Merchant Of Venice Cast Members

In follow-up to the story from the Nashville Globe on the cast members of the Merchant of Venice, I took a look at the Fisk Catalog from 1912 to find out more on these students and where they ended up. Those from the cast listed in the catalog include these from the Class of 1908:

Duke [...]

Trip to Greenwood Cemetery

This past weekend I took a trip to Greenwood Cemetery - a black cemetery here in town. I went looking for the grave sites of the Napier family whom I’ve been researching. I knew there to be at least 12 members of the family there so I wanted to go take pictures of [...]

Carroll Napier Langston, Jr.

Over on my genealogy blog, I’ve just posted some information on my overall impressions of FootNote.com and some of the potential I see with it. As I was exploring the site, I decided to do a search for information on Carroll Napier Langston, Jr. His paternal grandmother, Ida M. Napier Langston, was a sister to [...]

Beautifully Appointed Dinner

Nashville Globe
February 22, 1907
Beautifully Appointed Dinner — Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pointer, of 1051 Edgehill avenue, passed a very pleasant evening on the 17th inst., at their home with a large number of friends.  All enjoyed themselves to the utmost, the host and hostess doing all in their power to render the occasion [...]

Meharry Medical College Catalogs & News

The Meharry Medical Library has on its website, PDF files of Meharry catalogs from 1881-1912 (some gaps in the years) for anyone with ancestors who went to or taught at Meharry, this is a great resource to have online! Just recently, the library added PDF files for 1902-1904 editions of Meharry News. The [...]

Slaves mentioned in deed

I have this item to share from the book: Dickson County, Tennessee. Deeds Volume 6 (Oct 1820-Apr 1823). As I continue with my Napier research, this was an interesting book to look through. Saw this deed and while not technically Nashville, Dickson is close by, so I post this and perhaps someone will [...]

Obituary: James Carroll Napier

From the Tennessean - 21 Apr 1940
While visiting the Tennessee State Library & Archives yesterday, I located this obituary for J.C. Napier.

Golden Wedding of J.C. Napiers

From the Chicago Defender
October 28, 1928
Golden Wedding of J.C. Napiers: Prominent Couple Feted by Friends on 50th Anniversary.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct 19. — At 6 o’clock Wednesday evening, Oct. 2, 1878, a procession moved down the aisle of the 10th and G. Sts. Congregational church, Washington, D.C. , to the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march, played [...]

Hon. James C. Napier

Nashville’s first formally educated lawyer was James C. Napier. The Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee text has a nice write-up of his background. As I’ve been working on this blog and researching various people in Nashville history, I have kept Napier in the back of my mind to begin formally researching. I [...]

Fisk 1898 Catalogue

While doing some searching on the Merrys, I found that Google had digitized the 1898 catalogue of Fisk University. In it, I was able to find a little bit of new information about a couple of members of the Merry family, in addition to reading that Ida Napier, sister of J.C. Napier, graduated in [...]