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.

Sue Ellen Sandefer, Dresden Tennessee

While going through pictures that had belonged to Nathan H. (Bub) Moran I came across a newspaper clipping talking about the upcoming marriage of Sue Ellen Sandefer and James Prentice Pritchett. The names didn't ring a bell to me so I scanned the clipping and kept going through the box.  A few pictures later I came across two pictures of the same girl and she looked familiar.   I went back to the Sandefer newspaper clipping to compare the young girl to the young woman.  They look like a match to me.

I was pretty sure I knew the answer but I asked Kent anyway if his father, Bub Moran, had ever mentioned a Sue Ellen Sandefer.  No, he never mentioned her.  So I told him that I thought perhaps they had been childhood sweethearts, or perhaps his dad had a crush on her in his youth or maybe they were just good friends because he kept two pictures and a newspaper clipping of her.  He said that was possible so I went on to say she married someone named James Prentice Pritchett.  "Oh wait, Miss Sue Ellen Pritchett?? Yeah I knew her.  She was the pianist at the Methodist Church."  And that is true.  She was the pianist among many other things.

Her parents were Charles E. Sandefer and Mattie R. Sandefer.  She had at least one sibling named John G. Sandefer.  Sue Ellen was born Sept 11, 1918 in Dresden Tennessee.  She married James Prentice Pritchett September 11, 1940.  James Pritchett was the son of James R. Pritchett and Era Parham.  He was born in 1915 and died in 1979.  Sue Ellen Sandefer Pritchett passed away March 31, 2009 at the home of her daughter Judith Ann Wade in Memphis TN.

From NWTN Today:
Sue Ellen Pritchett, 90, of Dresden, died March 31, 2009, at the home of her daughter, Judith Ann Wade, in Memphis.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Dresden First United Methodist Church.  Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday at Bowlin Funeral Home.

Mrs Pritchett was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Sandefer of Dresden.  She taught piano in Dresden for 40 years until her retirement in 2006.  She was a lifelong member of the Dresden Methodist Church, where she served as pianist, choir director and youth leader.  She married James Prentiss Pritchett of Dresden in 1940.  She had been involved in leadership in the Girl Scouts and the Dresden PTA.

Survivors include two daughters, Judith Ann Wade of Memphis and Janey Sue Williams of Lexington; three grandchildren, Gabe Williams of Lexington, Lisa Fairchild and Jenny Williams, both of Memphis; and thre great grandchildren, Marina Law of Memphis, Lacey Williams and Carly Williams, both of Lexington.

The family requests memorials be made to Crossroads Hospice of Tennessee LLC, Jean Harrison - Executive Director, 1669 Shelby Oaks Drive no. 106, Memphis TN 38134 or to the Dresden Methodist Church Choir or Building fun.