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Frances Boyd Calhoun
Frances Boyd Calhoun (née Boyd; December 25, 1867 – June 8, 1909) was an American writer and teacher in Tennessee. She authored the children's book ''Miss Minerva and'' ''William Green Hill'' (1909), which has been a publishing success and has gone through more than fifty printed editions. She died four months after its publication. Biography Frances Boyd was born on December 25, 1867, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Her grandfather was a prominent land owned in Occoneechee (now Occoneechee State Park) in Virginia. In childhood she lived in Warrenton, North Carolina, for two years, before moving in 1880 with her family to Covington, Tennessee. She graduated from Tipton Female Academy (also known as Tipton Female Seminary) in 1885. Her father William Townes Boyd was a newspaper publisher and worked for ''The Covington Leader'', and she wrote for his paper. In 1903, she married George Barret Calhoun, and he died a year later in 1904. For seven years she taught at the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Mecklenburg County is a county (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 30,319. Its county seat is Boydton, Virginia, Boydton. History Mecklenburg County was organized on March 1, 1765, having split from Lunenburg County, Virginia, Lunenburg County in 1764 as the result of the passage of an act by the Virginia General Assembly. Due to new settlement and population increases in the area, the legislature divided Lunenburg into three counties: Lunenburg, Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte, and Mecklenburg.Bracey, S. (1977). ''Life by the Roaring Roanoke'', Whittet and Shepperson. It was named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a British queen of German origin. The first county government consisted of 13 members: Robert Munford, Richard Witton, John Speed, Henry Delony, Edmund Taylor, Benjamin Baird, John Camp, Thomas Erskine, John Potter, John Cox, Thomas Ander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
