James A. Scott, Gainesville Texas 1891

James A Scott was the son of Dr. George Lackey Scott (born in Dresden Tennessee) and Mary Applewhite Manion.  His grandfather was William Shanks Scott who is interred in the Scott Family Cemetery in Weakley county.  

In this letter James mentions Uncle Rufi and Aunt Mat.  Rufi was Rufus Franklin Scott, George Lackey Scott's brother, who married Martha Helen Moran, John W. Moran's sister.  You may remember that Rufus and Martha made the move to Texas in 1858.  James also mentions Bettie Watkins, a girl he danced with and apparently had been sweet on but was too slow to take action since he says another man moved in and took her.  That's actually kind of sad considering that his death certificate indicates he was single.  It also tells us that he was Court Clerk at the Court of Civil Appeals and that he died from pneumonia with contributing factors being a fractured hip and diabetes.  He was born March 24 1864 and died January 23 1942.  James A Scott is interred at Fairview Cemetery in Gaineseville Texas with his parents and many other Scott relatives.

Gainesville Texas

June 4 1891

Miss Fannie Moran,

      Dresden Tenn.

My Dear Cousin,

You did not keep your word old girl, you promised to send me one of your pictures when I sent mine, and you had better start it down here or I will come over there and make things pretty warm for you.  (So he sent Fannie a picture which means we might actually have him here but he's not identified)

Cousin Fannie I appreciated your nice and interesting letter very much, was glad to know my Coz would answer my letter.

Uncle Rufi and Aunt Mat are in Kansas City and everything seems very lonesome up at his house now.  I was up to see Cousin Annie yesterday evening a little while made a fashionable call something like the one I made in the evening when you were here and left without any on knowing I was going.

The young people had a picnic yesterday and the Christian Church one to day, up on Washita River in the

Indian Territory had a special train and just think of it I did get to go to either one of them, had to work as usual, have not been any place since you left here.

Say Coz Fan, did my Tennessee Cousins think I ought to have horns? because I was raised in Texas well anyway I suppose you have convinced them that Texas people look like any other people have you not?

What do you think Miss Bettie Watkins (the girl I danced so much with) has gone back on me, I let another fellow get ahead of me, as usual I was too slow.

Well give my kindest regards to Cousin S- and little Marion and your father and write soon to your

Texas Cousin

  James A Scott

The Scott Family Cemetery is located near Martin Tennessee on private property.

The Nautical Comic Opera "Ship Ahoy" 1891

"Ship Ahoy" was a comic opera written about 1891.  The libretto was written by H. Gratton Donnelly and the composer was D. Miller Jr.  This production was under the management of James W. Slocum.  Unfortunately there is nothing in the programme that tells us where this particular performance was presented.  The item was was found in the papers belonging to Fannie Moran.

Invitation to a Recital by Daisy McLeod, 1896

Graduate's Recital

Memphis Conference Female Institute

Jackson, Tennessee

Friday Evening, May 8, 1896

Given by

Miss Daisy McLeod

Assisted by Miss Vyda Page

Program...

Medley.....Arranged by Daisy McLeod

                    Orchestra.

"Magic Fire"......Wagner

"Com'e Bello"....Donizetti

          Miss Page

Impromptu, Op 142, No. 3......Schubert

Waltz...........Composed by Daisy McLeod

                     Orchestra.

Sonata No. 15..........................Mozart

"Only in Dreams"...............Reginald DeKoven

                 Miss Page.

"If I Were a Bird,"  Op. 2, No. 6.............Henselt

Norma.......................................................

               Violin Quartette.

Waltz from Faust..............................Gounod-Liszt

After doing a bit of searching I actually came across several Daisy McLeod's with various surname spellings but I narrowed it down to Daisy McLeod the daughter of Asa H. McLeod and Matilda C. Long because of the musical connection.  In the 1900 Census for Hickman Kentucky she is listed as a music teacher and is living with her parents and brother, James.  She married Mark MacDougall on July 7 1908 in Obion County Tennessee.  The couple appear in the 1910 Census for Jackson Tennessee.   Her occupation is music teacher, age was 32, born in Kentucky.  Her father was listed as being from South Carolina and her mother from Mississippi.  Her husband, Mark MacDougall, was 35 years of age and a shoemaker from Canada.  His parents were both from Scotland.  They had a 9 month old daughter named Lucille who was born in the District of Columbia.  By 1920 they had moved to Humboldt Tennessee.  Mark is now listed as a merchant.

In 1930 Lucille MacDougal is living in Memphis working as a stenographer in a retail department store. She

appears in Memphis City Directories as Lucille E. MacDougall.  In 1935 a Lucille C. and sometimes O. MacDougall begins to appear in DC city directories as a stenographer.

Mark MacDougall died September 24 1937 at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis.  The certificate lists his parents as Mahlon MacDougall and Margaret Douglas MacDougall,. His birth year was listed, 1867.  The informant was his wife, Daisy McLeod MacDougall of 1634 Maple St. Humboldt Tennessee.  He died from Pernicious Anemia and was interred at Humboldt.

In 1940 Daisy and Lucille are living in Washington DC.  Lucille is single, head of household, age 30. She is a secretary at the State Department.  Her mom, Daisy, is 62 years old.  And that's where the Daisy McLeod trail ends.

What I do know for sure is that Daisy and Fannie were friends and that they both attended the Memphis Conference Female Institute at Jackson and they both shared a love of music.  It's also possible that Daisy was a pupil of either Sophia Moran or her daughter Fannie since they both were music teachers in Dresden.

Now for Vyda Page.  I think the spelling of her name was an affectation and sign of personal expression or a typo!  What I did find is a Vida Page DeBow, born 1878 and died in 1953.  She was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Newton Page and Narcissa Sophronia Roberts.   She married Charles Lawrence DeBow May 24 1899 in Gibson County Tennessee.  Interestingly enough, Charles DeBow was a "shoe builder" which goes right along with Mark MacDougall since he was a "shoemaker."  They had a daughter named Sarah Narcissa DeBow born in 1908.  In January 1954 a list of notable deaths appeared in the Chattanooga Times, Mrs. Vida Page DeBow was listed as a "music teacher and WCTU worker."  Vida and her husband Charles are interred at Highland Cemetery in Sparta Tennessee.