100th Anniversary

of the

Tennessee School for the Deaf

1845-1945

Matrons and Housemothers

NAME: YEARS
Mrs. M. E. MacIntire 1845 - 1851
Mrs. S. Morris 1851 - 1853
Miss M. J. Corley 1853 - 1859
Mrs. E. L. Henderson 1859 - 1861
Mrs. A. Jones 1866 - 1867
Mrs. E. L. Henderson 1868 - 1876
Miss Rebecca E. Davis 1876 - 1880
Miss Sallie Jackson 1880 - 1903
Miss Nannie L. Anderson 1903 - 1913
Miss Mollie Winkle 1909 - 1911
Miss Millie Mathis  (Negro Dept.) 1910 - 1911
Miss Rhoda E. Mason (Negro Dept.) 1911- 1913; 1917 - 1928
Miss Ophelia Osborne 1911 - 1919
Mrs. Patsy L. Stephens (Negro Dept.) 1913 - 1916
Miss Mary Turner 1913 - 1915
Mrs. Essie Sellers 1915 - 1916
Mrs. Margaret Noe (Negro Dept.) 1916 - 1917
Miss Lee Wharton 1916 - 1919
Miss Nellie McHugo 1919 - one month
Mrs. Irene Payne 1919 - 1926
Mrs. B. F. Patton 1919 - 1920
Mrs. Ida Thomason 1920 - 1921
Mrs. Anna Rose Rankin 1921 - 1923
Miss Fannie Johnson 1923 - 1943
Miss Myla Wood 1924 - 1931
1941 - ____
Mrs. Jane Elmer 1925 -1941
MRs. Georgia Keeton 1927 - 1929
Mrs. Annie Curry (Negro Dept.) 1928 - 1931
Miss Ella Africa 1929 - 1936
Miss Mary Wright 1931 - 1940
Mrs. Mittie Gordon (Negro Dept.) 1931 - 1939
Mrs. Virginia Sadler 1936 - 1937
Mrs. Helen Myklebust 1927 - 1939
Mrs. Josie Edmunds (Negro Dept.) 1937 - ___
Mrs. Reba Mayhew 1939 - 1942
Mrs. Ella K. Lunsford 1940 - 1941
Mrs. Alice Fridge 1941 - 1944
Mrs. Annabelle McCreight 1941 - ____
Mrs. Jane Moore 1942 - ____
Miss Ollie Spier 1943 - ____
Miss Ruth McLemore 1944 - ____

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