Miss Mattie started giving dramatic readings and acting in plays in Nashville. In 1878, The Booth Dramatic Club presented her with a portrait of herself dressed as Lady Macbeth.
(I'd really like to see it, if...)
Eventually she traveled to New York where she joined the Madison Square Troupe, among others, and visited cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, etc.
While the troupe was in Milwaukee in Jan. 1883, they were awakened in the night by frantic cries and rushed into the smoke-filled fourth floor hallway of the Newhall House Hotel. Desperately trying to gain an exit, she and her friends were saved by a fireman who led them to the fire escape. Almost 75 other guests were not so lucky and perished.
She seems to have saved enough money to gain an education from East Mississippi Female College, after which traveling to Boston to study music at Prof. Curry's School.
Returning to her family who had moved to Memphis, she got a position at The Higby School teaching music.
She met Marshall Paxton Drury there and they married in 1891. They had one daughter, Dorothy, before they moved to St. Louis. Mattie died of cancer there in 1910.
(bio by: CensusTaker)
(I'd really like to see it, if...)
Eventually she traveled to New York where she joined the Madison Square Troupe, among others, and visited cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, etc.
While the troupe was in Milwaukee in Jan. 1883, they were awakened in the night by frantic cries and rushed into the smoke-filled fourth floor hallway of the Newhall House Hotel. Desperately trying to gain an exit, she and her friends were saved by a fireman who led them to the fire escape. Almost 75 other guests were not so lucky and perished.
She seems to have saved enough money to gain an education from East Mississippi Female College, after which traveling to Boston to study music at Prof. Curry's School.
Returning to her family who had moved to Memphis, she got a position at The Higby School teaching music.
She met Marshall Paxton Drury there and they married in 1891. They had one daughter, Dorothy, before they moved to St. Louis. Mattie died of cancer there in 1910.
(bio by: CensusTaker)
Miss Mattie started giving dramatic readings and acting in plays in Nashville. In 1878, The Booth Dramatic Club presented her with a portrait of herself dressed as Lady Macbeth.
(I'd really like to see it, if...)
Eventually she traveled to New York where she joined the Madison Square Troupe, among others, and visited cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, etc.
While the troupe was in Milwaukee in Jan. 1883, they were awakened in the night by frantic cries and rushed into the smoke-filled fourth floor hallway of the Newhall House Hotel. Desperately trying to gain an exit, she and her friends were saved by a fireman who led them to the fire escape. Almost 75 other guests were not so lucky and perished.
She seems to have saved enough money to gain an education from East Mississippi Female College, after which traveling to Boston to study music at Prof. Curry's School.
Returning to her family who had moved to Memphis, she got a position at The Higby School teaching music.
She met Marshall Paxton Drury there and they married in 1891. They had one daughter, Dorothy, before they moved to St. Louis. Mattie died of cancer there in 1910.
(bio by: CensusTaker)
(I'd really like to see it, if...)
Eventually she traveled to New York where she joined the Madison Square Troupe, among others, and visited cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, etc.
While the troupe was in Milwaukee in Jan. 1883, they were awakened in the night by frantic cries and rushed into the smoke-filled fourth floor hallway of the Newhall House Hotel. Desperately trying to gain an exit, she and her friends were saved by a fireman who led them to the fire escape. Almost 75 other guests were not so lucky and perished.
She seems to have saved enough money to gain an education from East Mississippi Female College, after which traveling to Boston to study music at Prof. Curry's School.
Returning to her family who had moved to Memphis, she got a position at The Higby School teaching music.
She met Marshall Paxton Drury there and they married in 1891. They had one daughter, Dorothy, before they moved to St. Louis. Mattie died of cancer there in 1910.
(bio by: CensusTaker)
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