Mary Sharp College Scrapbook

This scrapbook contains a collection of documents and pictures related to Mary Sharp College

Documents

1. Goodspeed's History of Franklin County, Tennessee.
2. The Mary Sharp College Scholarship
3. Mary Sharp College Building Soon Will Pass into History
4. List of Mary Sharp College Alumnae
5. 1936 article regarding the Mary Sharp College Club in Dallas, Texas
6. Six Georgia students leave for studies at Mary Sharp College in September, 1882
7. Remarkable premonitions by two Mary Sharp students that appeared in a 1887 newspaper

Pictures

The following pictures were graciously provided from several sources, as follows:

Joy Gallagher, chairperson of the Winchester Historic Preservation Committee provided those pictures of Mary Sharp College (MSC), which were made available by the Franklin County Historical Society.

Jerry W. Cook, Curator of the Shelbyville-Bedford County History Museum provided those other items in this scrapbook. Except for the picture of Mary Ophelia Finney that is part of Jerry's private collection, these items are all copies of originals donated to the Shelbyville-Bedford County History Museum, and can be found at the Fly Cultural Arts Center in Shelbyville, TN.

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Mary Sharp College 1854 sketch after it was first built.	Mary Sharp College Sketch, as it appeared in1858
Photo circa 1910 This photo belonged to Mary Jane Cole Boswell (1857-1938). Her grandson's widow, Christine Luna Hopkins, had it.	1940 Photo At this point in time, the building had become the Mary Sharp Public School.
1859 Graduation Program Card Original located at Shelbyville-Bedford Co History Museum.	Mary K. Gill, 1859 Graduate (original is at Shelbyville-Bedford Co History Museum)
Willie Kate Whitaker (1861-1943), 1878 Graduate (original is at Shelbyville-Bedford Co History Museum)	William Alexander Frost (1835-1935) (original is at th Shelbyville-Bedford Co History Museum) Husband of Kate Whitaker, and Editor of the Shelbyville Gazette.
Mary Ophelia Finney, 1869 Graduate (on the back of photo is written "Mollie O. Finney") Born March 25, 1848 to James & Alice Finney, Mollie died Feb. 10, 1897 and is buried at the Finney family cemetery in Bedford County. (Jerry W. Cook private collection)	Frances Osborne Slaughter, 1886 Graduate Obituary extracted from the October 17, 1946 edition of the Dallas Morning News.