{"id":12809,"date":"2013-12-26T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:49:04","slug":"brown-elizabeth-childress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/brown-elizabeth-childress\/","title":{"rendered":"BROWN, Elizabeth (Childress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrownElizabeth\"<\/a>Miss Elizabeth CHILDRESS<\/strong>, the subject of this sketch, was the daughter of\u00a0Maj. John W. CHILDRESS<\/strong>\u00a0and the beautiful\u00a0Mrs. Sarah Williams CHILDRESS<\/strong>, of the historic town of Murfreesboro Tenn. \u00a0Her alma mater was the old Nashville Female Academy, that institution which has turned out so many noble, cultured women, with\u00a0Dr. C.D. ELLIOTT<\/strong>\u00a0as principal. \u00a0Miss CHILDRESS<\/strong>\u00a0entered the school at an early age, and remained there until she graduated, receiving the first honors of her class. \u00a0As a young lady, she was a great belle throughout the South, spending much of her time at Polk Place with her aunt,\u00a0Mrs. James K. POLK,<\/strong>and assisting her in receiving the General Assembly and other\u00a0distinguished\u00a0visitors from all parts of the world. \u00a0The Civil War came on while she was still a \u00a0young lady, and she met many distinguished officers, quite a number of whom were suitors for her hand. \u00a0She was finally captured by the handsome, gallant major general,\u00a0John C. BROWN,<\/strong>\u00a0of the Army of Tennessee. \u00a0Their marriage was like a romance. \u00a0Elaborate preparations had been made at the home for the event, and the usual rich trousseau of a lovely Southern girl had been created under the deft hands of the most fashionable modistes of the time. \u00a0 The invitations had been issued for nine o\u2019clock in the evening of February 23, 1864. \u00a0The groom, accompanied by the officers of his staff, arrived in Griffin, Ga., where\u00a0Miss CHILDRESS\u00a0<\/strong>was then resident, on the day previous to that set for the wedding. \u00a0It was a delightful reunion; but on the morning of his marriage day the heart of the expectant bridegroom, thrilling with happy hope, suddenly received a shock in the shape of a telegram from\u00a0Gen. Joe JOHNSTON,<\/strong>\u00a0ordering him to report at once to his \u00a0command at Rome, Ga. The officers accompanying him were also recalled. \u00a0Perplexed, the General sought an interview with his affianced bride and acquainted her with the\u00a0situation. \u00a0\u201dYou will have to return to your command,\u201d she\u00a0acquiesced. \u00a0Bishop QUINTARD<\/strong>, who was to officiate at the nuptials, was apprised of the change of plans, and, in the presences of the family and a few friends, united the happy couple at one o\u2019clock in the afternoon; then the bridegroom bade his bride good-by and hastened on the first train for the seat of war. \u00a0Two weeks later,\u00a0General BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0returned on leave of absence, and the happy pair went on a bridal tour to Charleston and other points.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later on\u00a0Mrs. BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0followed the fortunes of war with her husband to its close; he surrendered his command at Greensboro, N.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

The war over,\u00a0General BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0resumed his profession of law at Pulaski, Tenn., where four children were born to them \u2013 a son and three daughters. Marie, now deceased, became the wife of\u00a0Gov. McMILLIN<\/strong>; Daisy died at the age of seventeen years; Elizabeth is the wife of\u00a0Mr. John C. BURCH<\/strong>, son of the well-known editor and writer;\u00a0John C. BROWN Jr<\/strong>., is a rising young lawyer of the Nashville bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1871\u00a0General BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0was elected Governor of this State, and was chosen for a second term, filling the office very acceptably to the people. \u00a0During his terms of office\u00a0Mrs. BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0filled her high position with graceful dignity. \u00a0Her entertainments were frequent and elaborate, and she gave much assistance to her distinguished husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

On retiring from politics,\u00a0Governor BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0accepted the presidency of large railroad interests, which called him to distant cities, where he was always accompanied by his wife. \u00a0Some years later he served as president of the Tennessee, Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, at which time he purchased a handsome residence on Spruce street, where, since his death,\u00a0Mrs. BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0resides. \u00a0He left one of the finest libraries in the South to his son. \u00a0The magnificent home holds many exquisite art treasures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and has held the presidency of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. \u00a0She has a life-size statue of\u00a0Governor BROWN<\/strong>, in Confederate uniform, placed at his last resting place in Pulaski \u2013 a fitting memorial of her gallant soldier husband. \u00a0She is president of the Vanderbilt Aid Society, being a woman of fine executive ability, looking to the assistance of young student, and is consistent member of the Episcopal Church. \u00a0She spends the winters in her city home and the summers at beautiful Colonial Hall, at Pulaski. \u00a0The mansion on Spruce street abounds in beautiful works of art statuary, paintings, copies from the old masters, plate and sets of gold-chased Venetian glass brought from abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. BROWN<\/strong>\u00a0visited the Charleston Exposition in 1902, and was at Fort Sumter on the anniversary of her marriage. \u00a0She received much attention during her visit to the old, historic city.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Gilchrist, Annie S.\u00a0Some Representative Women of Tennessee<\/i>. Nashville: McQuiddy Print. Co, 1902.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miss Elizabeth CHILDRESS, the subject of this sketch, was the daughter of\u00a0Maj. John W. CHILDRESS\u00a0and the beautiful\u00a0Mrs. Sarah Williams CHILDRESS, of the historic town of Murfreesboro Tenn. \u00a0Her alma mater was the old Nashville Female Academy, that institution which has turned out so many noble, cultured women, with\u00a0Dr. C.D. ELLIOTT\u00a0as principal. \u00a0Miss CHILDRESS\u00a0entered the school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,205,4067,4064,45,4405,634,4419],"tags":[208,2396,1800,251,684,652,4363,4068],"class_list":{"0":"post-12809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-giles","8":"category-nashville-female-academy","9":"category-representativewomen","10":"category-rutherford","11":"category-surname-b","12":"category-woman","13":"category-x_featured-image-no","14":"tag-brown","15":"tag-burch","16":"tag-childress","17":"tag-elliott","18":"tag-johnston","19":"tag-mcmillin","20":"tag-polk","21":"tag-quintard","22":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12811,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}