just back of Hume School. His wife was Miss Glascow. His eldest daughter married Mr. Ben Bedford; EHzabeth married Mr. Whitticer; the next married Mr. Donelson. Mr. Ben Bedford's first wife died soon after they were married, and he married Miss Nancy White, Judge White's fourth daughter and his first wife's sister. The youngest daughter married Mr. Joe Craighead, whose mother was Miss Irvin. Her first husband was Mr. Dickerson, whom Gen. Jackson killed in a duel. After his death she married Mr. John Craighead, and had two sons, Joseph and Thomas. Thomas married Miss Johnson, and Joseph's wife was Miss White, as before mentioned.' She had three children, two sons and a daughter. Her daughter married Mr. John Bunton, who now lives in Nashville in a house built on part of the land owned by her grandfather, Mr. White.

Joseph T. Elliston came to Nashville in 1807, a young man and a silversmith. He married Miss Elizabeth Mullen. He commenced business on Market Street on the lot where the St. Charles Hotel used to be. He was an upright Christian gentleman. He was very prosperous in business, and accumulated a large amount of propert}^ in Nashville and vicinity. His oldest child was Jane, the next Harriet, the next Adehne, the next Joseph, and the youngest William. His wife died in 1816, when William was a young child. His oldest son was killed in Kentucky. Harriet married Mr. Quinn, the first local Methodist preacher in Nashville. He kept a bookstore on the corner of College and Union Streets. He had three daughters: Sarah, Louisa, and Harriet. Sarah married Mr. Moore. Louisa married and went to Philadelphia to live. After the death of his first wife Joseph Elliston married a widow, Mrs. Blackman. Adeline, his third child, married Mr. Odum, a brother of her stepmother. Joseph married Miss Mitchell, of Sumner County, and William married Miss Body, a granddaughter of his stepmother.

The first theater in Nashville w^as an old frame salt-warehouse on Market Street belonging to John H. Smith. It contained only one large room, and the seats were arranged as they were at the old race-track at West Side Park. The stage was a small raised platform. Row & Russell were the managers. The first play I ever attended, in 1819, was called " The Robbers." Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Row w^ere the lady performers. Mr. Ludloe, a very handsome young actor, who came here from the North, went to Franklin, ran away and married Miss Murray, sister of A. B. Murra}^ who danced "The Fisher's Hornpipe" between the farce and the play. This was his wife's first appearance on the stage. She was dressed in pink silk, low neck and short sleeves, with a short skirt. She had wreaths of roses around the bottom of her skirt, her neck and arms, and on the top of her shoes. She became a very noted actress. Her husband had a very beautiful voice. After the battle of New Orleans the favorite song was ''The Hunters of Kentucky," and Mr. Ludloe sang this between the farce and the play. Part of it was :

Ye gentlemen and ladies fair

Who grace this famous city, Come, listen, if you've time to spare.

While I rehearse this ditty; And for the opportunity

Conceive yourselves quite lucky, For 'tis not often that you see

A hunter from Kentucky.

Chorus.

O Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky ; O Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky.

Old Pakenham, he made his brags.

If he in fight was lucky, He'd have our girls and cotton-bags

In spite of old Kentucky.

And when so close that we saw 'em wink.

We thought it time to stop 'em; It would have done you good, we think,

To have seen Kentuckians drop 'em.

After Russell and Row left, Drake was manager of the theater. He had a beautiful daughter, an actress, and two sons, who were also actors. Alex Drake ran away and married Miss Denny, of Lexington, Ky., who also became a noted actress. Miss Julia Drake was said to be the hand-

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somest woman on the stage at that time. She married Mr. Dean, an actor. Her daughter, Julia Dean, became a noted actress. Her favorite play was ''The Lady of Lyons."

Caldwell was the next manager, and he built a new theater on the corner of Union and Summer Streets. Forrest and Parsons were two very handsame actors who came from Kentucky. They became very distinguished tragedians. Forrest went to New York, and Parsons was converted under the preaching of Maffitt, and became a Methodist preacher. After Caldwell left, Mr. Green took charge of the theater. He had two beautiful daughters, Mrs. McKenzie and Mrs. Jefferson. Mrs. McKenzie was considered a rnost magnificent actress, but she died of consumption. After her death her husband, who had never been an actor, was a clerk in Snow's tin-shop for a long time. Mrs. Jefferson was the grandmother of Joe Jefferson, the well-known actor of the present day. The last play I attended was in 1848. Charlotte Cushman played in " Macbeth." The plays, as a rule, were of much better style then than they are now.