"Beechmore"
Great-Aunt Sally Tyler’s Home in “The
Little Colonel”
Real Life Home of Captain Thomas Floyd and Blanch Weissinger Smith,
Hattie Cochran’s (The Little Colonel’s) Great Aunt and Uncle
Beechmore: The Jennie Casseday
Rest Cottage Years
Beechmore as it looked during the time it served
as Jennie Casseday’s Rest Cottage for Working Women. Originally built around
1830 by Michael and Catherine Souther . it was next owned by Catherin's
brother, Joseph Clore, and then by novelist and poet Catherine
Anne Warfield before it was
purchased by Captain Thomas Floyd Smith. After Smith’s death, it became the
Rest Cottage for Working Women until the 1940s, when it was sold to Mrs.
Mary Crain for a nursing home. Following her death, the house quickly went
to ruin and was eventually torn down. The 64-acre property is now the site
of The Woods of Pewee Valley subdivision.
Beechmore appears in the very first book of the “Little Colonel” series.
Though Annie Fellows Johnston never refers to the house by name, it is the
fictional Lloydsboro Valley home of the Tyler family – the
Little Colonel’s great-aunt and
-uncle.
The Tylers are first mentioned in
Chapter II of “The Little Colonel,” published in 1895:
"Yo'
great-aunt Sally Tylah is comin' this mawnin'," said
Mom Beck, the day after their visit to the
hotel. "Do fo' goodness' sake keep
yo'self clean. I'se got too many spring chickens to dress to think 'bout
dressin' you up again."
"Did I
evah see her befo'?" questioned the Little Colonel.
"Why, yes,
the day we moved heah. Don't you know she came and stayed so long, and the
rockah broke off the little white rockin'-chair when she sat down in it?"
"Oh, now I
know!" laughed the child. "She's the big fat one with the curls hangin'
round her yeahs like shavin's. I don't like her, Mom Beck. She keeps a-kissin'
me all the time, an' a-'queezin' me, an' tellin' me to sit on her lap an'
be a little lady. Mom Beck, I de'pise to be a little lady."
In
Chapter III, we learn that Sally Tyler is the
Old Colonel’s wife’s half-sister:
"My
great-aunt Sally Tylah is to ou' house this mawnin'," she announced,
confidentially. "That's why we came off. Do you know my Aunt Sally Tylah?"
"Well,
slightly!" chuckled the Colonel. "She was my wife's half-sister. So you
don't like her eh? Well, I don't like her either."
And in
Chapter IX, we learn that the Tyler home is located in Lloydsboro
Valley, when Papa Jack decides to take an ill-advised walk to
the Post Office to mail a letter while
still recuperating from the long illness he contracted in the West:
"The
clouds have all blown away and left us their silver linings," said Mrs.
Sherman the day her husband was able to go out-of-doors for the first
time. He walked down to the post-office, and brought back a letter from
the West. It had such encouraging reports of his business that he was
impatient to get back to it. He wrote a reply early in the afternoon, and
insisted on going to mail it himself.
"I'll
never get my strength back," he protested, "unless I have more exercise."
It was a cold, gray November day. A few flakes of snow were falling when
he started.
"I'll stop
and rest at the Tylers'," he called back, "so don't be uneasy if I'm out
some time."
Just as in the story, Beechmore was the home of
real-life Little Colonel Hattie Cochran’s great-uncle and -aunt, Captain
Thomas Floyd Smith and his wife Blanch Weissinger Smith. Though Annie
Fellows Johnston portrays “Great Aunt Sally Tyler” as the half-sister of the
Old Colonel’s late wife, in reality, Blanch and Colonel George Washington
Weissinger were full sister and brother, according to
the Weissinger family genealogy below:
GEORGE WASHINGTON WEISSINGER
(1807-1850) married AMANTHUS BULLITT in May, 1829 and had four children:
- BLANCH, (1830/1832- 1887) Married
January 21, 1858 to CAPTAIN THOMAS FLOYD SMITH,
son of Major Thomas Floyd Smith and Emilie CHOUTEAU.
- SALLIE (1834-1856). Married to HERMAN
BECKURTS
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, JR. COL. (Dec. 11,
1836-February 24, 1903)
Married December 5, 1865 to AMELIA NEVILLE PEARCE, daughter of Edmund
Pearce and Myra Steele.
- HARRY (November 24, 1842 – May 9, 1915)
Married June 27, 1867 to ISABELLA MUIR,
daughter of Judge Peter Brown Muir and Sophronia.
Volume IV of “History of Kentucky,” by William Elsey Connelly and E.M.
Coulter, Ph.D., published by the American Historical Society in 1922,
provides the following profile of Captain Thomas Floyd Smith on page 83:
Captain
Thomas Floyd Smith was born in Missouri in 1835, was reared in that state
and in Kentucky, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United
States Army by Jefferson Davis, then secretary of the war. At the outbreak
of the war-between-the-states he was commissioned a captain in the
Confederate army. He was one of the organizers of the
Washington Guards, a famous military company of St. Louis, Missouri.
After the war Captain Smith located in Oldham County, Kentucky, where he
devoted the rest of his years to farming and planting. He was a lover of
fine horses and had some noted stock on his place. He was also an ardent
sportsman and found his recreation in hunting big game. He was a democrat,
and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Captain Smith died in 1890. His
wife, Blanch Weissinger, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1848
and died in 1897. (NOTE: Blanch Weissinger’s birth date provided in this
profile must be wrong, since she would only have been ten years old when
she married Thomas Floyd Smith.) Of their six children, two died in
infancy and the four still living are: Amanthis Bullitt Smith; George
Weissinger Smith, present mayor of Louisville; Anna, wife of Frank C.
Carpenter; and Thomas Floyd, youngest of the family.
A simple obituary ran in the Louisville
“Courier-Journal” when he died:
Capt. Smith’s Funeral
The funeral of the late Capt. Thomas Floyd
Smith took place at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Brief services were
held at his late residence in Pewee Valley, after which the remains were
brought into Cave Hill Cemetery.
According to "The United Presbyterian
Church in Pewee Valley 1866-1966 100th Anniversary" booklet, Blanch
Weissinger Smith at one time served as president of the
Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church’s
women’s group, so the Smiths were presumably members there and were
acquainted with other members, such as the Craigs of
Edgewood, the Muirs of
Oaklea,
Rev. T.H. Cleland’s family and
the Matthews of Clovercroft who also
served as models for many of the characters in the Little Colonel stories.
Captain Thomas Floyd Smith and Blanch
Weissinger Smith are buried in
Cave Hill
Cemetery, Section A, Lot 144, Part SW1/3, Graves 3 and 4.
Portrait of Captain Thomas
Floyd Smith
(1835-1890)
Captain Smith's great-granddaughter, Olivia Smith, says that according to
family legend, the portrait above was in the “Little Colonel” stories. We
believe it may have served as Annie Fellows Johnston’s inspiration for the
portrait of the Old Colonel’s dead son, Tom, described in
Chapter IX of “The Little Colonel:”
EVERY evening after
that during Lloyd's visit the fire burned on the hearth of the long
drawing-room. All the wax candles were lighted, and the vases were kept
full of flowers, fresh from the conservatory.
She loved to steal
into the room before her grandfather came down, and carry on imaginary
conversations with the
old portraits.
Tom's handsome, boyish face had the greatest attraction to her. His eyes
looked down so smilingly into hers that she felt he surely understood
every word she said to him.
Tom’s picture
is mentioned again in Chapter
V of the “Little Colonel’s House Party,”
when the Little Colonel introduces Betty to
all the old family portraits at The Locust:
"That's my
grandmothah, Amanthis," said Lloyd' pausing in her song, "and that's the
way she looked the first time grandfathah evah saw her. And heah's Uncle
Tom in his soldier clothes, and this is mothah's great-great-aunt that was
such a belle in the days of Clay and Webstah."
Olivia Smith is in possession of the portrait, as well as Captain Smith’s
epaulets. Unfortunately, his home, Beechmore, is no longer standing.
According to documents available at The Filson Historical Society in
Louisville, Ky., it was sold after Captain Smith’s death and turned into
Jenny Casseday’s
Rest Cottage for Working
Women in 1896, a summer vacation place for working women with limited
financial resources. Beechmore was located at the end of what is now Rest
Cottage Lane.
Census information provided by
Toni Langlais shows that for a time in the 1880s, Hattie Cochran’s mother,
Amelia Weissinger Cochran (Annie Fellows Johnston’s model for
Mrs. Sherman in the series)
lived in Beechmore with her aunt, uncle and cousins after her mother died:
1880 census Rollington District Oldham County, Kentucky
Smith,
Thomas, age 45
Blanche, wife, 41
Amanthus,
daughter, 19
George, son,
15
Anna,
daughter, 13
Thomas,
son, 11
Weissinger,
Amelia, niece, 12
Not surprisingly, both Amelia
and her daughter, Hattie, remained close to their cousins throughout their
lives. According to “Louisville's
First Families -A SERIES OF GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES” written by
Kathleen Jennings and published by the Standard Printing Co. in 1920, those
cousins included: “Mayor George Weissinger Smith, who married Nell Hunt, a
descendant of the Prathers, another pioneer family; Mrs. Amanthis Jungbluth,
Thomas Floyd Smith, who married Mary Bruce, and Nan Pope Smith, who married
Frank Carpenter.” We have been able to gather detailed information on three
of the four cousins
.
George Weissinger Smith,
Mayor of Louisville 1917-1921
From Metro Louisville Archives
Profile of George Weissinger Smith
(October 10,
1864 - 1931)
(from
Wikipedia)
George
Weissinger Smith was mayor of Louisville from 1917 to 1921. His maternal
grandfather, George Weissinger, published the “Louisville Journal” (which
became the “Courier-Journal”) during the controversial tenure of George D.
Prentice.
George
Smith graduated from Louisville Male High School n 1883, from the
University of Virginia in 1886, and from the University of Louisville
School of Law in 1887. He practiced law throughout the rest of his life.
He entered politics in 1898 with his election to the Kentucky General
Assembly.
Smith ran
for mayor in 1917 on an anti-corruption platform. Louisville's dominant
political boss for three decades, John Henry Whallen, had died in 1913 and
his less charismatic brother was unable to use the party's political
machine to defeat Smith. Smith followed through on election promises,
shutting down brothels and gambling along the then-seedy Green Street.
After the “Louisville Herald” drummed up public interest with a naming
contest, the Republican-majority city council gave the street its modern
name, Liberty Street, in 1918. He also ordered the Louisville Police
Department to assist federal agents in enforcing Prohibition.
The
administration soon focused on the World War I effort, with Smith himself
involved in war bond drives. Camp Zachary Taylor, one of the largest
training camps built for the war effort, was located at what was then the
edge of the city.
The city
grew 40 percent in size during his administration through annexation of
surrounding areas. After his term as mayor, he served as president of the
Louisville Water Company until 1926.
He lived
on Cherokee Road with his family, and died in 1931 of a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
According to the 1910 census, he was
living at 1870 Fourth Street in Louisville. By 1920, he was living at 2007
S. Second Street. His profile in “Who’s Who Louisville,” 1926 lists him at
3018 Grinstead Drive:
SMITH,
George Weissinger, ex-mayor; b. Lou., Ky., October 10, 1864; s. (Capt.)
Thomas F. (U.S.A) and Blanche (Weissinger) Smith; ed. Student U. of Va.,
1883-1886; L.L.B, U of L, 1887; Began practice of law in 1887. Mem. Ky.
House of Rep, 1801; Mayor of Lou., 1917-1921. Now pres. Lou. Water Co, m.
Ellen Hunt of Lou., Ky., Oct. 30, 1890. Republican. Presbyterian. Formerly
pres. Parental Home and School Com. of Jefferson co.; formerly trustee
Lou. School of Reform. Served as private with Co. F., Lou. Legion, for
three years. Mem. Lou. Bar assn., Pi Kappa Alpha. Clubs: Lawyers’, Audubon
Country. Home: 3018 Grinstead Dr. Office: 435 S. Third.
George Weissinger Smith and Nell Hunt Smith (died 1952) are buried in
Cave Hill
Cemetery, Section Q, Lot 77.
They had four children:
-
Blanche Weissinger Smith, named after her paternal
grandmother;
-
Hunt C., presumably named for his mother’s side of the
family;
-
Karl J., (August 28, 1805- 1986) possibly named for his
uncle, Karl Jungbluth, married to George’s sister, Amanthis; and
-
Rozel Weissinger, named for his paternal grandmother’s
half-brother who died in 1896.
Blanche and her cousin, Hattie Cochran,
made their debuts the same year, according to “Sunshine and Shadow,” the
memoir of Cary Hoge Mead, privately published
in 1983, pgs. 68-69:
. ..They (the
debutantes) were a delightful group that year, and they all had a glorious
time; Eliza Grinstead, whom William (Cary's brother) described as having a
flower-like face and stem-like figure -- Julia Kinkead, who was a redhead
and full of fun -- Lala Swearingen, also a redhead -- Nellie Ganter, a
darling -- Hattie Cochran (the Little Colonel) and her cousin, Blanche
Weissinger Smith, with whom Peyton (Cary's brother) fell completely and
permanently in love -- to name a few whom I knew and loved the most.
On April 17, 1913, Blanche and Peyton Hoge married. Their son, Peyton
Hoge, III, later became Mayor of Anchorage. Annie Fellows Johnston
undoubtedly knew the young couple well, because they lived for a time in
The Gables -- “a dear little house they
rented from Mrs. Johnston,” Mead observed in her memoirs. By the 1920
census, they were living with Blanche’s father, George, at 2007 S. Second
Street and Peyton Hoge, Jr. was working as an insurance agent.
Their daughter, Blanche Weissinger Smith Hoge (died 1980) and her
husband, Peyton Harrison Hoge, Jr. (died 1977), are buried with Blanche’s
grandparents in Section A, Lot 144, Part SW1/3, graves 1 and 2.
The 1920 census shows that George’s son, Hunt C. Smith, was married to
Mildred Lee (Bolling) Smith, living with his in-laws, Alfred and Sammie
Bolling at 2015 S. Second Street, and working for his uncle, Thomas Floyd
Smith, III, at Louisville Paper Company. The 1930 census lists him as a
lawyer living at 2524 Glenmary Avenue. He is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery on
March 25, 1972, Lot M, Section 117, grave 12.
George’s son, Karl Smith, also worked for his uncle, Thomas Floyd Smith,
III, as the advertising manager for Louisville Paper Company, according to
“Who’s Who in Louisville,” 1926. He was married to Rebbie Smith and lived at
1768 Sulgrave Road:
SMITH, Karl,
advertising man.; b. Lou, Ky, Aug. 28, 1805; s. George Weissinger and
Ellen Carpenter (Hunt) Smith; ed. Grade school, L.M.H.S. Advertising mgr.
Lou. Paper Co. m. Bobbie Stuart Smith of Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 5, 1920.
Presbyterian. 2nd lt. of Inftry. During World War. Club:
Advertising. Home: 1768 Sulgrave Rd. Office: Lou. Paper Co.
Karl was also involved in developing The
Little Colonel Game put out by the Selchow & Righter Co. in New York,
according to the game’s explanation printed on the inside cover of the box:
…The game board, depicting Lloydsborough
Valley, its homes, churches and other points of interest, was drawn by Mr.
Karl Smith, who is a first cousin of the original “Little Colonel”, Hattie
Cochran, now Mrs. Albert Dick of Louisville, Ky…
He died August 7, 1986. His wife, Rebbie, died on January 1, 1980. They
are buried in
Cave Hill Cemetery, Section Q, Lot 77, graves 9 and 8.
Rozel Weissinger Smith, too, worked for his uncle as a salesman,
according to the 1920 census. He died August 10, 1983 and is buried at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Section Q, Lot 77, grave 12.
Profile of Thomas Floyd Smith
(August 31,
1868-May 16, 1958)
(from “History of Kentucky,” Volume IV,
by William Elsey Connelly and E.M. Coulter, Ph.D., published by the American
Historical Society, 1922, pgs. 83-84:)
THOMAS FLOYD SMITH, whose entire mature
career has been devoted to the paper business, wholesale and
manufacturing, is president of the Louisville Paper Company, and a man
justly prominent in civic and business affairs.
He was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky,
August 31, 1869, a son of Captain Thomas Floyd and Blanche (Weissinger)
Smith. His great-grandfather, Colonel Thomas Floyd Smith, married Emelie
Chouteau daughter of August Chouteau, who was one of the conspicuous
pioneer citizens of St. Louis, Missouri. The Chouteau home was one of the
first established in that city. The grandfather of the Louisville business
man was also Colonel Thomas Floyd Smith, who married a relative of Colonel
John Floyd, one of the historic characters of early Kentucky. Grandfather
Smith was an intimate friend of Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor…
…Thomas Floyd Smith was educated in the
schools of Oldham and Jefferson counties, and the first money he ever
earned was picking grapes at fifty cents per day. He became connected with
a wholesale paper concern at Louisville at the age of nineteen, and
subsequently was one of the organizers of the Louisville Paper Company, of
which he has been president and acting head for many years. This is one of
the largest wholesale paper concerns in the South, and has branch offices
in many southern cities. Mr. Smith served two terms as president of the
Central State Paper Dealers Association, and also is a past president of
the National Paper Trade Association, which includes in its membership all
the large paper manufacturers of the United States.
For many years, Mr. Smith has been
associated with Louisville’s business and civic affairs. He served three
terms as president of the Louisville Board of Trade. He was one of the
organizers and vice president of the Louisville Industrial Foundation. He
was one of the commission appointed by the mayor to raise a million
dollars for the building of a Memorial Auditorium, and had an active
charge of the financial campaign. He is a trustee of two schools in
Jefferson County, the Rogers Clark Ballard School, and the Jacobs
(Colored) School. Mr. Smith is a republican voter, and a member of the
Presbyterian Church.
On April 26, 1898, he married Mary Bruce, a
native of Louisville, and daughter of Horatio W. and Elizabeth (Helm)
Bruce. Her mother was a daughter of Governor John Helm of Kentucky, and a
granddaughter of Benjamin Hardin, the eminent Kentucky lawyer. Judge H.W.
Bruce was chief attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railway at the
time of his death. He was elected by the Provision Legislature of Kentucky
to a seat in the Confederate Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have two
children: Bruce, a student at Yale University, and Thomas Floyd (NOTE:
Olivia Smith’s father), the fourth of the name in as many successive
generations.
Louisville Paper Company Founder Thomas Floyd Smith, IV
from Volume IV of “History of Kentucky,”
by William Elsey Connelly and E.M. Coulter, Ph.D., American Historical
Society, 1922
The Smiths were also members of
Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church,
and like her mother-in-law before her, Mary Bruce Smith served as president
of the women’s group.
In her autobiography, “The Land of the Little Colonel,”
Annie Fellows Johnston mentions that her stepson John worked for the
Louisville Paper Company, after his graduation from the military academy in
Highland Park. Most likely, the Johnston family’s acquaintance with Thomas
Floyd Smith, III helped him land the job.
By 1920, census information shows that Thomas Floyd
Smith, III had left Pewee Valley and moved to 102 River Road in Glenview,
Kentucky. The 1926 edition of “Who’s Who in Louisville” lists his office at
13th and Maple.
Mary Bruce Smith (June 17, 1872 - June 3, 1938) was buried in Cave Hill
Cemetery http://www.cavehillcemetery.com/, Section 14, Lot 252, grave 6. We
have been unable to locate the grave of her husband, Thomas Floyd Smith,
III.
Their son, Thomas Floyd Smith, IV (August 6, 1906- June 11, 1981), known
to his family as “Floyd,” is buried in the same plot with his wife, Olivia
Harcourt Smith (March 8, 1909 – April 12, 1998).
Profile of Amanthis Bullitt Smith Jungbluth (September 25, 1860
- November 20, 1948)
Amanthis Bullitt Smith was named for her grandmother, Amanthus Bullitt
Weissinger, first wife of George Washington Weissinger, the Old Colonel’s
real-life father and publisher of the “Louisville Journal.”
On April 17, 1886, she married Karl Jungbluth (1847-1928) at Beechmore,
the Smith family home. According to their marriage certificate, she was 25
and he was 37. The two supposedly met on the train between Crestwood and
Anchorage, when she was returning from a tennis match at the Villa Ridge
Inn.
According to his great-granddaughter, Nina Churchill Whitney, Karl was a
native of Germany and emigrated to America as an interpreter. He was a
self-made man and entrepreneur, responsible for the licorice flavoring in
tobacco. Research by David Gleason and his wife Helena McCoy Grimes at the
Oldham Country Library in LaGrange showed that he owned several businesses,
including a brokerage firm.
When Karl met Amanthis, he had been a widower for some years. His first
wife, whom he wed on October 6, 1875, was Amelia “Mamie” Louise Milton.
During their brief marriage, Mamie bore him two sons, Karl, Jr., born 1876,
and Marion, born 1877. She died shortly after Marion’s birth. After his
wife’s death, Karl sent the boys to Germany to be raised by his sister,
Lena. They returned to the United States after high school and attended
Johns Hopkins University.
Karl purchased the Waldeck (meaning “Corner of the Woods”) property in
Crestwood in 1888 and began building a stone, plantation-style mansion,
which was completed by 1893, according to the 1893 census, which lists Karl,
Amanthis, Karl, Jr. and Marion as residents, along with six servants. .
Kate
Matthews forever captured Amanthis Bullitt Smith Jungbluth’s haunting
image
in this picture taken on Waldeck’s columned front porch
Unhappy with life at Waldeck -- it was too far removed from the
excitement of the city to suit her – Amanthis purportedly had an affair
which led to the breakup of the Jungbluth marriage. After her divorce, she
lived for a time with her brother, George Weissinger Smith, according to the
1910 census. We believe that in 1913, she became one of the first residents
of Louisville’s Puritan Hotel, now the Puritan Apartments at 1244 S. Fourth
Street.
The Puritan
Devastated by his wife’s infidelity, Karl sold Waldeck and most of its
contents to the Messendorfs for $3000 in 1908 and moved to St. Petersburg,
Florida where he built another home, also named Waldeck, and married again.
At the time of the divorce, Karl, Jr. was already married (1903) to
Amelia Cowling. They had two children: Mary Churchill Jungbluth (1904) and
Amelia Churchill Jungbluth (1915). Karl, Jr. received his law degree from
the University of Louisville and served as a Louisville alderman for ten
years. His older daughter, Mary, married Roland Whitney in 1929 and had a
daughter, Nina Churchill Whitney in 1930.
Marion married the daughter of the Arkansas governor and had no children.
They lived in Colorado.
Mamie Lawton ("Mrs. Walton") wrote about Amanthis’ affair in a
1906 letter to Annie
Fellows Johnston:
…I told you everyone was there but Mrs.
Jungbluth was conspicuous by her absence. Being at present on very
official terms with the parson, whom she refuses to hear preach anymore.
There are I believe, several "official" affairs, in Cranford just now.
I don't know anything accurate, but from the tom-tit of society, I
gather a few stray bits of gossip - Aleck won’t play cards with the
Buckners - Lese won't meet Aleck - Amanthis refuses to be friends with the
new parson…
Did Mrs. Jungbluth’s marital indiscretions inspire Annie Fellows Johnston
to pen the Little Colonel’s disillusioned dissertation on marriage, below,
in her 1907 novel, “The Little
Colonel’s Knight Comes Riding",
Chapter13.htm?
"That's the worst
thing about growing up," she exclaimed bitterly when Mrs. Bisbee paused,
"the finding out that everybody isn't good and happy as I used to think
they were. Lately, just these last few months that I've been out in
society I've heard so much of people's jealousies and rivalries and
meannesses and insincerity, that I'd sometimes be tempted to doubt
everybody, if it were not for my own family and some of the people out in
this little old Valley that I've trusted all my life.
"There's Minnie
Wayland, whose engagement was announced last month to Mistah Maybrick. I
don't see how she dares marry when her own fathah and mothah made such a
failure of it, that they can't live togethah, and Mistah Maybrick's wife
got a divorce from him on account of some dreadful scandal the papahs were
full of. I couldn't go up and wish her joy when the othah girls did. She
talked about it in such a flippant mattah of business way, as if millions
atoned for everything. One of the girls laughed at me for taking it so
seriously, and said that matches aren't made in heaven nowadays, and that
I'd have to get ovah my old-fashioned Puritanical notions and ideals if I
expected to keep up with the sma'ht set. I thought for awhile that maybe
it was only the sma'ht set who are that way, but what you've just told me
about Mrs. Cadwell, and what I've heard lately about several families
right in our own little neighbahhood, shows that it's all a bad old
world, and these yeahs I've been thinking it so good I've been blind
and ignorant. I suppose it's for the best, but I'm sorry sometimes that my
eyes have been opened."
Amanthis died on November 20, 1948 and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery
http://www.cavehillcemetery.com/, Section 14, Lot 252, grave 1, with her
brother, Thomas Floyd Smith, III’s family. Her ex-husband Karl is buried in
St. Petersburg, Florida.
Karl’s oldest son, Karl, Jr. (1876-May 14, 1944) is also buried in Cave
Hill http://www.cavehillcemetery.com/, but in Section Q, lot 51, along with
his wife, Amelia Cowling Jungbluth (1877-1954); his daughter, Mary Churchill
Jungbluth Whitney (died 1997); his brother, Marion (1877-1940); his
son-in-law, Roland Whitney (died 1973); and his mother, Mrs. Mamie Jungbluth
(1854-1877).
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