Eliza Nottingham was the principal of Southside Female Academy in Danville, Virginia.She was the wife of William Nottingham.Her sister Hannah Este Gooch is also buried in this cemetary.∼These clues will hopefully allow her cemetery to be located, say perhaps in Danville, VA area; please notice her very early day career championing and educating young girls into bright women:

1. Mrs Eliza Este, wife of Wm Nottingham, seems to be described as the Principal of Southside Female Institute (private school for girls), in a newspaper article which had a pay wall precluding view; this same article seemed to state she ? died 1852(?) but I cannot see the actual one, and dont know if it was intentionally disordered. [The Bee Newspaper, Danville VA, 15 Sept 1937, p5- not seen]. The one school seems to be in Danville VA but other towns also arise perhaps suggesting more than one school.

2. Similar mention, Mrs E.E. Nottingham [p244 Hist Pittsylvania Co VA, 1929 by Maud Clement, google ebooks-entire book not seen]

3. But once again the wonderful researcher and author, Edw. Nicholas Clopper in his typed mss, provides detailed info regarding Elizabeth Este b. 1787, 2nd child of Moses and Anna, and informs us that she married William Nottingham (who died early on) and they had seven daughters (yes 7!). Clopper explains that widow Elizabeth, the mother, died in Danville, 5 Dec 1857, after a career of conducting private schools for girls (along with her daughters) in Philadelphia, Richmond, Lexington, and Danville, Pittsylvania Co., VA.

4. In a handwritten mss letter which is or seems to be from an impoverished, Moses Este (bottom of letter broken off but hopefully still in flat files at Cinti Mus Cntr His Lib) to his lawyer son, D K Este, dated Philadelphia 14 Jan 1832, or a few years before the letter writer dies, many serious family matters are discussed. In discussing his sister's (_____) death, on p1, Moses adds: "Mrs Nottingham with whom I then lived, with the best intentions to better her condition, removed from Summerville to Trenton. She opened school under very ???faltering [fattening? lastening?] prospects, so much so that no apprehension was entertained about her ultimate success. The best laid plans prove abortive, when God has ordered otherwise. She had scarcely opened school, when her Eldest Daughter Louisa was attacked with disease..." [this is a first draft of transcription only and will contain errors; source infra] So Moses himself tells us that Eliza ran a school in Trenton [NJ?] prior to 1832-- this is very early for a girls school, and it seems Eliza Nottingham worked hard educating young women, say 1830-1857--truly remarkable!

5. Later in that same 1832 letter, Moses explains the death of his son John Este, and adds: "A few weeks before John's [1831] Death I visited my Daughter in Trenton and paid to her Landlord 80 Dollars to stop the sale of her furniture, every article, but the beds on which the sick lay would have been sold. They were all sick at that time & still continue so; my Daughter was here last week; there is only, one of them that is able to be about; they will return to Summerville as soon as they.....[are able?] to be removed." [source infra]. This daughter would seem to be Eliza and her sick daughters, perhaps 6 of the 7; or perhaps a different daughter lived in Trenton, c1831.

For further Este info, please consider funding the preservation/processing of the boxes of stacks of (some crumbling) Este papers at the lower level library at Cincinnati Museum Center (want to create or sponsor a detailed finding aid? add acid free coverings?), study Clopper's mss at Cinti His Lib, Cinti Mus Center, and or see his detailed 1950 book, An American Family. My humblest gratitude to author Clopper (Spring Grove Cem) for preserving the family heritage in such exacting detail. [bio by findagraver, DBardes, Apr 2014]