City: Franklin
DOZIER, Tennie Pinkerton, born near Franklin, Tenn., Aug. 8, 1861; English and Scotch-Irish descent; her paternal ancestors took active part in the War of the Roses on the side of the House of Lancaster, or the red rose; daughter of James and Sarah Caroline (Anderson) PINKERTON; father’s occupation, Public Official in Williamson Co., Tenn.; paternal grandparents, James and Sarah (Marlin) PINKERTON, maternal grandparents, Joseph and Sarah (Hartley) ANDERSON; educated in Tenn. Female College, Franklin, graduated from same M. A. degree June, 1883; she has studied in summer schools of Monteagle, Chautauqua, Tenn., and Chautauqua, N. Y., and while teaching in the Young Ladies College, Lebanon, Tenn., studied under the Professors of Cumberland University; taught twelve years, 1883-1895, first in the Franklin (Tenn.) Public School, then Howard College, Gallatin, Tenn., Lebanon (Tenn.) College, and in Tenn. Female College, Franklin, Tenn.; married Nathaniel Bell DOZIER, June 20, 1895; member of Presbyterian Church, and teacher in Sunday school of same; member of Missionary and Aid Societies of her church; Pres. of Franklin Inter-denominational Mission Study Class, which she organized in 1906; served five years as Recording Secretary of the Monteagle Womans’s Foreign Mission Association; member of W. C. T. U., and Florence Crittenden Circle; Chairman for Williamson Co. (Tenn.) of the Woman’s Department of the State Fair 1907-09, re-appointed in 1910, but did not accept; Chairman from her County of the Woman’s Department of the Tri-State Fair 1910; has been Chairman for Williamson Co., of the Health Department of Tenn. Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1908; member of Woman’s Club, Chautauqua, N. Y., Women’s Tennessee Historical Association and the Association for Preservation of Antiquities of Va.; Vice-Regent of Old Glory Chapter D. A. R.; Regent of Monteagle D. A. R. Circle in 1907, and was fraternal delegate from D. A. R. of Tenn. to the Ala. D. A. R. Conference at Athens, in 1907; member Franklin Chapter of U. D. C., of which she was Pres., three years, 1903-1906; represented same at the National U. D. C. Convention in Baltimore, Md., 1897, Charleston, S. C., 1903; organized Franklin U. D. C. Historical Society, 1906; Historian of Tenn. Div. U. D. C. 1906-08; conceived the idea of the Tenn. Confederate Girl’s Home and was elected by Tenn. Division U. D. C. permanent chairman of the Confederate Girl’s Home Committee in 1909; has two daughters, Marguerite DOZIER and Thaniel Pinkerton DOZIER.
