tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-472202359990957560.post467111200927597575..comments2023-05-02T05:13:07.561-05:00Comments on Memphis Chess History: Memphis Captain gives PromotionChess Advocatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193251729527751444noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-472202359990957560.post-30266135751783382482011-08-09T21:53:40.946-05:002011-08-09T21:53:40.946-05:00I, too, was curious about the three chess-playing ...I, too, was curious about the three chess-playing ladies and am so glad Sarah Beth posted their stories. <br /><br />The three cavalry officers were J. G. Dupree (telling the tale), Alex McCaskill, and S. B. Day, my husband's great-grandfather. While I don't know about McCaskill, Dupree and Day lived through the war, surviving many battles and surrendering at the Battle of Selma in 1865. <br /><br />Day returned to Noxubee County where he married the widow of a fellow cavalry officer, started a mercantile store, ran a school, and served as a representative to the Mississippi Legislature. He died in 1881 at age 46 from yellow fever, when his daughter, my husband's grandmother, was 4 months old. In writing of his death, the local newspaper said that the town's "grief was too deep and sacred to relate."<br /><br />Fortunately, Sam Day passed on his love of chess to many of his descendants!<br /><br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095926505571549915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-472202359990957560.post-11509873507773445972011-03-02T17:12:25.469-06:002011-03-02T17:12:25.469-06:00I was intrigued by Judge HW Foote's daughter&#...I was intrigued by Judge HW Foote's daughter's name "Duck" Foote. I mistakenly thought that such a name would be unique and easy to research.<br /><br />I did learn that HW Foote on Macon, Ga.had been married to Lucinda Frances Dade, who died in 1855. Together they had 7 kids, 3 of whom were girls:<br />Ann, who married Dr. Early C. Clements, of Sharky county, Miss. ; <br />Catherine Lewis, who married T. J. Patty, of Macon, Miss. ' <br />Emmie, who married H. M. Patty and moved to Atlanta.<br />Foote later married Mary Foote and had one more daughter, Mary Frances, who married T.T. Patty of Macon, Miss.<br />I don't know which of the first 3 girls was "Duck."<br /><br />Pattie Lyle was actually born Martha Louisa Lyle and married a Memphis lawyer, N. D. Collins, in 1866. One newspaper account said, ""Mrs. Pattie Lyle Collins, daughter of the late Dr. Lyle, of Macon, Miss., and one of the most brilliant Southern women in Washington, was promoted on the 27th of July (1885) from a fourteen hundred dollar clerkship in the Dead Letter Office of the Post-office Department to a sixteen hundred dollar position in the office of Foreign Mails. In addition to her official duties, Mrs. Collins has found time to win an enviable position in literature, and her contributions are eagerly sought by leading periodicals.''<br />A different paper claimed: "An accomplished lady is Mrs. Pattie Lyle Collins, who is engaged in the Dead Letter Department at Washington to make out difficult superscriptions. All written languages, except Russian and Chinese, are read by her."<br /><br />Fannie Holt Lucas was born on Sept. 5, 1845. Her father was E.P. Lucas. She married James William Eckford on Oct. 17, 1867 in Macon, Noxubee Co. They had a daughther, Fannie Lucas Eckford, born Jan. 31, 1869. Her husband, James, died of Yellow Fever in Sept. 1873. Fannie was pregnant at the time. She had a son, James grew up to be a successful doctor and died on Jan. 5, 1946. The next year, 1874, her daughter also died of Yellow Fever. Fannie married Dr. John S. Featherstone who had married her first cousin Emma n 1869 (and who died a few months later) in Feb. of 1877. They had no children. Fannie died on March 9, 1899.Sarah Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15056785834991507720noreply@blogger.com