For this year’s A to Z Challenge I am posting an event involving someone in my family tree for that date. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.
KINGS DAUGHTERS CLUB ENTERTAINS
The Kings Daughters, one of the working clubs of the Old Ship Church, very pleasantly entertained Messrs. Allen Carleton, Oscar Saffold, Prof. Finley and the church choir, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Tulane, 10 S. Ripley St., Tuesday evening, April 9th. A fine musical program was rendered, the numbers including vocal and instrumental selections by those present, and, besides, a variety of choice selections by the Victrola, after which enjoyable refreshments were served.
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In 1918 Victor and Willie Lee Tulane and their daughter Naomi lived in a comfortable apartment over Tulane Groceries. In addition to the grocery store, Victor Tulane also was very active in the life of the community. He was on the Board of Trustees of Tuskeegee Institute and cashier of the local Penny Bank.
They lost two young daughters early in their marriage and Willie Lee was overly protective of the surviving daughter, Naomi. Naomi was a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1918. They were active members of the Old Ship A. M. E. Church.
Willie Lee Allen Tulane was my great grandmother Jennie Allen Turner’s sister.
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V.H. Tulane
Naomi Tulane
“Child of Victor Tulane…”
“Tulane Calls on Members of Race to be Patriotic”
I went back to look at the very lovely photo of Naomi at the time of her engagement.
The porch of the Tulane family home looks very elegant.
That is a beautiful photograph of Naomi. I added a photo of the house that has the porch from google.
i’m really glad you link to other related blog posts at the end of each of these. this one led me down a rabbit hole, i ended up reading “Tulane Calls on Members of Race to be Patriotic” and from there “He Had Hidden Him Under the Floor.”
is it coincidental the gathering featured above took place on April 9th or did you do that intentionally?
I’m glad you read them Abeo! I picked that event to share on April 9 because, although you hadn’t noticed, every day in April I am sharing a family event that happened on that very date!
Another piece of family history. Well done.
Thank you. More to come.
My husband’s aunt and uncle lived in Cloverdale and I remember going to their house which reminded me of houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. She died back in 1991 and he died not long after. Have I told you that our daughter taught in a Montgomery City School for a couple of years? When she and her husband first married they lived in Dalraida in the cutest house with the best yard. They live in Pike Road right now but are thinking about moving.
I’ve never lived in Montgomery. All my family moved north to Detroit in the early 1900s. I’ve only been twice and looked around the area where the store is still standing. At the time I didn’t know about the second house Victor Tulane lived in at the time of his death.
As is true for all the cities I visit and look for old family homes, they were gone. The whole area cleared.
Matthew and I wonder what songs and selections they were playing and singing.
That is a very good question. I will have to investigate that. I also wondered what the enjoyable refreshments were. Perhaps cake and ice cream? So glad to see you all here!
Do you know more about Old Ship Church?
You create interest!
Gem!
It is quite an historic church. You can find out more about it at this link – https://oldshipamezionchurch.org/church-history/
I love the way newspapers used to report on that kind of thing. It was still happening when I was a child for some of the smaller communities around the small town where I grew up. I’ve found my ancestors mentioned in articles like those, some as old as this one.
Yes, these little tidbits are a wonderful source of information.
Is it known how the two older daughters passed away? The illnesses and accidents that befell youth was so very tragic.
Agatha Tulane died on March 27, 1898 at the age of two years. No cause of death was given.
Alean Tulane died on June 12, 1901, at the age of ten months from “congestion of the brain”.
Naomi, the daughter who lived, was the middle child, born the year Agatha died.
I live in the Victor Tulane House which used to be the old store. Just this past March we finally got our historic marker that we have been asking for for over three years. It pertains to the Legacy of the whole Tulane Family . We are so proud of it. Victors great niece from New Orleans was hear just before it was completed. Hopefully, The building is going to be restored again in the future. I have pictures of the historic marker if you’d like to see it.
I would love to see it! You can email it to me at kcleage@gmail dot com. I was just looking at an online post about the ceremony. Is the apartment upstairs still as it was when the family lived there or have walls been knocked down etc?
The grocery store is a beautiful building and I can imagine an apartment on the upper floor would be lovely.
I wish I could get back to Montgomery and see it.
I love this Kristen – “A fine musical program was rendered, the numbers including vocal and instrumental selections by those present, and, besides, a variety of choice selections by the Victrola”…
I’m sure they had a piano. I wonder what songs were song and played on the Victrola. These articles need to add some of those details 🙂